Cabohchon Stone Trunk Show!

NC stone dealer Anne Kennedy will be showing us her wares on January 18th at my place on Pine St. She specializes in cabochons stones, bookend cuts and fossil cabs. Her prices are always reasonable. You can walk out with something cool for ten bucks, but I would highly recommend setting aside more because you'll be drooling! I have bought gorgeous mirror image sets of fossil bamboo and fossil coral polished to a beautiful shine for under $30. So if you're local mark your calendar! Time TBA

Kim's New Etsy!

Our member Kim Beller has been taking private lessons with me and has just opened her new Etsy shop! bigstronggirldesigns

Night Metals Class CFCC

FYI: Nick Mowers will be teaching a Metals 1- ART 245 Tues/Thurs nights at Cape Fear Community College in A Building. There is a parking lot close and a guard on the gate of that lot (so very safe). This should be a great class, I highly recommend Nick!

CFM Group Charm Bracelet

Here's our creation for the auction on Saturday at Poplar Grove.









Participating artists:
Kim Beller
(auction organizer)
Samantha Barnett
reborndesignsbysb.com
Deborah Beasley
reddogdesigns.etsy.com
Ellemesse Designs-Libby Cartier (not seen in the above image)
Airlie Moon in Lumina Station
Mitzy Jonkheer
Mitzy Metal
Melissa Manley
melissamanleystudios.com
Rita McCall
bluemoongiftshops/sunraye.htm
Debra Pyeatt
debrapyeatt.com/index.htm
Kee Wilde-Ramsing
jaded1jewelry.etsy.com
Hans Westermark
hanswestermark.etsy.com

A Charming Evening

Join us Oct 21st from 7-10pm at Independent Art Company's Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street for an evening of making cold connected charms for our charm bracelet to be donated to "Colors of the Rainbow" ASAPCares.org auction November 7th at Poplar Grove Plantation. I will bring some tools and scrap metal= copper, brass. If you want to use other metals bring them. Also bring any of your own hand tools. Contact me if you think you might be able to bring any refreshments. If you want to make your charm and merely drop it off that night we'd gladly accept it and connect it to the sterling bracelet. Every donating artist will be credited on our signage at the auction. See you soon! Melissa

Benefit for Autism

This is the benefit we'll be making a charm bracelet for:
Saturday Nov 7th from 12-4 four "handmade" music bands, auction, beer tent, food, pony ridess all free admission! Sounds good to me!

Charm Bracelet Challenge Remix

"For those of you at the last meeting, or that have been following our blog, we were planning on donating a charm bracelet to Dreams for silent auction. We were inviting those who wished to create a charm, which would be gathered together and put into a charm bracelet. We were gonna donate the charm bracelet to Dreams.

However, I found out that Dreams has decided not to have their silent auction this year. So, if you have created your charm and were waiting for us to collect it and put the charm bracelet, this explains why we haven't collected the charms. I talked to Melissa and we thought that we could still do the charm bracelet, but that we would look for a different cause to donate it for.

So what does this mean to you? Well, we can look for a cause where the due date is a better fit for everyone. I'm sure that there are lots of good causes in this area, and surely we will be able to find one that we can make our donation to. Also, with this change, more artists will hopefully be able to participate.

I don't know how many of you had prepared charms for the Dreams event, but hopefully we will be able to find a good fit for CFM and the community. More information will becoming up soon. If you have any questions or comments, join in this discussion. Who knows, your answer may be just the one we have been looking for."

Debra Pyeatt