Friday, June 20, 2014

Gifts from the Garden Workshop

 

CreativeMeTime.com

Saturday, June 28th
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.



Teacher - Joan Martin Fee
Los Osos, California (minutes from Morro Bay, Pismo and San Luis Obispo)
$40 includes all tools and materials

Our wonderful climate here in San Luis Obispo County allows us to grow pretty much anything.  In this hands-on workshop, learn how to use items from your garden to create inexpensive, yet memorable gifts.   

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 magazine 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 to while the 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 then join in the Wine Lovers Workshop at 1:00 p.m.

Wine Lovers Workshop

The Central Coast of California and exciting creativity await you!

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.  Join the fun on Saturday, June 28th from 1 - 3.

Mixed Media Artist, Joan Martin Fee, guides you through the exciting 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 28th.  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.  


Info and pics on our website www.CreativeMeTime.com




Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Graduation Cupcake Topper Decorations #2

I created these using my computer, printer and printable shrink plastic.  Super easy!  All we need now is the cupcakes!  BTW - these pictures got a little out of sequence - the next entry shows the cupcake toppers on the cupcakes...

Graduation Cupcake Decorations



My nephew's high school graduation is tomorrow night and we're having a big party on Saturday.  Since shrink plastic is in my top two favorite creative mediums, I offered to make the decorations for the cupcakes.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Vintage Aleene's Creative Living Television Show - Satin Sheen Basket Video

Here I am demonstrating a cute basket project designed by the friend Denise Morgan.  It's created with Aleene's Satin Sheen and Aleene's Boxmaker.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tz8GsTjhjQ

Vintage Aleene's Creative Living Television Show Shrink-It How-to Video

I love shrink plastic!  I was assigned so many Aleene's Shrink-It segments that Tiffany Windsor dubbed me The Queen of Shrink-It way back in the day!  Check out this video for amazing ideas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ1acqAeThw

Vintage Aleene's Creative Living Shrink Plastic Segments

I'm finally doing something I've wanted to do for years - I'm uploading vintage Aleene's Creative Living Television Show segments.  Check out the Aleene's Shrink-It Valentine's Centerpiece ideas on this video from 1999.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydzr8cAuUek

Monday, May 12, 2014

Empty Wine Bottles & Corks, oh my!



Wine Lovers Workshop
Saturday, June 28th 1 – 3 p.m. or
Tuesday, May 20th   6:30 – 8:30
Los Osos, California just down the road from San Luis Obispo
Teacher - Joan Martin Fee, Mixed Media Artist
$30

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

You’ll make a beautiful Cork Necklace that you get to decorate to your liking with trinkets, beads and trims. Then you’ll transform an ordinary 
wine bottle into a Mixed Media Masterpiece Vase using napkins, a
photo of grapes, decoupage medium and personalize your creation by adding a ‘tassle’ created from a cork, beads and items from the hardware store.  Students are to bring a wine bottle and several corks. 

Come join the fun - check out the details at www.CreativeMeTime.com

Mosaic Workshops

Are you looking for something fun to do this weekend?  Mosaic Artist, Heidi Borchers, is teaching two workshops on the beautiful California Central Coast just ten minutes from San Luis Obispo.  You get to chose from her amazing selection of tiles, baubles and trinkets to create a custom brick or stepping stone.  Check out the website for more details.  www.CreativeMeTime.com




Friday, May 09, 2014

San Luis Obispo Mini Maker Faire

Come join the fun!  Heidi Borchers and I will be at the SLO Mini Maker Faire showing you how to make beautiful bread dough roses.  It's free!  Tomorrow in Mission Plaza from 11-3.

Saturday, May 03, 2014

Aleene's Bread Dough Roses

Save the Date - Next Saturday is the exciting San Luis Obispo Mini Maker Faire!  It's where 'makers' come together to show the public how things are made.  There will be FREE make it and take it's, demos, robots, crafts, books, food trucks and Heidi Borchers and I will be there and you can make a beautiful bread dough rose from white bread and glue in our booth.  11 to 3 in Mission Plaza.  Don't miss it!  It's a perfect family outing.


Sunday, April 27, 2014

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

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Gifts from the Garden Workshop




Gifts from the Garden
Saturday, June 28th
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 28th 1 – 3 p.m. or
Tuesday, May 20th   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 28th.   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

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Creative Me Time

I'm back from the hardware and fabric stores.  Now it's time to work on projects for Www.CreativeMeTime.com Women's Retreats and Workshops.  How fun!  Finished projects soon!

Thursday, April 10, 2014

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