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The Golden Button will be closed on April 21st. Come visit us at the Hollow Park!
Today we had our Monday Workshops. The first class made watercolors…. then we had Drawing and Design. Here are some pictures of the Still Life we drew during the drawing class. The kids tried out watercolor pencils, colored pencils, maker, crayons and some homemade watercolors.
I will be making a bunch of homemade watercolors to bring to Earth Day!!!!
Since the shop was technically closed today…. I got to see this horse when I was on a walk. It made me smile so I thought you might like to see it too.
Today we had a very special little boy at The Golden Button….. Chase.
Chase is turning six months old next week and I love him.
Chase brought his Mom and Dad with him to paint his very first Easter Egg!
I am hoping to sleep in tomorrow, do some gardening, and take a nap. Oh and eat chocolate!
I am happy to announce:
Come see us!!!
We are closed on Sunday for Easter…. but we are open today and tomorrow for Wooden Egg Painting!
Today from 2-5 pm
and Tomorrow from 12-5
wear a old t-shirt or a smock!
(cost is $6 per egg)
We also have some great little basket stuffing items and Easter gifts for your family members!!!
We had two workshops today!!! Make My Own Art Supplies!!! and Drawing and Design! Here are some cute photos from the classes…
One week till Easter! I love Easter… (Mostly for the jelly beans. The old fashioned ones you can’t find anywhere on Earth anymore. )
The Golden Button was very lucky to get some beautiful wooden eggs to share with you. Yesterday we had some lovely little egg painters come to visit. These eggs are great because you can save them forever!!! We have two more egg painting days.
So come for a visit on Friday and Saturday to paint a wooden egg for $6.00. You can leave it and come back and I will be more than happy to varnish it for you!
We have a limited amount of wooden eggs!!!!
We also had a Curly Sheep Needle Felting class!
There are still a couple of spots in the Make My Own Art Supplies class beginning tomorrow at 4:00 P.M. and running all the Mondays in April. For ages 3 and 4- cost is $55 for 5 classes!
After a short not-so-terrible Winter I finally got the front of The Golden Button shop on its way to looking cuter….
(I took this photo right when I was finished painting so the sign isn’t up. Now I am working on getting some benches and a few pots to plant stuff in.)
Here is the before photo…
I will be so happy when I have some plants growing in front of the shop.
We have Open Painting this Thursday and Friday ($10 a canvas)
from 2-5 pm
and this Saturday from 12-5 you can come a paint a beautiful wooden egg ($6 each egg)
There are also some spaces still available for the 5 part classes on Mondays in April.
Look at our Calendar of Events for more info!
Just a little reminder we still have four Open Painting Workshop days in March!
Come to The Golden Button and do a little painting. Our workshop will be set up with canvases and all different colors of acrylic paint. This is not a class but a open workshop time for you to meet with friends or make a gift for someone. All ages are welcome. Bring a smock or wear a old tshirt. You do not need to call ahead for this workshop… its open to everyone.
Thursday, March 22 and Friday, March 23
and
Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30
2-5 pm!
Hope to see you there.
Today we had the second part of our Spinning Workshop with Rose Garbien of Bittersweet Ridge.
Rose taught us how to hand-spin with a drop spindle. We learned how to ply our yarn and how to set it. We learned about all the different supplies and different materials we could use. We even learned how to use a spinning wheel! It was interesting and fun and we had a great time and learned a lot.
We were so lucky today because Rose brought in her spinning wheels and we were able to spend a few hours learning how to use them!!!!!
After we all got a few turns we finished off our yarn by plying on our drop spindles.
Now I can set the twist and then I can dye (it if I like) With 1 oz of Shetland Wool I made about 20 yards of two ply beautiful hand spun yarn!!!! Tomorrow I am going to wash this and hang it out to dry! I can’t wait.
I have to say I really loved learning how to make yarn. I want to thank Rose for teaching us! It was Awesome!
The Golden Button 