Hey everyone!
I just wanted to let everyone know what a great meeting we had last month. It was nice to see so many new faces, Lenora, Dean, Nora, Mike, Brenda, Debbie, Karen and Beverly. We hope to see all of you again.

The highlight of the meeting had to be Colin Smith from the Beads of Courage program. She was very inspriring and really motivated us as a group to participate in the program and start donating beads. We voted to make this month's challenge beads to be purple hearts to donate along with any orphan beads we may have collected. Also, Terry Porto did a demo for the cutest dog head bead. Thanks again Terry!

As some of you know we have been meeting at Wired Up Beads in Southlake, thanks again Patti! Patti has been generous enough to offer her open house as opportunity to sell our lampwork beads. The proposed date is May 2nd. The goal was to have the time to sell beads before Mother's Day. Please contact Terry Porto at terryporto@yahoo.com if you are interested. The event will be promoted and cards will be sent out. Don't miss this great chance to get your work out there.

Don't forget, this weekend is the Fort Worth Bead Market at Amon Carter in Fort Worth. Some of our members will have booths selling lampwork and finished jewelry. I will be out there along with Donna Johnson of Dancing Light Jewelry and Donna Felkner of CG Beads. Come by and say hello!

Our next meeting will be held on April 18th. We will annouce the place a couple weeks ahead. I hope to see all of you there.

Patricia Scoggins
Grapevine Beadmakers' Society
Treasurer/ Blogger