Artful Creative Table

Workshops

What is on

Dates across the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). Everything is included, the rooms are small, and you take home what you make.

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Candle making materials laid out: wax, wicks and glass jars

4 days away

Candle Making

Sunday 1 November, Greenfoot Energy Centre, Bedford

A cozy afternoon of creativity, conversation and autumn scents. Choose an autumn-inspired fragrance and make your own candle in a 7 oz glass jar with a natural coconut-soy wax blend, guided step by step. No experience needed. Come on your own or bring a friend.

Time: 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Where: Greenfoot Energy Centre, Bedford
Seats: 15
Price: $63.33

All materials. A 7 oz glass jar. Coconut-soy wax blend. Your choice of autumn fragrance. Refunds up to 2 days before the workshop.

More dates

New dates appear here as they are set, and a private workshop can be booked any week for your own group.

Past workshops

Every workshop that has run keeps its own page, with the photographs and the write-up of the afternoon.

The crafts

Ten ways to spend an afternoon

Any of these can be a public date or a private session for your own group.

Creative art

Something made on the table and carried home, from a surface that was blank or broken when you sat down.

A mandala being built in dots on a dark round surface

Mandala ArtA pattern built one dot at a time, out from the centre. The most repetitive thing here and the one people find hardest to stop doing. Also called dot painting.

A ceramic bowl repaired with a fine gold seam

KintsugiThe Japanese repair that makes the break the best part of the piece.

Glazed tile fragments beside a part-finished mosaic

MosaicCut, place, set. A coaster, a tray or a panel built out of fragments.

Image transfer in progress onto a timber panel

DecoupageA printed image moved onto timber, glass or furniture. Also called creative transfer.

A stencil being lifted off a painted wooden tray

Stencil ArtClean edges on a wooden tray or a decorative piece, cut by the stencil rather than by a steady hand.

Handmade lifestyle

The things you would otherwise buy, poured and mixed by hand and taken home to use.

Candle making materials laid out

Candle MakingWax, wick and vessel, poured by hand, with the scent chosen at the table.

Melt and pour soap bars setting in a mould

Soap MakingMelt, colour, scent, pour. Set in the session and cured by the time you use it. Also called melt and pour.

Whipped body butter in an open jar beside its ingredients

Body ButterWhipped butters and oils, blended to a scent you pick, in a jar you take home.

Seasonal and botanical

The same crafts, run to the time of year or to what is growing. Pick the theme and the activity follows.

An autumn themed craft project on the table

Seasonal ArtAutumn, winter and festive projects, made to the month you book them in.

Greenery running along the workshop table beside a repaired plate

Botanical ArtLeaves, greenery and florals, worked into whichever craft is on that week.