by Maeri | Feb 24, 2011 | Adult_Courses, Classes, Creative, In the Know, Making Beaded Jewellery, Weblogs, Workshops
My friend Jenni at Offbeat Beads has a Thursday Recommendations day where she lists businesses she likes - she has been good enough to have Make and Do listed which I am very appreciative for. It is really hard, when you have your own little business, to...
by Maeri | Feb 18, 2011 | Adult_Courses, Crafting, Crafts, Creative, Random_stuff, The Creative Cooperative, Weblogs
The Creative Cooperative, sponsored (with a small "s"!) by the Make and Do Studio has arrived – at least on Facebook anyway! The Creative Cooperative was set up in answer to my frustration of being an owner of a small, creative business and...
by Maeri | Jan 30, 2011 | Adult_Courses, Crafting, Crafts, Creative, Macrame, Patterns, Random_stuff, Weblogs, Workshops
I have had a few people contact me to ask if I had a workshop in macrame. To be honest, my memories of macrame were those tangled plant holders that always seemed to hold ferns (why ferns I don't honestly know). So I thought I might try and put out feelers...
by Maeri | Jan 26, 2011 | Adult_Courses, Classes, Crafting, Creative, Random_stuff, Recycled Projects, Sewing, Stitching and Sewing, Weblogs, Workshops
Thank you Liz, Lisa and Louise for such a lovely day spent exploring our way around the sewing machines! Liz – who is more creative then she would like to have us believe – is actually mad about making Sock Monkeys and has her own Facebook page...
by Maeri | Jan 13, 2011 | Adult_Courses, Childrens Crafts, Childrens_workshops, Crafts, Creative, Feltmaking, Quilting, Stitching and Sewing, Weblogs, Workshops
The latest schedule seems to have taken much longer than usual to get organised and, in a self reflective moment, I was asking myself "why?". But then I Iooked at the schedule and we now have 15 unique workshops – with four highly...
by Maeri | Jan 4, 2011 | Adult_Courses, Creative, Random_stuff, Weblogs
Okay – 2011 is here and my motivation is still in 2010! I feel like my list just grows of things to do and my time to do it in just grows shorter. So this morning, whilst sitting at my laptop and staring at the abyss of work-yet-to-be done – I...
