Xmas Meal 2008

Thank you to Dave W. for being kind enough to photograph the evening and forward the pics to me so that I may share them with you. Here's a small selection.

Happy Xmas Everyone & See you in the New Year

We Won!

Remember back to the very first post on this blog? The evening where I ran a workshop on Christmas tree decorations. We all worked extremely hard and produced 100 decorations? Well guess what? WE WON!!!

Actually it wasn't until last Wednesday that we were made aware that there was even an award or competition. On Saturday, the Mayor of Stockport judged the many trees that had been decorated at the church and after much deliberation awarded the prize to us. And having now seen the entries, I have to say we were up against some fantastic entries. I personally loved the whittled tree by the scouts for its abstract design and the elegance of the silk 'n' threads tree which I would happily have sitting in my home.

So well done everyone for all your hard work and fantastic decorations :) Yayyyyy!!!!

Programme for January-March 2009

Click on the image to see the events for next year up to & including March. If there are any unexpected changes to this programme, we will announce them on here. Another good reason to keep checking this blog people :)

Charcoal Drawing

On an icy cold night with snow predicted, we weren't expecting a big turnout. How wrong we were I'm pleased to say as just over twenty of us turned out for Bill's evening on charcoal drawing. Once we were warmed up, we huddled around to look at the beautiful charcoal pictures Bill had brought along to show. We then set about taking mucky black sticks of charcoal in hand and having a go ourselves with some fantastic results. There were plenty of trips to the kitchen to wash blackened hands this evening :)

In other news - there was some excitement regards the Christmas Tree - renewed pride as Norma showed us all why she is not to be messed around with.

And finally, David is asking for volunteers from the membership to lead future evenings in the Spring Programme next year. Don't be shy and go have a word when you next see him.

That's the last meeting of the year. Next week is the Christmas Meal. Hope everyone who is going has a fantastic time. The Art Group returns in the New Year on January 7th with a DVD tuition to ease us back in with the theme "People Aren't Scary" (except, as previously mentioned, if you manage to cross swords with a certain chairwoman :) )

Special Prize Giveaway for Xmas

To celebrate the start up of our blog and as a small way to say Happy Christmas to the members of the Mellor Art Society, we are offering a prize to one lucky winner. What can you win I hear you ask? Well what else could we offer the artist who has everything! A £20 gift voucher from Hobbycraft, that's what!!!

All you have to do to be in with a chance to win is

A) Be a member of the Mellor Art Society &

B) Leave a comment on this post telling us what meeting you particularly enjoyed this year, before 11.59pm (UK Time) 31st December 2008.

I will go to randomiser to pick a number out and whoever's comment correlates will be the winner. I will announce who has won the voucher on this blog on Friday 2nd January 2009.

BTW You can leave as many comments as you wish :)

Good Luck

Paul