We had great attendance for our Regular Meeting on July 9.  The highlight of the meeting was an outstanding and comprehensive presentation by Jan with help from Vikki that summarized their trip to Oregon where they visited sunstone mines. They brought back samples that we all got to check out after the meeting. You can download their presentation by clicking here. You will need to have PowerPoint installed on your machine to view the presentation.

We also raffled off three great door prizes at the end of the meeting.

Our next event will be a workshop on August 25.

PLEASE RSVP to George so we will know how many members are coming.

The meeting will be held at our usual location – 

North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center

7521 Carmel NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113

We had ten members at our June workshop. We had one completed gem during the workshop and a lot of good work and progress by everyone who attended. We want to thank our instructor/mentors – George, Andy, and Carsten – for their help and support.

The next NMFG faceting workshop will be Sunday, June 16th at the Placitas Community Library, 453 Hwy 165, Placitas 87043, from 8:30 set up to 9 AM to 3 PM, workshop.  We’ll follow the usual format of spending most of the time at your machines.  Instructors will be available to assist anyone needing help.  The cost is $15.00 per person to cover the cost of materials, lunch, and part of the cost for the use of the library. Please RSVP no later than Wednesday, June 12th, so we can do the necessary planning and know how many tables to set up.

Very important:  If you do not have a machine and want to come to the workshop you must let me know ASAP because there are only two available faceting machines and instructors are limited.

Parking is in the gravel lot to the West side of the building.  You will enter the meeting room from the parking lot. You will be able to dump the wastewater in the dirt past the North end of the parking lot. There is a kitchen type setup where you will be able to get water.

Directions to the Placitas Community Library:  Go North on I-25 to exit 242.  Exit and go East 4.3 miles and you will see a Green and White sign pointing to the library.

If you have Question call me         505-867-0112

George Franzen

Google Link:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Placitas+Community+Library/@35.3073373,-106.4617844,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8718834f33d4dce5:0xdfb2150c0305f2c5!8m2!3d35.3072467!4d-106.45

This workshop has been  Cancelled.  Please see George’s email for details. George sent an email and there is a post here on the website about rescheduling the workshop to June 16th.

The next NMFG faceting workshop will be Sunday, May 12, at the Placitas Community Library, 453 Hwy 165, Placitas 87043, from 8:30 set up to 9 AM to 3 PM, workshop.  We’ll follow the usual format of spending most of the time at your machines.  Instructors will be available to assist anyone needing help.  The cost is $15.00 per person to cover the cost of materials, lunch, and part of the cost for the use of the library. Please RSVP no later than Wednesday, May 8^th so we can do the necessary planning and know how many tables to set up.

Very important:  If you do not have a machine and want to come to the workshop you must let me know ASAP because there are only two available faceting machines, but instructors are limited.

Parking is in the gravel lot to the West side of the building.  You will enter the meeting room from the parking lot. You will be able to dump the wastewater in the dirt past the North end of the parking lot. There is a kitchen type setup where you will be able to get water.

Directions to the Placitas Community Library:  Go North on I-25 to exit 242.  Exit and go East 4.3 miles and you will see a Green and White sign pointing to the library.

If you have Question call me         505-867-0112

George Franzen

All members are invited to attend our next regular meeting on March 12.  We will be meeting at the North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. Please see the Welcome page for time and directions.

We had ten people at our workshop on April 14. About half the group was experienced faceters and the other half of the group was folks learning faceting. One of the experienced members finished a gem during the workshop. See pictures below.

Our Guild had a very successful showing at this year’s TotE show. We had members demonstrating faceting at our booth during the entire show. We also had a gem display as well. Quite a number of people left their name and contact information with us, and we already had some of those folks show up at our March workshop.

We had a full house again for the faceting workshop on March 24. We had a handful of people join us who had visited our demonstration table at the TotE show. Some were first time faceters and some were returning to faceting after a long layoff. George and Andy provided two handouts, one on how to read faceting diagrams, the other a meetpoint emerald cut design.

Pictures of new faceters at our March Workshop.