September 11th Monday at 5:30pm  at New Mexico Clay.

-  Election of a new Sandia Chapter Of The PMC Guild President

-  Sandia PMC Chapter Holiday Show 

-  How to get started in the new  Sandia PMC Group list serve communication

 PRESIDENT

Gail Levine has been president of the Sandia PMC chapter and has done a great job.  She wishes to past the gavel to someone.  Please make your nominations now.  We need to elect a new president this week.

   HOLIDAY SHOW

Sandia PMC Chapter Holiday show is planned for the week after Thanksgiving.  The location is 404 San Felipe NW, just northeast, off the Old Town Plaza.  The area is called Patio Escondido.  It is a historic adobe building from the civil war period.  Space will be available from Thursday afternoon Dec 7, say about 4 PM until Sunday evening Dec 10, say about 5 PM.  Thursday would be vendor set up time for display set up prior to the show from 4 PM till 7:30 PM and Sunday 3 PM till 5 PM would be vendor takedown time.

 Vendor space is $125 for a six foot table space, table provided by the vendor, for the three days. The spaces are relatively small or limited to about 13 vendors.  Spaces are on a first come first serve bases.  The organizers are asking vendors to commit to their participation in the next two weeks. 

 The Vendor List Starts Today:

 

HOW TO USE THE LIST SERVE    

• Home Click Home to go to the list

If you have already joined the group you will get this message.  If you want to post a message you can do one of three things.  One quick way is to, simply select this message, press reply, the whole group will get your message/reply.  Try it now, just say hi.  It takes a few minutes to get through to the whole group, depending on your computer connection speed or what ever its called.  You can also email any individual in the group.  Secondly, if you went through all the prompts correctly when you got the invitation, you will have access to the Sandia PMC Chapter Of The Guild website and list serve page at Yahoo ( this is how I sent you this message).  Set the website up as a favorite, so you can go to the post area on the left, etc. see example below.

 

I hope this helps.  I only started learning about this stuff too.  So if there is anyone else who is more experienced out there we can always use additional advise. 

 

Happiness comes from keeping those thumbs silver or gold. Thanks.

Olga 

        

August Meeting was featuring Jewelry Materials Innovations Read about it HERE

 

From July

   featuring Chainmaille Instruction

 HI All,

 We will have a special session on making chainmaille which can be used for bracelets or necklaces at our next session.

Since it requires you have certain materials to practice and participate I am forwarding the email sent me by Michelle Glaeser to give you some idea of what she will teach and what it can do for your PMC works.

 Photos are attached to her original email.

 Since Michelle is a new member, her volunteering to teach this technique is really generous of her!

 Next meeting is July 10 at New Mexico Clay for the chainmaille construction class and at the Guild meeting in August Ron Diegle will demo his special gold products and how to integrate into PMC.

THAT meeting is August 14th!

 

Gail,

 Here is some information to pass on to the guild about chainmaille.  I plan on teaching the byzantine weave, which was the bracelet I made using the rose gold filled links.  Here is a list of acceptable sizes of rings to use for this weave:

 12 GA, 6.5 mm ID

14 GA, 5.5 mm ID

16 GA, 4.5 mm ID

18 GA, 3.5 mm ID (approx. 105 in 6.5" bracelet)

20 GA, 2.75 mm ID

22 GA 2.25 mm ID (approx. 500 in 15" necklace)

 In the past, I have purchased the rings at Rio Grande or www.urbanmaille.com or for the gf rings www.goldenmaille.com.  Supplies necessary are two pair of flat nose pliers or one pair of flat nose and one pair of chain nose pliers.  Of course, different size rings require different numbers to complete a bracelet. 

 I have attached a chainmaille guide (pdf) with some background info and some instructions.  Since the guide is 29 pages, I will not be providing copies of it during instruction.  Guild members can feel free to make their own copy, color is suggested.  I attached a photo of a chainmaille/PMC piece I made.  Lastly, I attached a photo showing the different sizes of the finished chain.  The one I had in class was the 18 GA; the one in the photo was the 22 GA (but it was 2.4 mm ID, from Rio). 

 With my course schedule next semester, I will be available for all the meetings through December.  I would be glad to give additional presentations.

 Let me know which month I will be presenting.  Thanks!

 Michelle Glaeser

 

 

Past posts...

We had a great meeting on Jan 16th featuring the new PMC gold in a presentation including finished examples and we all got to touch some gold clay.

Meeting called to order by Brant Palley at 5:30 pm. We had a lovely meal of Lasagna, Salad  and garlic bread. THANKS to Gail  and Roberta for the food. Roberta got the salad and bread to us even though she was not feeling well. Above and beyond!

Judi Anderson had an announcement that the old 6 program Pre-programmed Kilns have a gold fire mode that is not correct for the new PMC gold so be careful. We all agreed that you should learn to program your own firings.

We talked about PMC's price going up and the fact that silver was up to $9.40 an Oz.

Judi Anderson handed out new anti-tarnish zip bags and other free stuff from Rio Grande.

Judi then featured PMC gold in a presentation including finished examples and we all got to touch some gold clay. Most of us felt that you should make something, like a ring out of the gold clay and use the Aura 22 for embellishments.

She shared her secrets of success with Aura 22 gold. Add 1 drop of media and a drop of water, stir well using a metal ball burnisher, apply two layers of gold and don't force dry. Fire with a torch until the gold glows and hold for 1 minute, burnish while still hot. wire brush then tumble!

Nominations were held and Gail Levine agreed to be President for the next 6 months. Thank you Gail. we agreed that someone present would keep the minutes.

Gail's plan for next meeting  is an approach to marketing yourself . Including making a business plan and finding new outlets to sell through.

Ideas for future meetings include:

March: From Earwires to adding beads to a piece and a bead swap

April: Raku glaze on silver

May: Fordham vs. Dremel Pros and cons.

 At New Mexico Clay 3300 Girard NE.     PH# 881-2350.

There will be a light meal catered by....... Volunteer Needed!!!