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Advanced Skin Sewing & Selling, June is Coming in April!
by Jan Yaeger
Free workshop with expert
skin sewer
June Pardue!
Tuesday, April 8 through
Thursday, April 10, 2014
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Seldovia Conference Center
June is coming in April! Seldovia Village Tribe is bringing expert skin sewer and instructor June Pardue to town for a free, three-day workshop. June will be teaching advanced skin-sewing techniques, and will also share her expertise in marketing craft items as a business.
June is a world-renowned Alaska Native artist who works in a wide variety of traditional art forms. She weaves fine grass baskets, designs and makes jewelry, crafts beaded headdresses, and designs and sews skin and fur garments and accessories. Her work can be found in museums throughout Alaska and in private collections world-wide.
June is also a fantastic teacher. With her help, workshops participants will learn a variety of stitches while making a pair of deer hide slippers with fur trim. She will also teach about different types of hides and furs and how to use them to get the desired look in a project.
This is a business workshop as well as a sewing session: June has years of experience as a working artist, and will share her knowledge about the entire process of turning crafting skills into a business. How can you use social media like Facebook, or sites like Etsy, to market your items? What should you keep in mind when taking photographs of your items? How do you cultivate good relationships with customers to keep them coming back? What about getting paid? How should you Continue Reading
Spring has Sprung at Thyme on the Boardwalk
by Suzie Stranik
Thyme on the Boardwalk Nursery is now open with sporadic hours for all your growing and gardening needs. If you don’t catch me in the greenhouse, just ring the home doorbell, or give me a call on my mobile (907) 440-2213 to set up a time.
My seed rack is stocked, come in early for the best selection.
Free Emergency Trauma Technician Course
by Jan Yaeger
How are your first aid skills? Do you know how to splint an elbow? What’s the best way to stop serious bleeding? Someone you know isn’t acting normally. Are they just in a strange mood or do they actually have a medical condition that needs treatment? If you’re out on the water or in the woods and there’s a serious medical emergency, do you know what to do?
Alaskans pride ourselves on being able to take care of ourselves in challenging situations. Those of us who live off the road system have taken this a step further, deciding that the rewards of living in a lovely, small community away from crowds and traffic are worth a bit of inconvenience. But when emergency situations arise, we also face a higher degree of risk, because we live in a place where transportation out to advanced medical Continue Reading
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