Registration Ends April 1st...Come Join us!

Registration for The Art of Friendship

'Memories of Childhood' Creative Workshop

ends April 1, 2020.

 Come join us for 3 days of friendship and creativity,

March 28-30, 2020.

Click on the link above for more details or

contact me at shankful@kc.rr.com 

Here's a glimpse of the beauty & sweetness of our class project

Storybook Needlekeeper

Memories of Childhood Projects: 

A Storybook Needlekeeper & Pin Cushion 
Instructor: Suzanne Wingfield

 Saori-Style Fibers Woven Bracelet 

Instructor: Nora Neeley

 

Mixed Media Altered Golden Book "Memories of Childhood" Journal 

Instructor: Tami Hacker

Keeping with the theme of Memories of Childhood, we will also visit

The National Toy & Miniature Museum

What can be better than sharing 3 days of good food, creativity, laughter and friendship!

Come join us!
 

Catching up 2019 - October. The Art of Friendship

(Edited 1/18/20:  Updated info under Class #1- Altered Tart Tin Dolls)

The last quarter of the year always seems to race by me!

So, my next few blog posts will be 'Catching Up' 2019.

October 2019 

In October 2019, I hosted my first art event - The Art of Friendship.

 We are blessed when we share in nurturing friendships and creativity!

The Art of Friendship began on Thursday night with dinner at the Silo Modern Farmhouse.

The following morning we had early access to shopping at Kansas City's Historic
West Bottoms Antique District store, Good Juju.

Followed by additional West Bottoms shopping and lunch.

On Saturday we gathered in my home to share 12 hours of creative fun and friendship!   

 

 

Classroom 

  
Counter of extra supply goodies

  

 Class #1 - Altered Tart Tin Dolls

My idea was to join together 1950s Sleepy Eye Dolls with a vintage tart tin as their bodice skirt.  

The doll's head/torso needed to be above the tart tin and the bottom/legs below it. 

The doll was too big to fit through the width of the tart tin.
After thoughtful consideration and prototypes, I found a way to

separate the dolls and rejoin them through the tart tin bodice skirt.   

Here is my before & after prototype

Being that Halloween was nearing, our Altered Tart Tin Dolls were dressed as Glam Witches.
Except for one doll that became a Glam Black Cat.

Some dolls had their tart tin showing, but most were barely visible.
Instead it served as a great form to create amazing poofy Glam Witches ballgowns.

 1/18/20 Update: These dolls were trickier than they may look.  They were not simply foofed up in their ball gowns.  Each person created their own gown design as well as assembled their doll.  The doll was cut into two parts and had to be connected through the tart tin in a manner that was balanced to keep the doll from falling over.  Sections of the dolls were dressed before they were connected.  Once connected, additional gown designing and accessories were created to complete the Altered Tart Tin Halloween Glam Dolls.
  

 

Class #2 - Tassel Necklace Pendants

 Tassel pendants were made using various colors of silk sari ribbon, vintage seam binding,
ribbons, lace, rhinestones, beads, cut-hollowed knife handles, pendant caps and corks.

 

 

 

All the tassel pendants were amazing, but unfortunately some of their pics were too blurry to share.

Class #3 - Altered Halloween Shoes
 Each person received one single Misses shoe and one single child's shoe
to alter with a variety of Halloween goodies.

Here are some of their creations

Pumpkin Swaps 

 

Card Swaps

What a wonderful weekend we had!

Can hardly wait for The Art of Friendship 2020!

My Birdsong 5 Swap Creations

Birdsong 5 was amazing!

  A weekend retreat filled with love, laughter, friendship & Art - 

 presented by the fabulous Karla Nathan! 

 

I so enjoy participating in the Birdsong swap exchanges.

This year there were four swaps: 

Decorated chipboard house,

Fabric Nature book,

Nature Snippet,

Nature mini-canvas & mini matchbox set. 

Here are my creations for the swaps

I placed a battery-operated tea light in my house to serve as a nightlight.  

 

My style often leans towards whimsy or shabby, but this house spoke French cottage to me.  Although I did tuck a sweet pewter fairy on the stone archway of the door.

 

 

 

My fabric Nature book

My Nature Snippet Roll... instead of a thread spool to wrap my snippet around, I chose a branch to reflect nature.

 Rolled, front-side

 Rolled, backside

 Front, top section

Front, middle section

 

Front, bottom section

 Front, bottom section

 Back, top section

Back, full view

Back, middle section

Back, bottom section

 

My mini canvas & mounted mini matchbox set

The mini matchbox was filled with little treasures.

 

I had taken the above photos of my creations prior to Birdsong 5.  Sadly all the photos I took at Birdsong 5 I mistakenly deleted.  I was downloading them when I was really too tired to be messing with them.  Unfortunately I paid the consequences of pushing my limits...breaks my heart I lost so many photo memories.

 

Coming soon...photos of the INCREDIBLE swaps I received.  

 

See you soon!