MMM & Studio PlayDays

What is your response if you are asked if you are creative? Most people will say they are not because they think they are being asked if they draw or paint. But creativity is so much more than that! It encompasses hospitality, writing, knitting, sewing, photography, cooking, garden design – the list goes on and on.

In the past few months a team of us at my church have been working on setting up a creative studio – a safe place to have fun, to play with a variety of media and meet up with like-minded people.

The studio consists of three spaces with designated areas for various activities including art, crafts, sewing, knitting, textiles, writing and photography, to name but a few. The studio will be available to the older Jubilee Kids on a Sunday morning and Youth on a Friday evening.

We have lots of ideas for the future. The studio could be used for: individual use during the day or evening, group workshops, parent and child art/craft sessions, a writing group, and Sew Social.

We have begun our ladies photography group, Snapshot Girls, on the second Monday of the month and Mixed Media Monday is on the first Monday of the month.

PlayDays
Our plan is to open up the studio for a ‘PlayDay’ once a month. The next one is on Tuesday 25th April from 10.30am-3.30pm.

Monoprinting

We all need to escape from the busyness of the world from time to time. Sometimes we want to get away from our to do lists and chill! And chat with friends. So we have started Colouring, Coffee (or tea) & Cake evenings.   The next one is on Wednesday 17th May from 8-9.30pm. Why don't you come and join me?

This is an exciting new project and I have loved being able to set up the studio.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Snapshot Girls

A friend and I have set up a group in Solihull called Snapshot Girls.  It's for women who like to take photos and who want to grow their photography skills in an encouraging environment.  We meet on the first Monday of the month.

We borrowed the idea and logo (with permission) from Snapshot Girls Swansea. 

We share our photos and discuss what we like about them and what different things could have been done with the subject.  I'm only going to share my photos here on my blog.

For our first sharing session we were asked to share 5 photos that summed up our style or interests.  Gosh, it was difficult to pare it down to 5.  I have thousands of photos.  However here is what I chose:

We chose trees as our subject for the next session.  Quite often people think it's difficult to take photos on a dull day or that you have to take a photo of the whole tree.  Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with taking a photo of the whole tree but I am much more interested in the patterns and the textures.

Any ladies out there in blogland that live in the Solihull area and would be interested in joining us, please message me.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Call to Adventure 10

This challenge was to pay attention to signs of decay.   I frequently take photos of crumbling buildings, peeling paint and rust.

So this time whilst out walking I thought I would concentrate on decay in nature and particularly trees.

I started looking for leaves that were decaying.

This is my favourite.  The decayed leaf is so embedded into the path that it looks like a fossil.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice