Skills + Frills at Sourced Collective

What a night!  We made the trip down to Laguna Beach to host a workshop at the wonderful Sourced Collective.  We taught an incredible group of ladies how to make woven wall hangings and enjoyed a perfect evening.  The weather was dreamy, the ladies were creative and warmly open, and our venue couldn't have been more inspiring!  With bead-adorned crowns and yarn-laced needles we crafted well into the night (in fact we went nearly 2 hours over our normal workshop time!!).  Sourced, ladies, we look forward to seeing you again soon!

We topped our kits with triangles we cut out of rad geode paper from Paper Source and Himalayan Sea Salts.  We love it when we can double up on uses for things!  The Salts not only look cool, they are fantastic in a relaxing bath!

Ladies you were seriously incredible! What a fun, interesting, diverse group of women who did not want to stop weaving!!! We're so thrilled you enjoyed the night and we are stoked on how well your wall hangings came out!  (So sorry we missed some of you in the photo and HOW did we not get a close up of the lightening bolt?!)   Agh!!! 

Happy weaving!

Laura + Laura

Want to host your own Skills + Frills event?  Contact us at Skillsandfrills@gmail.com for details.

Macrame Workshop

Cording, beads, rings, succulents, macrame crowns?  Yes, please!!  We knew going in this was going to be one of our favorite workshops and it did not disappoint!  With tag lines like "just bead it", "get knotty", and "put a ring on it" we are both jonesing to do another!  (Stay tuned San Francisco friends!)

Everyone who attended learned several knotting techniques and how to web their cute succulent into the planter. 

Hand-died macrame crowns anyone?

The Food: We switched things up just a bit and in addition to our standard fare we added some organic fruit parfaits with home-made granola and we even baked Organic Pichuberry Bars!  The recipe for those is up on Laura G.s Blog!

Sweet, sweet macrame ladies!  You rocked this evening with so much laughter, occasional intensity, and overflowing creativity!  Thank for a wonderful evening!

What a killer night!!! Want to come to our next workshop?  It's April 26th in Laguna Beach from 4-7.  You can register on EventBright!

Want to host your own Skills + Frills event?  Contact us at SkillsandFrills@gmail.com

Happy Crafting!

Laura + Laura

One Kings Lane // Hunters Alley Workshop

Last week we packed up our crowns, kits, and cocktails and held a workshop for the foxes over at the One Kings Lane & Hunter's Alley at their office in Beverly Hills.  We taught the 35+ ladies how to create woven wall hangings and it's safe to say the craft was a hit!  Our kits were filled with yarns of different colors & textures and beads from all over the globe.  

Everyone's wall hanging had a unique composition and certainly impressed these crafting hostesses! The crafters were so focused on their wall hangings that few even took a break during the workshop.  The end result was a relaxing yet productive, social yet introspective night.  We are so happy to have met all of these women and to have been given the privilege of teaching them the very basics of a centuries old craft.

With a Bohemian vibe in mind we set the giant conference table with a variety of fresh flowers in bold colors, an abundance of fruit and candles, and infused personality into the space with unique vintage brass objects from G3QDesigns. Our Bohemian-inspired tablescape was made even more dramatic with the storm looming in the clouds behind the city skyline.  All of this was captured by the talented Kelly Crispin-Paulson of Wild Whim Photography and Design. (Stay tuned for a video capturing the entire evening!)

One Kings Lane has become a leader in the on-line home decor business. Hunter's Alley is her feisty younger sister who just recently made her debut. We congratulated the ladies on the launch of its foxy sister-site by gifting them with keys on necklaces that we hand embossed OKL // HA.  Each one of these hardworking women are the key to the success of the company! 

(Post how-to emboss your own keys coming soon!)

Thank you foxes!!!

Our Spring Schedule will be posted soon!

Want to host your own Skills + Frills party?  Contact us at skillsandfrills@gmail.com!

We'll show you the skills and bring the frills.

XO,

Laura + Laura