Dear Everyone ~

Club Artful, my newest collaboration with my dear friend & co-teacher extraordinaire Cat Bennett, convenes for the first time tomorrow, Sunday, August 3. If you’ve already signed up, we’re looking forward to seeing you: in states coast to coast, and in Canada and Austria. If you have meant to sign up, but July got away from you: you aren’t too late to join the papery party! You don’t need a kit, and we can send you a list of supplies almost instantly.

Tomorrow we will start by making a petite origami box (2" x 2" x 1¼"), with fold-by-fold tutelage from me. In the second hour, Cat will lead the group in drawing & painting tiny portraits—both real & imagined. Together the box and portraits make a delightful papery treasure!

We’ve created Club Artful as a peaceful and uplifting experience for two hours once a month on a Sunday afternoon. The projects will be kit-free; we’ve designed them to use materials you have on hand or can easily acquire. Our hope is that whatever we make together will inspire you to make more of them on your own. As with Cat’s and my Bookful workshops, a complete recording of the “Club Artful proceedings” will be available to you right after we meet. The projects are low-cost high-charm, so you can share your oeuvre—and the creative love—with your nearest & dearests. Good energy will abide and abound.

As always, we like to emphasize that truly no bookbinding experience is necessary, and all levels of artistic skill and interest are welcome. We look forward to seeing you on the morrow for a relaxing & artful Sunday afternoon!

Club Artful

Until then, Bari & Cat