Don t Forget: NOVEMBER PROGRAM REGISTRATION DEADLINE : NOVEMBER 5, 2016 President s message Fall is upon us and I know I am looking forward to Halloween and the holidays. We have some great things coming up, including our Christmas Party. I am asking all members to attend the party and bring a guest. The more people we have, the more funds we raise to support our seminars. Denise Renault, President November is our bake sale month, our election, and our membership renewal time. We are currently looking for someone to help out with the membership position next year. Linda Park has prepared everything up to date so it would be a smooth transition for anyone taking on that role. November s meeting is a potluck. We are still charging the 15.00 meeting fee, because we still need to pay for the facility. Anyone who signed up with Mary Ecker to bring a dish, will receive a Windy Brushes Gift Certificate to use for a future meeting. Please in the future, you must pay the meeting fee whether you eat the food or not. This was voted on by the membership. It is not optional. We are working on future seminars and will have some announcements soon. Don t forget to bring a baked item for the bake sale and please list the ingredients for allergy concerns. Denise Renault Facebook... 12 Membership... 12-13 1
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2016 Windy Brushes Board President Denise Renault 1 st Vice president Chris Wood 2 nd vice-president Chris Lee Treasurer Secretary Newsletter Membership Hospitality Ways and Means Raffle Parliamentarian Caring and Sharing Centerpieces Sunshine Historian SDP Happenings Website Camille Anzelmo Cindy Miller Donna Merrithew Linda Park Mary Ecker Open Ruth Duebner Billie Morrow Bettie Slazyk Denise Renault Phyllis Kohnke Dorothy Carbonara Phyllis Kohnke Denise Renault/Jim Rupany Windy Brushes Board Meeting 09/19/16: November s program will be taught by Phyllis Kohnke. Membership: PDF will be ready in early January. Hospitality: November meeting is pot luck. Ways and Means: Will have bake sale in November. Minutes from the Board Raffle: Requesting holiday items for November meeting. In January we ll have the white elephant sale. Will have bag raffle at Christmas party. Caring & Sharing: Will be collecting warm items (hats, gloves, scarves) in November. Donations will go to the Carmelite Home. Sunshine: Cindy Miller s dad is going to have knee surgery. SDP Happenings: 2017 conference to be in Daytona. It s been shortened to 4 days. Christmas Party: Need one more table chair. Will also have the ornament exchange with voting for favorite. Toys4 Tots. Entertainment will be an Elvis impersonator. Old Business Slate of officers to be voted on at the November meeting: Chris Wood President, Denise Renault 1 st VP, Chris Lee 2 nd VP, Cindy Miller Secretary, Camille Anzelmo Treasurer 3
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Respectfully submitted, Cindy Miller 2016 Board: President Denise Renault 1 st Vice President Chris Wood 2 nd Vice President Chris Lee Secretary Treasurer Membership Hospitality Parliamentarian Historian SDP Happenings Christmas Party Raffles Caring and Sharing Table Centerpieces Newsletter Website Coordinator Chapter Display Sunshine Cindy Miller Camille Anzelmo Linda Park Mary Ecker Billie Morrow Dorothy Carbonara Phyllis Kohnke Denise Renault/Chris Wood Ruth Duebner Bettie Slazyk Denise Renault Donna Merrithew Denise Renault Open Phyllis Kohnke Board meetings will be at the Panera 100 W Higgins, South Barrington. Dinner 5:30, meeting 6:30 on 1/18, 3/21, 5/23, 7/25, 9/19, 11/28. Chapter Display Don t forget to bring your painted items to the NOVEMBER meeting for our Chapter Display. All the members enjoy sharing in your art work. Thanks, Denise Renault 7
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WINDY BRUSHES CARING AND SHARING 2016 CARING AND SHARING Bettie Slazyk Hi Members, This year we have been donating supplies to Family Shelter Services in Downers Grove, IL. which are delivered by Denise Renault. They advised her that they would rather we didn't bring school supplies to their facility since they won't have anyone coming in for these supplies anymore this year. They suggested we donate the supplies to some other charity. So Denise asked me to deliver our school supplies to St. Joseph's Carmelite Home for Girls in Indiana here is the letter I received from them. September 15, 2016 D e a r M r s. S l a z y k a n d M e m b e r s o f W i n d y B r u s h e s, Thank you for your most kind generosity to our Carmelite Home in East Chicago. Your donation of the HUGE amount of school supplies and all of the Halloween costumes is very much appreciated. We thank you for thinking of us, and may our dear Lord send bountiful blessings your way. The Carmelite family is filled with great joy by your generosity. We thank the Lord everyday for the kind people like yourselves, who join us in God's mission to help for those in need. May the love of God bring to you, your family members, and friends, the same gift of kindness and joy. Yours Gratefully, Sister Maria Guiseppe and Sisters For our November meeting we will be collecting warm hats, gloves and scarves, and at the Christmas Party we'll be collecting "Toys for Tots". Please continue to be generous. Thanks to everyone who has been donating to the children your generosity really counts in "their world". 9
FREE TABLE! We have created a free table at the Windy Brushes meetings. Bring you old books and Magazines, along with anything else normally would go in raffle, but someone may want and put on the FREE Table. It s on a first come first serve basis. So the early birds get the worm. SUNSHINE - Phyllis Kohnke, Chairperson BIRTHDAYS NOVEMBER Birthdays: 11-1 Mary Ecker 11-5 Carol Wiksten 11-13 Nancy Hansen 11-13 Luanne Widzisz 11-16 Jan Kuehne 11-16 Margaret Royston 11-26 Christine Wood DECEMBER Birthdays: 12-8 Misty Witt 12-9 Linda Kay 12-14 Stella Willmott 12-24 Betty A. Miller 10
RAFFLE RAFFLE RAFFLE. We had a wonderful response to our raffle sales in September raising $170! Thank you all so much for your participation. We have had a bountiful year of really nice donated items, much more than we could put out at any one meeting! What a wonderful problem for the chapter to have! Currently, I am storing quite a bit in the garage for future meetings. Due to this, it would be very helpful if you could limit November raffle donations to items that are of winter/ holiday theme. Then, at the January and March meetings, the focus will be on Spring and Summer themes. Also in January, there will be a separate table for the, White Elephant Fill a bag for $5, fundraiser. Thank you all for your continued support of Raffles and Windy Brushes! Ruth Duebner, Raffle Chair. SDP NEWS Have you ever wondered where you can get that perfect surface you've been looking for to paint a special project? If you go to SDP@decorativepainters.org and scroll down on the opening page, you can download the SDP Holiday Catalog, which is chock full of all your favorite suppliers of surfaces and patterns. The best part... it's absolutely free. Phyllis Kohnke, SDP Liaison 11
FACEBOOK WE ARE ON FACEBOOK. DON T FORGET TO LOOK FOR UPDATES AND GREAT PICTURES SEARCH: WINDY BRUSHES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND ASK TO JOIN MEMBERSHIP 26 of our 70 members have renewed for 2017. Congratulations to Mary Sterling, who won a free membership for 2017 by submitting her renewal by the September meeting. Please review the 2017 Membership form included in the newsletter. You may mail your renewal to me any time, or please plan on renewing in person at the November meeting. Beginning in 2017, all members will be sent a PDF version of the membership directory for their use. If you would prefer to receive a hard copy, please check the box on the form and indicate which meeting you will pick up the directory. Or, if you would like a hard copy mailed to you, please include an additional fee of $2.00. Members have until December 1, 2016 to renew at $20. After December 1st, there is an additional charge of $5. I will email members who have not renewed by December 1st, to remind them to renew. The PDF version of the directory will be sent to members early in 2017. Thanks, Linda Park, lindacarlsonpark@gmail.com 12
WINDY BRUSHES 2017 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION The $20.00 annual membership fee in Windy Brushes of Northern Illinois entitles one to receive six informative bi-monthly newsletters and a Chapter membership directory. It also gives the right to participate in the meetings, programs and educational activities planned by the Chapter. It affords an opportunity to meet other painters throughout the area. (Renewal Applications for Windy Brushes membership received after December 1 require an additional $5.00.) PDF Directories will be emailed to members early in 2017. I would prefer a hard copy of the directory. I will pick it up at the meeting. If you would like your Directory mailed to you, add $2.00 to your membership payment. No Directories will be mailed without prior payment of the $2.00. Thank you for your understanding. PLEASE PRINT AND FILL IN FORM COMPLETELY Name: SDP Member #: (required) Address: City: State: Zip: Home Phone: (List in directory? Yes No ) Cell Phone: (List in directory? Yes No ) E-mail: (List in directory? Yes No ) Teacher? Yes No Birth date: (Month/Day) New member Renewal Spouse: (Name) Emergency Contact: (Name/Phone) Signature: Date: Individual Membership Fee: $20.00 (RENEWAL FEE is $25.00 after December 1 st.) BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP: $15.00 (must also have individual membership) Name of business: PAYMENT: Individual $ Business $ Mail Directory $ Total Amount: Check Cash Please make your check payable to: WINDY BRUSHES and mail along with your membership application to: Linda Park, Windy Brushes Membership Chair, 531 Apache Lane, Carol Stream, IL. 60188. For additional membership information contact Linda at 630-890-1071 or lindacarlsonpark@gmail.com NOTE: To become a Windy Brushes' chapter member you must be a current member of the Society of Decorative Painters. For more information, go to Decorativepainters.org or call 316/269-9300. 13
WEBSITE The website is updated! If you see anything that needs to be corrected or added, feel free to let me know. Denise Renault Our November 2016 Program is being taught by Phyllis Kohnke. This cute reindeer can be made into either a pin or an ornament. Program Fee: $5.00 SUPPLIES NEEDED: 0.01 or 0.02 permanent pen (either Faber Castell or Micron) Glue gun (if you have one) Tacky glue #2 flat brush Small round brush Small scruffy brush for rouging Tracing paper Scissors Regular painting supplies The rest of the materials will be supplied. 14
WINDY BRUSHES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS MEETING SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2016 IMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (THE RED DOOR CHURCH) 415 W. NORTH AVENUE, BARTLETT, IL. 630-289-1320 SCHEDULE: 9:00 REGISTRATION OPENS RESERVATION DEADLINE: 9:30 MEETING Nov. 5, 2016 12:00 LUNCH Pot Luck* NOVEMBER PROGRAM: REINDEER PIN BY PHYLLIS KOHNKE RETURN RESERVATION FOM AND PAYMENT TO: MARY ECKER 745 N. WALNUT LANE, SCHAUMBURG, IL 60194 WINDY BRUSHES NOVEMBER 12, 2016 REGISTRATION FORM NAME: GUEST: DIETARY RESTRICTIONS: EMERGENCY CONTACT: MEETING FEE: # ATTENDING @ $15.00 EACH = PROGRAM FEE: # PARTICAPATING @ $5.00 EACH = FOR LUNCH I WILL BRING TO SHARE: * TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: *All members who have signed up to bring a dish will be given a Windy Brushes Gift Certificate for future use. LATE REGISTRATION EMAIL OR CALL MARY ECKER: marye745@gmail.com 847-490-9435 15
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