
Experience Creativity Together!
If you are looking for a fun and creative way to spend time with family and friends, craft parties are for you!
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All in-person craft parties take place in the Knoxville, TN area.
Not in the area? Virtual classes are coming soon!
Past Craft Parties!
Art Journaling for the Non-Artist in Old Town Alexandria, VA April 2024
Ready to have some crafty fun of your own? Click the link below to register for an upcoming craft party!
Mini Macrame Plant Hanger
Art Journaling
Needle Felted Penguins
As a kid, I would sneak my younger sister's coloring books into bed with me at night and color crazy, elaborate coloring pages. In middle school I took "Home Economics" and made myself some shorts, a stuffed dinosaur, and who knows what else. I loved being creative, but I was the sporty sister, not the artsy one, so I let my creativity dwindle until it was almost gone.But my creativity was still there, waiting.In 2009, I was a few years out of the military, my husband was in college, our daughter was almost 4 years old, and it was cheaper for me to stay home with her than put her in day care. We had to be very carful with money so I got thrifty. And crafty. And my creativity bounded into the light of day, never to be suppressed again. Crocheting was my gateway craft. I could work on a project while hanging out with the family on movie nights, making me feel productive despite just sitting around.But yarn was getting expensive.That's when I fell down the rabbit hole of recycled crafts. "Frogging" a sweater to reuse the yarn, turning books into purses, ironing plastic bags to make fabric, crocheting with plarn (yarn from plastic bags) or old t-shirts, and a long, long list of other fantastic ways to be creative while also saving money AND the planet.Creativity + an infinite supply of cheap material = JOYI have happily lived in that upcycled/recycled rabbit hole ever since. There is so much joy for me in turning "trash" into something fun and functional, to see potential it just about everything around me.And I can't wait to share that joy of creativity with you!