Christmas is almost here!!! So excited, and excited to share all of our news with you! Our extended holiday hours are 9am-8pm on Thursday, 1-5pm on Sundays, and open from 9am-8pm for all of the 16th-21st week and the 23rd. We are a drawing location for the $250 in Chamber Bucks, drawing closes on the 20th, and sales on Black Hills Gold jewelry, boxed Christmas cards, and Christmas craft supplies going on now!
Classes: December 31st: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) January 2nd: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)
January 23rd: Book Page Flower Wreath Class! Various techniques for creating lovely book page/paper wreaths for your home. 6-9pm. All materials provided, $25.00.
February 18th: Covered Vintage Suitcase Class! Learn how to cover a vintage suitcase with decorative paper. Great for a statement piece in your home and to store odds and ends in! All materials provided, even the suitcase. Class covers techniques and tips and you should get a good start on your suitcase. 6-9pm. $40.00
Our DIY this month is to help you get started on the most fun part of giving gifts...gift wrapping :). Just a few simple ideas to make your packages extra special:
For this present, we hand stamped the paper-the white dots are just a pencil eraser in white paint. And you can find our tutorial for the yarn poms here.
On this one, we folded pieces of washi tape over twine and then cut the the ends of the tape in a triangle shape.
And finally, we added dots with Stickles glitter, paper roses, and a paper ornament to this package. You can find our tutorial for making paper roses here. Just scroll down to the 3rd video. For the ornament, just cut or punch out three circles, stitch them down the middle and fold out the sides.
*All twines and ribbons used are available by the yard in our shop.
Wow, you can just
about hear those reindeer prancing already, and we have so much to share with
you this month! Just a quick reminder: We are a location to enter the Chamber
$100 drawing this weekend and we are also a location to vote for the best Christmas
window display.
HOLIDAY HOURS: Open Sundays 1-5pm,
Open December 17th-22nd from 9am-8pm! (besides our
regular 9-6 Mon-Sat hours)
December 18th: 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)
December 20th: 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)
January 10th: Accordion Mini Album Class! $15.00
All materials provided (bone folder, glue, papers and embellishments included)
7:00-9:00pm
February 2nd: Paper Flowers and Paper Rose Wreath
Class! Mid-Plains Community College Class, 9am-12pm. $30
February 21st: Mixed Media Collage Class! (Acrylic paint and paper on canvas) Mid-Plains
Community College Class, 6-9pm. $45
For our DIY this
month we have a video tutorial of the ruffled paper trees that we have for sale
in the shop. J
We wish you the
merriest of holidays! Merry Christmas!
We hope you are having a wonderful December and are excited to share our news with you!
December 29th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm.
December 30th: 6-8 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm.
January 14th: Alcohol Ink Class! $25.00, includes applicator, 3 bottles of alcohol ink, blending solution, and tags and tiles. 2:00-4:00pm
January 19th: Image Transfer Class! Create beautiful altered art using different techniques and mediums for transferring images onto surfaces. $25.00, mediums and materials provided but please bring a small image that you want to use. (works better for beginners to start with something small)
*Holiday Hours: Open until 8:00pm on Thursdays, open from 1-5 on Sunday the 18th, open until 7:00pm on the 19th – 23rd (until 8:00 on that Thursday)
Check out our awesome coupon sale! Lots of great deals for Christmas, simply click here and print!
Now that I’ve got some of my Christmas shopping done, I’m excited about wrapping presents! Not excited enough to do all my brother’s for him (he usually asks me to wrap a ton gifts the day before Christmas J), but excited to get creative with my own. Love to use vintage items and simple things to wrap and decorate gifts and I really liked this blog post on One Charming Party about using simple things to wrap gifts. Click here to see their great ideas! If you don’t have any of those items at home, we have some great simple items at the shop to wrap with too. Baker’s twine, burlap, handmade tags, and paper ornaments make great package decorations!
If you are not as into the handmade gift wrap look, we also have some high quality elegant Christmas gift wrap from Madison Park Greetings and Wooster and Prince!
Happy gift wrapping, and Happy Holidays! We wish you the merriest of Christmases this year! Tweet
I'm a real -as in not fake- Christmas tree snob. I completely understand the benefits and efficiency of fake trees. But there is just something about real trees that I don't want to give up. Going out to pick out the perfect shape, the scent of pine filling your house, and the look and feel of the tree. There is something I do want to give up...the price. I just can't justify spending $25-30 on a tree every year when we don't even have Christmas at my house (we always go to our parents). So I normally put up a tree every other year. This year I considered cutting down a tree from behind my mom's house, but the scrawny cedars and bonsai-shaped ponderosa pines just wouldn't cut it. The reason I was so anxious to put up a tree on my off year is that I got some gorgeous ornaments last year that just need to be displayed. :-) As I was getting out a few Christmas decorations this year, I kept glancing at the big palm plant I have in the corner. It was about the same size as a Christmas tree...It is real...It sits in the corner where I normally put the tree...So I decided to put some of my pretty bulbs on it and see what happened.
Kind of crazy, but kind of cool.
The most beautiful Christmas bulb ever...
