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Don’t you just love trying new painting tech-niques? Hate the investment that sometimes involves? Not sure how to proceed with differ-ent mediums? Attending Penns Woods meet-ings are great opportunities to exchange handy painting tips, learn new techniques and social-ize with your fellow painters, all while creating beautiful works of art at a minimal cost. Our January meeting will have all the paints and surfaces available for you, our treasured mem-ber, at no cost!

Hilary Felinski will be teaching this month’s program:Reverse Painting on Glass We will be painting the cut-est seasonal necklaces (see examples to the right), using Martha Stewart’s satin paint. Each member will receive 4 glass surfaces and 1 chain necklace. (Additional supplies will be available for pur-chase at the meeting.)

Where: Messiah Village Community RoomWhen: Saturday, January 18th.

Doors Open: 9:00 a.m. Business Meeting: 9:30 a.m.Program begins: 10:00 a.m.

Bring: Brushes, lunch and your usual painting supplies.

Make sure to bring tiny brushes!

Vol. 25 No. 1 January/February 2014

Penns Woods Painters January Program

Please RSVP to Dee DeLorenzo:ddelores@verizon.net or call 717-728-9470 with a

“Yes, I’ll be there”, or “No, I can’t make it” response by Wed., Jan. 15th

so that we can anticipate supplies.

Hello Fellow Painters!I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and that the New Year brings you much love- prosperity and finished painting projects!!We have an awesome year planned with lots of fun painting projects and dem-onstrations and a variety of pro-grams planned for our meetings. In addition we have our Member Appreciation Retreat in March. Please come join the fun, we would really like to see everyone at our meetings!I would also like to take this op-portunity to THANK everyone that has volunteered their time to help keep Penns Woods Painters going, without you we wouldn’t be able to do all that we do. There is still a need for more volunteers, so please consider volunteering so that we can keep our activities alive and thriving.I hope to see everyone at our Janu-ary meeting with the installation of our new 2014 Officers and a fun new project!Have a great painting day!!!Joyce

Members who attend the January meeting will be able to participate in

a Silent Auction.

Chair painted by Ginger Edwardand a Raffle

Fall Colors plate painted by Judy Diephouse

and

White Poppy painted by Maureen McNaughton.

Silent Auction items – prices are based on bids

Raffle tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Put your tickets in the ‘bucket’ for you selected item!

See Hilary to purchase your tickets.

President’s Message More Good Reasons to Come January 18th

We currently have 37 members signed up for 2014. Remember to be a member in good standing your dues need to be paid by Dec 31, 2013. You don’t want to miss out on the fun activities that we have planned for 2014. Send in your dues today!!

Membership Report

Saturday, March 1, 2014!We hope you’ll be joining us for this free Appreciation Retreat! Looking forward to learning new techniques? Sandy Scales will be teaching us a new unpublished Betty Caithness design, so you’ll have your chance to learn! In addition to providing a full day retreat with Sandy, PWP is also providing lunch for all who attend, courtesy of Messiah Village’s Fireside Grill!See Hilary to sign up – our deadline for registering is the January meeting! You can call Hilary or email her at Hilary-Felinski@comcast.net, too.A reminder – you must be a 2014 member, so don’t forget to pay your 2014 dues!Here are some pictures of what we will be painting with Sandy.

PWP Member Appreciation Retreat

I want to thank every member who painted “treasure boxes” dur-ing this year. I realize that every one is busy and I do appreciate all the “work” that every one puts into decorating the boxes. We have sent 23 boxes to “Caitlin Smiles”. Also thank you To Barb Lehm-an for delivering the boxes to “Caitlin Smiles”. I will have boxes with me at the Jan. meeting; and also patterns for ideas. Lois Eckert

Treasure Boxes

Keeping in Touch EverydayThis newsletter is a nice thing to have to refer to with the information stashed alongside your paints, or in a notebook that you keep things just for Penns Woods Painters. Did you know that you can have a bit more fun staying in touch with all your fellow painters with just a click of your mouse, or button on your lap-top or smart phone? First there is our new website, which is way more interactive than our previous one. More chances are available for updating it more often and for inter-action between all of the members. Go to http://pennswoodspainters.wordpress.com/ and check it out. Second there is Facebook. I know, I know...you are not looking for another time waster on-line. How-ever, what if you think about it as our ultimate show and tell? Where else can you ask a question of the

membership and get almost instant feedback?“Has anyone tried this paint?” “Does that work as well as.....?”

“Where can you buy....?”“Did you know that ....... is having a show?

There is nothing like experiences that we all have had to make it just that much easier for one another. If as many of as possible head over to our Facebook page....like it and start communicating with one another I guarantee we’ll have some fun. So far we have shared some great photos from meetings and events that you might have missed in 2013. The more that partcipate

and share the more connected we will be. If you know members who aren’t on the computer and don’t have access to this, invite them over or meet for coffee with your lap-top some-where there is Wi-Fi and have some fun.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennswoodspainters/344353589013366

This is the project for the

retreat. Make plans to attend

March 1st!

Tera Leigh started the memory Box Program in 1998. Boxes are painted and donated to hospitals with infant bereavement programs. The boxes are given to parents who have lost a child at birth or shortly thereafter to hold the few personal belongings of their child. Painters all over the U.S., Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Australia and Venezuela now paint boxes to donate. As one of our community service projects, Penns Woods Painters have adopted the Carlisle, Holy Spirit, Pinnacle Health Harrisburg Hospitals as well as the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center hospital for our Memory Box pro-gram. We have traditionally held a Paint-In, generally in February each year, dedicated to painting Memory Boxes’ we also encourage members to paint Memory Boxes throughout the year. Speaking from the heart, since my family has been affected by this unimaginably sad situation, please look inside your hearts to see if you can help us by painting some Mem-ory Boxes this year. The Memory Box website is www.memoryboxes.org. On the website, there are a number of appropriate saying that may be included, as well as some designs that have been contributed to this wonderful endeavor.

For our February 2014 Memory Box Paint-In program, we will continue the pattern of the last few years, with one project taught in the morning, and a second project taught in the afternoon. The 2014 date is Saturday, February 15 – mark your calendars now, and let me, know that you plan to be there! (Hilary Felinski (hilaryfelinski@comcast.net, 717 730 9220)) I will have the patterns and prep instruc-tions with me at the January 2014 meeting so you will have at least a month to pre-pare for this year’s event. Arlene Linton and Scottie Foster have graciously allowed us to base our 2014 Memory Box program on their designs. We will be painting one of Arlene’s lacy designs, and one of Scottie’s Doves. For both of the designs, you can prep your lids with a medium to dark base coat. You may want to sponge the bottom of the boxes, or use Arlene’s ‘linen’ technique! You will want to have your normal painting supplies with you for the February Paint-In.

For Scottie’s Dove, you will want to have some good stroke brushes. For Arlene’s design, she rec-ommends that we that we use the Scharff Series 3000 Kolinsky Sable Round (#4) (I used #2 for this design), and the Scharff Series 560 - Golden Taklon Short Handle Jumbo Wash (2 inches). You can

find these brushes at http://artbrush.com/shop/home.php. Please join us on February 15 to con-tinue the strong tra-dition that PWP has established for this program! You can sign up at our Janu-ary 2014 meeting, or by emailing Hilary (address above) or calling her (phone number also above).

Included here are some design variations that are examples of what we will be painting on Feb. 15!

History of the Memory Box Program

2014 Memory Box Paint-In

RemindeRYou must be a member in good standing to participate in paint-ins.

We want you to join us!

Well, your Ways and Means com-mittee needs to report on a couple of activities, as well as remind you about the same! First – if you are planning to join us for the February 15 Memory Box Paint-In, and you do not have the Scharff brushes that Arlene Linton recommends, please be re-minded that, while we have already had some success with our 2013 Scharff brush orders, we still need a minimum order of $300 retail to benefit from the chapter fundraiser order. If you want to order any Scharff brushes through the chap-ter, at a 30% discount off the retail price, please contact Hilary Felin-ski. Remember, for this fundraiser, the chapter gets a 40% discount, and you get the 30% discount, with that 10% difference helping the chapter’s treasury. Next – The Rada fundraiser, while allowing us to receive up to 40% on each sale, was largely not used by our chapter members. To date, we have received $91.00 to-wards our fundraising goals (as of mid-November), with another $100 anticipated based on November and December sales. Statements are received approximately mid-month, so we do not yet have the fi-nal numbers for 2013, based on the 2014 January newsletter deadlines. We will report our 2013 final num-bers in the February Board meeting minutes or at the March meeting. For 2014, we will be having both a Silent Auction and a Raffle of some big brush items. (See page 2)These will be held at our SATUR-DAY meetings in January, May and September….so you might want to make sure you are there! For the January 2014 meeting, the SILENT AUCTION item is a

chair, painted by Ginger Edwards. We will also have 2 RAFFLE pieces that will be awarded at the 2014 January meeting – a plate by Judy Diephouse from our 2012 seminar, and the White Poppy, painted by Maureen McNaughton at our 2013 seminar. Raffle tickets will be $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Pictures are in-cluded in this newsletter – to whet your whistles and entice you to join us on January 18! And last – we are working with the folks at Messiah Village to see for what months we might be able to display our art in the Village Center. As a reminder, we deduct both a 10% donation to Messiah, and the state sales tax from the sale price before we issue a check to

you, the artist. And, as a second reminder, there may be more than one payments issued, depending on when the money is actually received.

Ways and Means

Penn's  Woods  PaintersTreasurer's  Report09/01/13  -­‐  10/30/13

Beginning  Balance: 15,742.47$            

Income:

Membership 200.00                              Paint-­‐Ins 460.00$                          Ways  N  Means 84.45                                  

744.45$                

Expenses:

Donations 150.00                              Mascc 50.00                                  Operations 226.56                              Paint-­‐In 185.00                              Sunshine 9.00                                      Tea  &  Art  Show 45.36                                  

665.92$                

Ending  Balance  as  of  10/30/2013 15,821.00$            

Treasurer’s Report

November 18, 2013

*Meeting was brought to order by President Hilary Felinski at 6:30 PM. There was a total of 19 members present.

Hilary welcomed charter member Dorothy Miller’s daughter and son to the membership at the start of the meeting. They both spoke a few words, then Doro-thy’s daughter read a sincere and humble letter of what PWP meant to their Mother. Dorothy especially enjoyed the Art Show which she attended even when her health was poor. The Memory Box program was dear to Dorothy’s heart and she was devoted to paint Memory Boxes up until the very end. A benevolent bequest check of $1000 was given to PWP as directed by Dorothy in her will. The membership thanked them for their generosity and support.

Treasurer’s Report: Joyce Gutierrez reported the following: As of 08/01/13 – 09/30/13

Beginning Balance: $14,842.08Income: $992.60Expenses: $809.73Ending Balance as of 09/30/2013: $15,024.95

VP programs: Dee DeLorenzo was absent due to travel. Hilary thanked Dee for preparing the wrapped gifts as prizes for the games at the meeting.

VP Membership: Barb Lehman reported that, includ-ing the folks who paid their dues at this meeting, we have approximately 30 2014 members.

Election of 2014 Officers: There were no nominations from the floor. A motion by Dottie Shultz and second-ed by Hattie Ogle to accept the 2014 slate of officers as read. Motion was accepted by the quorum of mem-bers present. The 2014 officers for PWP are: President: Joyce GutierrezVP Programs: Dee DeLorenzoVP Membership: Barb LehmanTreasurer: Hilary FelinskiSecretary: Elaine Moran

Committee Reports since the newsletter was pub-lished: 2014 Budget: Copies were available by Hilary on

behalf of the Board. Hilary asked that the members review the proposed budget, and be prepared to vote on its passage at the next meeting. Questions should be directed to Hilary. (included with these minutes as a separate PDF file).Memory Boxes: Hilary thanked Dottie Shultz for her work chairing the Memory Box effort for PWP through this past number of years. Hilary and Joyce will be co-chairing the Memory Box program as we move into 2014. Dottie also is willing to help with the transition of the memory box program to the new committee for 2014. Dottie reported that 30 boxes were delivered to Harrisburg Hospital and 12 boxes to Holy Spirit. Newsletter: Hilary thanked Sue Wenning for a job well done on the newsletter for these past 2 years. Wendy Beckmann is the PWP newsletter editor for 2014. Wendy asked for items of interest for the news-letter. The Friday after the board planning meeting is the deadline for newsletter submission.

Paint- Ins: Hilary thanked Joyce for chairing Paint-In effort for 2013. We had 3 Paint-Ins, which were rea-sonably successful. Hattie Ogle will chair Paint-Ins for 2014. There are 3 paint-ins scheduled for 2014. Four submissions were displayed and voted upon by the members present. A memory box program will be the 4th paint-in.Publicity: Wendy Beckman, present but no report.Seminars: A written report submitted by Linda Kapp said that Sharon Buononato, CDA will no longer travel for seminars. Dottie Shultz commented that it would be helpful to list Chapter’s city and state hosting the seminar. Treasure Boxes: Lois reported that are 19 unpainted boxes and 10 painted boxes. Ways and Means: Hilary suggested that our Rada cutlery fundraiser be utilized for holiday shopping. At our 2014 meetings, we will offer items painted by “big brushes” for raffles and/or silent auctions.

New Business:

Service Charms: Hilary presented service charms for 2013. Member Appreciatio Retreat (MAR): A sign-up sheet was available for MAR (Member Appreciation Retreat) on 3/1. On display was the Betty Cathiness design

Penns Woods Painters – General Membership Meeting

which will be taught by Sandy Scales. Use of Credit Cards: Hilary asked for a show of hands for those interested in credit card transactions for PWP. Only 4 members showed interest. Audit Committee: 3, preferably 4 volunteers are needed for a audit to be completed by the middle of January. Please contact Hilary if you are willing to help Camera Set-up: Hilary is looking for additional folks to learn how to do the camera setup, and possibly store the PWP equipment. Barb Lehman and Joyce are asking for volunteers to help with these duties, including storage if possible. Board Meeting/Planning Session: Hilary announced that a 2014 Planning Session will be at her house, on Monday, December 9th at 6:30 PM.

Other thank yous: Wendy Beckmann commented and thanked Hilary for a job well done as serving as our President for 2012 and 2013.

Show & Tell: Doris Kohler showed us her hand paint-ed silk scarves by using a Sharpie marker and rubbing alcohol which are done on freezer paper.

The motion to adjourn was made by Joyce Gutierrez and seconded by Fran Huffman. The meeting ended at 7:05 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,Linda Deardorff,Volunteer for Minutes

Penns Woods Painters – General Membership Meeting cont’d

Rose Bellavia January 4Lois Eckert January 13Jane Allen January 25Elaine Moran February 16Barb Lehman February 27

Members (and visitor) show off their ornaments from the exchange.

Day 2014 Dates PurposeSat 1/18/2013 Installation of Officers

MeetingProgram

Sat 2/15/2014 Memory Box Paint InMon 2/17/2014 Board MeetingSat 3/1/2014 Member Appreciation Retreat

Mon 3/17/2014 meeting, programMon. 4/15/2014 Board Meeting

Mon - Sat May 12–17 SDP ConventionSat 5/17/2014 meeting, program

Sat 6/7/2014 Paint InMon 6/16/2014 Board Meeting

Mon 7/14/2014 meeting, program Mon - Sat Aug 11-16 HOOT Convention

Columbus OHSat 8/23/2014 Paint In - Changed from 8/16

Mon 8/18/2014 Board Meeting

Sat 9/20/2014 meeting, program Wed - Sun Oct

TBDNew England Traditions

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sat 10/18/2014 Paint In Mon 10/20/2014 Board MeetingSun 10/26/2014 Tea, Art Show

Wed - Sat Nov 12-15 World of Color ExpoWashington, DC

Mon 11/17/2014 meeting, program, electionSat 12/6/2014 Childrens Christmas Party

100 E High st, Carlisle PAMon 12/8/2014 Board/Planning Meeting

Penns Woods Painters 2014 Dates and activities

All Penns Woods activities are held in the Community Room at Messiah Village, 100 Mt. Allen Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, unless otherwise noted

Saturday meetings - doors open 9am; meeting - 9:30 am; program - 10:00amMonday meetings - doors open 6:00pm, meeting - 6:30pm; program - 7:00pm

Paint Ins and Seminars - doors open 8am; painting - 9:00am.bi-monthly board meetings are held at a location to be decided by the 2014 President,

unless otherwise noted. Board meetings start time and dates TBD (2014 President decision).

Plan Ahead for 2014 Paint-Ins

June 7thTaught by Pat Meyers

August 23rdTaught by Lois Eckert

October 18thTaught by Fran Huffman

A special day with Sandy Scales

A new unpublished Betty Caithness design!

NEW and challenging Techniques!

No Cost to our 2014 members.

Lunch will be provided, as well as your

surface, paints, pattern, a great teacher

and a fun-filled day!

Date: Sat., March 1 , 2014 Time: 9:00am to 4:00pm

Thanks for being a PWP member!

Sign up at the November Meeting, by email or phone

Deadline — January 15, 2014

Hilary Felinski 717 730 9220 HilaryFelinski@comcast.net For your MAR on MAR1 committee

Messiah Village Community Room

Member Appreciation

Retreat

PWP Officers

Brushstroke Information:Please send camera ready ad along with check made payable to Penn’s Woods Painters to Hilary Felinski, 11 Circle Drive, Camp Hill, PA 17011-2608. Brush Strokes, the Newsletter for Penn’s Woods Painters is published six times a year. In addition, Brush Strokes is posted on the chapter’s web site. PWP’s advertising rates are very reasonable and offer a targeted audience for those wishing to advertise their business, shop, classes, woods, painting supplies, or other services. If you would or someone you know would benefit from advertising in Brush Strokes, please contact us for additional information.

Newsletter CommitteeWendy Beckmann - EditorHilary Felinski— Proof EditorBarb Lehman— Advertising

ADVERTISING rates Business Card $ 7/Issue $ 30/6 IssuesQuarter Page $10/Issue $ 45/6 IssuesHalf Page $14/Issue $ 70/6 IssuesFull Page $25/Issue $120/6 Issues

PWP Committee Chairs

President Joyce Gutierrez makeme0803@yahoo.comVice President Programs

Dee DeLorenzo ddelores@verizon.net

Vice President Membership

Barb Lehman RBLehman2@verizon.net

Secretary Elaine Moran demoran@verizon.net Treasurer Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.net

2014 Retreat Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.netArt Display at Messiah Linda Kapp lindakapp21@gmail.comArt Show/Tea TBDHistorian TBDMemory Boxes Hilary Felinski/

Joyce Gutierrezhilaryfelinski@comcast.netmakeme0803@yahoo.com

Newsletter Wendy Beckmann wendybeckmann@verizon.netNewsletter Ads Barb Lehman rblehman2@verizon.netNominating TBDPaint-Ins Hatti Ogle ogle@pa.netPublicity Wendy Beckmann wendybeckmann@verizon.netSeminars Linda Kapp lindakapp21@gmail.comTreasure Boxes Lois Eckert eck1035@aol.comWay and Means Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.netWeb Page Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.net

Penns Woods PaintersMembership Application

2014

Becoming a member in our chapter is very easy once you have joined SDP. Just send your check for $20 made payable to Penns Woods Painters along with the membership application to:

Penns Woods Painters ATTN: Barb Lehman PO Box 1518 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055

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