2025 is “All About the Seasons”
Back in 2012 (or even earlier) our dear friend Susie Newell designed and created centerpieces for the 2012 NAME Portland, Oregon Houseparty. There were 4 different centerpieces, each depicting a different season: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
With NAME’s permission, we are encouraging our members to take advantage of the artistic genius that Susie has so generously shared with us all.
Susie and her committee wrote articles and provided instructions and graphics to be published in the NAME Gazette, so that every NAME member could create their own version of all 4 centerpieces. Enough time has passed that those Gazette issues are now available to everyone through the NAME website.
We’ll begin the first quarter of 2025 with “Susie’s Spring”. Why spring you ask, when we are deep in the middle of winter? Well by February we’ll all be wishing for spring!
Below is the Spring Centerpiece created by Fern R. Fern has used Susie’s patterns and graphics and has created an adorable little flower shop.
Links to instructions and graphics in the NAME Gazettes will be provided to our quarter connection members in the files section on groups.io.
We will be holding Zoom classes in: 1. Cutting, assembling, and wallpapering the structure; and 2. Creating the detailed features on the base and landscaping your scene. (Dates and times and Zoom links to be announced on the group.)
And, we’ll provide some “spring themed” wallpapers and printies for you to use.
We hope you’ll join us for this year-long celebration of the Seasons!
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And here’s a little “sneak peek” of the “Seasons” to come!