Mark Sillay presented a wonderful class for our July 14th meeting. Always a popular favorite, 44 members attended as Mark introduced his new invention for turning ornaments that he calls "Toothpick Technology".  This is perhaps the easiest method for fitting components, top finial, body and icicle are all done with 45 degree angles so you can produce any item or many numbers of any item and they all fit. Therefor you can mix and match to have a most pleasing ornament. They are all connected and glued with a toothpick dowel using glue only on the toothpick therefor no glue lines where components join. As always Mark a super demo that we all watched intensely. It's so much fun learning new methods and all at the GWA thank you ask you back in the near future.   Butch Davis