CRAFTY CONTEST: Win 1 of 2 spots in a One of a Kind Show Hands-On workshop! (deadline to enter: March 19)
by jen
To win a FREE spot in one of the workshops listed below, let us know (by commenting on this post) which one you’d like to participate in: “Organic Skin Care” or “Wet-felting” . We’ll choose two winners – one for each workshop. Good luck guys!
One of a Kind Show Hands-On Workshops are back!
At this year’s Spring Show, One of a Kind will be offering two workshops –one on skin nutrition, and the other on the art of wet felting!
One of a Kind Spring Show, March 31 to April 4, 2010, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Workshop #1
Hands-on with Martha Shannon, skin nutritionist
Organic Skin Care Workshop
Thursday April 1, 9am – 10am
Click here to sign up
For anyone who has ever had a bad reaction to using drug store skin care, this is a must-attend workshop! Lead by skin nutritionist, Martha Shannon, participants will learn basics behind the science of skin care. Starting with Earth to Body’s popular, face mask clay as a base, participants will learn the healing and moisturizing properties of various organic foods & essential oils in order to make their own customized face mask.
In this session students will receive:
· a lesson in the benefits & properties of natural foods & essential oils for skin care
· instructions on how to prepare their face masks
· a selection of organic produce & essential oils to choose from
· 1 jar of customized clay based face mask
· Workshop fee includes show admission, light breakfast, art supplies and finished project.
About Shannon Martha
Martha Shannon, BSc FSc, MEd, is the co-founder of Earth to Body www.natural.ca, a family oriented business located on the shores of Lac St Louis, West Island Montreal in Quebec. Earth to Body’s all natural skin care is pure handmade skin nutrition: plant based, organic, fair-trade, vegan & gluten free all natural products using all natural ingredients. Their product recipes are originally developed with skin nutrition as the primary goal. All recipes are made from scratch and do not use sulphates, parabens, polysorbates, fragrances, perfumes, dyes or harsh preservatives.
Workshop #2
Hands-on with Keri Rounding, felt artist
Wet-felting Workshop
Saturday April 3, 9am – 10am
Click here to sign up
Spring is here! Time to get creative and learn a new skill! Taught by textile artisan Keri Rounding, participants will start with 4 colours of dyed raw wool, which will then be shaped, felted and assembled into an adorable brooch.
In this session students will receive:
· instructions on how to felt using a wet technique
· studio materials including; 4 colours of raw dyed wool, needle and thread, pin back for finishing the brooch
· Workshop fee includes show admission, light breakfast, art supplies and finished project.
About Keri Rounding
Keri Rounding is a graduate of Sheridan Institute’s Crafts and Design Program: Textile Studio. There she learned that she had a passion for creating unique wearable accessories made using handmade felt and embroidery. She now strives to create what is new and unusual. Using science and the sea as inspiration, she creates a sense of humor, a story and a personality in each piece. Working out of her home studio in, she is now exhibiting and selling her work in and around the Toronto area. Keri is currently working on a line of wearable felted sea creatures.
Tags: Contest · Skincare · Textile · Workshop
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1 Kate // Mar 15, 2010 at 9:29 am
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to attend the wet felting workshop. I’ve become very intrigued by felting and think it would be great to learn to make it myself. I have long been a loyal One of a Kind purchaser, but haven’t yet been ready to commit to a class on my own.
2 Tina // Mar 15, 2010 at 9:40 am
I would love to attend the Organic Skin Care Workshop!!
3 flora // Mar 15, 2010 at 10:11 am
Oh… I would love to try the wet felting workshop! Thanks so much for the opportunity!
4 analogist // Mar 15, 2010 at 11:06 am
i would love to take the felting course!
Since i got back from Iceland i’ve been really into playing with wool!
5 Carmen // Mar 15, 2010 at 11:26 am
Organic Skin Care for me!
6 Heather // Mar 15, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I would love to attend the wet felting workshop. I love wool and use recycled wool sweaters in many of my products… but have yet to learn wet felting and would really love to learn this technique!
7 Ani // Mar 15, 2010 at 1:53 pm
oooh!
I would love to learn how to make organic skin products!! :D :D
8 Rebecca // Mar 15, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Pick me! Pick me! Wet felting please! As much as I’d want to go to the skin nutrition class, I don’t think I could sneak out of work that day.
9 Susan Montgomery // Mar 15, 2010 at 2:32 pm
They both look like fun!
I would love to attend the organic skin care event – it seems like every week I develop a new allergy to drug-store products, whether expensive or not. I am trying to detox for health, and part of that includes what I am putting on skin! :)
10 Sheilla Bunting // Mar 15, 2010 at 4:14 pm
I would love to attend the wet-felting class. I have been intrigued by
felting, but being such a slow knitter haven’t wanted to chance it on
my own.
11 Steph // Mar 15, 2010 at 6:55 pm
The felting workshop sounds fantastic! Would love to go! :)
12 Anita // Mar 15, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I’d love to attend the felting workshop!
13 linzi // Mar 15, 2010 at 8:49 pm
It would completely make my month to attend the WET FELTING WORKSHOP!
Thanks for the chance to enter.
14 Rachelle Wilson // Mar 15, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Wet felting, yes! sign me up!
15 Ele // Mar 16, 2010 at 2:18 pm
wet-felting please! :)
16 michelle/nft // Mar 16, 2010 at 2:30 pm
I’ve been wanting to learn felting (wet and dry) for ages, so wet felting definitely!
Thanks. :)
17 Kate // Mar 16, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Wet-Felting! It always ends up with beautiful pieces and I would love to learn how to do it myself!
18 chris // Mar 16, 2010 at 6:32 pm
the organic skin care workshop sounds intriguing!
19 Eva // Mar 16, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Organic Skin Care Workshop!! :)
20 Jen // Mar 17, 2010 at 2:32 pm
skin care workshop!
21 Taneesha // Mar 18, 2010 at 11:10 am
the organic skincare workshop sounds amazing! thanks for the opportunity to attend it!
22 denise // Mar 19, 2010 at 12:50 pm
i would love to attend the wet felting workshop! i want to make felted worry stones to give to friends! pretty please? :)
23 Elizabeth // Mar 19, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I would love to attend the wet felting workshop and learn more about this super cool textile art form.
24 julian // Mar 20, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I do wet felting classes from my home. I do hats, bags, scarves, slippers and other items. Felting is an amazingly fun art form and is having a revival. It’s very muti-dimensional and there is no end to what you can make.