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floral & friends

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Workshops

A few weeks ago, I was able to attend my first floral workshop. I’ve been wanting to take a floral class for so long now and this opportunity came up and I just couldn’t resist! The workshop was hosted by the White Buffalo Project, a wonderful non profit movement that promotes and celebrates women coming together, sharing and inspiring conversation and ideas among each other. I’ve always been an avid YouTube learner when it comes […]

the art of French macarons

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Cooking / Workshops

I’ve always wanted to learn how to make French macarons and yesterday, I was finally able to sign up for a cooking class to learn how to make these delicate desserts.  Of course, you can always learn how to make anything through the internet these days, but I’ve always been a visual and hands on learner and taking this class was really fun and helpful. Our cooking team created  a cassis macaron with blueberry cream, […]

summer workshops

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art / Workshops

The last two days, I spent hanging out with my colleagues at a mini conference at the MFAH. This would be my second year attending and I always like to do these kind of workshops to get inspiration and get me going as August approaches along with another school year. This year, I attended both days and did four workshops making a book sculpture, coloring book collages, watercoloring in the style of James Turrell, and […]

A Cat’s Guide to Summer…

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Workshops

Yesterday, I took part in a zine workshop at Myth & Symbol and several other lovely ladies and gents. We spent a good 2 hours assembling and creating a quick zine out of photographs and collages. Maria and Stacy from Zinefest Houston were kind enough to show us the ropes and lead an interesting  discussion in Zine culture and Paula Deen, amongst other things. I’m usually such a clusterfuck when it comes to creating things […]

printing sessions…

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Workshops

Last week, I spent another evening at Myth & Symbols with old friends and met a few new acquaintances during a relief printmaking workshop. Wine, good pizza, great art and sour gummy worms to cap off the night. You can see more images from the workshop here.