Last week some friends treated my wife and I to a super fun DIY Holiday Night for Grownups at Collage Collage on Kingsway. In a previous post on V.I.A., Collage Collage was described as being "passionate about exploring creativity with children, and about carrying supplies and other goods that adults love, too.". And while almost all of their programming is centered around children year round, this holiday season they're offering up fun classes where us adults are given all of the supplies to get creative and make cards and ornaments while socializing.
The next one is tomorrow night, December 15th from 7-9PM. It's $25 per person, registration is required and if you call quick you might be able to fill a couple of the last slots. As you'll see below there's only room for 8 or 10 at the table so act quick!
As you'll also see below, you're given a boatload of supplies to make stuff with, and one of the many joys of walking away with hand crafted cards and ornaments is that you don't have to clean up your mess! The night was loads of fun but I must make the point that the cherry on the cake was looking at the mess of sparkles and googly eyes and laser-cut snowflakes and pinecones and glue sticks and other assorted stuff we had strewn about the table, asking "What do we do about this mess?" and being given the answer "You don't do anything about this mess! You leave and we'll clean it up.". To me, that fact alone is worth the cost of registration.
Here's the stuff I made, the card is a mashup of illustrations of the decorations that everybody else constructed. I brought it home and had our two year old son make some additions to it, then I gave it to our friends who had brought us to this awesome night of DiYVR-ness!
