Prepare yourself!! It's Sandy Camp time again!! With the cancellation of National Conference, “the Evolution of Polymer Clay”, it has freed us up to plan for our annual retreat. This year, our sixth!!, will be more of a retreat versus a conference. (The difference being conferences have classes, retreats have demos only). Your calendars need to be marked for Wednesday November 10 - Monday, November 15, 2004. As always, you can come for any or all of that time.

We will be having our retreat at our favorite spot: Warner Springs Ranch. This lovely facility is located 80 miles north of San Diego, just outside of Julian. You can check out their facility at their website: http://www.warnersprings.com/ This is convenient for all of southern California as well as the southwest US. Flights into SD are plentiful but you will need to rent a car if you are flying in, due to the distance to get to WSR.

This year, we will be using a huge tent that they have recently added to their facility. It is completely handicap friendly. The electrical use for this area will light up a small city so we have no fear that we will blow any circuits. There will be plenty of heaters for the evenings for those that want to play with clay till the wee hours (if you aren’t in the hot mineral pools!!).

Our demo list has started but it's far from complete and still tentative:

syndee holt, Ellie Hitchcock, Elissa “Heart” Powell, Christie Friesen, Donna Kato,  Judy Summer, Janet Pitcher and Kelly Steindorf, Judith Skinner, Dawn Schiller, Lisa Pavelka, Bonnie Mraz, Dotty McMillan, Marie Segal, Have Eisenson, Sally Morgan and more...

If you are interested in demoing, please email Ellie at Jhitchc1@san.rr.com.

We will again have a “Bottles of Hope” challenge. We will have a variety of categories that you can enter your bottles into. We will be taking these polymer clay covered bottles as gifts to cancer patients at a local hospital where they go for their treatments, so please be prepared to part with them. (We will supply the bottles for you to cover) Winners will be announced immediately following the “Family Feast” on Saturday night.

Our “Raffle Queen” jjjjami miller will again be running our annual raffles (a.k.a "opportunity drawings"). If you are interested in donating anything to the ‘opportunity drawings’, please email Jami with your name and item descriptions. jjjjami@aol.com  

Registrations for this wonderful adventure are: SDPCG members $25.00, non-members $35.00.
This includes your work space and the "Family Feast" on Saturday night.

To guarantee your spot at SCVI, you can mail your registration fees to Susan Berkowitz.

Please make your checks payable to SDPCG and mail to:

Susan Berkowitz

c/o SDPCG

P.O. Box 27142

San Diego 92198

If we still have spots available in November, you are more than welcome to join us. However, if we fill up, you will miss out on the time of your life. Email Susan if you want to know if there is still room for you up till the last minute. berkowitzs@hotmail.com

If you have any questions that are not answered here, please email Pam at itstime@san.rr.com