Chapter Information

HOMDA meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of Feb., April, June, August, October and the 2nd Saturday of December is our annual Christmas Brunch meeting. We invite you to be our special guest if you are visiting the area. Membership is open to everyone! Our dues are $12.00 a year.

2010 meetings will be held at The Holt United Methodist Church., located at 2321 N. Aurelius Rd in Holt. It is located at the northwest corner of Cedar St and Aurelius road.  Coffee's on at 8:30am - Meeting starts at 9:00 am.

Our chapter activities are too numerous to mention them all. Over the years we have.....

• painted the individual exhibits for the reptile and bird buildings at Potter Park Zoo;
• had several mini conventions and week-end retreats;
• published a cookbook (twice);
• displayed our work in libraries;
• exhibited at the Ionia and Ingham County fairs;
• painted plates for the Greater Lansing Food bank,
• worked with the children at  the Allen School and St Vincent’s Home.
• and we continue to paint Memory Boxes for Ingham Regional Medical Center.

Fundraisers for Santa quilts resulted in one of them being in the permanent Santa collection at the MSU Museum.  We currently have a beautiful hand painted flower quilt we will be raffling in May, 2010.

We have Show & Tell at every meeting, have silent auctions, a UFO competition (unfinished project)  to inspire members to finish projects and many fun activities at all our meetings – raffles, make-it and take-it day, teach a friend to paint, and have teachers from around the country come to teach classes several times a year!  (see our Upcoming Special Events page).

Teachers we have had in the past include Pat Lentine, Judy Ribitch, Mark Polomchuk, Bess Daniel, Lynn Deptula, Judy Diephouse, and Kelly Hoernig to name a few.  

For 2010 we have Maxine Thomas, Cheri Rol, and Mark Polomchuk scheduled.