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Next Meeting is Thursday, October 25th, from 11 am to 1 pm. Join us to connect with other sewing enthusiasts who share your passion. The meeting fee is $5.

New Meeting Location:
TACtile, the new Textile Arts Center
7777 E Hampden Ave.
Denver, CO 80231, Tamerac Square Shopping Center

Please call 303.346.3388 to make your reservations by Monday of the meeting week, and remember to press 1 when using the automated phone system. Otherwise, your message will not be recorded.

Do you have any budding young designers in your life? Are your kids dieing to be on Project Runway?

Denver Public Schools has a school at 2650 Elliott, that will teach them fabrics, content, sewing, designing...everything you need to know to do towards what we do all day. (Is that what they really want to do?)

Next meeting, October 25th, 11AM- 1PM
Location: TACtile, the new Textile Arts Center
7777 E Hampden Ave., Denver, CO 80231,
Tamerac Square Shopping Center
www.tactilearts.org

This is a new non-profit, centralized location for all textile arts activity in and around the Denver area. Diane Denholm of D'Lea's Fabrics fame has leased a huge chunk of retail floor space that will be dedicated to meeting space, workshop space, display space and communing with all types of textile artists. SRN will be a founding member and our first meeting will be October 25th.

Here's how to find it:
Tamerac Square is a shopping center located 2 miles east of I-25 and Hampden Avenue. Take I-25 to Hampden. Turn east at the top of the exit. There are movie marquees on the left that you will see and a Whole Foods on the right (in Tiffany Plaza). Go through the stop light that looks like it turns into the center and turn left immediately or if you have gone too far, turn left on Tamerac Drive and then into the center. You can park anywhere, but if you want to park near the entry to TACtile, drive to the far northwest corner. If you come in by the theaters, walk all the way to the back (north) on the first floor. TACtile has taken over the old Hyde Park floor space.

What to bring:
There are restaurants all around Tamerac from the Old Chicago variety to a Starbucks inside the shopping center. Please bring your own lunch and drink. We will not be serving food, but hope to enjoy dining together as we hold our meetings. (Yes, I will miss the "order up" and "side of mayo" shouts from Perkins, but I will get over it).

What to pay:
The cost of $5.00 per meeting will still apply. This remains constant from our Perkins location and should allow us to break even on the room rental.

What to expect:
Have patience as we will be sorting everything out as well, but table and chairs will be arranged for maximum networking and social engagement. TACtile already has displays of textile artists arranged in the center and Dianne Denholm has some retail fabrics for sale. It has always been my opinion that she is the best buyer of fabrics and notions in this area so any of her picks are a treat to view/buy/review. The floor space was raw when Tracy and I reviewed the location, so whatever has transpired in 2 months will be new to us as well. Plan to be pleased.

Final note:
This year has been a nomadic year for SRN. The first and most urgent request made to me when I took the presidency was to relocate. We tried Perkins. I do appreciate many aspects of Perkins, but the limited size/seating of the rooms does not help us envision maximum instead of minimum attendance at the meetings. Many of our members use SRN only for the incredibly inexpensive marketing and totally miss the valuable aspect of meeting other textile/stitchery businesses. The combining of knowledge and strength of other business owners makes our businesses more valuable, more solid. Imagine the energy and resources as all of the textile related organizations combine to meet in one location. This is Dianne's dream. Let's catch the wave and ride it in.

It's time to place your ads in for the January SRN Brochure. This brochure will be handed out at the Creative Festival at the end of January. Deadline for placing an ad is Nov. 15th. If you attend the October meeting you can hand a check to Karen Niemi directly.

If you have any changes to your business information you need to get this to Toni Fitzwater no later than Nov. 20th.

Here are the instructions if you would like to place a business ad in the brochure to insure your ad will look it's best. Please provide us your current business card or a camera-ready file of your ad. The instructions for placing an ad are as follows:

*Deadline*: Nov. 15th for the business card or camera-ready file as well as ad fees. First come, first served. If you currently have an ad in the brochure your payment must be received by Nov. 15th. Otherwise, if we don't have the space for new ads, your space will be given to other members who wish to have a new ad placed. Your immediate and quick response will help us with the tight timeline to get this to print. If you know that you will not be renewing your current ad, please let me know as soon as possible so I can make sure that we sell all of the ad spaces.

Cost:
The cost for a business card ad is $30. The charge for sponsor size ad is $75. All ads are dependent on space available.

Where to send:
Please send your check to Karen Niemi. Follow up with a call or email to advise her it is on its way.
Karen Niemi
9328 Burgundy Circle
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
303 470-9309
email: karen.niemi@comcast.net

You will also need to send your business card or .PSD file to our writer/designer, Mary Jo Regier. This must be received by Nov. 15th
MaryJo Regier
5559 S. Van Gordon Street
Littleton, CO 80127
email: mj@mjregiercopywriter.com

*What to send to MaryJo:*
Members and advertisers who've paid SRN ad fees may send business cards or various acceptable file formats as listed below:
- The original .PSD files (Photoshop files) of the business cards and/or ads -
-Or you can email camera-ready artwork that you have used to advertise in other media forms, - Or .pdf files PROVIDING the original artwork was 300dpi or higher (high resolution) at the time the artwork was designed and saved as, or converted to, a .pdf file will be accepted for best printing results - Or original business cards (for quality, high-resolution scanning) . Please mark "SRN" on the lower left corner of the envelope and include an SASE only if you wish your card or ad to be returned. For emailed .PSD files include "SRN" in the subject line.

If you have any questions, please call or email:
Karen Niemi
Creative Stitching & Designs
Karen.Niemi@comcast.net
303 470-9309

Extra brochures can be picked up from Karen Niemi in the Highlands Ranch area or Christine Hoyt, Denver Harvey Park (south) area. Call either for address and directions.

Volunteer to assist with Sponsor relationships. Works under Karen Niemi, Marketing Director. Contacts sponsors to renew brochure ads and collect ad fees. Prospects for new sponsors. Find places to advertise SRN that are inexpensive. Find new places to leave SRN brochures.

*Greeter* at meetings to welcome new members.

*Newsletter Coordinator. * Collects data to be published in monthly newsletter. Coordinates with newsletter publisher.

Creative Festival booth design and set up.
The board has some new ideas and has signage from previous events.

You can change your address that the newsletter is sent to by clicking the link at the bottom of the newsletter Update Profile/Email Address . Ask send an email to Toni Fitzwater at toni_fitzwater@msn.com, so she can update the membership roster and update the SRN website.