Autum Workshops at The Crafty Alley Shop *Updated*

Hi all,

I just wanted to post the provisional Autumn Workshop Programme.

More details to follow.

***New*** Cathy's Handmade Christmas Programme
This is a new workshop I have designed to encourage people to make their own Christmas Gifts this year. At the end of the workshop as well as having beautiful finished handmade gifts, you will also have acquired new handmaking skills.

€20 per workshop

The provisonal programme is as follows

6th Nov - A Knitted Christmas Gift
13th Nov - Candle Making
20th Nov - Wall Art / Ceramic Painting
27th Nov - Christmas Cards (make up to 70 cards in two hours!)
4th Dec - Christmas Mini Book
11th Dec - Jewelry Making
18th Dec - Handmade Gift Wrap

Children's Autum Workshop Dates (11.00am to 12.15pm) €7.50pp

18th Sept
16th Oct
20th Nov
11th Dec

Adult Cardmaking Classes (2pm - 4pm) €20pp

18th Sept (finished)
27th Nov

Killarney Scrapbooking Crop

5th Sept (finished)
16th Oct (finished)
4th Dec

Dublin Crop (All provisonal dates)

11th Sept (done)
Next Dublin Crop to be confirmed

We will also be hosting a ten week Patchwork and Quilting classes by Nikki Foley, a Knitting Workshop on the 9th Oct with Carol Fellers and Oil Painting with Tina Reed on Tuesday Evenings.

(Captiva Wrap for Knitting Workshop with Carol)

I am also delighted to announce that Mairead Sharry will be doing a Felting Workshop on Monday 27th Sept from 11:00pm to 13:00pm for €20 including tuition, all materials and tea and coffee. Places limited and deposit secures place.

(Example of Felt Work by Mairead Sharry)

All of the above workshops are on a limited amount of places so book early to avoid disappointment by calling 0646630800.

Thanks

Cathy

Summer Rain

Hi all, 

What a summer? It feels more like October than July. Our customers are saying that they don't mind because they are indoors painting, scrapbooking, doing arts and crafts with the kids but in general making the most of the bad weather. 

We have been busy busy updating the website and adding products to it. We have now added two payment options for online shopping including paying direct with Laser, VISA, Mastercard and AMEX or payment via Paypal. Thanks for your patience. 

We are delighted that the Crafty Alley Shop has been invited to bring our shop along to to the Cork Crop this Sunday 20Th July.  For more information on the crop visit the Cork Croppers blog. 

Our next adult jewelery class is on August the 2ND at 12pm in the shop. Book now to avoid disappointment. 

The next children's workshops are on this Saturday in the shop. 

10AM Junior Glass Painting

12PM Junior Card Making. 

Children's classes cost €7.50 per class and adult classes cost €15 which include all materials. Classes normally last about an hour and a half. 

So enjoy the rest of July and keep up to date with the blog and website for more products and workshop updates. 

Cathy

Teachers Evening Postponed, Workshop Updates and New Producs

Hi all,

It has been a hectic week!

First of all after listening to our teachers in Kerry who are on the countdown to there summer holidays we have decided to postpone the open evening until the end of summer. I'm sure our teachers have sangria and sun on their mind rather than school paints and stickers!!! We have stocked the shop up this week with school supplies and teacher tools and also have some catalogues available for any teacher who is planning ahead. Just contact the shop and we will be happy to send them out.

This Saturday we will have a number of exciting children's workshops on including scrapbooking, glass painting and card making. Please phone the shop to put your chil'd name down to avoid disappointment as you know how busy the classes have been!! I will be putting up some of the pics from previous classes up this week.

Some exciting new products arrived this week for our scrappers and card makers.

They included the amazing Bind-It-All Machine and all the accessories to make your own beautiful albums and crafts.

The Bind-It-All Machine is the industry's newest and most innovative tool! The Bind-it-All is the one and only dual action machine that will punch and bind allowing you to create your own books, journals, calendars, and craft projects of any size! Be sure to check out our accessories that work hand-in-hand with this wonderful tool!

The New Dreamkuts Arrived Today!!!

This tool is the perfect page cutter! The Dreamkuts has two slots that allow you to cut over 100 different page sizes. The back slot is adjustable (depending on the size of your paper) and will make one center cut. The front slot (fixed at 12") will cut your paper into thirds! *Note: The Dreamkuts will cut up to one or two sheets of cardstock at a time. It will NOT cut chipboard.

They will be going up on the website over the next day or two and for more information visit http://www.binditall.com/. We have limited stock on both machines so first come first served and all that. Don't forget to ask for a free demonstration in store on any of our products.

I'll be in touch at the end of the week with some more product and workshop updates.

In the meantime pop in and and say hello and have a goo at the gorgeous bits and bobs we have got in for you over the last week.

Cathy

Next Workshops Date 7th June 2008

Well todays (Saturday 24th May) workshops were a great success and thanks to everybody who attended.

We started off with card making this morning and made two beautiful cards - a castle design and a free design where the children got to choose what they wanted to design. We learned about punching, stamping and embellishing the cards and the cars turned out fantastic. I will put up pics of the demo cards we used next week and a step by step guide on how we made them.

Felicia's jewellery making class followed with everybody creating a beautiful bracelet and set of earrings using a range of beading techniques. Everybody got to choose their own beads and left with some amazing designs.

Finally our workshops finished off with glass painting. We got the chance to design our very own mirrors and used the Marabu glass painters to create some funky designs. We added that very special touch to our mirrors at the end by sticking on some glass jewels and buttons.

Everybody had lots of fun and our next workshops are already filling up. Details are as follows.

NEXT WORKSHOP DATE - Saturday 7th June

Children's Card Making at 10AM. We will be designing twisted pyramid cards from a brand new range that is new and exclusive to The Crafty Alley Shop. (Details and pictures will go up during the week).

Adult Jewelery Making at 12PM. Details to follow.

Children's Ceramic Painting at 2pm. Paint your very own mug!

As usual please email me at cathy@craftyalley.com or ring the shop on 06430800 to put your name down for a workshop.

Finally, we still have a couple of places left at our drawing class on a Monday evening. The watercolour class which starts on Thursday the 5th June is almost full so make sure you put down your 50% deposit (€30) to secure your place. We are currently taking names for acrylic and oil painting which will also start in early June.

See you soon

Cathy ;-)