We had a fun and festive field trip morning with the K/1 kids from O.P.E.N. Classroom of Thousand Oaks.
They made personalized holiday ornaments and keepsakes of their own designs for family and friends from wood blocks and such.
We had our last Girls Club class of the fall series today. It’s been heartwarming to spend weeks of Wednesdays with this great group of young ladies. They bonded, befriended, supported, discovered, explored, created and grew into more of who they are meant to be. confidence is finding your you.
Today marks something new at CReATE! Come in on “Easy Craft Wednesday” to make something simple we have planned in addition to your other creating.
It’s our way to bring you something we think is really cool and fun to try!
Today’s “Easy Project” is Pomanders! Be sure to make one when you come in today, the’ll be available while supplies last. They are super easy to make and smell great!
We go through a lot of markers at the studio so a few years ago we started talking them apart to make reusable materials at the studio! We get 5 different usable pieces out of one dried marker!
This batch is getting a bath from all its first use wear and tear.
Up until recently we showcased a “Weekly WOW” creation when it became clear that there were way more WOWS than weeks.
When creativity is expressed, its inevitably awesome every time.
This lil Martian is case in point.
Remaking jewelry to earn a patch had it’s perks for these Girl Scouts.
During their visit to tge studio we talked about jewelry, the kinds there are, why it’s worn, how it’s worn in different parts of the world and learned to work with a few simple jewelry tools. The girls had so much fun taking apart broken and cast off jewelry that we keep on hand to make new pieces tgeyvwanted to wear and give. learning something new is part of what scouting offers and I’d say these girls did it in style.
We had some crafty reuse tricks up our sleeves for today’s Santa at The Adobe event, hosted by the City of Agoura Hills.
We hosted a free craft booth to jazz up pine cones, make little gift boxes from TP rolls and had a heck of a fun time with corks making cork snowman. We love to come up with reuse ideas with materials we have at the studio! It was fun to watch curiosity and ender unfold with our raw material. imagination enexed up getting the best of all of us.
Tis the season!
What a lovely messy morning we had building faux gingerbread houses in winter fashion. We have landed ourselves a mountain of faux snow this season which fits our California weather scene so we are using it six ways til Sunday for sure, making all things snowy.
It is wonderful to spend time with little ones who seem to know what’s really important-now. The world is so curious around them, it seems to becon thier attention in a whispered tone-let’s play!
Ok!is always the answer..
Mini quilt by Lucy (8) from our Project Sewing class today.she selected her fabrics from our collection of donated fabrics and came up with just the right combo to match her puppy love.
Super cute!
Yesterday I provided a private sewing class with Amy, a CReATE Customer who I now feel I can call a friend.
We spent two hours together as teacher and lesrner. I showed her some sewing basics I like to use to build a connection to sewing. As she worked her fabric, sewing square inside of square she remarked that it was pleasing to follow a tempo to machine sew. I found that the more she sewed, the more we talked, the more we talked, the more we connected. Connection happens to be one of the three foundational components of CReATE STUDIO. Reuse, Creativity and Connection underscore all of what we do, all of what we provide and here I was in the middle of connecting myself with a wonderful woman over the task of sewing.
Being in the present, sewing and threading and untangling the little hiccups that sewing can have was soothing as we talked about family, ideals and of course, sewing. We were both in the moment and it felt really good to be there. Yes, this is why connection is one of our key pieces. It fills us up and warms our soul. Connection is one of the basic needs we have as humans Author and Researcher Brene Brown would tell us. Yes, I can see first hand the value of connection and I’m so glad to provide a space where Connection is a thing. It’s part of what you get and the gettin’ s good.