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Fairy Penguin: Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Paints with Serene

It’s Plastic Free July! Come and learn how to create eco-paints from all natural ingredients! Then put them to immediate use as we learn to paint a realistic Fairy Penguin. Did you know that know that traditional acrylic paints, while bright and cheery, contain plastics that end up in our waterways? Not just their packaging, but …

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Beginner Birdwatching: Meet Your Feathered Neighbours with Basil (Online)

Have you ever wondered what birds are flitting around your street or calling from the treetops? This fun and accessible class is designed to help you tune in to the world of birds—no binoculars or prior knowledge needed! You’ll walk away seeing your surroundings through a new lens (or beak?). What will we cover? In …

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An Intro to Watercolours: Painting Flowers and Foliage with Jess

Come along, pick up a brush and enter a garden of watercolour flowers and foliage.  Watercolour paints are a really enjoyable and forgiving medium – the paints themselves create all sorts of evocative textures and depths of colour, and even the task of mixing your own colours is really rewarding. In this class Jess will …

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Watercolour Painting: Flowers and Gift Cards with Jess

Come along, pick up a brush and enter a garden of watercolour flowers and foliage.  Watercolour paints are a really enjoyable and forgiving medium – the paints themselves create all sorts of evocative textures and depths of colour, and even the task of mixing your own colours is really rewarding. In this class Jess will …

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Kokedama Moss Balls with Maddy

Kokedama is an ancient Japanese botanical art like bonsai or ikebana art. The word ‘Kokedama’ means ‘moss ball’ in Japanese as they are plants living in freestanding balls of moss-covered soil instead of pots.  Kokedama are a beautiful and easy way to bring greenery into your home and are ideal for apartments or flats with minimal …

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Beginner Watercolours: Flowers & Foliage Cards with Anita

Watercolour painting is a fun and forgiving art form, creating expressive images in a relaxing application.  Come and learn more about watercolour paints as you pick up a brush and try your hand at beautiful flowers and foliage, and compose them into a cute wreath. They make beautiful handmade gifts and cards for any occasion, …

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Platypus Edition: DIY Eco Paints & Painting with Serene

Come and learn how to create eco paints from all natural ingredients from your kitchen! Then put your paints to immediate use as you learn to paint a beautiful platypus.  Did you know that know that traditional acrylic paints, while bright and cheery, contain plastics that end up in our waterways? Not just their packaging, but the …

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Handmade Gifts: Living Terrarium Baubles with Winter

Terrariums are are really interesting way of growing indoor plants. And they’re actually easy to create and care for! Succulents and cacti plants are much happier in open terrariums, rather than enclosed environments.  In this class, we will learn how to make our own mini open terrariums from scratch using decorative glass baubles! These can …

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Cute Closed Terrariums Gifts with Winter

Closed terrariums are miniature, self-sufficient indoor gardens. They’re cute, fun to make, simple to care for, and easy to recreate again at home. AND they make great gifts!  If you manage to kill even the most un-killable of cacti but still yearn for some greenery at your office or home, then working with terrariums might be your …