We have had a lot of classes this week….
Little Kid Art
Making houses for toads
Drawing a toad!
Needle felting
Classes at The Golden Button
Lots of great classes for adults and kids coming up!!!! Needle Felting Frogs on May 16th at 6:30 PM! Adult Painting Classes on Fridays from 7-9 PM, and learn how to make these adorable felt Flower Pins on May 30th at 7 PM.
- Felt and Fabric Flower Pin Making (Adult and teen)
We will be making these…..
Rebecca makes these…
Thursday, May 30th at 7:00 PM
Create felt and fabric flower pins with Rebecca Taylor. (You do need to use a hot glue gun.. You may bring your own or we have some!) They are soooo cute! Rebecca makes those beautiful Felt flower pins that we sell at The Golden Button!
Cost is $25 plus $5 supply fee.
- Kids/ Beginners Machine Sewing
Thursday, May 23rd, May 30th, June 6th and June 13th 5:00- 5:45 PM
This sewing class is for beginners and slightly advanced beginners… continue learning and creating at The Golden Button with your own Sewing Machine
Maura Bergman teaches you how to use your new Sewing Machine! Learn basic functions, how to find your way around your Sewing Machine and how to make a basic pattern. This class is excellent for all of you with new machines!
Cost is $65 plus $20 supply fee.
Sign up now! Space is very limited!!!
- Adult Paint
Come and paint a picture with Miss Kate! You do not need to know how to paint. Come, relax and have fun. Bring a friend and have a drink! Mom’s night out! WE meet from7 to 9 PM (BYOB adults only)
Friday, May 17th: Learn how to paint a bird or Owl.
Friday, May 24th: Learn how to paint your favorite flower.
Friday May 31st: Learn how to paint an animal.
Cost is $25 per night.
Space is limited! Cost covers all supplies!
We also just announced the Mini Summer Camp Schedule! Sign up now… Classes fill up fast!
Little Kids Art and New Classes!
Here are some upcoming classes for adults and teens….
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Frogs: Thursday May, 16th 6:30- 9ish PM
Needle Felting Cows or Horses: Sunday, June 9th 2-4ish PM
Rachel Gerowe of Red Barn Originals teaches you how to make a sculpture out of wool! Cost is $35 per class
(save $5 if you bring your own foam and needles)
Felt Flower Making
Thursday, May 30th at 7:00 PM
Create felt and fabric flower pins with Rebecca Taylor. (You do need to use a hot glue gun.. You may bring your own or we have some!) They are soooo cute! Rebecca makes those beautiful Felt flower pins that we sell at The Golden Button!
Cost is $25 plus $5 supply fee.
Adult Paint
Come and paint a picture with Miss Kate! You do not need to know how to paint. Come, relax and have fun. Bring a friend and have a drink! Mom’s night out!
BYOB each week 7-9 PM
Friday May 17th: Learn how to paint a bird or owl
Friday, May 24th: Learn how to paint your favorite flower
Friday May 31st: Learn how to paint an animal.
Cost is $25 per night.
Space is limited! Cost covers all supplies!
Here are some photos from Mother’s Day Craft Making…
Here are photos of Little Kids Art on Thursdays… Making Nature Sculptures…
Here are some photons from Art Enrichment…
Flower Fairies, Cows and More
The Golden Button is on Vacation till May 8th!!!
Here are some new classes and workshops for adults in May!!!
Pysanky Egg Decorating Class
with Marcus Klimm
Thursday, May 23rd from 6:30 to about 9 or 9:30PM
Cost is $30 (which includes all supplies) We know its a little late for Easter but Pysanky is so much fun and once you learn it you can create beautiful eggs for ever!!! This class is for Teens and Adults. Please email, message or call to save a space!!!
Adult Painting Classes
Stop by The Golden Button on Friday nights for some Adult Painting Classes with Miss Kate. You do not need to know how to paint. Come, relax and have fun and Kate Gorham, owner of The Golden Button, will guide you though your painting. Bring a friend and have a nice adult night out! Classes cost $25 per night and run from 7-9 PM (Sign up for one or sign up for all 4 for $75!!!!)
Friday, May 10th: Learn how to paint a beautiful landscape,
Friday May 17th: Learn how to paint a bird or owl,
Friday, May 24th: Learn how to paint your favorite flower
Friday May 31st: Learn how to paint an animal.
Space is limited! Cost covers all supplies! You will bring home a finished piece and have a lot of fun!
Needle Felting Classes
Rachel Gerowe, of Red Barn Originals. Learn how to create a beautiful sculpture out of wool!
Frogs: Thursday, May 16th from 6:30- 9:00 PM Cost is $35. (Save $5 if you bring your own barbed needles and foam.)
Flower Fairies: Sunday, May, 19th , from 2-4 PM. Cost is $35. (Save $5 if you bring your own barbed needles and foam.)
Cows or Horses: Sunday, June 9th from 2-4 PM. Cost is $35. (Save $5 if you bring your own barbed needles and foam.)
Space is limited call (203) 910-9948, email goldenbuttonshop@yahoo.com or visit us on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/thegoldenbutton to leave a message and hold a space! Find more information at http://www.goldenbuttonshop.com. The Golden Button is located at 600 South Britain Rd. Southbury, CT
Don’t Forget we will back open on Wednesday, May 8th at 11:00 AM! Stop by for some special Mother’s Day gifts handmade by local artists!!!
The Golden Button will also be offering….
- Mother’s Day Gift Making (DROP IN)
Bring your children to create beautiful one of a kind gifts for Mother’s Day! Cost is $12 per gift. Stop in between 12 and 5 PM on the following days to create garden stones, tea cups or mugs for your aunts, mothers, grandmas, nanas and other loves ones. Mugs have to be left overnight!
Wednesday, May 8
Thursday, May 9
Friday, May 10
Saturday, May 11
Pysanky, Needle Felting, Adult Painting and Earth Day!
Okay, Lets try this again….
Pysanky Egg Decorating Class
At The Golden Button with Marcus Klimm has been rescheduled to
Thursday, May 23rd from 6:30 to about 9 or 9:30PM
Cost is $30 (which includes all supplies) We know its a little late for Easter but Pysanky is so much fun and once you learn it you can create beautiful eggs for ever!!! This class is for Teens and Adults. Please email, message or call to save a space!!!
The Golden Button offers Adult Painting Classes and Needle Felting.
Stop by The Golden Button on Friday nights for some Adult Painting Classes with Miss Kate. You do not need to know how to paint. Come, relax and have fun and Kate Gorham, owner of The Golden Button, will guide you though your painting. Bring a friend and have a nice adult night out! Classes cost $25 per night and run from 7-9 PM (Sign up for one or sign up for all 4 for $75!!!!)
On Friday, May 10th: Learn how to paint a beautiful landscape, Friday May 17th: Learn how to paint a bird or owl, Friday, May 24th: Learn how to paint your favorite flower and Friday May 31st: Learn how to paint an animal.
Space is limited! Cost covers all supplies! You will bring home a finished piece and have a lot of fun!
The Golden Button also offers Needle Felting Classes with Rachel Gerowe, of Red Barn Originals. Learn how to create a beautiful sculpture out of wool! Thursday, May 16th from 6:30- 9:00 PM, Rachel will teach you how to create a Frog with special barbed needles. And Sunday May, 19th , from 2-4 PM Learn how to make a Flower Fairy. Cost for either class is $35. (Save $5 if you bring your own barbed needles and foam.)
Space is limited call (203) 910-9948, email goldenbuttonshop@yahoo.com or visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thegoldenbutton to leave a message and hold a space! Find more information at http://www.goldenbuttonshop.com. The Golden Button is located at 600 South Britain Rd. Southbury, CT
The Golden Button will be at Earth Day this Saturday!!! So swing by the Hollow Park in Woodbury! Our Shop will be closed for the day! We will also be on vacation till May 8th! Sorry for any inconvenience.
I Love Gnomes.
I am thinking of the terrible events that happened today……My thoughts are with everyone in Boston. I am sending lots of love to Massachusetts. Stay safe everyone.
Yesterday we had Needle Felting Gnomes with Rachel Gerowe of Red Barn Originals. I made some granola bars to share with the girls and I promised to share our Needle Felting Snack with everyone…
Here is it.. Gluten Free Dairy Free Dark Chocolate Cherry Granola Bars ❤
adapted from a recipe for energy bars from Group Recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups gluten free rolled oats
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup Gluten free Bobs Red Mills all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate morsels I used dairy free chocolate chips.
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil (I used olive oil)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup cherries
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheet or large pyrex dish with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl mix together dry ingredients: oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, flour, baking soda, chocolate morsels and salt. Add honey, oil and vanilla extract, plus dried cherries. Mix well and spoon into baking pan. Using the bottom of a measuring cup, press mixture firmly into the pan until evenly distributed and smooth on top.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes, until bars are slightly darker at the edges than the center. Cool on a wire rack 15 minutes. Cut with a serrated knife into 3-by-1-inch bars.
- Wrap individually in sandwich bags, saran wrap, or store in an airtight container.
You can add nuts, different fruits, different chocolate, you could make these with gluten or with milk chocolate. There are a million different ways to do it! Sometimes I add coconut.
And here are some photos from our class… If it looks like fun and you want to join us… we are having a second class on Thursday Evening from 6:30- 8:30!!! I am totally taking it! The gnomes came out sooo cute. (I can’t promise we will have any granola bars.)
May Classes!
May Classes and Events
May classes and workshops!!
- Mother’s Day Gift Making (DROP IN)
Bring your children to create beautiful one of a kind gifts for Mother’s Day! Cost is $12 per gift. Stop in between 12 and 5 PM on the following days to create garden stones, tea cups or mugs for your aunts, mothers, grandmas, nanas and other loves ones.
Wednesday, May 8
Thursday, May 9
Friday, May 10
Saturday, May 11
- Mother’s Day Party
Sunday, May 12th
From 2-4 PM
Create a beautiful painting with your mom!!! Enjoy some tea, snacks and treats! Everyone will get a canvas and paints and we will guide you through a beautiful spring painting!
Cost is $28 for one adult and one child/or teen.
(Add $10 per additional child)
- Little Kids Art
Thursdays from 1-1:45
May 9, 16, 23 and 30th
Ages 3-5
Children art classes…
Projects include nature art, toad houses, and designing, planting and decorating mini gardens.
Cost is $55 plus $15 supply fee
- Mommy and Mini Class
Fridays are Mommy and Mini class 11:30 to12:15 Everyone is welcome… All Activities are appropriate for baby, todders, and little ones. (All materials are non toxic and safe for love bugs) You are welcome to bring a booster seat or just sit with your little one. We will explore lots of colors and textures with fun and safe materials! A little messy but a lot of fun!
Cost is $50 for 4 weeks
May 9, 16, 23 and 30th
- Friday Afternoons Open Art (DROP IN)
Drop in for open artwork! All ages can explore different art mediums and styles each week. Drop in anytime between 1-5 PM. $14 per child!
- Adult Paint
Come and paint a picture with Miss Kate! You do not need to know how to paint. Come, relax and have fun. Bring a friend and have a drink! Mom’s night out!
BYOB each week 7-9 PM
Friday, May 10th: Learn how to paint a beautiful landscape
Friday May 17th: Learn how to paint a bird or owl
Friday, May 24th: Learn how to paint your favorite flower
Friday May 31st: Learn how to paint an animal.
Cost is $25 per night. (Sign up for one or sign up for all 4 for $75!!!!)
Space is limited! Cost covers all supplies!
Open Art, Pysanky, Knitting, and Needle Felting
We have a ton of new things going on here at The Golden Button…
Here are a few things you might be interested in….
We are creating a schedule for drop in Art! Beginning soon… We will be offering drop in classes and art time several days a week for all ages!!!!
Open Art: This Thursday April 11th from 2-5 PM
You may drop in and create some artwork with a large selection of supplies and mediums! This is open to all ages. Cost…$12 supply fee. (We will also offer non toxic paint and supplies for little children too!)
Due to the overwhelming response… We decided to offer another……Pysanky Egg Decorating Class at The Golden Button!!!
Join us on Sunday, April 14th from 5 to 8 PM to learn how to make beautiful Ukrainian Easter Eggs. Marcus Klim will teach you the techniques of Pysanky and well as the ancient traditions and symbolism behind this beautiful tradition.
Cost of the class is $30 for a 3-hour session.
We will provide the eggs for you and you will receive the tools and skills you need to create your own beautiful Pysanky at home!
Space is very limited! Please call (203) 910-9948, email goldenbuttonshop@yahoo.com or stop by The Golden Button to sign up.
This class is open to teens and adults.
We also have A few spaces are still open in the following classes….
Needle Felting: Gnomes (Two Sessions)
Sunday, April 14th from 2-4 PM
and
Thursday, April 18th from 6:30-8:30 PM
Join Rachel Gerowe of Red Barn Originals to learn how to Needle Felt a Gnome!
Cost is $35 (save $5 if you bring your own needles and foam)
Beginners Knitting
Class begins at 6:30 and goes till 7:30 PM
April 12, 19 and 26th
Three part class for Knitting Beginners taught by Patti Clark of Maple View Farm. Learn how to Knit: Cast on, Knit, Purl and Cast off. Learn the basics with simple patterns.
Cost: $75 (You will receive a supply list before the class begins.)
Email, call or stop by to hold a space in one of these wonderful classes.
goldenbuttonshop@yahoo.com or (203) 910-9948
Hi There Foxy!
A little note to you…..
I just want to say thank you…. to all our wonderful customers and friends that support The Golden Button. Every single day I feel blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful and talented artists and such generous and fun customers. Thanks everyone for making my little shop so much fun!
We had a very busy and exciting weekend at the shop…
We had Embroidery class on Friday
and Foxes on Sunday (and a whole lot in-between) with Rachel Gerowe of Red Barn Originals!
Don’t forget to sign up now for April Classes!
Needle Felting: Gnomes is already FULL!!!
Keep an eye out for a second class.
We also have Knitting in April!!!!
I also wanted to share that we currently have a lot of needle felting supplies, roving, local yarns and much more,
but you should visit the Sheep Wool and Fiber Festival too.
The Golden Button 