Shrink Plastic Tablecloth

Summer is here so let's celebrate with a custom tablecloth with shrink plastic accents - choose your fabric, grab your shrink plastic and let's get going. 

 From the Aleene's Archive

Come join Joan for a fun mosaic, sea glass wire wrapped jewelry or succulent class on the beautiful Central Coast of California.  Click here for more details

Wire Mesh Envelope Planter

Taaaaddaaaaa!  I'm super excited to announce that my Wire Envelope Planter with Succulents is featured in the current issue of Craft Ideas magazine that's on the newstands now.  Want to learn how to make one of these cuties hands-on?  Head on over to www.CreativeMeTime.com to see when the next class is.  You'll find tons of other fun eye candy on my website. 

Remember, these classes happen on the beautiful Central Coast of California.  Come explore and stay for the creativity!

Polymer Clay Surprise

What's cookin?  Polymer clay for a special wine project.  Unveiling it soon!

Alcohol Ink Class

They were having so much fun experimenting they didn't want to leave.  Join the fun at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Succulent Wreath Class

I'm loading up my car for a succulent wreath private party tonight.  What a great way to end a work week - creativity and friendship!  Time to go soak the wreaths...check out all of the class offerings on my website www.CreativeMeTime.com.  Oooooh, the sponges are leftover from my mosaic class last weekend.

Private Mosaic Classes

I had a fabulous time in Lompoc, California last weekend teaching a mosaic stepping stone class to amazing students.  We started with plates and transformed them into mosaic masterpieces!  Take a look at just a few from the class...most were first time mosaic students.  Want to learn mosaics?  I teach mobile mosaic classes and in the studio on the beautiful Central Coast of California.  Email me at craftproducts at yahoo.com

Succulent Shoe Garden

One of my succulent shoe gardens is blooming!  

Hypertufa Class

I went out to check on my hypertufa farm this afternoon.  I have eleven students signed up for a class through my local adult ed and I pre made these guys and they're curing for the class.  So students get the full hypertufa experience, in the class we talk all about the ins and outs and then we mix a batch, they pour it and take that one home to cure. Then they'll learn about drilling holes, decorating them and then the hypertufa you see in the picture will be cured by then so they plant them in class with succulents.  They get the entire life cycle of hypertufa.  There are still four spaces left.  Check it out - www.CreativeMeTime.com

Sea Glass and Wire Wrap Jewelry Classes

There was tons of sea glass and wire wrap jewelry fun happening today!

Hypertufa and Succulent Planter

This is what's on tap in the studio tomorrow - hypertufa and succulents!  We're making our own molds, mixing and casting the hypertufa then the students will plant a hypertufa planter I've cured for them with succulents. This class is full, but there are others coming up soon.  www.CreativeMeTime.com

I Love Creating with Succulents

I just finished thirty succulent favors for a quilt function this week.  I can't wait to show my students how to make succulent wreaths and Christmas Succulent Trees in my on-going classes.  Check out the schedule at www.CreativeMeTime.com.  If sea glass is your thing, I just received 19-1/2 pounds of genuine sea glass that's just waiting for you to make custom jewelry.  Come have some fun!

3D Mosaic with Yummy Colors

I'm stepping outside the box on my next mosaic workshop project and going 3D.  Love the yummy colors!  Check out our fun creative classes and workshops at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Creative Me Time

Mixed Media Retreat

October 17-19

Cambria, California

Yes, that's right, an entire weekend getaway filled with exciting creative workshops, delicious meals, a goodie bag, the beautiful Pacific Ocean, and more relaxation than you'd think possible. Come join the fun - it's a weekend all about YOU!

Classes, Classes & More Classes

Yay!  Heidi Borchers is debuting her Starbucks Mixed Media Masterpiece!  She's been asked for years to share her technique and we're lucky enough to be in the first class!  You'll be amazed at the art you create using Starbucks paper goods under the guidance of Heidi, who's been an artist all her life. You can leave your piece natural or paint to fit your decor. This is going to be a smashing good time!

Lana and Sloane Simmons from EZScreenPrint, will show how really easy screen printing is - it only takes 60 seconds exposure to the sun to make the screen!  You'll screen print three projects including the Amazingly Fast & Easy Screen Print Wall Art, a tote bag, a tile coaster and take home the supplies to create even more!

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!  The For the Love of Chocolate class features yummy gourmet chocolate tasting from The Joycup Co. and we'll carry on our theme by decorating a colorful container for your own chocolate stash.  Joan'sgathering trinkets, baubles and doodads from her travels and bringing tons of items from her studio for you to personalize your container.

Succulents are so popular and shoes, well, we all LOVE shoes.  Joan Martin Feecombined the two and came up with an adorable Shoe Succulent Garden using a super easy decoupage process. While the glue is drying,  we'll make lovely Herbal Hand Scrubs, all perfect gifts for the holidays.

There's one more class, but it's a TOP SECRET SURPRISE!  You'll have to wait until Sunday morning of the retreat to find out!

Imagine an entire weekend of doing what you want to do...Details are available at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Chocolate Tasting and Creative Chocolate Class

 

EZScreenPrint Wall Art

Heidi Borchers Starbucks Mixed Media Masterpiece

  

You deserve a weekend of total Creative Me Time where you get to do what you want to do.  More details are available at www.CreativeMeTime.com

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

Free Tie-Dye T-Shirt in San Luis Obispo

Who's in? Come learn how to tie-dye and create a FREE t-shirt at the Old Navy store in San Luis Obispo (just off of 101 and Los Osos Valley Road)

I'll be there this Saturday, June 8th from 11:30 to 2:30 helping you make an awesome tie-dye shirt.  ilovetocreate (my former employer in Fresno) is supplying the t-shirts and the dye all you need to provide is YOU!!!  Come on out and have some awesome fun - no experience necessary.  Check out tie-dye projects, videos and techniques at www.ilovetocreate.com.  Learn more about the Tie Dye Your Summer tour and ways to win amazing prizes at www.tiedyeyoursummer.com!!!

Wildflower Photo Contest

Wow! I'm honored. I submitted my Morro Bay in Yellow photo to a contest sponsored by my local TV station. The photo appeared on the news tonight. Vote for your favorite at: http://ksby.upickem.net/engine/Votes.aspx?PageType=VOTING&contestid=15669

See Canyon San Luis Obispo

Fall is Upon Us

The coast has been fogged in the last few days, so I ventured the 20 minutes to San Luis Obispo for some sunshine. It's amazing in less then 15 minutes the temperature went from 88 to 64. I took See Canyon all the way to the end and it goes into Perfumo Canyon Road that drops out by Madonna Inn.

I HAD to stop at Avila Valley Barn - it's overflowing with pumpkins, corn and many varieties of apples. I even picked up a couple Christmas presents in the gift shop. It's right off of highway 101 south of San Luis Obispo.

Butterfly Wall Divider

My mom and I went to the gift shop at Apple Farm in San Luis Obispo and found a corner dedicated to butterflies...

Spring on the Central Coast

More Spring!!!

I'd never been on Turri Road between San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay / Los Osos - a true treat!