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'Intensive' Studio Classes Planned for September, October and November!

Heres your chance to take a few of my classes as 'Intensives' in my studio here in Santa Rosa, California.

First I will be offering 2 classes, for 2 days with 2 students in Soldered Jewelry and Reliquaries.  Here is your chance to learn all of my tricks of the trade for these popular classes in Soldering jewelry.  Come spend a weekend in my studio and learn how to create one of a kind jewelry!  Classes to be held on September 25 & 26  OR  November 13 & 14.  See sidebar for more details.

Second I will be offering both of my popular fabric jewerly classes as a one day Intensive on October 23rd. I will teach you a variety of fun techniques including, cutting, burning, embellishing, sewing, and twisting of a variety of fabrics to create amazing fabric flowers and insects.  This should be a fun-filled whirlwind of a class!  See sidebar for more details.

These classes are sure to fill quickly so sign up now!!!

  

Fall Classes At The Castle And In Ulla's Studio Now Scheduled!

I have finally added my Fall class selection to my side-bar for easy review, and sign-ups!  I am really excited about the classes being offered at the CASTLE and hope you will be too!  I have also added a few studio classes to the list, including a weekend of Soldered Jewelry Fun. These are wonderful 'get-away' opportunities, for yourself, or you and a couple of friends!  I look forward to seeing many of you as the weeks progress!  

Papercutting Class In Ulla's Studio

Wednesday I had three wonderful women in my studio for my first ever 'Papercutting' class.  What fun we had!  I am truly amazed at how personal and delightful each piece turned out!  Kristine loves gypsy caravans and decided to do a Christmas themed piece with a caravan, jolly St. Nick and his donkey and 4 sweet little waifs.  The oval shaped canvas back  really completed the piece!

Barb wanted to do a piece for a good friend of hers who loves all things Egyptian.  She posed herself  hieroglyphically as a maiden fanning her King!  So much fun, and so original!!!

 

Kat decided to do a piece for her husband who is a scientist specializing in 'animal sounds'.  She created a wonderful scenic background (those trees were individually cut out!) with songbirds and her husband with his 'equipment' getting center stage!  Wonderfully personal and very heartfelt!!!

The day was such a success and I will definitely be teaching this class at the Castle this Spring!   

WHIMSICAL PAPERCUTTING CLASS - In Ulla's Studio!

Silhouette Papercuts are all the rage right now.  With this in mind, I will be teaching a basic papercutting class in my studio, here in Santa Rosa, on Saturday December 13th, and/or Wednesday December 17th.  In this class you will learn a few 'tricks' on how to make papercutting easier, and how to mount your finished cuts on canvas boards.  I love combining papercuts with photographs, so feel free to bring favorite images that might spark your imagination.  (My sample is a series of four 8" x 10" panels depicting the Four Seasons:  Spring/Bulbs, Summer/Love in the Mist, Autumn/Chestnuts, Winter/Mistletoe.  The little girl is from a vintage French postcard series that I own.)  

 Time:  10:00 to 4:00  (please bring a lunch)

Cost:  $100.00  - includes all supplies, and access to Ulla's collection of images.

Will teach to a minimum of 2, and up to 4 students.

If interested, email me at:  [email protected]

  

Fairytale Altered Books in my Studio...

A long overdue post from a couple of weeks ago, when a delightful student came to my studio to create her own 'Fairytale Altered Book'. Beautiful work!!!

Crystal And Pearls!

My friend Molly and I met 7 years ago when she had a wonderful boutique called 'Mixing Whimsy' here in town. Since then her business has grown and changed but her 'frenchy shabby chic' style has remained constant! Thursday she came over for a private class in soldering, with a goal of re-inventing antique glass bottles into something she could call her own. I was truly delighted in the end results ~ a wonderful melange of pearl crowned bottles that truly sparkle and shine ~ just like Molly!!!

Private Reliquary Class In Ulla's Studio

On Wednesday a good friend of mine and former student came for a day of 'soldering reliquaries' at my studio! She brought some wonderful pieces of coral to play with and really wanted to focus initially on creating a piece with a true vintage reliquary feel with an essence of ocean... Look how FABULOUS her piece turned out!!! The background on the inside is a crumpled piece of old gold candy wrapper. Tiny coral beads were glued along the inside edge. A large piece of coral and a tiny star-fish sit cozily between two paper quills. The whole piece is covered in mica and then soldered. On the outside she attached a strand of wonderful tear-drop coral beads and a delightful vintage silver crab brooch! Truly Inspired!!!

For her second piece she wanted to use some of her vintage 'cracker jack charms', and chose two wonderful little scotty dog charms. The background is a piece of hand dyed Chartreuse velvet, and the little girl is from a french postcard. I really like the shape she chose, and we debated for a while on what to hang from the bottom. Brass letters 'D O G S' finally won out! FABULOUS WORK DIANE!!!

'Animals Masked Ball' Class in Ulla's Studio

Sunday, I had 5 women, a group of friends, take a class in my studio. I thought it would be fun to do a paper theatre where we focus on the characters rather than the background. We used oval boxes for our base, and paper theatre sheets for the backgrounds. I then had them chose 'characters' from paper theatre sheets and needle felt the heads. Costumes were created from bits and pieces of a variety of textured papers. It was like playing with paper dolls again... My vision was dressed animals, or people with animal masks, having a wonderful time in a fancy~ball like atmosphere!!! Didn't they turn out WONDERFUL?!?!