Create your own steel wine bottle stopper decorated with large natural gemstone beads. Beads have large holes (think of Pandora style beads, but with real gemstones!) for easy assembling.
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View the website document for examples of what you can create! A variety of gemstone, crystal, ceramic, and metal beads will be available. Time permitting, you can make more than one item during the workshop. You will need to purchase additional tickets for any additional items you want to make.
Join your fellow specialty dancers for practice before the Saturday night dance. Work on your big tricks, meet up with others, & generally get ready to show the rest of the con what you can do!
A lesson on basic motions & techniques for spinning poi, including slots, butterflies, & corkscrews. All participants will receive a set of sock poi to keep.
A lesson on basic motions & techniques for spinning poi, including slots, butterflies, & corkscrews. All participants will receive a set of sock poi to keep.
Learn the basics of working with precious metal clay (fine silver). Fired pieces can be finished in workshop part two or mailed after the event.
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Learn the basics of working with PMC - Precious Metal Clay (fine silver). Students will create a PMC Relic Charm and will finish the necklace with chain, beads, and cords. Pieces will be fired in my kiln at my home studio and can be finished in PMC Finishing Workshop (part two) or mailed after the event.
Learn various methods of finishing your fired precious metal clay pendant created during workshop one. Please note that you MUST have attended SPA18127807 to attend this class.
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Learn various methods of finishing your fired precious metal clay pendant created during workshop one. Please note that you MUST have attended SPA18127807 to attend this class.
Students will decorate cupcakes using fondant, fondant flowers & buttercream leaves. Students will use a variety of tools including molds & frosting tips.
Learn the skills & techniques needed to make a piece of art embellished with quill work. Dancer or Mermaid to choose from. Good manual dexterity is essential for this class.
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During the Renaissance, French and Italian nuns and monks used Quilling to decorate book covers and religious items. The paper most commonly used was strips of paper trimmed from the gilded edges of books. These gilded paper strips were then rolled to create the quilled shapes. Quilling often imitated the original ironwork of the day.Today, quilling is seeing a resurgence in popularity with quillers (people who practice the art of quilling) on every continent and in every walk of life. It is used to decorate wedding invitations, for Christmas, birth announcements, greeting cards, scrapbook pages, and boxes. Quilling can be found in art galleries in Europe and in the United States and is an art that is practiced around the world.