April 2014 Newsletter!

Easter is almost here! 50% off Easter baskets and Easter cards this week! Upcoming classes:
April 24th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (last Thursday of every month except on holidays)
April 29th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (last Tuesday of every month except on holidays)

May 13th: Altered Art Vintage Door Plate Class! Learn various techniques for altering and embellishing a vintage door plate to create a beautiful hanging art piece. $30, all materials provided. 6:00-9:00pm.

Our DIY this month is cute little decorated peat pot, perfect for a sweet little Easter gift. Just brush white acrylic paint on your peat pot (just the outside if you are going to fill it with candy). Then find scraps of vintage lace, buttons, embellishments, or even a vintage photo to decorate it with. Finally, fill it with crinkled shred ( we sell brown, green, and white) and with Easter candy or a small gift of your choice. We hope you have a blessed Easter season!Tweet

March Newsletter!

March is here! And that means that spring is on its way!!! We are so excited for spring and for all the fun things going on this month! We've been busy working on custom orders, changing the window displays, and gearing up for St. Pat's Day and Easter. Yes, that's right, Easter is only a few weeks away this year!! We still have new Easter items coming in too! We also have a few new furniture pieces in the works:). And, of course, fun classes!

March 16th: Fabric Flower Class! Learn how to make various kinds of fabric flowers that can be used as craft embellishments or as hair and fashion accessories. $30.00, All materials provided (Fabric, buttons, sewing scissors, fabric glue, needle and thread). 2:00-4:00pm

March 28th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (last Thursday of every month except on holidays)

March 26th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (last Tuesday of every month except on holidays)

April 4th: Rescheduled Mixed Media Collage Class! (Techniques for acrylic paint and paper on canvas), 6-9 pm $40, all materials provided. Limited space available, please call, email, or stop in if you would like to sign up. 

Our DIY this month is a cute shamrock wreath inspired by this one by Brittany Watson Jepsen. I just gathered together different green print and plain green cardstock papers, cut out shamrocks in various shapes and sizes, folded the leaves in half a little to make them more 3D, and glued them onto an embroidery hoop with PVA glue. For a pattern, just click on the link to the shamrock shapes I drew: shamrock pattern

We hope you have a wonderful rest of the month! In honor of St. Pat's Day and spring, mention our newsletter and receive 10% off anything green in the store for the rest of March! 

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Easter Walk

Wow, what a gorgeous day. So my sister and I went on a walk in the hills behind my mom's house after our huge (and delicious) Easter dinner. I was on the hunt for wild pasque flowers. Not every year, but occasionally we will see some in the hills behind my mom's house. They look like this:

I think that they are my favorite wildflower. So soft and delicate, often hidden, and such a short bloom---makes it so special to see them. So, we went on our walk and this is what we saw:

Along with a much fresher carcass of a deer and a dead cat. Not really the experience I was going for. Kind of a lot of dead things instead of the whole celebrating new life with tiny beautiful flowers blooming for the first time. But the day was saved. When I got home the first of my crocuses were blooming :)

Happy Easter everyone! Hope your day was filled with new life!

"Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4Tweet