Goodies are pouring in for our 2nd Annual IPCA Retreat in Chicago July 13-16!

Each attendee will find in their goody bag a complimentary issue of Art Jewelry, Polymer Café and Metal Clay Art magazines, a wonderful mold from Penni Jo Couch, clay samples from Polyform, Kato, and Pardo, special goodies from Lisa Pavelka and a DVD from the IPCA, just to name a few!

Many generous donors have contributed auction items, including Judy Belcher, Victoria James, Karen Ottenbreit, Julie Picarello, Carol Simmons, Maureen Thomas, Ann Dillon, Julie Eakes, Debbie Jackson, and Heather Campbell. From across the pond, our international members adding to the auction items are Natalia Garcia DeLeaniz, Carol Blackburn, Alison Gallant and Bettina Welker, our guest artist for the Retreat.

The latest books by Cynthia Tinapple/Dayle Doroshow, Creative Sparks, Sarajane Helm's A Collection of Polymer Clay Masks, and Patterns in Polymer, by Julie Picarello (donated by Kalmbach Publishing), will make an appearance!

Polymer Clay Express has donated one of their deluxe extruders, Penni Jo Couch more of her large multi-molds, Donna Kato included a free class from CraftEdu, and Alison Lee has generously given 5 DVDs of her online classes at CraftCast plus one live class of your choice! Polyform is filling a basket I have woven with polymer clay.

With more goodies coming in every week, this is only a small listing of everything we can look forward to at the IPCA 2011 Retreat!   There are still spaces left so don't miss the fun! If you've already registered for the Retreat, but didn't include the closing event on Saturday night, it's not too late to add that to your registration.

Karen Woods, IPCA Retreat Donations Chair