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Meeting Location:

Textile Arts Center
7777 E Hampden Ave
Denver, CO 80231
Tamarac Square Shopping Center

Dear SRN members,

If you didn't make the August meeting, with MJ Regier as speaker, you missed a good one. We had 18 attendees, including another new member, Merry Snyder. It sounds like the September meeting should be interesting, too, in a different way.

Our most urgent item of business will be to get paid up to be in the new brochure, whether as a regular member or as a special, card-size ad. Bring your check and card to the meeting, to be included! (Can you believe "it's that time again"?!)

Has anyone, besides me, entered the "Green With Envy" show at TACtile? Can't wait to see all the entries.

Don't forget to bring to the meeting any fabric you wish to donate to TACtile for their October Bizarre Bazaar sale/fundraiser.

Who is signed up to teach, or take, a course at TACtile? (Let us know at the meeting.) What a resource it is turning out to be.

I have been sewing up a storm, a surprise as I haven't had a huge abundance of projects for awhile.

The Board is determining a meeting time to get some items settled, and started.

Hope to see you all at the meeting Thursday.

Chris Esposito will be joining us to talk about her experiences as a Fashion Designer and breaking out to start a business of designing clothes and marketing them to retail outlets including Neiman Marcus.

In case there is extra time be ready to discuss your tips to making your business easier and more efficient.

Don't forget to bring your show and tell, so the membership can see what everyone else is up to.

TACtile Art Center, Rocky Mountain Region continues to offer Tactile experiences.

Gallery Exhibit Schedule

Workshops, displays, open house

9/18-11/7 - Green with Envy - recycle, reinvent, repurpose

11/13 - 1/9 Holiday Member Show

Feb-Mar Holes & Knots - contemporary lace

April World Threads and Sari Sale - international, ethnic focus

An October weekend with Sandra Betzina! Meet the one and only, exuberant, international instructor and Vogue Pattern Designer at TACtile! Trunk Show and Personal Fittings October 30 - 31 and November 1st.

Register soon for this great opportunity.

There are a lot of events, classes and more available to all of us.

Consider a membership that fits your passion for fiber arts and textiles.

Check out the TEXtile web site

If you know if an exhibit or show that would interest our membership, forward the details to toni_fitzwater@msn.com, the editor, so they can be included.

The SRN year is half over. The current board of directors is looking for members interested in experiencing the boards positions.

The SRN year is Mar 1 - Feb 28.

The board is made up of:

President - leads the meetings, schedules 4 board meetings a year.

Program Chairperson- arranges the program for the meetings, and servers as backup to the President.

Treasurer - collects all money and pays the bills.

Membership Chairperson: Keeps the official member records in Microsoft Access, prepares a roster for distribution twice a year, and sends out renewal notices.

Marketing Chairperson: Organizes the collection of advertising for the brochure from the membership and sponsors. Coordinates with the graphic artist for the production of 2 brochures a year.

Newsletter Editor: Produces a newsletter every month using Constant Contact.

Members at Large: Take on special projects that need to have a single source of coordination.

Consider serving on the board. It is a rewarding experience and a way to help SRN continue to grow.

Board members are given free membership for their term of office.

Our President Marci Heiser, is a busy lady. In addition to her job with SRN, she is on the advisory board for TECtile.

Marci has an MFA in Costume Construction from the North Carolina School of the Arts. In Colorado she has built costumes for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder (several summers), Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Colorado in Denver, Ballet Nouveau Colorado in Broomfield, and Red Rocks Community College, where she has taught costume design classes. She has also built costumes for the Piedmont Opera Theatre (N.C.), Caroline Ballet (N.C.), Opera Tampa, Michigan Opera Theatre, and many smaller companies.

Her newest passion is going green and natural. She is busy working on an organic lifestyle and is expanding her horizon by learning to be gluten free.

Our membership is a great source of knowledge. Several of our members are sharing their talents by teaching individually and in businesses. Who better to learn from than our members.

If you are involved in a sewing education opportunity and want it in the news letter, forward the details to toni_fitzwater@msn.com, the editor, so it can be included.

As a member of The Sewing Referral Network, you can play a big part in helping to grow the organization! The Board of Directors has approved the use/display of the new SRN logo on member sites for more exposure. If you need a Web-ready JPG image of the logo, please e-mail MaryJo Regier at mj@mjregiercopywriter.com with "SRN logo request" in the subject line.

If you do display the SRN logo on your private business site, please use the format guidelines below, along with a link to the SRN website (either link the logo or the URL or both!), to ensure professional exposure consistency:

Membership Paid Referral Policy

A one-time fee of $10 is paid for each referral that becomes a paying customer (Project minimum is $25). The $10 is paid to the person that referred that customer to you. Whether you have too much business or need more business-referrals can work for you!

BRochure Advertising

Judy Veyera is preparing the Winter Brochure. This is the one that will be handed out at the Creative Festival after the first of the year.

If you would like to have a business card ad in this brochure (and did not have one in the spring brochure) you need to send your business card to:

Judy Veyera
11282 Conifer Mtn Rd
Conifer, CO 80433

Payment of $30 for your ad needs to be forwarded to:

Carla Gosney,
7280 S. Broadway
Centennial, CO 80122

Be sure to get this done before the October 1 deadline.

Members may pick-up membership rosters and brochures at any meeting. If you can't make a meeting and need brochures, please contact one of the SRN Board Members for alternate pick up locations. New rosters will be printed for the July & November 2009 meetings (subject to change). If you can not attend a meeting and want a roster or brochure, please email the request to the membership chair. Brochures will be mail to you, and rosters will be emailed to you in an Excel file.

Notice
- Membership Dues were due by March 1st,

All SRN members should forward their dues to
Carla Gosney,
7280 S. Broadway
Centennial, CO 80122

NOTE:
If dues are not received by May 1, you will be deleted from the Membership Roster, Website, Brochure, and Newsletter Mailing.

Please click the link at the bottom of the newsletter that reads Update Profile/Email Address . Then send an email to LeNore Kerber, lkerber@earthlink.net, so she can update the membership roster and website.