Creative Me Time - Women's Retreats Workshops, Craft Retreats

Need a little creative time in your life?  Come take a workshop or retreat on the beautiful Central Coast of California.  Retreats are held at stunning Cambria, California along the bluff of the beautiful Pacific Ocean.  Experience a wonderful workshop in Los Osos, California just off of Highway 1 and minutes from San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay and Pismo Beach.  We have workshops in everything from mosaics taught by Heidi Borchers of Aleene's Creative Living fame to Wine Lovers Creative Workshop to Creating with Photos taught by Joan Martin Fee also of Aleene's Creative Living fame.  Come explore The Central Coast and your creativity!  Check out our offerings at Creative Me Time - Women's Retreats Workshops, Craft Retreats

Gifts from the Garden Workshop

Gifts from the Garden

Saturday, June 28^th

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Los Osos, California (near San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay and Pismo!)

This workshop has it all!  Shoes, gardening and creativity!

Mixed Media Artist, Joan Martin Fee will show you how easy it is to create adorable shoe succulent gardens. You’ll use a quick decoupage technique to decorate a shoe to your hearts content with decorative papers and magazines clippings – and it’s waterproof! Joan’s even providing the succulents so you’ll take home a completed Succulent Shoe Garden!

We’ll have a little time while the decoupage glue dries, so we’ll create sugar hand scrubs that make your hands feel amazing! They are quick to make and we'll be adding scents of yummy lavender or lemon from local gardens.  

Rosemary Salt adds a perfect touch to focaccia bread or your savory dishes.  Joan will show how easily you can whip this up at home, package it up in a cute container and it's ready to give to the cooks on your gift list.  You’ll receive a sample and the recipe to create this at home.

Make it a day of creativity!  After this workshop, enjoy lunch on your own and then join in the Wine Lovers Workshop at 1:00 p.m.  Don't miss the fun.  Details are available at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Creating with Photos Workshop

 Creating with Photos

Wednesday, July 9

6:30 – 8:30

Los Osos, California on the Central Coast of California

Photos!!!  We all have tons of them on our computers and phones, so let’s get creative and transform them into gifts, home décor items, greeting cards and cupcake decorations - we’ll even have a party at the end featuring photo decorations!

Your instructor, Joan Fee, loves being creative and taking photographs.  This workshop is geared for any skill level so bring your friends along for a picture perfect evening – you’ll finish all of these projects in the workshop and get to take them home:

Beautiful Photo Vase and Magnets – A plain vase turns into a statement piece home décor project using a simple decoupage technique and you’ll use the same technique to make cool photo magnets.  Vase will vary from one shown.

Personalized Greeting Cards – Learn how to use photos to create beautiful personalized greetings cards that look beautiful, share your talents and save on the pocketbook too!

Glowing Candle Holder – This project transforms a photo into an amazing nightlight or accent to any room.  We’ll use a craft knife to cut out details in a photo, mount it to a glass candle holder that lets the light shine through to cast a welcoming glow.

Joan will let you in on other super unique ways to be creative with your photos – everything from inexpensive fabric printing, to wallpaper to, well, you’ll just have to come to the workshop to find out all of the secrets…

Then it’s party time!  Oh, we almost forgot, Joan loves a good party, too!  She’ll let you in on secrets to creating cupcake decorations with your photos and how to make other creative party items.  Sign up today and come join the photo party!  Details are at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Wine Lovers Creative Workshop

 

 Wine Lovers Creative Workshop

Saturday, June 28^th 1 – 3 p.m. or

Tuesday, May 20^th   6:30 – 8:30

Los Osos, California (just down the road from San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay)

This fun workshop lets you enjoy the wine long after the bottle is empty.  The projects make great gifts for the wine lovers in your life and special treats for yourself. 

Mixed Media Artist, Joan Martin Fee, guides you through the fun process of making a beautiful cork necklace that you custom decorate with trinkets, beads and trims.  Then you’ll transform an ordinary wine bottle into a mixed media masterpiece using napkins, a photo of grapes, decoupage medium and personalize your creation by adding a ‘tassle’ created from a cork and beads.  You’ll be surprised at some of the unusual items used to create the cork projects. Students are to bring a wine bottle and several corks.

Enjoy a fun day of creativity on June 28^th.   Before this workshop, Joan is holding a Gifts from the Garden workshop from 10 – 12.  You’ll have time for lunch and then the Wine Lovers Workshop begins.

Gather your wine loving friends, enjoy the Central Coast of California and express your creativity.  Workshop info is at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Fabric Rolled Roses Jewelry Workshop

Fabric Rolled Roses Jewelry Workshop

Los Osos, California

Tuesday, June 24th

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Jump on the latest creative craze!  Mixed Media Artist, Joan Martin Fee, shows you how to form a beautiful rose from a strip of fabric that you then make into a divine necklace and earring set that’s perfect for all occasions.  Once you’ve learned how easy these roses are to create, you’ll be adding them to everything from lamp shades to clothing!  Check out the Fabric Rolled Roses Jewelry Workshop and other workshops and retreats at www.CreativeMeTime.com

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Butterfly Tiaras

 Butterfly Love...

 I've been in the studio using my photos to create beautiful butterfly tiaras perfect for weddings or a gift for the butterfly lover.  I have many butterflies to choose from so a custom tiara can be made just for you.  Check out the tiaras and other butterfly love creations at my etsy site.  
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ButterflyGiftShop

Gifts from the Garden Art & Tasting Workshop

 Gifts from the Garden Art & Tasting Workshop

Sunday, April 27th

1:00 – 3:00

Los Osos, California - just down the road from beautiful San Luis Obispo, CA

Teacher – Joan Fee

$40

This workshop has it all!  Shoes, gardening, creativity and tastings at the end!

Mixed Media Artist, Joan Fee will show you how easy it is to create adorable shoe succulent gardens. You’ll use a fun decoupage technique to decorate a shoe to your hearts content with decorative papers and magazines. Joan’s even providing the succulents so you’ll take home a completed Succulent Shoe Garden!

We’ll have a little time while we wait for the decoupage glue to dry so we can plant the succulents, so we’ll create sugar hand scrubs that make your hands feel amazing! They are quick to make and we'll be adding scents of yummy lavender or lemon from local gardens.  

Rosemary Salt adds a perfect touch to focaccia bread or your savory dishes.  Joan will show how easily you can whip this up at home, package it up in a cute container and it's ready to give to the cooks on your gift list.  You’ll receive a sample and the recipe to create this at home.

This Gifts from the Garden Art and Tasting Workshop ends with a demonstration on how to simple it is to make yummy Limoncello. We’ll even have a little tasting and discuss ways to use Limoncello for entertaining. 

Give yourself the gift of an afternoon of creativity and fun.  Other fun gardening projects are included in the workshop.  Get all of the exciting details and sign-up at www.CreativeMeTime.com

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