Saturday, July 21, 2007

Author Event - Roger Stelljes

Roger Stelljes, author of "The St. Paul Conspiracy", gave a fascinating talk in our coffee bar area last Thursday. He answered questions about how to find an agent, how to self-publish your own book and the costs involved, and told many interesting anecdotes about writing his first book. He also told us what to expect in his second book!

We enjoyed our first author event so much, and got good enough attendance, that we will try to have an author event in the coffee bar every month. Our next author, on August 20, will be children's author Patrick Mader. See details on our August class schedule! If you have some favorite authors who live in the Twin Cities, let us know and we'll try to schedule them.

Monday, July 09, 2007

We sure have been remiss this year in adding to our blog. We have already had another open house (in June) since our last blog entry. To the left is a photo from the latest FREE open house, where our customers made photo pendants, father's day "cloth tie" cards, metal handstamped pieces, beaded bracelets, fused glass necklaces, etc. KidzArt had their usual good projects for the younger set.

The big news of today is that The Studio made the front page of the Source section in the Star Tribune! If you haven't seen it, it may still be online at http://www.startribune.com/389/story/1288891.html. We had to laugh a little when we read it, because it didn't tell much about our business and what we really do. Like emphasizing our daily art classes and art parties. And we don't really have a graphic design service although we do very simple graphics projects. (Plus Natalie does website design.) BUT the reporter, Mary, who was super nice, was writing the article for the Family section and I think she just wanted to capture some family dynamics instead of focusing on the business aspects. Dave was the most quotable with his usual wry comments. We are thrilled to have the publicity.

More soon.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Pictures from Open House

Saturday was our second-ever open house. We had free art projects for teens & adults, and our collaborator, KidzArt, had free art classes for kids. We're pretty sure at least a couple hundred people showed up during the 5 hours ... maybe more! We hope everyone had fun making the stained glass suncatchers, copper hammered earrings, wire wrapped silverware, digital refrigerator magnets, and embroidery greeting cards. People who liked working with stained glass or jewelry making should check out our stained glass panel classes or sterling jewelry classes this month!


Here are a few of the projects people made:


Here are a group of people starting their suncatchers...


and kids doing the KidzArt class:

If you missed this open house, we'll probably have another one in late spring or early summer.





















































Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Holiday Craft Fair a Success!


Our Holiday Craft Fair
Saturday December 2nd Noon-8 p.m.



The Holiday Craft Fair was a great success! As you can see we unfortunately didn't get any pictures of the sale at it's busiest because, well, we were busy! But The Studio was warm and festive, the free coffee and cookies were flowing, the raffle winners were ecstatic, and we had a nice mix of crafters selling everything from beautiful multi-colored ornament balls to letterpressed greetings cards to natural lamps (you have to see them for yourself at www.naturalamps.com, they're awesome!) to many different kinds of beaded, wired and fused jewelry and more. It was a fun day for all involved! Thanks to all of you who attended, we hope you had as great a time as we did!
P.S. Keep your eyes and ears open for the news about the next craft fair. We had several requests to host another in spring/summer!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006




Don't miss our great new class, Primitive Rug Hooking, this Thursday December 30th from 6:00-8:30 p.m.!!! In this beginner's class instructor Janet Venne will teach you the lost art of hooking fabric to create beautiful textile designs. These unique pieces can be used to beautify your home in any number of ways including wall hangings, seat covers, coasters, table toppers/trivets and more! You will be making a set of four mug warmers/coasters in class and receiving a kit including hook that you keep (hooking hoops will be provided for class and can be purchased separately from instructor). Call today to sign-up! 763-315-3001.


Friday, November 17, 2006

Holiday Glass

Check out these great plates done by a mother and son last weekend!





Make plates like these in our Glass Slumping class on Wednesday November 22nd from 7-9 p.m.!

Monday, November 13, 2006

Birthday Beading

Another busy Sunday! We had a birthday party of 10 ten and eleven year old girls who made beaded bracelets and earrings with the help of our instructor Shannon. They had a lot of fun and then had their cake and ate it too!








These ladies just couldn't decide which awesome glass fusing project they wanted to do next!




We also had two mother daughter teams in making batiked gourds, a stained glass suncatcher, a glass fused plate and a digital picture pillow all in one night! Here are the girls doin' their thing, what talented gals!



All in all, another fabulous and fun Sunday here at The Studio!