Todays body image and jewelry making event had an even better turnout than our kickoff event! We saw a large handful of people returning from our first event, which was nice - and I hope the increase in participants at our meetings will be an ongoing trend!

The folks at Caravan Beads were kind enough to donate to us a very hefty box of beads, featuring freshwater pearls, black pears, silver seed beads and more!
Thistle Hill Glass donated beautiful handmade lampwork glass beads in all different (but equally gorgeous) shapes, colors and sizes!
Additionally -Rachel, Lindsay and Erin from the Women's Resource Center were all kind enough to bring in their own boxes of beads to share with everyone.

Pie was provided by Two Fat Cats bakery, while other pastries came to us via the good people at Panera. North Star Cafe donated tea to us again... because what would the Ladies Underground Tea and Arsenic Society be without its partial namesake?

Representatives from the USM Counseling Center guided us with prompts about body image. It was a fantastic discussion and we made some fabulous jewelry! If you ever have any questions or concerns about yourself or friends on campus, the counseling center is always there for you.

Second Meeting: Jewelry Making and Body Image!

Join the Ladies Underground Tea and Arsenic Society for our second meeting on Wednesday, October 22nd, from 12pm - 2pm in the Woodbury student center!

We'll be making jewelry and disucssing body image, with help from our friends at the USM counseling center!

I hope you know you look fabulous, but we all get down on ourselves sometimes. What better way to remedy this than to drape ourselves in jewels and have an open discussion with others from the community about their own take on the issue?

And of course, men are welcome! Guys have hang ups about themselves too... and they look just lovely in necklaces! ;)

Our kick off event was a great success!

We had our kick off event today and it was as the heading suggests, a wonderful success! We chowed on goods donated to us from the North Star Cafe and Standard Baking Company, while we had an open discussion about last night's debate between presidental candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. We also learned to make paper cranes, tea cups, penguins and more!

It was wonderful to see some more student activity in the Woodbury campus center; I saw both familiar and new faces. Thank you to everyone who came today, and thanks to the staff of the Women's Resource Center for spreading the good word!

Seems like people are so far enjoying both their tea and the conversation! I hope to see everyone and their friends back on October 22nd, for our second event: Jewelry making!

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Tentative Schedule of Events

In addition to our kick off event, we have a tentative schedule of our bi-weekly lunchtime events!

October 8th, KICK OFF EVENT! Join us for tea as we get to know one another and decorate tea cups.
October 22nd, Jewelry making
November 5th, Knitting!
November 19th, Women in Poetry
December 10th, Decorate your own speculum! You know you've always wanted to add frills to the cold hard metal (or in this case plastic) of the dreaded speculum! Perhaps the frilly/glittery speculum could make it's way to your mantle for the holidays?

Each event features a talk on a spectrum of TBA topics, from women in literature to body image!