Wow…what a fun “out of comfort zone” contest!  I was so pleased to see everyone had fun and enjoyed the good-spirited contest.  By popular vote, we will do this again next March, so start planning now for your build.  It is appropriate to do this on our anniversary month to celebrate what each of us has learned from each other and from the group to make your own builds just that much better.

Congrats to all the winners today and for the creativeness of the builds.  I want to give a shout out to Andre for his very out of the box approach to his tugboat; to Chad for modifying his US Army motorcycle to a civilian post war one; and to Todd for that amazing scratch built semi truck. 

Please forward to me your wish lists for topics to either go over in the group session or for a break out session.  If anyone as well would like to offer to demonstrate a technique they are good at, let me know too!

The next closest show is NOVA in April. I think several of the members are planning to attend.   There are some other shows in March and April but they are quite the drive and not sure how many, if any, are willing to do a long distance trek.  Whatever event members attend, wear your shirt to show off our “flag”.

We welcome our new members to the club – again how neat it was they showed for our March anniversary meeting.  We look forward to seeing your craft, helping you where we can, and learning from you.  We help, guide, and support each other in the Raven-hood and we hope you enjoy your time with us.

Martin will look into programs to support kids’ programs in the area.  Various folks agreed to see if their local library would like to host us for adult/kid programs they run that can use our crafts and skills for their clients.   Chad is going to look into creating web-based themed chat rooms for members to join and hopefully he can set that up for us as well as making “good job” tokens we can leave next to builds we like at show events.

See you all in early April for the meeting and again for NOVA and the museum tour late in April.  Until then, keep building.  As for me, I have a guillotine to paint!


Chris