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Well, the June newsletter has become the June/July newsletter!

The summer has begun! Are most of your projects outside projects?

If you're perusing the byhand Product pages, you may notice some changes. Hopefully, over the next several months I'll have all the pages converted to the new look and finding the toys will be easier! Just bear with me during the changeover. Thanks!

Also new on the Product pages are Insight Windows. You can click on the Insight twills when you see them in the Product pages

and read more about that particular product. Thanks to Judi Robinson for providing the first Insight! Stay tuned for more Insight windows.

Here is what's in this months newsletter:

Quietfire Retreat
Suzanne's Calendar |  New byhand Products
What came in the Mail! | Winged Quotations ATCs

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Suzanne's Schedule

2005

One of the new workshops for 2005...

Harlequin Stitched Spine Journal...

This delightful book incorporates an exposed harlequin stitching pattern through a leather spine and incorporates rivets into the structure.

To see a complete list (more or less!) of Suzanne's classes, click here!

Quietfire Retreat

June 11 & 12, 2005
in the beautiful Alberni Valley!

The Copper Book 2-day Workshop

Whew! The weekend ReTreat is over and *I* had a great time and judging from the faces in the photos I have, so did everyone else!

We had 12 participants from near and far: Edmonton, Calgary, Kamloops, Vernon, Surrey, Victoria and Duncan

There were lots of amazing things done with copper. Some covers were worked and reworked. Different people came at the metal from different points of view and experiences, so it was really interesting. When you give everyone the same set of materials and a few techniques it's amazing to see what can happen. Everyone at the Retreat participated in everything that happened which was really lovely.

We began with Registration in the Murphy Bed Room (no, Nancy Q did not get closed up in it!) in the hotel with meet and greet and fruit and cheese....

Lori and Jim Wilson at Off-Tangent Artworks gave us a wonderful tour of their studio and each person received a little glass tealight holder as we left on Friday night. Lori has such a nice little torch for making glass bead, it's not a scary, noisy one. (No, no, no. I keep resisting that little diversion!)

A big thanks to Leanne Bishop of Ruby Dog's (and Collage Joy) for wonderful generous donations to the goody bags.

Thanks to Select Imports in Calgary for yummy papers for the goody bags! I carry many of Select Imports products on my website in the byhand Product pages.

Also thanks to the Port Alberni Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Info Centre for maps, pins and a pile of tourist information brochures.

A very special treat in each goody bag was a selection of lampwork glass beads from Susan Ewart (suzyqlampwork@shaw.ca).

Susan came and kept me organize, straightened out, focused and we worked like little beavers into the wee hours getting the Spa night ready, making sure workshop participants had what they needed and pre-saging other things we might need, not to mention getting my contribution to the goody bags completed!

The coffee pot and kettle are the most traveled items of the weekend. From the Registration room at the hotel to the workshop, to the spa night, back to the workshop. Did we remember the filters????? Whew!

Thanks to Nancy Q for picking Linda, from Edmonton, up at the airport on Friday morning and doing various runs for cups, napkins etc.

And thank you to Louise and Pat for taking Linda back to the airport!

Thanks to Sharon Hohmann of the Stamp Garden for welcoming the participants to her store on Saturday after class. She has had a fabulous little store adjacent to her home just outside Port Alberni for years. They have sold their home (they're now empty nesters) and she has temporarily closed the Stamp Garden and will open a storefront in town this fall. We squeaked in on the last weekend!

A Very Special thanks to Sarah Kendall and Deb Miller for driving up from Victoria on Saturday evening to present my first ever Sensé Spa night. Boy, was that group ever cheeky after spending a day arting together! And no one drank from their finger bowls... Weren't we good?
If you'd like to know more about the Sensé products used at the Spa evening, please visit my other website http://nourishment.usana.com

Saturday breakfast and lunch catering was by the Rootcellar in Port Alberni. Wonderful salads, bean dip, little wraps, little Nanaimo bars (celebrated by the three Albertans in the class!), cream puffs and more.

Thanks to the Coast Hospitality Inn for making things run smoothly from their end.

I sent everyone off with the Sensé Prelude Travel Pack so they could keep their skin beautiful in their travels. I think almost everyone managed to win a door prize - I had loads of them!

I enjoyed myself so much, I just might have to do this again.... Thanks so much to everyone who came. I love every minute of it! Your projects were fabulous!

Here are some photos for your enjoyment.

Click on each picture to see it larger!

Lori, of Off Tangent Artworks, demonstrating glass beadmaking	The ReTreaters watching the beadmaking demo		Dell	Dell
Dell	Dell	Dell	Dell
Huguette	Huguette	Huguette	Huguette	Huguette
Cheryl torching her artwork!	Cheryl	Cheryl	Cheryl	Cheryl
Cheryl	Cheryl	Lorna & Susan	Huguette perhaps not her best side...!
Donna	Donna	Susan bashing her covers	The Spa Table	Protecting the Innocent! sort of...
Nancy D.	Nancy D	Nancy D	Nancy D	Nancy D
Nancy D	Nancy D	Nancy D back of book	Nancy Q Nancy has done the copper book class before, so decided to take her copper in another direction. Very cool!	Louise, Pat & Nancy Q.
Pat G.	Pat G.	Pat G.	Pat G.	Pat G.

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New Goodies!

Mini Mica Memories is now available in a Kit!

Coil Journal

I just couldn't resist bringing in this journal. It is coil bound and has alternating black and lined pages. It would be a wonderful travel journal! Click here for more information.

Rusty Tin - love this look!

New Vintage Collage Sheets

Perfect for collage, ATCs, Altered Books or anywhere you need that warm vintage look!
Click here to see them all!

Our Winged Things/Quotations ATC swap

Several months ago Beth Ann thought we should swap ATCs and and there was lots of discussion about our theme. It became a combination of a number of ideas that had been suggested and here are the resulting Artists Trading Cards.
Thanks to Beth Ann for hosting and swapping - as you can see there were LOTS of cards! Many artists did more than one style for the swap, making the variety all the more amazing. I'm sure I'm not showing you all the cards that were made, but I hope I have at least one of everyone who participated.
Thanks to all the artists who played. It's always such a thrill to receive packages of artwork in the mail.

Enjoy!

Anne
Beth Ann	Beth Ann	Beth Ann
Beth Ann	Donna C.	Beth Atkins
Cathy H.	Cindy	Helen
Donna K.
Donna K.
Irene B.	Irene B.	Judy D.
Joanne	Joanne	Joanne
Joanne		Judy B.
Linda C.	Linda C.	Linda C.
Linda C		Linda C.
Linda C.	Linda C.	Linda C.
Mary-Beth J.		Nancy Q.
Nancy T.	Nancy T.	Nancy T.
Nancy T.		Nancy T.
Nancy T.	Nancy T.
Nancy T.	Nancy T.
Patti S.	Rose D.	Susanna
Susanna	Susanna	Susanna
Susanna	Susanna	Susanna
Susanna	Suzanne
		Tricia
Yogi	Yogi	Yogi
Yogi	Yogi	Yogi
Yogi	Yogi	Yogi
Yogi	Yogi	Yogi
Kathleen	Ramona	Irene
Nadine	Nadine	Julie B.
Pat Gurski	Ramona	Vicky M.

In the Mail

Recently I received a goody package in the mail from Mija in Oregon!

What a cool collection of things!
Now I don't know if this is a little challenge for me? Perhaps I am suppose to use them all in one piece of artwork?
I'm teasing, Mija! Thanks very much for the toys!

If there is any information you would like to see in this newsletter, let me know. Each month I will email you to let you know the new issue is published. If you know someone who would like to receive notice of byhand, just have them email me and I will put them on the list. Bye for now and thanks for visiting!

suzanne@quietfiredesign.com
(250) 723-0321 Quietfire Design

The original title lettering of byhand was done with a Mitchell's Roundhand Nib, size 0, and Higgins Eternal Ink. Quietfire Design Rubber stamps were used to create the other designs.