Great day in Sherwood Park

 Some months ago, Sylvia Hertling, Adult programmer of the Strathcona County Library in Sherwood Park approached M.E.E. looking for someone to teach a class on dollhouse miniatures. Eventually, Sunni volunteered for the job and I volunteered to help her.

We brainstormed and figured out what could be supplied from our stashes. Susan C. from the club volunteered to 3-D print 24 glasses (two per student) and Tina MacD. gave us a wonderful stack of miniature magazines.

I printed a booklet that included all the instructions for the room and its contents. It also included sections on: (1) Scale, (2) M.E.E., (3) Printable miniatures and two comprehensive sites where they can be found, (4) Trash to Treasure Ideas), (5) Favourite Miniature Websites, (6) Local and Canadian Shopping, (7) Miniature organizations, and (8) Basic Tool Kit.

The room and it's contents:

Foamcore card or vignette

Skirted table from styrofoam cup

Mini Chair

Mini Banner

Miniature cakes

Miniature gifts

Artwork

Instructions for party hats from Sunni.

I also printed out 15 sheets of the printie chair that I designed years ago. These had two of the chair patterns on one side and various designs on the other.

A couple of the chair designs and the pattern.

Everyone got my booklet, some miniature magazines, the chair pattern on a design, styrofoam cup with a selection of muffin papers to choose from, a variety of ashesive flooring, two 3D printed glasses, two paper plates, a white pop bottle cap with a printie cake top and a printed base, a plant, a choice of 7 different banners, blocks of wood for giffts with paper to wrap them, paper and pompoms for party hats, a mini book and a package of mini potato chips.

As usual, I forgot to take pictures until the last minute but did get pictures of six of the rooms before everyone packed up.

A couple party hats on the floor.

One of the attendees took a scrap from the chair and made a cushion from it.

This one also made a cushion from the extra chair "fabric".

I like how this one used the excess from the chairs to add a border across the ceiling.

 She was also the only one who used the pictures on her wall during the class.

You can see here where the person has used some plastic last that Sunni supplied to trim the side of her cake.

As always, when miniaturists get together, ideas flew fast and furious! Such fun.

It was a great class. We had a lot of fun and I believe the attendees did too. I wish I had ask them to send me pictures of their finished projects.