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Club News: The club is now meeting twice a month - the first and third Wednesdays at 7pm!      The Club held its Annual Christmas party on Wednesday, December 3, 2008. A number of members were able to attend with their spouses. There was much good food and drink. The Club provided meats and drinks while the members brought in side dishes and desserts. We also held an ornament exchange. Each member who choose to bring a wrapped ornament received an ornament. Numbers were pulled from a hat and the member who held the corresponding number was allowed to pick from the ornaments. Al Westfall was last to pick and in an unusual result ended up with his own ornament. As he had put a lot of work into it he was pleased to take home his own carving. Wyatt Sample Here are a few pictures of the Club members and family enjoying the food and drink. Here are pictures of Club members showing off the ornaments they received in the exchange. John Bouchillon shows off the carving he received from Charlie Sapp Bob Berg received an ornament carved by Bob Craven Bob Craven's Snowman ornament was carved by John Bouchillon Charlie Sapp was unable to attend but his lovely wife shows off the ornament Charlie received from Wyatt Sample Bill Kuhn recieved an ornament carved by Dick Weber. The instructions for this ornment were in the November newsletter. Wyatt Sample shows off the Christmas Tree ornament he received from Bill Kuhn Dee Kley received a nice ornament bear carved by Bob Berg Al Westfall shows off the ornament he carved and kept in the exchange. Dick Weber's ornament was carved by Dee Kley, accepted on his behalf by Mrs. Sapp Coming Events:back to table of contents Charles Sapp's "Carving a Santa Ornament" class has been delayed due to his job interfering with his pleasure. He promises to make it up at a later date. Show and Tell:back to table of contents   Bob Berg has been working on Christmas ornaments Several are pictured below. The first picture is one of his candle characters in a candle holder. The next picture are three other character Christmas candles. The third picture is a character ornament. He got the ideas from Randy Landen. The crosses were carved by Charles Adams. He experimented with different levels of woodburning for each cross. The cane was done by Dee Kley. It is difficult to get a good picture of a cane, but you can see the theme which she used throughout the length of the cane; bears and feathers.     The carvings above were done by Sal Bax. The bear relif was carved in John Engler's class, the Santa was done in Bob Bierman's class. Both were done in basswood and finished with acrylic paint. Recommended Resources:back to table of contents The following two links are to sources of carving woods. Heineke comes to the Belleville woodcarving show each year and to other shows and provides excellent wood. Slim also comes to the Belleville show and has also attended our woodcarving shows. Heinecke Wood Slim's Woodshed Lynn Doughty is a western carver living in Oklahoma. He does a blog which provides tutorial on how he carves his characters with detailed instruction. There is no cost to the blog. It is a great resource, check it out at Out West Woodcarving. The following pictures are examples of some of the carvings that he gives specific instruction on. Gene Messar is a Flat Plane carver living on the Texas/Louisiana border. He has done a number of videos on youtube demonstrating the carving of santas, snowmen, Rufus and Sadie, hillbilly, wizard, hobo, halloween ghost, a scene with a dog treeing a raccoon in a tree and others. The following is a picture of some of his carvings. Each carving is demonstrated in a series of short videos. If you have high speed internet these videos are free and helpful. It is a great resource, check it out at Whittler0507 Dues:back to table of contents The "rent fee" has been cancelled. There is no longer any fee charged at the meetings.   It is time to pay your dues for 2008 Club dues are $15.00 per year and include the website and electronic newsletter.  Contact the Membership Chairman, Charles Sapp, or Treasurer Bob Craven. Seminars:back to table of contents          Corky Breece, Seminar Chairman Corky planned several great seminars in 2008. He has done a great job. Thanks Corky! Corky is now working on the schedule for 2009.  If you have any suggestions, please get in touch with him.    For seminars - the doors open in the morning at 8:30am and in the evening at 5:00pm.  Typically classes during the day will be conducted from 9am to 5pm and in the evening from 5:00pm to 9pm.   Ask your instructor for exact times.   Corky has scheduled Bob Bierman to provide another seminar for the Club in January. Bob Bierman will be teaching either of the in the round Santa Clauses pictured below. Meeting Time and Location:back to table of contents Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The meetings include a brief business meeting followed by a carving session. The meeting location has changed. Meetings are now held at the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project at 7295 Highway 94 South St. Charles, Missouri 63304. Visitors are always welcome! Saturday carving is being held on the Saturday prior to the third Wednesday of each month. Saturday carving is also held at the Weldon Spring Site. Visitors are always welcome! Weldon Spring Department of Energy site.  From highway 40/61 or I-70 exit highway 94 and continue south toward Defiance.  It is just past the Francis Howell High School.  When you see a Quonset hut on the right hand side it is the next driveway / facility.       Member Web Pages-Update: back to table of contents New members - be sure to get with Wyatt Sample and provide him with some pictures of your work and a background write up for the website.  All Members, please feel free to update the information for your page on the website any time. Just send an email to the webmaster, Wyatt Sample,(link at bottom of page) with any new information about yourself. Please provide some information about any new carving you want displayed and either send in a digital picture or bring in a picture of your carving to be scanned. You can look through the other member pages to see what type of information others have provided. Contact us for more information on the club or activities.  For questions regarding this Web Site, contact Webmaster: Wyatt Sample