When not crafting, I am writing. Okay, I'm writing more than I craft these days. I belong to a group called Sleuth's Ink. This was our fourth year having a month-long writing event called JANO.. a take of NANO aka National Novel Writing Month. Except we do it in January (AFTER the holiday crazies) and we have an extra day to write. The GOAL... write 50 thousand words of a new (or tack onto an existing) novel in 31 days.
I opened mouth-inserted foot last February and offered to be the JANO 2013 Chair person. I ENJOYED the opportunity to serve my group. Since I live a long distance from our base location of Springfield MO, I don't take on board positions. But with the promise from a great on-sight committee, I figured I could do this. And I did.
Saturday, February 2nd was the culmination of our month-long event. 21 people attended a catered dinner. The food at TheEventPlace was AWESOME! (Thanks Jill!). We also announced winners of various categories such as Best First Pages, Best First Line, First to 50 thousand, etc. These categories as well as a host of others and on-going raffles throughout the night for door prizes, no one went home empty handed.
Every year we get these cute little notepads with our JANO logo at the top. Former chairpersons told me to 'put my own spin' on the event this year. Being a paper crafter, you know where that led me. Right down to the studio where I created these fun little 'suit pockets' to hold not only the note pad, but a pen, Gheradelli chocolate and three raffle tickets. The logo is our SI group logo.
I opened mouth-inserted foot last February and offered to be the JANO 2013 Chair person. I ENJOYED the opportunity to serve my group. Since I live a long distance from our base location of Springfield MO, I don't take on board positions. But with the promise from a great on-sight committee, I figured I could do this. And I did.
Saturday, February 2nd was the culmination of our month-long event. 21 people attended a catered dinner. The food at TheEventPlace was AWESOME! (Thanks Jill!). We also announced winners of various categories such as Best First Pages, Best First Line, First to 50 thousand, etc. These categories as well as a host of others and on-going raffles throughout the night for door prizes, no one went home empty handed.
Every year we get these cute little notepads with our JANO logo at the top. Former chairpersons told me to 'put my own spin' on the event this year. Being a paper crafter, you know where that led me. Right down to the studio where I created these fun little 'suit pockets' to hold not only the note pad, but a pen, Gheradelli chocolate and three raffle tickets. The logo is our SI group logo.
I have to give a big thank you to my SIL, Kelly Bay. When we visited her last fall she gave me her Scor Pal. I don't know how long it would have taken me to make 24 of these rosettes if it hadn't been for the Scor Pal.
I used SU Black and Poppy Parade. These are made from an 8.5x11 and are 5.5" tall. I scored 3" in from each end (laying horizontal). Then cut a V in the center section.. down 2.5" I believe. I made these at about 10 p.m. on Friday night LOL.. the night before I needed them. Yep... I do everything in crunch mode. It's how I work.
With JANO out of the way, I can get the blog back on schedule... hopefully :-)
Keep Creating!
Kelly
Those notepad pockets ROCKED! Great job, and thank you for all your hard work.
ReplyDeleteThat's the kind of stuff I do when I'm not writing!
DeleteGreat project. Love the Rosettes. Have fun with your writing group.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Maggie. Both of my writing groups are populated with wonderful people.
DeleteI was wondering why you made 24 rosettes! Your favors look great! It sounds like a fun group and a fun event.
ReplyDeleteBecause I"m nuts! LOL And because these people deserved something special. They all worked tremendously hard on their new or existing novels.
DeleteI loved it. Mine is on my bulletin board. Thanks for all of the hard work.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan. And I love my goody basket! Yum!
DeleteThat is so cool!!! Great project . . . and could be used for so many occasions!
ReplyDeleteI'm working on smaller ones, but this size was perfect for the project.
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