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Let’s Make Watercolor Note Cards! - NEW S1
with Bette Kersting Bell

Take time and get lost in the world of basic watercolor skills. We will paint with watercolors that will be attached to note cards for your correspondence pleasure. We will be able to make 4 to 5 cards and maybe more, time permitting. Come not knowing anything and leave having had a new learning experience. All materials and instruction provided. Let’s Create for Useful’s Sake!
Let’s Create for Useful’s Sake! Instructor - Bette Kersting Bell
Let’s Make A Beaded Rosette! S2
with Bette Kersting Bell
All participants will receive a $25.00 American Indian Beading Design kit in which instructions are included. Together, we will work through the directions for a beaded rosette over two class periods. Beaded rosettes were typically used as a decorative artform that symbolizes wealth and status. Rosettes were used as trade items. Now, native artisans attach these beaded forms to a wide variety of garments, from headdresses or bonnets to shirts, pants, moccasins, and gloves. Let’s Create for Useful Sake!
Let's Knit A Hat S2
with Bette Kersting Bell

All participants will have an opportunity to learn knitting by making a winter hat out of yarn. Knitting is believed to have originated in the Middle East in the 5th century and traveled to Europe with wool traders soon afterwards. We will cast on, knit, knit two together, bind off and hand sew. All yarn materials are provided including instructions. All participants need to purchase a set of size US11 knitting needles. Let’s stay warm and Create for Useful’s Sake!
BIO: As a retired educator with a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Bette Kersting Bell now teaches creative activities that have useful outcomes. These experiential workshops happen at schools, libraries, community settings or conferences. Wherever learning takes place, it will always be fun, hands-on, and have a useful product. She can be reached at francescalucia.com@gmail.com or 205-420-8938.
Let's Cross Stitch
with Bette Kersting Bell

All participants will have an opportunity to make a heart, a flower or a fish. Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled pattern are used to form a picture. Bringing your personal scissors may be preferred. Instructions and materials will be provided. Let’s Create for Useful’s Sake!
INSTRUCTOR: Bette Kersting Bell
LET’S MAKE TANGLE ART
with Bette Kersting Bell

Participants will have an opportunity to learn 9 to 12 Tangle designs which can be incorporated into a drawn design. Tangles are typically black ink on white background. The designs look like doodles, but they are typically detailed and specific. They are fun and can be quietly meditative. All materials provided including instructions.
Let’s Make Watercolor Note Cards! - NEW S2
with Bette Kersting Bell

Take time and get lost in the world of basic watercolor skills. We will paint with watercolors that will be attached to note cards for your correspondence pleasure. We will be able to make 4 to 5 cards and maybe more, time permitting. Come not knowing anything and leave having had a new learning experience. All materials and instruction provided. Let’s Create for Useful’s Sake!
Let’s Create for Useful’s Sake! Instructor - Bette Kersting Bell
EMBOSSING MAGIC - NEW
with Faith Garnett

In this class you will make 3 cards. The first will use “wet” embossing to create a shadow effect of the stamped image. The second will show you how to add color to your embossed image. The third will show you how to create empty space within the embossing to stamp (or write) a personal message. All materials will be provided.
INSTRUCTOR: FAITH GARNETT has been teaching card making for more than 10 years and sells her cards on line and at craft fairs
NAPKIN BASKET - NEW
with Kathryn Polletto

Participants will make a 6 inch square napkin basket with reed splint to hold your everyday napkins. The student will have a choice of colors to accent the basket. Student will learn how to weave a base, “upset” the sides and rimming the basket. This is a good project for those who have never made a basket, or want to learn more about basket weaving. Please bring: Pencil, Scissor, Awl, Tape measure, 6 Spring clothes pins, bowl & towel.
INSTRUCTOR: Kathryn Polletto is a self taught basket weaver and lives in Kennebunk, Maine. She began weaving more than 40 years ago. She was a resident Basket Maker of the Sandy Spring Museum in Maryland. She has been juried into the Directory of Traditional American Crafts, sponsored be Early American Life Magazine. She has also been juried into well-known Craft Fairs.