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 2010! The last convention was held June 24 to 26, 2010, in the San Francisco Bay area and was hosted by the California Cookie Cutter Collectors' Club (CACCCC). The theme was "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. A lot of fun people got to the convention by car, by plane, and by covered wagon.... (no, maybe not covered wagons...).
For more information regarding the 2010 convention logistics, here is a convention2010 web page which will provide the latest info and .pdf documents for the convention.
For photos and videos of the convention, see http://colipmanphoto.blogspot.com/
. They have lots of them available!
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.
CONVENTION
2008 Click here to see the agenda and some
low resolution photos
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.
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 Updated for 2011
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, 2010) 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
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.
All monetary donations are welcome and checks should be made out to:Cookie Cutters and Cookie Cutter information for the Museum should be sent to:
National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum and sent to:
Lee Stephenson
National Cookie Historical Museum
1217 Zimmer Place
Williamston, MI 48895
Kay JohnsonNote: The museum was previously located in Knightstown, Indiana. Click here to read the article published in the Big River CutOuts Newsletter.
Museum Curator
8 Atwell Acres
Monett, MO 65708
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