Posted by stellagal78 on 2004-10-15 16:49:13
Post Subject: craftbunnies nyc fall listings
Fall / Winter events --- e-mail me if you are interested in attending!
craftbunnies nyc: Upcoming Events
October
Mosaic Workshop at Painted Pot
www.paintedpot.com
Call to register or e-mail: lisa@paintedpot.com
November
November Meeting: 4pm Sunday, November 7th at Jenny's
RSVP: just_jennysilver@yahoo.com
Treats will be provided!
Potato and apple stamping
Supply List*:
Apples
Potatoes
Stamp pad or paint
Knife
Cookie cutters (optional)
Something to stamp (i.e. plain paper to make wrapping paper, note cards, tote bags, etc.)
*If you have trouble locating any of the supplies, let Beth and Taryn know.
Turkey Bucket – (approx $1 / pp)
Turkey place card holders (approx $4 for 12)
You are responsible for your own materials for the stamping (be creative! Ideally, everyone will bring supplies to share with the group) If you’d like your turkeys ordered for you, please place your “order” with Beth or Taryn by Tuesday, October 19, 2004 to ensure they arrive on time (or feel free to order your own from www.orientaltrading.com)
If you have other project ideas, it’s not too late! Please e-mail them!
E-mail Beth, Jenny or Taryn for subway directions to Jenny's and address.
December
4pm December 5th Meeting
Location: TBD (if you’d like to hostess*, please let Beth know)
Details to follow
Cookie Exchange
(formal instructions to follow, but please plan to provide 6 cookies per personal participating)
Ornament Making
Wreath Making
Holiday Cards
If you have ideas for other non-denominational projects, let Beth or Taryn know!
December 17th Gingerbread House Workshop at Artez’n
7-9pm
Build your dream house...and then eat it! A new twist on an old favorite. Use graham crackers, frosting, candy and a little imagination to build a brownstone, a castle or even a trailer, any structure you like! Must be 21+. Free wine included/BYOB. All supplies included. Taught by Stacey Goldman-Laughter. Must be 21+. Free wine included/BYOB. All supplies included. Register at www.artezn.com Mention craftbunnies for 10% off!! We’ll be having dinner after!
Secret Snowflake?
If you are interested in signing up let Beth or Taryn know (and include your mailing address!). This is a one-month secret craft swap where you are assigned one person (who doesn’t know who you are!). You will send them (via postal mail) one craft each week for four weeks leading up to the holidays. Your secret snowflake will be revealed at the end of the project (perhaps at our December meeting, after Gingerbread class OR at a craftbunnies holiday party??). Please do not spend more than $25 on supplies, etc for this project. Have fun and be creative! It’s meant to be fun.
*Hostesses are responsible for taking RSVP’s, providing workspace and directions to the location and food and beverages. You can chose a location other than your home if you know of a place that would be appropriate! (I.e. a fun coffee shop with work space).
Posted by lizzymahoney on 2004-11-06 08:33:43
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Baking pinecones and acorns on very low heat for wreath making. Keeps the bugs and worms away. And if they are white pine cones, it melts the sticky sap to a hard clear finish. The smell is heaven to me. Mom would do it for her Camp Fire Girls that I was too little to join.
Embroidering a puppy picture from a transfer. Probably at 4, maybe younger. I don't remember what happened to it.
Plaster casts of shells. Earliest use of that, we'd coat them with vaseline and press into wet plaster, just like the handprints kids do. Later on, I'd fill a shoe box with damp beach sand, impress the shells, remove, then fill slowly with plaster of paris.
Stringing shells on fishing line to make necklaces and bracelets.
Although this is much older, when I was fifteen, I embroidered an old denim work hat of my Dad's with freehand wild flowers and insects. I wore it everywhere. I lost it in a windy rainstorm before I considered it completed.
Posted by lizzymahoney on 2004-06-30 14:47:26
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I don't know when, but definitely very early in life. I was embroidering at under five years for certain, although it was the child's kit with the plastic needle and holes in cardboard kind of thing. Fine embroidery in first grade or so. Paint by numbers kits and making doll clothes around then, too.
My mom was a Camp Fire Girls troop leader and didn't know any better. She thought that all the suggested crafts were things my older sister and her friends should be doing. So we did them. Only at their age, their mothers probably did more of it. And I tagged along. Candle making, macrame, applique, collage, decoupage, wreath making, corn husk dolls, face painting, papier mache, etc. Whatever people did in the early '60s. Yeah, I've made those angels out of folded Readers Digests spraypainted gold, and suet stuffed pine cones and bracelets out of oatmeal boxes.
Key was I didn't know other kids didn't do this sort of stuff. I had friends, but never seemed to notice that they didn't have fake fur coats and slinky knee sock nightgowns for their Barbies.
Then when my brothers went into Boy Scouts, I learned a hole bunch more crafty stuff including the use of power tools.
