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Diane Ricker
Glowing Christmas Candles
You can’t be too early for Christmas! Candle flames will already be cut into gourd and ready to paint. Since this is painted all the way around, it will need to be an all day class, but how beautiful it will be in the center of your holiday table.
Cost: $78.00
Time: Saturday: 8:30 - 6pm (All Day)
Min:4
Max:12
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Students Must Bring: Teacher will provide all paints , glue and paper to line candle flames. Students need to bring good brushes. Brushes include: a ¾” brush for painting background, #2,#6,#8 flat brush, a 3/8” angle, a 10/0 liner brush, a stippling brush or any old scrubby brush. Teacher will have necessary brushes for sale.
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Vickie Echols
Ammonite Platter with Lots of Beads!
We will learn how to attach pine needles to leather using a coiling technique. We will surround the ammonite with pine needles and begin adding beads. We will work on how to evenly space larger beads to create mountains & valleys for more interest.
Cost: $98.00
Saturday: 8:30 - 6pm (All Day)
Min: 10
Max:12
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: Sharp scissors, small needle nose plyers, jewelry size wire clippers
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Marianne Barnes
Woven Landscape Gourd Basket
Class will put round reed spokes in the top of a gourd bowl. A basket will be woven on the spokes to resemble a landscape. Students will learn how to weave a triple twine base and a braided border. Many different materials will be used such as colored round reed, dyed seagrass, yarns and sisal, leather strips, philodendron sheath, pods for embellishment. Students will learn how to increase and decrease and make hills and valleys. So many different techniques will be learned.
Cost: $113.00
Saturday: 8:30 - 6pm (All Day)
Min: 4
Max: 12
Skill Level: All
Students Should Bring: Apron, tub or bucket to soak reed, spray bottle, scissors, awl or small flat screwdriver.
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Sue Haberer
Luminary Lamp
We will be making a gourgeous Luminary Lamp from a cannonball gourd. All lamps will be different and may or may not be completed in class because of the creativity, detail, and speed of working.
Cost: $78.00
Time: Saturday: 8:30 - 6:00pm (All Day)
Min:3
Max:12
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: carver, small pointed bur (or any preferred bur) to make holes, wood burner with a small - medium skew tip, black paint, 1/4" and 1/2" angular brush, water container, any templetes such as circles and squares (I will have some to borrow if you don't have any), pencil
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Suzi Nonn
Wild Coiling on an Electrocuted Gourd
Discover the art of open and closed coiling that blends creativity with craftsmanship.
In this hands-on workshop, students will work with gourds that have been cleaned, Lichtenberg-burned (a process where lightning-like patterns are created using high-voltage electricity), stained, sealed, and drilled. Participants will explore two stitching techniques—the vertical line and the “V”—and can choose to feature one or combine both.
Using black Danish cord, everyone will begin by stitching three uniform rows to cover the cut edges of the gourd. From there, students are free to experiment with coiling styles, creating their own one-of-a-kind sculptural art piece.
Cost: $78.00
Time: Saturday: 8:30 - 🕣 6:00pm (All Day)
Min:4
Max:12
Skill Level: All
Students Must Bring: Sharp scissors, small needle nose plyers
Saturday Morning 8:30-11:30
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Cara Bevan
Sculpting Cats
In this sculpting class we’re going to learn all about cats! This is an intermediate to advanced sculpting class where you’ll be learning in-depth skills such as forming complex shapes, blending, and refined textures. Both Quikwood and Apoxie Sculpt clay will be used on top of small pear or bell gourds. Please bring your own sculpting tools, most importantly an x-acto knife. The class is a sculpting class only where we’ll be sculpting the cat’s tail and entire head as pictured. Apoxie Sculpt takes 4 hrs to cure and we won’t be painting them in class. You’ll leave with one fully sculpted chunky cat.
Cost: $53.00
Time: Saturday: 8:30am - 11:30
Min: 3
Max: 12
Skill Level: Advanced
Students Must Bring: Sculpting tools, especially an x-acto knife
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Tonya Cubeta
Wax linen mini hats
These are truly mini hats! You will weave a mini hat using a mold and your choice of wax linen color. There will be accessories to decorate your hat. You will finish one hat in class and take materials to finish another at home. Start your hat collection!
Cost: $38.00
Time: Saturday: 8:30am - 11:30
Min: 4
Max: 12
Skill Level: All
Student Must Bring: Scissors
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Robyn Goode
There's No Place Like Gnome.
In this class you will make a gnome couple using fabric, wire, and other materials.
Cost: $68.00
Time: Saturday: 8:30am - 11:30
Min: 5
Max: 12
Skill Level: All
Students Should Bring: an apron