Friday Workshops

Pre-registered workshops will be held Friday, June 24, 2022. These workshops will be posted as the information arrives. 
Register with each teacher ~ contact information is provided with each class description.  Include your contact information including your email address, and payment. 

 
Workshop # 1: Chaussons aux Pommes    
 

 
 
Description: Who doesn't love a sweet and buttery apple turnover?! 
In this class, you will learn the art of French pastry - in miniature.
Using polymer clay, a little chalk dust and some very basic techniques and tools, you can make dozens of these tasty treats to fill the shelves of your Patisserie.  These simple methods can easily be transferred to making French style breads and other pastries.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Price: $45.00
Students Bring: All materials and tools required will be supplied by the teacher.
Additional lighting and magnification is helpful.
Feel free to bring a platter or plate for your creations if you wish.
Teacher:
Susan Wener
546 Lake Murex Circle
Sanibel, FL 33957
Email: susanwener@earthlink.net 
239-850-4456

Please make check payable to teacher.
 

 

 

Workshop # 2: Suzette    

 
 

     

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Description:  Student will make this charming "French" waitress. They will learn lace piecing, and how to assemble, dress and wig a porcelain doll.
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Price: $133.00
Students Bring: Needle and thread (black and white); sharp scissors for fabric and paper, Aleene's Original Tacky glue; 12" ruler, tweezers.
Wet wipes and a personal light are optional if needed.
Teacher:
Tish Tierney (Versailles Fashion Dolls)
1003 Providence Lane
Oviedo, FL 32765
Email: tishtierney@yahoo.com 
407-417-1680

Please make check payable to teacher.
 

 

 

Workshop # 3: Very Mary
 
 

   

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Description:  We will wallpaper, add flooring and shingle the "roof".  You will add the colors to your table legs and posts (they will be base-coated).  I provide the red, yellow, green, and black you see - feel free to bring other colors. We'll accessorize the table and shelf, "plant" the garden, and add birdhouses.  If you hate detail painting, let me know and I will pre-do yours.
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Price: $100.00
Students Bring: Detail brushes, sharp scissors, x-acto knife, tacky glue, wallpaper glue and brush, toothpicks or glue applicator.
Teacher:
Bonnie Helterhoff  (Miniature Dreams)
1752 Poppy Circle
Lakeland, FL 33803
Email: helterhoffb@yahoo.com 
214-495-7433

Please make check payable to teacher.
 

   

 

Workshop # 4: Vive La France Cake
 
 

   
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Description:  You will learn to work with cold porcelain. We will make a beautiful French cake topped with macaroons and extra macaroons for your patisserie.
Picture 1 above shows the cake we will be making.
Picture 2 shows ideas of how the student might choose to use the extra macaroons we will be making.
Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Price: $118.00
Students Bring: Oil paint colors purple, green, yellow, white and pink.
Teacher:
Betinha Murta  
2632 Robert Trent Jones Drive, Apt 127
Orlando, FL 32835
elizabeth_murta@yahoo.com
407-408-3796

Please make check payable to teacher.