Category: Reflections
Happy 4th of July! I hope this day finds you with friends and family enjoying time together and expressing the holiday in a way that reflects you best.
My 13 year old daughter Devon, decided to celebrate the holiday by making a sugar cookie recipe that we found on Martha Stewart.
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Category: Reflections
I know it has been awhile since I've written. However, we launched our camps last week and so I've been running from location to location filling supply needs, talking to parents and hugging kids! If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times....I have the best job in the world.
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Category: Reflections
We recently held our first student exhibition showing off all the kids' needle arts projects that they made throughout the year. It was such a satisfying evening to see all these magnificent pieces displayed. I took great pride in these kids.....my kids, who transformed "holey" pieces of knitting into beautiful purple penguins or birds sitting on needle felted nests with eggs.
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Category: Reflections
When I first got into this business, I was what you might call a purist. All my materials had to be natural, no faces on the animals.......children were to use their imagination and the thought of goolie eyes was unimaginable. However in closing my classes last week and watching a mouse with the largest googlie eyes go out the door, I giggled at myself for some of my original ideas.
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Category: Reflections
Back in 2002 when I was writing my first business plan for an idea that was originally called, "The Handwork School of Practical Arts" (then I got over myself). I was looking to list the benefits of kids learning needle arts. Besides the obvious confidence building, development of fine motor skills, commitment to a long term project and the social activity, I erroneously listed handwork as a Non-Competitive Activity. It is only 6 years and thousands of kids later that I've learned Handwork could be listed as an Olympic Sport.
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