If you made it through my previous post with all of its weaving terminology, I salute you. This is going to be a lot less dense, I promise. As part of the final steps of finishing the rug, we had to secure the warp ends after they were cut from the loom. We ended up tying them into a super cute twisted fringe!
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I have been dying to do a workshop at Fern’s School of Craft since they opened in 2017, and I was finally able to snag a spot in their rug weaving workshop. It was everything I was hoping it would be, and it made my heart so full. I want to apologize ahead of time for all of the weaving terminology and attempts at explanation in this post, but I’m just really ecstatic about this whole form of crafting.
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For my best friend’s bachelorette (part two, duh), we did a weekend trip to Napa Valley. I loved the whole getaway, but one of the highlights for me was the aerial silks class that we took together! I had never done anything like this before, so it was a really fun experience pushing my body to move in a new and different way.
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For my best friend’s bachelorette party, we decided to book a cooking class because she has always been a bit of a gourmand! While most cooking classes are a bit of a splurge money-wise, I think they’re really fun to do with friends since you get to stay busy, chat a little, and eat something yummy at the end.
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Craft workshops bring me so much joy, so when I heard that there would be an opportunity for a macrame feather workshop in my town, I was thrilled! My only exposure to macrame has been making the hemp bracelets from the early 2000s, so it was great to see what other designs can be made with the simple knot patterns. This particular workshop was hosted by Rhian from Dreamers.
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For those of you with sharp memories, you may remember that my coworkers and I made gnome ornaments together last year for our staff Christmas party. This year, we ended up doing another craft workshop! We were hosted at Our Social, an adorable retail store/co-working space, and made the cutest keychain wristlet with the help of a local company, Journey Tree.
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I’m pretty far from what you would call tech-savvy, but when my brother offered to build me a custom mini keyboard, I was very intrigued. This is one of his new hobbies, and it was neat to be able to see his process. I had no idea how simple / complex keyboards were, so I have a new level of appreciation for them.
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I’m always on the lookout for fun activities to do with the youth at church, so when someone suggested a Bob Ross style paint night, I was thrilled. Personally, I had my doubts about my artistic abilities, but I figured I might as well use a fun, low stakes night to give it a whirl.
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The traditional Polish-Ukrainian method of Easter egg decorationis called pysanky! (For reference, pysanky is plural, pysanka is for the singular). The first time I tried it, I was in elementary school, and I was instantly fascinated by the way the layered dyes and wax process worked. When I saw there was a workshop in town this year, I jumped at the chance to try again.
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Until 2004, West Edmonton Mall was the largest indoor shopping centre in the entire world! It has since lost that record, but WEM still gets some really exciting pop-up stores and flagship stores. One of them is the LEGO store, which currently offers the only opportunity in Canada to design and print a custom minifigure!
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