Wrapping from the Top

WRAPPING TOP SIDE UP 

Wrapping invariably involves moving around whatever it is that needs wrapping. 

In the event a gift is a box of chocolates or something you don't want

shifted or disheveled, a "top side up" method of wrapping becomes important.
I had fun playing around with kraft paper experimenting with wrapping....

TOP SIDE UP

Wrapping Top Side Up 

Gift Wrapping: New Life for the Old Sweater and Scrap Fabric

Learn to give new life and spirit to the old sweaters/clothes and scrap fabrics 

around your home this holiday through gift wrapping. 

Sunday December 13, 2015

1:00-2:30pm 

Register Here 

Gift Wrapping: New Life for the Old Sweater and Scrap Fabric 

Workshop 

My favorite sweater shrunk in the wash by my husband (love you!) became
the inspiration to Gift Wrap

I will be one of twenty instructors holding workshops at 

WORKSHOP WEEKEND 

in Oakland

Tech Liminal

555 12th St #110

Oakland, California 94607

Saturday and Sunday

December 12 and 13  2015

https://workshopweekend.net/oakland/catalog

"Workshop Weekend is a community-based two-day event that brings together dozens of short, hands-on workshops across a variety of disciplines, from crafting to engineering to gardening, all taught by local, passionate instructors with years of experience in their craft" 

I will be there to take classes myself as well as teach. 

It never ceases to amaze me where inspiration transpires! 

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A sweater shield for my Tea Bottle! 

A Banana Republic sleeve finds a new life on a Gift Box

Holiday Gift Wrap: Creatively Sustainable

Join me in supporting the Community Programs 

@ Ruth's Table in San Francisco

Saturday March 12, 2015

1:00-3:00pm 

Register Here

http://www.ruthstable.org/

"Art is for everybody. I like to include people who haven't yet developed their creative side—people yearning to let their creativity out. I like designing projects that make people feel safe, not afraid to get

involved." —Ruth Asawa

I still recall with fond memory years ago sitting around the table with Ruth Asawa making holiday ornaments with paper.  She had a way of making any art experience warm and welcoming and despite her being a world renowned artist, never making anyone feel incapable of creating or making.  I, like many others, owe my place in the creative world to her who allowed us the comfortable space to be creative in our own way, unafraid to be adventurous and daring with our hands and heart.

Ruth’s Table creates a place for people of every age and experience to enrich their lives with art.

Succulent/Packaging Workshop @Oracle

"Creative Collaboration is Awesome"

Alicia Silverstone 

I read somewhere that the best collaborations create something bigger than the sum of what each person can create on their own.  My recent experience helping and working together with my friend Jodi of Flourish to put on a Succulent Workshop for the Oracle Women's Leadership Team spoke to this very concept.   She taught how to beautifully compose a succulent arrangement and I followed up on her suggestion with a demonstration on how to creatively package the succulent plant utilizing simple, accessible materials.  Participants commented that a valuable take away and additional bonus was to learn the skill of making your own DIY succulent as gifts.  It was a great idea. Gauging by the enthusiastic, warm response we received by the 50 women who attended (with more on the waiting list!),  the collaboration was worthwhile and created a richer and more meaningful experience for everyone as a whole, not to mention it was so incredibly enjoyable!

"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."

Steve Lacy 

Succulent Making and Packaging Workshop

The opportunity to teach and share the value of honoring what you create and what you give through gift wrapping (simply, artfully and resourcefully) brings me joy.  
The most meaningful moments of the evening was the feedback received
of how the workshop ignited a creative spark, brought people together
and amplified the importance of "making" and  intentional gifting to the forefront. 

Nice to meet the women of OWL
Oracle's Women Leadership Team

Special thanks to Win Chang (center)
Organizer Extraordinaire
Cloud Accelerator Director and Oracle Women's Leadership Community Leader
(A serendipitous meeting indeed to learn you are the sister in law of my good friend Tracy!)