NOTE: The CCCC website is physically at the location, www.frankencutters.com/cccc, but the club owns and uses the domain name www.cookiecuttercollectorsclub.com.
Please use the address: www.cookiecuttercollectorsclub.com and bookmark it.
CONVENTION 2008! LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN!!!
NEW!! Click here to see the agenda and some low resolution photos from the convention
The CCCC Convention for 2008 was held in La Crosse, a beautiful town on the Mississippi river on the west edge of Wisconsin. Location was at the Radisson Hotel. Dates were June 12, 13, 14, 2008 Tinsmith sales were open on June 11th and were open to the public. It was great! Great programs, great food, very nice, leisurely boat cruise on the Mississippi, fabulous international food at the banquet, and as usual, a gigantic raffle to end it all!
And here's
the last update about the convention from our past President, Marty
Pemberton. This link is to a PDF file of the "From the President" page of the last "Crumbs" newsletter.
Arlene & David Lipman
were the official photographers for this convention. Click the
link for all the details, regarding getting copies of the GREAT photos
they took. Believe me, Arlene was everywhere and photographed
everything!
CONVENTION 2010! HERE ARE THE DETAILS!!
The next
convention will be held June 24 to 26, 2010, in the San Francisco Bay
area and will be hosted by the California Cookie Cutter Collectors'
Club (CACCCC). The theme is "California, Here I Come" and the
invitation skit presented at the 2008 convention emphasized how people
have gotten to California in years past -- by automobile, by airplane,
by train, by boat around Cape Horn, and across the Great Plains in
covered wagons. How will you get to convention in 2010?
CCCC 2010 Convention
June 24 to 26, 2010
Doubletree Hotel
Burlingame, California
For more information regarding the 2010 convention, contact the regional club via email at
CACCCC@earthlink.net or club President, Doni Bryan, at 916-625-1934.
How the Convention Location is Determined:
The national CCCC conventions are held every two years at a location
determined
by the regional group of the current club President. There is NO
site selection committee. Note that the webmaster (email address
at bottom of page), has nothing to do with site selection.
Links to Other CCCC Pages, Past Conventions and more:
MORE CONVENTION PHOTOS? HOW ABOUT LOTS MORE!
Arlene & David Lipman, as official photographers, took untold
amounts of photographs and video at the 2008 convention. They were
everywhere and photographed everything! To see thumbnails of all their
photos and to purchase prints, video, or CD's, you can go to the
following link: http://colipmanphoto.blogspot.com/ (Note: This is the new, correct link)
How To Join CCCC:
Annual Membership in CCCC is just $25.00 (one person).
You will receive the official quarterly newsletter Cookie Crumbs
and a collectable signed, dated cookie cutter. To join, send a
check or money order to: CCCC, P.O. Box 417, Cascade, Idaho 83611. You may join anytime during the year, but our year
runs Jan. 1st through Dec. 31st and you will receive all the newsletters
and cutter for the year that you join in.
Officers
Officers are elected at our bi-annual Convention. The new president unveils the theme for the next convention and the next two year's membership cutters are based on that.
Club officers (effective June, 2008) are:
Some CCCC History
"CCCC" as we are known among the membership,
was founded in 1972 in Washington, D.C. by Phyllis Wetherill. She is survived by two other founding members: Jill Tucker of Canada, and Evelyn King of Florida. Lee Carey of Colorado was also a founding member. From that original group over
25 years ago, we have grown to approximately
650 members internationally.
Cookie Crumbs
Members are encouraged to send in any cookie-related information they find
in catalogs, magazines, newspapers, on the internet, etc... to the newsletter
editor, Pam Nelson. They also send information about themselves like winning
baking contests or being featured in articles. Sorry, but "Crumbs" can't accept for-sale listings from non-members.
To submit information, you can mail it to:
Pam Nelson, Cookie Crumbs Editor
7741 Curry Road
Fallon, NV 89406
Or email her at: pgwnn@phonewave.net
Some of the "Standard" sections in Crumbs are::
From the President
Turtle Tracks
Out of the Past
Tinsmiths From the Past
CCCC Business
Cookie Cutter of the Week
Membership List info
Sunshine Committee
Sell, Search, Swap or Buy
What's New
Around the Country (Regional Meetings and News)
etc... etc...etc...etc...etc...
Other Members Newsletters
Cookie Crumbs is the official Club newsletter, but there are several newsletters put
out by other members on their own. Members may submit information to these
newsletters also, but much of the information is gleaned by the member
who is the publisher.
Rocky Mountain Cutups Newsletter is the newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Cutups. It is edited
by member Arlene Lipman. This newsletter is published after each meeting, twice yearly.
To subscribe, or to send news and ideas, contact Arlene Lipman, Editor,
2143 S. Acoma St., Denver CO 80223. Email: RockyMtnCutups@gmail.com or arlene80223@yahoo.com
NEW! And the RCMU now has a blog at the following address: http://rockymtncutups.blogspot.com/
Big Rivers Newsletter has been published by Joyce Moorhouse for 16 years now. The cost to subscribe
is $10 per year, payable to Joyce Moorhouse, 2763 310th Street, Cannon
Falls, MN 55009. (UPDATE: DISCONTINUED AS OF SPRING 2007.)
And Ebay is good source of collectible cookie cutters. This link will search Ebay for "cookie cutters".
Regional Groups (click here for club contact info)
Although CCCC is the official Club for collectors, there
are several regional groups within the Club. It is so hard to
wait for two years to attend Convention and get together with
old friends, that many members have formed groups or work individually
to host meetings. There are usually three or four held every spring
and autumn in different parts of the country. Information regarding
the meetings is posted in Cookie Crumbs. Usually there is a small fee to attend which covers lunch, speakers,
and many times a cutter made exclusively for that meeting. Click on the
"Regional Groups" link above to see the various banners and contact
information. Some photos from recent Regional Meetings can be seen at the
following links:
Scrambles
The regional meetings are another way to increase your cookie
cutter collection. As at Convention, meetings always include a
"Scramble", and finding the cutter you've
been looking for could lead to your own "scramble dance"!
To scramble you bring your extra cutters with the price on them
and put them in a small container with a money jar. When the meeting
is over you put out your scramble box then scramble away to check
out cutters you want to buy. We are very fortunate to have such
an honest membership that we are able to leave cutters for sale
in a self-serve type of atmosphere.
Member Tinsmiths
There are several "smiths" who belong to CCCC. They work in many metals, tinplate, copper, and stainless steel (and
wood). We would like to introduce them to you here. Many have catalogs
and websites. Please be sure to visit this page! (Listing on this
page is available to CCCC members only.)
Note: We must sadly report the passing of Emery Strohm, Sr. on August 19,
2004.
Note: The museum was previously located in Knightstown, Indiana. Click
here to read the article published in the Big River CutOuts Newsletter.
