Past Classes

In this class, we will learn how to make a fabulous Christmas door wreath made out of sticks, pinecones and other textures to celebrate this Christmas season and decorate your home in joyous style 

This year you will be the envy of all your neighbours!

Are you ready to reduce your stress levels, increase your sense of accomplishment and get crystal clear about where to allocate your hard-earned money? Do you want to get organised with your finances and feel confident and in control of where your money goes? If yes, then this class is for you!
Building a budget (and then using it) is an essential ingredient to take control of your financial life. Rather than wondering where your money went, tell it where to go. Rather than letting life happen to you, decide what you want and make it happen with your budget.

Concrete has become so trendy lately! From humble construction material to popular home decor, you can now see concrete candle holders, planters, platters and more at many stores. Come to this class and learn how to use concrete in your crafty projects as well as making a planter to take home with you.

Bikes and Melbourne go hand in hand. Not only is cycling often the quickest way to travel (imagine going from Carlton to Fitzroy), it is also fun, free, and great for your health and the environment!

But uh oh, you’ve got a flat! What do you do? Join us and learn some basic bike repairs and maintenance skills that will have you back in the saddle in no time. You’ll save heaps of money too!

And a Zoom advantage – you can have your own bike right with you as you learn from Lucie!

Come to this class and break the myth about what is often considered the most difficult artistic genre: Portraits!
In this drawing class, Emilie will provide some technical pointers to draw the human faces: through observation exercises, you’ll learn the basics about proportion, tone and shading. Trying different approaches, you will draw from observation and from imagination.

We will learn about the structure of the head, its proportions, how to draw it in perspective, and how to shade your drawings to get a solid 3D look. Plus you learn how to illustrate expressions, different emotions or feelings on the face.

Leave the class with plenty of fun drawing exercises to start your own sketchbook and unlock your inner artist. Everyone welcome !

Ever wanted to learn embroidery? This is the perfect time. Join us for a fun workshop and learn how to do the basics embroidery stitches such as running stitch, french knots and others. Then we’ll start an easy but stunning project by creating an embroidered design of your choice, using a variety of simple stitches.

Do you find that your brain is a menagerie of different voices, inputs and opinions that scatter your thoughts and make it hard to get anything actually completed? How do you get your work, life and general stuff together when the world seems to be falling apart all around you?

By learning how to create and maintain selective focus amongst all of the noise means that you can more easily achieve what you want, feel more productive and create better outcomes for you and others.

Feldenkrais: Movements to soften, release and ease the low back. 

Learn how to pleasantly, gently tune the lower back area, create mobility and open to vitality and pleasure. Improve your posture, balance and strength. Enhance your work, play, yoga, dance, martial art, loving and living with neurosensory exercises to ease that lower back. The exercises will be done lying on the floor so have a mat or blanket ready for lying on.

Have you always had an affinity for wordplay? you love crosswords but you look at the cryptic crosswords and think, “what the actual heck are they on about?” (and trust me you are not alone there).

Would you like to become a code breaker and learn how to de-crypt, decipher and demystify the word hodge-podge that is the cryptic crossword clue?

Then this is the class for you! Tara will unravel the secrets and set you on the path toward cryptic mastery

In this workshop, you will learn how to design shapes and patterns with polymer clay, and make your own unique pair of earrings. Walk away with a set of drop studs in your choice of colours.