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PALETTE PATTER

Memories

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JoAnn Beissner

Hello fellow CLAG artists, Once again the year is coming to a close and I wonder how it goes so fast. The past year has been a bit of a challenge for the board but we pulled thru with flying colors. We had a great Lasting Impressions show, lots of great demos, a ton of great food, seriously good company, beautiful art displays around town, good fundraisers and most of all we have a website that's up and running. I have enjoyed my time on the board but am definitely looking forward to sitting back and enjoying the meetings and not being in charge of anything except finishing my own meal!!! I would like to thank all of the board members and committee members and the general membership that also volunteered their time, worked hard to get the job done and helped make our guild awesome. As usual we will be closing out the year with our Christmas celebration and optional gift exchange. The guild will be supplying the main course (meat) for the luncheon and we ask that you bring a side dish, dessert, or something to drink. You are welcome to participate in the gift exchange by bringing a wrapped gift, around $20 in value, that says something about you. This is a lovely time to mingle with members old and new and celebrate the holiday season. Hope to see you there! Sincerely, Gail Graham, Outgoing Grand Poobah

A decision to extend the entry deadline for the CLAG yearbook cover has been made. It’s a busy time of year, indeed. Entries will be accepted until Monday,

December 2nd. If you have already sent in your entry, no need to

resend. Please be sure that your submission is vertical in orientation and sent as a copy ready jpeg. Please note that works should be photographed unframed to avoid glare and reflections from the glass. Email your entry to coztex@gvtc.com. The committee will make a decision by the next CLAG meeting. Thanks, all.

From our VP

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Dear CLAG Member: It's time to renew your membership for 2020. Simply click on the link below and fill in your membership details. The data entered will automatically populate a spreadsheet which can be formatted into a template for our printed directory. This will save a lot of time and paper and reduce the potential for errors caused by re-entering the information in other formats. Click HERE for membership form

Exciting news for next year...you will be able to pay your dues by credit card! Just select that option at the bottom of the membership form and you will be emailed instructions for payment. You must renew your membership and enter your information before January 8th (our January meeting date) in order to be included in the 2020 directory. Thank you for your support. See you at our next meeting!

Ann Cook Membership Chair 469-569-7128

Membership renewals and new membership fees must be paid before January 8th to be included in the CLAG 2020 DIRECTORY!

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Please join us at the year end CLAG meeting for the swearing in of the newly elected 2020 officers. We are looking forward to a successful and productive year ahead. Annual Christmas Party & Gift Exchange, $20. maximum. Presents should be wrapped.

November Minutes from The Secetrary

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Canyon Lake Art Guild - General Meeting - Minutes - Nov. 13, 2019 Gail Graham called the meeting to order at 1:00 P.M. -There will be a donation jar to cover the cost of the fantastic food for our meetings. - Members sang happy birthday to Barbara Anderson. -Holiday party is scheduled for Dec. 11 at noon. All members should bring side dishes, and the Guild will supply the main course. There will be a gift exchange for those who want to participate. Bring a wrapped gift costing no more than $20.00, please. - Membership applauded Ann Cook for the up and running website. -The membership in attendance accepted the slate of officers for the board for 2020. -Everyone was invited to stay and paint stars for the Christmas Market. -Lasting Impressions will be at the Center for the Arts in Gruene April 18-28.

Community displays, Adette Irish: --Hill Country Christmas Market 12/14/19 from 9-3 --Val Schroller made posters for the Christmas Market --All members are asked to make baked goods placed in dollar bags, ready to sell for the Christmas Market. Drop off at Hill Country Furnishings in Sattler. --Adette passed out a volunteer sheet for the Christmas Market— The Christmas Market makes money for our annual scholarship. NEEDED: coffee urns, tables, we will serve hotdogs, chili dogs, pulled pork sandwiches NEED assistance for food prep beforehand. Contact Sandra Brenkis @ 608-235-7077 -The Little Club in Startzville will host CLAG artists on Nov. 23rd. They provide the tables and artists bring art and cash box.- The time is 6:00 - 9:00 P.M., and dinner and drinks will be served. Cash bar.

--Treasurer, Val Schroller - Presently, Val is using a free program to manage our bank account. She reminded the membership that we have or will change banks from Wells Fargo to Security State. Also, our storage is now at Canyon Bend in Startzville. The move from Bear Creek Storage to Canyon bend saves the Guild $260.00 a year. Val plans to meet with our Edward Jones agent to find a more aggressive way to make money with our money market account, and to she wants to eliminate the $3.00 a month handling fee. Kathy Perales reported that Claudette Cozzi has received one art submission for the Year Book 2020 cover. Deadline is to enter is Dec 2nd. Also, she stated that the winner has to take over the cover job next year. --Parliamentarian, Karen Frasier - reports that our by-laws need updating. Kathy Perales, and Ann Cook agreed to serve on the committee to work on the by-laws. --Art cabinets --Jean Whileyman and Judy Cobb agreed to take care of glass displays. --The Guild needs someone to take on the job of hanging art on the library walls. No one has signed up for the job, yet. Gail says we need helpers. Please sign up!

Gobble-Gobble The display venues were updated in October through Mid-January. The sign up sheets for 2020 are blank! Please sign up to display your art throughout our community. The Little Club hosted an artist reception on Nov. 23rd. 3-D artists set up tables to sell their art. Thank you to Kathy Perales, Betty Smith, Jean Brace & Leila Reynolds for sharing your beautiful items for sale at the event. Our Hill Country Christmas Market is full with CLAG members and a few outside artists, to sell their art and Christmas gifts! We will be selling hot dogs, chili dogs and pulled pork sandwiches, along with hot cider and drinks. Anyone able to assist with food prep, contact Sandra Brenkis or Adette. We need “chili cookers” and other assistants. All ingredients will be provided. Also, please bring your baked goodies, packaged in bags, ready to sell for $1 each, to the December CLAG meeting. Or, drop off at Hill Country Furnishings by Saturday the 14th at 9AM. Thank you, we are counting on you! We also need a SANTA at our Christmas Market! We have a suit but no “body” to fill it. Hours 12pm to 2pm, Dec. 14th. We are not offering photos with Santa this year so any ol’ soul that can walk about and smile and wave and Ho Ho Ho, will do! We will pay him with love, food and drink! Till then, Keep coloring our world! Adette

Community Display

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9Membership, Ann Cook--Twenty-nine members are in attendance today. Website is up and active. There are six pages on the site. Ann reminds members when we renew our membership we should add our website if we have one. Membership can now be paid with a credit card. Also, anyone can now ask a question on the site. -Members discussed restarting “artist of the month” by drawing names. We used to have a reception for “artist of the month,” but attendance was poor. -Jean Brace won split the pot. -Please wear and return name tags. -A guild member, who teaches art classes, asked if his students could display their art along with CLAG members. The request will be on December’s agenda.

Respectfully submitted, Ellyn Hickey Secretary

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Noteworthy

- CLAG MEETING - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY POTLUCK AND $20 GIFT EXCHANGE

~Tye Preston Art Display~

Please contact me: 210 842-6695. Email kfrazier737@gmail.com Thanks

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I can’t believe it is that time of year. Where did the year go? Thanks to everyone who displayed their at the library. We have some amazing artists. At the January meeting we will be changing the art in the cases and on the walls. The cases have enough artists but I still need artists for the walls. Please email me if you are interested. The art will only be on display three months as the art students from Canyon Lake H.S. will show their art for a month in the spring.

I am stepping down as library coordinator and I am very pleased to say we have two individuals who will take over coordination of the cases. Thanks you both Judy Cobb and Jean Whileyman. A coordinator or two are still needed for the walls. The following is brief description of what needs to be done. 1. Provide a sign up sheet at our meeting and remind people to sign up. 2. I call everyone a couple of weeks before the art is to be changed as a reminder. 3. Day of: the artists are responsible for their own art, taking down and putting up. I do help if needed. 4. The artists complete their inventory sheets, give to you, you turn in the sheets to the library. The art on the walls is changed three times a year, except when the high school students show theirs. The display were changed quarterly and can be changed back if that is more convenient. I will be there in January to help with change. Please contact me if you have any questions. With two it shouldn’t be too hard.

Judy Cobb and Jean Whileyman have assumed responsibility for the Artist Display Cases in the Library.  In order to best manage the use of these cases, we need to know how many CLAG members are interested in displaying their artwork there.  Once we have that information, we will send another email with more details to these members.  PLEASE RESPOND to jean.whileyman@yahoo.com.  If we receive no response from you, we will assume no interest and no further communications will be sent to you.  Thanks!

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Second Annual

Ch!"mas Market Saturday December 14th, during the Sattler Christmas Parade. Volunteers and Vendors are needed to work this event. Money raised from this effort helps support our Scholarship Program

Greater NB Arts Council

* Wassailfest & Caroling - Dec. 5th - Downtown New Braunfels

* 40th Anniversary Dinner with the Arts is postponed until further notice

* CLAG is making a proposal to host GNBAC annual art show sometime in the

early spring. All members are encouraged to enter their art and assist with the

show. This is great exposure for our Guild. More info available next year.

* This is the last month to join GNBAC for only $25. through 2020. Over $200. in

offers come with this membership. Go to GNBAC.com to join!

Turkey Don’t Have Webbed Feet

His hand was held behind his back and a smile broke across a tanned face as he came in from the sun. She looked at him and her eyes revealed the questions in her voice. “Hi Sugar! Where have you been? What are you up to?” He held out a small brown paper bag to her. It was gathered tightly at the top. “Here Hon. Here’s our thanksgiving turkey.” She carefully opened the bag. Inside was a small ball of yellow fluff, with pink webbed feet twice the body size. A continuous peeping sound was made in protest as the tiny bird was brought from its protective packaging.

“Why Dale, this can’t be our thanksgiving turkey.” Turkey don’t have webbed feet.” Jacqui’s grandmother had raised turkeys on their property in Pennsylvania and she knew without a doubt this was not a turkey. “Well the sign at the feed store said “Turkey” and I thought it was a turkey.”, said Dale in disgust. Jacqui loved the presents he brought as surprises, like the roses and plants and the porch swing which they shared in the cool evenings, but still, this present had to be correctly identified. The beak was not hooked like a turkey, but pink and flat, and the large pink feet were definitely webbed. So they both went back to the feed store.

The man at the store laughed and apologized for the confusion explaining that he had sold all the turkeys and put the other birds in the pen marked “Turkey”. So the “Turkey with the webbed feet” became known as “Alexandria Goslonof” the Christmas Goose.

She was a ball of yellow fluff with light brown shading and her eyes were baby blue like a new born child, rimmed with a delicate pink shading. Her legs were long for her body and her feet were oversized, pink and fully webbed. She soon followed her new surrogate “Mother Goose” and constantly peeped in distress whenever she lost sight of her “Mother” for even a moment. As soon as she saw her, she lowered her head and stretched her long neck low and forward, launching into a full run, peeping all the while. Hence her informal name became “Peepers”. Life was pleasant as she grew up.

She had a wonderful swimming pool to play in while “Mother Goose” sunned herself in the yard. She was still too little to be left alone and had a small upturned bucket on which to stand when she got tired of swimming. “Mother Goose” still had to take her in and out of the pool for she was not tall enough to climb out and jump to the ground.

“Grand Mother Goose” would come to visit and was always taking pictures of her. She liked to call “Peepers” over to her by her full name, “Alexandria Goslonof”. She’d lean down and fold her arms around the fluffy baby goose, talk softly while telling her how sweet she was. She held her close and kept her warm. However, “Mother Goose” was “Peepers” favorite because she would lift her up on her lap and sit in the big wooden swing on the back porch and sing to her. “Peepers” would rub her head on her Mother’s neck and arms and pick at the hairs on her head.

So the goose, known first as “Alexandria Goslonof” and finally as “Peepers”, did not become a turkey dinner, or even a Christmas Dinner. Instead she grew up beautiful and white with sky blue eyes outlined in orange and with large orange webbed feet. “Grandmother Goose” even painted a picture of her as a grown goose looking back at herself as a baby taking her first steps to being grown up. It is titled, “Here’s Looking at You Kid”. It’s currently in the private collection of “Mother Goose”. Meanwhile, for that Thanksgiving, Jacqui and Dale bought a Butter Ball Turkey from the grocery store for a very delicious dinner. Happy Thanksgiving!

A Holiday Tale from Gretchen Schleyer

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Carmen painting Zinnias This comes fro,m her daughter

A decision to extend the entry deadline for the CLAG yearbook cover has been made. It’s a busy time of year, indeed. Entries will be accepted until Monday,

December 2nd

If you have already sent in your entry, no need to resend. Please be sure that your submission is vertical in orientation and sent as a copy ready jpeg. Please note that works should be photographed unframed to avoid glare and reflections from the glass. Email your entry to coztex@gvtc.com. The committee will make a decision by the next CLAG meeting. Thanks, all.

COVER ART

1. PAY YOUR DUES2. SIGN UP FOR THE THE DIRECTORY3. ATTEND THE NEXT MEETING!4. YEARBOOK COVER ART IS DUE DEC 2ND!! 5. GET YOUR BAKEDGOODS READY for H.C. CHRISTMAS MARKET!

Canyon Lake Art Guild1885 FM 2673Canyon Lake, TX 78133http://CanyonLakeArtGuild.comCLAG News Monthly CLAGNews@yahoo.comPresident: Gail Grahamgrahamstockglass@gmail.com830.660.80161st Vice President: Cheryl Wootencheryls_art@yahoo.com281.844.25002nd Vice President: Debbie Alvaradodeborahkalvarado@gmail.copm830.832.6300Secretary: Ellyn Hickeyellyn.hickey1@gmail.com281.615.3934Treasurer: Valerie Schrollerlakeside822@gvtc.com 210.856.1705Parliamentarian: Karen Frazierkffrazier737@gmail.com210.842.6695 - 830.223.7055NewsletterEditor: Kent Irishwellsea2@gmail.com828.275.3778*Please submit Newsletter contributions to: wellsea2@gmail.com in Word or Pages format. Font size12-16p.

Hospitality Chair: Bunny SatchellLibrary Display: Judy CobbJean WhileymanCommunity Display: Adette Irish Annette BoernerWebmaster: Ann CookSocial Media: Jan Burley HuntPublicity: Debbie AlvaradoPublishing: Kathy PeralesMembership: Ann CookScholarship: Nancy ElllisHistorian: Pat KirkpatrickGreater NB Arts Council: Adette Irish

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