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!
Our DIY this month is on how to make simple coffee filter flowers that have a very vintage romantic look. We bought two sizes of coffee filters, a small and a large. We boiled some water and added instant coffee. We soaked some of the filters in that, wrung them out and laid them out flat to dry. Then we boiled more water and added red food coloring to soak them in. We put quite a bit in, and of course the more red food coloring the darker pink they will be. It's also fun to mix the coffee and food coloring together for some lighter dirtier pinks. We had about 4 different colors all together. Next we simply glued them together in the middle. We did 3 layers for each flower. Smaller ones in front and crinkled up by loosely folding them in half twice before gluing the bottom of that to the middle of your other layers. They can be great for wall or table decorations, or to glue all around a wreath. Simple, but sweet. :)
