Bulletin Boards

Bulletin Boards are a perfect specialty project. Over the course of 4 days, we decorate wood plaques, add cork and embellish with gems, shapes and ribbons. If time allows, decorating push-pins with polymer clay is an excellent addition to this project.

Wooden Pens

Our Art Center creates more than your average arts and crafts....check out these pens we make in our woodshop. Campers work on individual lathes, and over the course of 4 days, create these gorgeous pens. We will also be making candle sticks and mini-baseball bats on the same equipment.

Photo courtesy of Sarah C. our especially nice Woodcrafting Specialist

August 19, 2008 - Addendum:

Wood turning supplies can be found here!

Clunkers and Solutions

We are well into our 2008 summer season, and doing very well. It has occurred to me that every once in a while, even when we think everything is planned, we hit a clunker. A clunker is a craft that no matter how good it looked on paper, just doesn't work in reality. Such is true of the Beaded Bottle Craft that I thought was a winner. NOT A WINNER!!! We had a very hard time working with the materials recommended, and we ended up scratching the project from our lessons. So now what do we do with 40 empty little bottles...and look what I found...Polymer Clay People! Can't wait to get started sorting this one out!