The art of papermaking is really quite easy and something you can learn and do at home with friends and family! We will be making paper out of used paper and other materials. You’ll get all the tips and tricks to make on your own and you’ll be able to take home what you make. Feel free to bring any embellishments you’d like to add to your paper like seeds, colorful paper, threads, etc. Each participant will take home whatever paper they make, or can pick it up at the Library once it's dry. Class is for adults, teens, and older children (with an adult).

Fee is $15/person. Cost can be paid at the class.
Class will be held in the Library's lower level program room, accessible by stairs or elevator.

This workshop will be facilitated by Christina Threloff, owner and sewist behind My Lovely Muse.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

At this workshop you will go home with 2 beeswax wraps that you make during the event and a link to more information so you can make them on your own.

Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Georgetown Township Library. Feel free to bring friends and family of all ages, along with your mending basket to learn a new skill or help keep each other accountable to better sustainability through mending!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time. You may donate cash or via venmo @mylovelymuse or PayPal christina@mylovelmuse.com.

You’re invited to Bettie’s Pages as we host Christina Threloff from My Lovely Muse for a Papermaking Workshop!

Date: Sunday, April 7, 2024
Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Cost: $25 per person* (all ages welcome, accompanied by an adult
Tickets: https://www.bettiespages.com/rsvphere/papermaking-workshop

*Save $5 when you sign up for both the Papermaking Workshop & Grimoire Workshop using code CREATE5

About the workshop:

We will be learning how to make paper with used papers and other materials. You’ll get all the tips and tricks needed to make your own and even teach the art of papermaking to your friends & family at home. All pages that you make at the workshop are yours to take home with you!

(Embellishments are encouraged! Feel free to bring color paper, thread, seeds, etc. to class with you or use some of the embroidery thread & native seeds we’ll have available).

We’ll be making paper out of used paper and you’ll get all the tips and tricks to make your own at home on your own or as a craft with friends and family!  Feel free to bring any embellishments you’d like to add to your paper like seeds, colorful paper, threads, etc.  An assortment of embellishments will also be provided.

This program is for all ages; all registered children must be accompanied by an adult.

This workshop will be led and facilitated by Christine Threloff, owner and sewist behind My Lovely Muse.

Pre-registration is required to attend this program. Online registration closes at 12pm the day before the program, unless it is sold out first. If this program is sold out, please complete online registration to be added to the waitlist. You will not be charged to be added to the waitlist. We will contact you if spots become available

Pricing 
Adult: ages 18 and up
Youth: 17 and younger

Adult Member: $24
Youth Member: $24
Adult Non-Member: $30
Youth Non-Member: $30
Adult Chaperone without craft: $5 (This option is for adults signing up kids 17 and under and who will share materials with their kid.)
2 and under: Free

Please Note: This program will be held indoors.

FREE workshop! Met us in the Holton Hooker Multi-Purpose room on GVSU Allendale Campus.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time, but not necessary.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Georgetown Township Library. Feel free to bring friends and family of all ages, along with your mending basket to learn a new skill or help keep each other accountable to better sustainability through mending!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time. You may donate cash or via venmo @mylovelymuse or PayPal christina@mylovelmuse.com.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Georgetown Township Library. Feel free to bring friends and family of all ages, along with your mending basket to learn a new skill or help keep each other accountable to better sustainability through mending!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time. You may donate cash or via venmo @mylovelymuse or PayPal christina@mylovelmuse.com.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Georgetown Township Library. Feel free to bring friends and family of all ages, along with your mending basket to learn a new skill or help keep each other accountable to better sustainability through mending!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time. You may donate cash or via venmo @mylovelymuse or PayPal christina@mylovelmuse.com.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

FREE Community Event, no registration necessary.

Double feature!

Kombucha Homebrew
During this workshop, you’ll learn some history of kombucha, how to home-brew your own kombucha, rules and tips, and go home with some starter liquid and your very own SCOBY. Bring a friend to sip some kombucha while learning how to brew your own!

Mending 101
During this workshop, you’ll learn to mend your own clothes, save money, and help to save our earth! Tools, notions and scrap fabrics will be available for use. You’ll go home with a new skill and some resources to help with future mends on your own!

Location TBD

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Christina will not be present at this month’s mending circle.

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Christina will not be present at this month’s mending circle.

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Please bring a bag of dirt to donate to our community garden and your gardening tools as we break ground to start our community garden! Let’s grow something to benefit our county together.

Organic soil, a bag of worm castings (this from Costco or a bag from local business Wormies), a 5 gallon bucket of decomposed home compost, dairy doo from Flowerland, Espoma Organic Garden-Tone (organic fertilizer/plant food), are all great options to bring to this event.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

At this workshop you will go home with 2 beeswax wraps that you make during the event and a link to more information so you can make them on your own.

Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

Do you have garments that need repairing? We can help you! Do you know how to mend and are interested in a community time with our talented mending circle? Join us and help us help others! Mending helps us take eco-steps toward sustainability by minimizing clothing waste, as well as unnecessary spending on new garments . Plus, it’s fun to learn and do!

Every second Saturday of the month from 10am-2pm. Open studio and Knitting and Needle Art Club happening at the same time, so feel free to bring your kids to participate in open studio while you participate in our needle-fest!

Feel free to bring food and drink to enjoy while we relax and mend. An assortment of tools and notions will be available for use including speedweve looms, sashiko thread, cotton darning thread, all purpose sewing thread, a variety of needles, darning mushrooms, embroidery hoops, pins, clips, and more. Feel free to bring your own sewing kit if you’d like.

Donations are appreciated to replenish our notions and for sharing our skill and time.

Come with your mends! Supplies and tools will be available for use while you learn techniques from each other in order to extend the life of your favorite items! Mending “experts” will be available to assist with repairs and advice so that you can make mending a practice in your life so that your favorite pieces don’t become landfill waste too soon!

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

At this workshop you will go home with 2 beeswax wraps that you make during the event and a link to more information so you can make them on your own.

Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

At this workshop you will go home with 2 beeswax wraps that you make during the event and a link to more information so you can make them on your own.

Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

At this workshop you will go home with 2 beeswax wraps that you make during the event and a link to more information so you can make them on your own.

Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

Mending worn clothing is becoming a lost art. Fast fashion and the ever changing fashion trends are becoming more acceptable than keeping an item for years and fixing it when it needs to be fixed. Our world is drowning in unwanted clothing. In order to avoid this unnecessary demise, it is important that we embrace what we have and learn to mend it up ourselves (or find a knowledgeable sewist that can do it for you).

This workshop is FREE to GVSU students.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

Purchase kits (including link to event) for $30 each available on our website. Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

Purchase tickets for $25 each, available on our website and eventbrite. Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.

This workshop will be held at the brand new Petrichor Market in Grand Rapids. The Petrichor Market is an earth conscious shop with an amazing refillery station! They also have vintage clothing, apothecary, books, plants, gifts and more with an artist market in the back of shop to find more local, handmade gifts.

Originating back to Asia thousands of years ago, kombucha is now a trendy drink consumed by many for its supposed health benefits. This tangy fermented drink is brewed commercially by many companies and safely homebrewed by many, too.

During this workshop, you'll learn some history of kombucha, how to homebrew your own kombucha, rules and tips, and go home with some starter liquid and your very own SCOBY. Bring a friend to sip some kombucha while learning how to brew your own!

This workshop will be facilitated by Christina Threloff, owner and sewist behind My Lovely Muse. She has been brewing her own kombucha at home for 10 years.

***Please bring a mason jar (canning/ball jar) to take your SCOBY home. At least a quart size, though a half gallon is best. I will have some extra, if you don't have a glass jar available at home***

This workshop will be held IN PERSON at the brand new Petrichor Market in Grand Rapids. The Petrichor Market is an earth conscious shop with an amazing refillery station! They also have vintage clothing, apothecary, books, plants, gifts and more with an artist market in the back of shop to find more local, handmade gifts.

*Masks are required to wear during in person events.* Classes will be capped at 25 people.

Are you intrigued by the zero waste movement, but aren't sure how to get started? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amounts of plastic found in your kitchen, but don't know what to use in its place? In this virtual workshop, Christina will facilitate an informational discussion of materials then together, we'll make our own lovely, reusable, and eco-conscious beeswax wraps! When you leave this workshop, you'll have the power (and skill) to be able to eliminate plastic wrap from your kitchen forever as well as your very own beeswax wraps to use at home!

Purchase kits (including link to event) for $30 each available on our website. Additional beeswax solution bars ($10 each) are also available. Each bar makes approximately 3-12"x12" square wraps.