Thank you cards

So I told the girls about our neighbor Lynn who donated her belongings to our recent last minute garage sale to benefit our group... earning our camp fire group 300 dollars!! this is money put in to our kitty for beads, patches, supplies and fun events!!

The girls need to write thank you letters to her and bring the letters to our next meeting. i would love to get her some flowers and a stack of thank you cards asap, so please remember to bring them next meeting.

i am handing out beads as we earn them this year (if possible), only about half the girls received beads tonight because we ran out (everyone got the red white and blue citizenship bead in a plastic baggie though so make sure you check your canvas bag for it, don't lose it!!) jill hamilton picked up some beads for us so i will have them at the next meeting to get everyone caught up.

vintage beads: if you can purchase the vintage camp fire girl book (here is an example on ebay) please do, i also have some copies of the orange, light blue and red/white/blue bead list the girls can earn, let me know and i will give you a copy. thank you janet for making copies at your work for us. remember: you can earn beads on your own, all year long, at your own pace. just check out the bead book and have fun with the vintage beads too! you can also purchase vintage beads on ebay and earn them as well.

Next week we will have a special guest and work on our kiniya poster. please bring a thank you card for LYNN and your workbooks. all girls need to have an individual indian name, if you didnt pick one tonight or have one already, please purchase an indian name book at camp fire and spend some time picking a name (we have a few copies we can share as well).

please purchase a "symbol book" in the next few months, we will need it as we work more on indian themed projects. next up is the symbolgrams for our group name and individual name. once we choose the symbols we can start making felt designs on our vests and future gowns. we will also be learning how to use a bead loom and make headbands and bracelets with our symbolgrams. this will be super fun (i still have my headband from when i was a kid!!! ) more on this later. pick up the symbol book if you are at the council, its about 8 or 9 dollars (they are ordering more, there were only a few copies left the other day)

bead fair is this wednesday, starts promptly at 930am, i am running it so i can use all the parent volunteer help possible. we should be done at 1230, you can stay and have a sack lunch at the end but i am opting to leave when the event is over. let me know though, i dont mind staying. if you can volunteer, i will place you at a booth to help the coordinator and/or have you take our girls around to different stations. it's a super fun event!

let me know if you need a calendar for the los cerritos wetlands and friends of the colorado lagoon events. many of the girls said they didn't know anything about this at tonights meeting. remember i have posted links here to the calendar on the los cerritos wetlands stewards site.

kiniya is thursday november 19th, starts at 6pm, arrive at 530pm

THANK YOU for your patience, i know the last meeting was a bit boring but we got through a lot of the "work" we needed to do.