Tonight’s Project: Making homemade cards for the troops overseasOrganization: www.operationwritehome.com/
This seemed like a perfect project for me! I love crafts of all sorts and am always looking for new projects. Despite a few personal conflicts J, I, of course, support the troops as a whole and have been involved in projects involving this cause before. I found a group through meetup.com* called The Charlotte Altered Arts Artisans. This group is self-described as “an art play group for people who have a common interest in altered books and paper arts. We like to mess around with various art/craft, forms, including Altered Books(ABs), Artist Trading Cards (ATC's), art dolls, little shrines, mail art and the list goes on and on and on...” (I totally can’t wait to make a creepy art doll! It will be a Christmas gift for one of you….I haven’t decided who yet….I’m picturing something similar to Phoebe’s art on Friends…but I digress). An art project that calms me, makes other people feel better and is free?!??! Perfect!
The meeting was held at a scrapbooking store (which in itself was lovely) and consisted of mostly all women. Everyone was friendly, outgoing, and super crafty. I gained new ideas, picked up some supplies, and contributed to our goal—a total of 88 cards were made!! Overall, this was a great night out! I can’t wait for the next meetup of The Charlotte Altered Arts Artisans. And yes, I’m totally crossing my fingers for the creepy art doll!!!!
*(I know many of you have heard me mention meetup.com before but just in case…it’s a wonderful website that allows you to search for other people with like interests. I currently am a member of meetup groups that focus on pugs, tennis, volunteer work, social events, and crafts, among others. These groups will then organize meetings that allow us to gather and share our interests, such as the craft group meeting tonight to make cards or a play date for pugs meeting this Saturday.)
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