Jul272006
I am starting with the (wo)man in the mirror
Filed under Uncategorized by jennifer o'callaghan at 12:10 pm
Unless there is a wide, untapped, underground market for woolly, knotted-looking knitted half-gloves for the six-fingered, it is pretty safe to say I am not a crafty woman.
I do enjoy a subversive cross-stitch every now and then, but there is a pattern to follow and colors picked out for you.
I tend to shy away from the crafty sorts of projects that require creativity, style or sparkly things. I appreciate art and admire crafty foxes, but from a distance.
That is, until recently. Fellow ‘Grapher Stacy Milbouer invited me to Adelle Leiblein’s Mirror, Mirror class. Adelle has a faboo studio in the Mill House, one of the hidden jewels of Nashua that is also home to the ultra awesome Gallery One.
I spent a good part of Sunday crafting a mirror. We were told to bring meaningful sundries — tchotchkes, poems, a favorite book, pictures. Once at the studio, the fearless tribe of awesome divas Stacy gathered selected a resin mirror. Some of us painted our mirrors first. One woman glued layers of pink tissue paper. Another left her sunburst mirrors in the colors it was originally painted.
We poked through Adelle’s drawers and tables full of ribbon and words and Scrabble tiles, beads and bits of jewelry and other shiny baubles, and added them to our own collections of materials. Then, with glue guns n hand, we fashioned highly personalized and — if I do say so myself — wicked beautiful mirrors.
Adelle offers the class often. For $75, you get the mirror, access to her supplies and hours to work. I suggest getting a group together. Ours had so much fun talking and laughing and making suggestions and offering compliments. Stacy and her sister, Kathy, even favored us with a song or two (they have lovely voices.) It was an afternoon I will always remember, not just because of the mirror — scratch that — the artwork I got to take home, but also because of the energy of the room, the warmth of the women and, in the immortal words of the Eagles, the peaceful, easy feeling I left with.
Check out our mirrors!
Alice chose not to paint her sunburst.
Kathy drew inspiration from roses.
Patty took her time with her Claddagh mirror.
Stacy used her mother’s hair curler and worked from there.
Even I felt crafty and artistic.
To arrange for a group to take the mirror class, contact Adelle at Adelle.Leiblein1@verizon.net. You won’t regret it!
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