Workshop Choice Number: 1
English Thatched Cottage
Oil Painting
Create your own miniature masterpiece. This workshop will teach
the skills of producing a miniature oil painting. You will complete a copy of the Thatched Cottage shown
in the sample. If time allows, you may also produce a second painting of a subject you choose from photos
supplied or bring your own favourite scenic photo.
Instructor: Gayle Baillargeon
Price: $50.00
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Workshop Choice Number: 2
Inside/Outside
Display Piece
This display piece depicts the inside and outside of a shop. The "inside'
provides clear shelves within a bay window, plus floor space and bracket shelves for display. You will
have a choice of wallpapers.
The "outside" includes a topiary tree and tudor style frontage.
Wonderful for placing those special minis that deserve to be highlighted in a beautiful display.
Instructor: Lori Ann Potts
Price: $95.00
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Workshop Choice Number: 3
1/4" Scale Kitchen in a Wooden Tea
Box
Enjoy making an early 20th century kitchen inside a small wooden tea crate. Your mission
will be to paper the walls, put lino on the floor, install wainscotting and a door, then paint plastic
furniture to resemble cast iron, wood, enamel and tin. You will also make a wooden table from scratch
and cover it with oil cloth, and put seat cushions on chairs. The tea box comes with a sliding lid,
so you can easily transport it for show and tell.
Instructor: Susan Daly
Price: $45.00
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Workshop Choice No. 4
Leather Covered Wardrobe Trunk
Create an incredibly detailed leather wardrobe trunk that has working drawers with working latches.
Just the item to compliment a romantic scene or room setting... perhaps packing for the Grand
Tour, or a Honeymoon trip?
Instructor: Judith Blondell
Price:
$75.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 5
Wicker Bed Tray
and
Old Country Rose Tea Service
You will create a wicker bed tray and also
learn to paint the Old Country Rose pattern on a tea service. Additional accessories included are:
Tarts, Rose in Vase, Newspaper, Magazine, Cutlery and Napkins.
Instructor: Debi Kolenchuk
Price: $85.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 6
Silver Porringer
Learn to work with silver and create a reproduction of an antique porringer (aka
porridge bowl.) The insructor, an accomplished silversmith, will lead you through the steps of miniature
silversmithing.
Important Note: Because this is a first time skill for most students, the instructor
has reserved additional time on Sunday morning to help you complete your piece.
Instructor:
Vladimir Matusovsky
Price: $90.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 7
Porcelain
Bride Doll
This pretty bride comes to you ready to be dressed, and you will choose
from 2-3 different heads. You will dress her in a full-skirted white or ivory silk off-the shoulder gown,
trimmed with English cotton lace, silk ribbons, silk rosebuds and aurora beads. She will have stockings,
silk slippers, and underwear made from lace-trimmed Swiss batiste. This costume, without the veil, makes
a lovely ball gown. Class also includes making a wig from a kit, creating tiny bows and silk roses.
This is not a difficult project, but the results are great. If you can sew a straight line, you
can dress this doll.
Instructor: Joy Parker
Price:
$75.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 8
Fabric Covered
Room Box
with Matching Cover
A different way to display your favourite
miniatures. This workshop includes all materials, fabric and trim. There will be some choice of colours.
Instructor: Christina Dierckx
Price: $65.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 9
Needlework
Pillow
"Romantic Dreams"
Create a needlework cushion on 40 mesh linen,
worked in a variety of quick and easy stitches. The instructor will also share her many needlwork tips.
Instructor: Caraline Stanley
Price: $45.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 10
Flower Girl
Doll
You will string this full porcelain body doll, then dress her in peach
silk with ribbon roses. You will add a wig, and make her straw hat and flower basket full of flowers.
Instructor: Linda Beaupre
Price: $65.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 11
Violins
and Roses
1/4th Scale Vignette
Make a wood violin case shaped room box
and decorate the interior (including a window). Complete the scene by dressing a bed, vanity and bench,
couch, privacy screen and mannequin displaying a wedding dress.
Instructor: Catherine Thomas
Price: $80.00
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Worshop Choice Number: 12
Corset and Lingerie &
Miniature Trims
Learn to create your own miniature trims and use
them to put together beautiflly trimmed lingerie. You will complete a corset (usable to dress a doll)
and a petticoat. Instructions will be provided for additional lingerie items. Instructor has done much
research into the subject of the history of underwear and will offer additional information for your
enjoyment.
Instructor: Diane Wilkinson
Price: $55
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