October’s Beer & Beadz was hosted by Cathy Beaumont and Melanie Rowe at Terminal City Glass Co-Op and was a Beads of Courage event.
TCGC provided torches, glass, mandrels and tools and several of us made fun, colorful beads that filled the kiln.
This months B&B was themed “Pressed Beads”. We were challenged to show & tell and trade our pressed beads. This theme was demonstrated by Melanie and Trudy with the completion of Trudy’s newly manufactured molds. Trudy recently took lessons with Melanie on how to make molds from Mold Mix 6 and today was the final…
This year our Annual General Meeting was hosted by Barb Fukusaka. A handful of members got together for the 2018 Annual General Meeting. While it wasn’t the attendance we were hoping to see, we still discussed old business, new business and elected our 2018 Executive committee. Say hello to your 2018 Executive President/Communications – Debbie…
a Pyros Christmas Well for our Holiday Beer & Beads, this one was a laugh! Literally, I mean all we did was LAUGH. and eat! We weren’t a large group, 11 pyros and a couple of husbands, but those who attended were treated to homemade sushi, tourtiere and wine. Thank you Ikuyo and Roger for…
May’s Beer & Beadz was hosted by Melanie Graham. Her theme was flowers. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon and shortly after 2pm she had a housefull! Eleven members crowded into Melanie’s studio to watch her make beautiful earring pairs using dichro dots and then her new floral mandala bead. I love to watch Melanie…
August B&B was held on a beautiful sunny day at Elisabeth’s studio. She showed off her wonderful travelling Bead Station which when not in use is closed up and doubles as a Backyard Bar. Wendy came over from the Rock and showed us some amazing demonstrations on hollow beads. She made it look so easy…
August’s Beer & Beadz was hosted by Joanne & Dave Carter. I was away on vacation so Trudy stepped up and took pictures and provided a recap of the event. In her words … We ate, drank, laughed and some played giant Jenga. Dave and Joanne were (as always) gracious hosts and Dave had a…