Join Kristin Lewis Haight, owner of Kin Konnection, LLC, for a 4 week introduction to genealogy research. This course will be customized based on the group and will be interactive. Students should expect to learn not only about their own unique history but the histories of others in the group. We will explore online resources such as Ancestry, Newspapers, Fold3 and other popular archival sites. Curriculum will include discussions about common mistakes and what to search for in the archives and how best to organized your findings. Students need to be 18 or older.

FEB 8 Session 1: February 8th to March 1st, 2021
Mon for 4 weeks from 1:00 - 3:00 pm

APR 26 Session 2: April 26th to May 17th, 2021
Mon for 4 weeks from 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Minimalism is all the rage - especially in home decor. Using acrylic paints, learn to mix the beautiful muted colors that are popular in minimal paintings, and then learn to use those colors to create minimalist artwork - no art experience required. The instructor will demonstrate 3 styles and you can follow along or take notes and try the paintings on your own later.  A materials list will be provided upon registration, and step by step instructions on how to create each look will be provided after class.

FEB 25 Session 1: February 25th, 2021
Thu for 1 week from 6:30 - 9:00 pm

Acorns have remained an important and nutritious food source for many animals including humans, around the world, for hundreds of thousands of years. Learn how to identify, gather, process, store, and use acorns in the kitchen. This will be an in-depth lecture-style class with ample time for questions.

MAR 6 Session 1: March 6th, 2021
Sat for 1 week from 9:00 - 11:00 am

Come create with Nancy, using felting needles and colorful wool roving you will be able to make a cookie cutter item to get familiar with the process of stabbing. Then it is off to making a pumpkin, learning 3D. The final project of the day is creating a gnome, working with multiple types of wool roving and expanding on shaping. Start off as a beginner leave feeling like a pro.

MAR 13 Session 1: March 13th, 2021
Sat for 1 week from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Modern botanical watercolors are part art and part illustration. Learn to use round brushes to create botanical plant illustrations without the need for drawing skills. In fact, you don’t need any art experience at all. The instructor will provide a list of materials upon registration. Learn about color, value, and brush strokes to paint expressionist plant paintings in watercolor.

MAR 26 Session 1: March 26th, 2021
Fri for 1 week from 6:30 - 9:00 pm

This seminar is designed to offer organizing strategies to start your downsizing efforts. Establish your project priorities, learn what supplies you might need, and set realistic time constraints. Leave with an action plan. Students need to be 18 or older.

APR 29 Session 2: April 29th, 2021
Thu for 1 week from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Birch bark is one of the only basket materials that can be woven into baskets while old, dead and dry! To make plaited birch bark baskets, we can use the old, dead, dry bark that we find lying on the ground in the forest. It’s a great way to make something strong, useful and beautiful from discarded material - no felling required. Learn the basics of identification, gathering, processing materials, and storage; and create a beautiful diagonally-plaited birch bark basket.

MAY 8 Session 1: May 8th, 2021
Sat for 1 week from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

To learn photography, you’ll want to learn about exposure, and how that also effects, depth and noise in an image. Composition, focus, light, photo processing and equipment are also essential things to learn to take better pictures. In this course you will learn what all those components are and how to use them in taking your very own photos. Bring your own camera or use one of ours.

FEB 24 Session 1: February 24th to March 3rd, 2021
Wed for 2 weeks from 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Breathe new life into those worn and stained train luggage cases (small little pieces of luggage) in this eight hour class with lifelong crafter Lucy Hardy. You will smile with delight when your case comes back alive in a new way. These cases work perfectly for sliding under a plane or bus seat for carry-on luggage. Use them as baskets and cosmetics, portable sewing kits and face cloth holders—the uses are endless! Choose a child themed fabric for your favorite little one to use as an overnight case on a sleepover to Grandma’s house. See samples on Facebook under Hardys’ Handiwork. Be looking NOW in thrift shops for a case—they can be elusive. The instructor has a very limited supply for sale—first come, first served. Students must provide their own supplies. Supply list will be provided.

MAR 6 Session 1: March 6th, 2021
Sat for 1 week from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Learn techniques on how to work through that box of photographs we all have. Integrating the stories behind the pictures will also be explored. Please bring some of your photographs to get started.

MAR 8 Session 1: March 8th, 2021
Mon for 1 week from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

MAY 10 Session 2: May 10th, 2021
Mon for 1 week from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Identify techniques that will help you organize your personal time. Suggestions offered include prioritizing, creating the “To Do” list, and how we underestimate time. Tips on how to stop procrastinating and being overwhelmed will also be discussed. Students need to be 18 or older.

MAR 24 Session 1: March 24th, 2021
Wed for 1 week from 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Oriental, Asian, or round-leaved bittersweet is a creeping vine with inedible berries that is invasive in North America. Frustrating to gardeners and arborists, bittersweet is considered a largely useless bane on wild land. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were good for something? We can use ancient harvesting techniques to tend Asian bittersweet in the wild, simultaneously harvesting material for baskets while managing future growth.

APR 10 Session 1: April 10th, 2021
Sat for 1 week from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Pine needles are beautiful, and strong! They can be coiled and sewn together to make jewelry, hats, lovely usable baskets and/or adorably tiny ones. Learn to identify, regeneratively gather, store, process, and weave with pine needles. We will cover the basics of coiled basketry, which is a global, ancient human skill, and create a wonderful pine-needle basket. Every participant will make a basket to take home.

MAY 3 Session 1: May 3rd, 2021
Mon for 1 week from 6:30 - 8:30 pm