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Table of Contents: Club News Coming Events Meeting Pictures Show and Tell Recommended Resources Dues Reminder Seminars Meeting Location Member Web Page Update

Club News: The club meets twice a month - the first and third Wednesdays at 7pm!      The Annual Christmas banquet was held December 2. Meat, bread and drinks were provided. Each member brought a side dish of their choice. The food was excellent. The Kley's provided Christmas trees for table decorations, Bill Kuhn held a special drawing for one of his Christmas Horse Ornaments, Rich Weitzman provided music, and the Sapps provided gifts of jars of candy canes. Many member's chose to participate in our annual Christmas carving exchange. Those who brought a carving to exchange also received a carving. Dick Weber, our most distant member, mailed his carving in. Pictures below in the newsletter show the carvings exchanged and includes a picture of Dick with the carving he will receive. In other news Member Mike Simpson informed the Club members of his new carving business location at 617 First Capital Drive in St. Charles, where he creates custom doors and windows and mantels and more. You are invited to come check it out. Mike has a website for his carving business at First Impression Entryways Wyatt Sample Christmas Party Pictures: back to table of contents Below are pictures from this year's Club Christmas party. This collage of pictures of the party was provided by Bill Kuhn. Members (and Kirsten Sample in her father's place) below show off the ornaments they received in the ornament exchange. Show and Tell: back to table of contents The first set of pictures are Dick Weber's Northwest style whale. Dick also carved this cottonwood bark house and trees. Below are two of Mike Simpson's impressive works in progress. 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 There are no dues at club meetings, but be sure to pay your annual dues.   Check with President Rich Weitzman if you are unsure if you are paid up to date.   -- Club dues are $15.00 per year and include the website and electronic newsletter. Seminars: back to table of contents Corky Breece, Seminar Chairman We held a Bob Bierman Santa seminar in January and a painting seminar in February. In October we had a Jen Kreyling woodburning seminar. Corky has a John Engler seminar scheduled for May 14-16, 2010. If you have any suggestions for future seminars, just get in touch with Corky and he will look into it and if we can get enough interest he will get it scheduled.     For seminars - the doors generally open in the morning at 8:30am and end in the evening at 5:00pm.  Ask your instructor for exact times.   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! 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