Be Creative

Make an ultra-hip Euro Leather bracelet with a huge selection in colors, textures, finishes and clasps. Learn how to incorporate different color meanings and symbolism into your bracelet for a personalized piece of stunning jewelry. Workshop fee includes all materials needed to make one basic bracelet with one charm.

Express your ideas into a book, novel, chapterbook, children’s book or journal. Learn to organize, brainstorm, web ideas, outline, make a storyboard and insert illustrations. Start putting your ideas into a concrete form with words and images. There will be individualized attention to each person’s project. Enjoy being creative, only you can tell your own story!

Pine needles are beautiful, and strong! They can be coiled and sewn together to make jewelry, hats, lovely usable baskets and/or adorably tiny ones. Learn to identify, regeneratively gather, store, process, and weave with pine needles. We will cover the basics of coiled basketry, which is a global, ancient human skill, and create a wonderful pine-needle basket. Every participant will make a basket to take home.

Study important works of art across cultures. Critique and discuss design as well as aesthetic elements as a group then work on your own work interpreting the piece in wet or dry mediums.

Brighten an entryway or add a splash of color to your deck with an ever blooming pot of flowers. Container gardens are an easy way to add color, and bring beauty into your life. Learn the basics of design and care; and plant your own mini garden to take home and enjoy. Participants will gain the confidence to design and make container gardens on their own.

Ash trees, like oaks, elms, chestnuts, and more, are ring-porous: the spring growth or “earlywood” (the area between the true growth rings of the tree) is full of pores. This unique characteristic allows for the rings of these trees to be separated individually, along the length of the log, so they maintain their full integrity and strength. This makes them ideal for weaving into baskets. Using a knife, growth rings may be further split and shaved into splints for weaving. Learn to process brown ash logs into splints for weaving, and weave a brown ash berry basket. We’ll be stripping, shaving and splitting strips into splints, and weaving. These strong baskets will, if properly cared for, last a lifetime or more.