It OnlyTakes Two

It only takes two to get a conversation going....and it only takes two to do some joyful puttering. I actually do pretty well on my own...but I wanted to try and widen my joy circle a bit.

I'm trying something new at the Handiwork Studio and Market here in Portland. 

The hope is to have a monthly Joyful Puttering session doing simple art projects with anyone who is interested...and my first session was yesterday. 

I'm not charging for these sessions...but I welcome donations to Maine Needs.

We had snow in the morning so that may have impacted attendance. I was hoping for at least two to get things rolling....and that's just what I got. I was thrilled to putter with with Amanda and her daughter Isabelle...and Margot came near the end and might come next time.

We started with simple strip collaging from my recycled cards left over from my Words of Encouragement project....and this particular color scheme that Isabelle created really caught my eye. She cut it up to make bookmarks.

We had a delightful conversation about our art and interests and some of the things they would like to work on. They thought they had friends that might be interested next time and maybe even a few younger kids.

I made cards to hand out with a little bit of my story and contact information and I stitched on some snippets for color and interest. That prompted our next project.

Next time we will collage with my vast supply of snippets and collage paper scraps. I will introduce snippet rolls and snippet color wheels that will be user friendly for kids. 

We'll see how it goes and it if catches on. But really...it only takes two!