Meeting Notes, September Crown, 2009
by HL Aelianora de Wyntringham, Guild Webmistress
These minutes were taken in a rather cursory style, from my own notes of the meeting, so I'm afraid I don't have exact numbers of attendees. I believe we had about 10-15 people in attendance in the A&S Pavilion in the rain.
We discussed several major goals for the upcoming year:
- Revision and Finalization of the Guild guidelines: We are working on this in order to move from incipient guild status within the Kingdom. There will be a sub-meeting on this topic at 12th Night. Our goal is to present this charter at either Kingdom A&S, May Crown, or July Coronation 2010.
- Regional deputies: We need regional deputies for Coastal Oregon, Southern Oregon and Eastern Washington areas. These deputies help organize and run local challenges (although they do not have to actually run every challenge). There can be more than one deputy for any one region. In fact, the more, the merrier.
- Teaching: We would like to hold guild sponsored clases at the different events. If you have something you'd like to teach, let us know!
- Group displays at events: We would like to sponsor more of these. We want to let people know what we do and help them discover new ways of embellishing their belongings.
- We'd like to do a crafter's get-together at every event. This could combine with the display and encompass the meeting time. More about this for 12th Night later.
We had suggestions from the membership about the various issues listed above. Lady Anne recommended that we clearly define what 'embellishment' is for our petition for full guild status. Lady Isabel noted that the Costumer's Guild charter doesn't include detailed by-laws, which allows them to change as need be. The membership of the embellisher's guild seized upon this immediately as a solution to the problem of coming up with set-in stone by-laws before we had actually starting running the guild officially. The charter will simply need to say, for example, that we will run challenges, not what the challenges are specifically.
Lady RedBow suggested a day shade with embellished sides, showing what we do; sort of a graffitti of our guild crafts. This does bring up the problem of how to fund such a dayshade, but it would be a very cool project. Several others elaborated on this and suggested making decorated inside walls for the A&S pavilion.
We need a central contact for the challenge deputies. If anyone would like to volunteer, the guild would be very grateful. This person would be the initial point of contact for anyone desiring to do a challenge. He/She would then put the challenger in contact with their regional deputy(ies) or, if the challenge will be at a Kingdom event, the person running those challenges.
We need proposals for the guild device. Put your thinking caps on!
We need to decide what kind of symbol of achievement (for successfully completing a challenge) will be given for the various challenge levels. The symbol should be simple and generic, perhaps change colors to show the different levels, applicable to many different embellishment techniques (so it should be more a design than an actual object). If you have a proposal for this, let us know!