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Pyrogravure – decorating wooden bookmarks

Do you love wood and want to discover pyrography? Would you like to learn how to personalize all your wooden objects?

In this 3-hour workshop, Isabelle will introduce you to the decorative art of wood pyrography, creating personalized wooden bookmarks to accompany your reading!

We’ll cover the basics: the equipment needed; tracing and transferring a sketch; pyrography methods; and the types of tips to use. We’ll then explore universal, tracing and shading tips, followed by basic techniques for filling, texturing and relief. We’ll also learn how to add a touch of color to our projects, using watercolors!

Each participant will be able to decorate two wooden bookmarks, giving free rein to their creativity and choosing from a variety of motifs, colors and decorations, for unique results!

Skills required: none, not even reading.

Price includes all materials, plus lots of tips and laughs!

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Cooking techniques: Making a risotto and tiramisu

Have you always dreamed of cooking classic Italian dishes? Would you like to turn your kitchen into a tratorria and make a romantic dinner for your girlfriend or boyfriend?

In this 3-hour workshop, we’ll discover two classic Italian dishes. Using simple kitchen utensils, we’ll learn how to prepare a vegetarian risotto and a tiramisu, two recipes that require both technique and sensitivity.

With Clément, we’ll look at cooking techniques and learn how to strike the right balance between flavors for a successful risotto. We’ll then look at the key factors in choosing the right ingredients for a perfectly textured tiramisu.

Everyone will leave with a gourmet two-course meal, 100% homemade!

Skills required: none! This workshop is open to anyone who loves good food.

The price includes all necessary materials and kitchen equipment.

Note: remember to bring your own containers so you can take home the products you’ve made.

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Making a linen jacket

In this 3.5h workshop, we’ll learn the fundamentals of sewing by making a comfortable jacket in a linen and rayon blend fabric for freshness and lightness. It’s perfect for everyday wear, as well as for the beach and urban parties.

You’ll discover techniques such as :

  • – Threading and adjusting the sewing machine
  • – Recognizing the different parts of a top
  • – Ironing
  • – Pinning and sewing straight
  • – Sewing armholes
  • – Making a neckline
  • – Sew a sleeve hem
  • – Creating a matching belt

Skills required: none, the workshop is accessible to beginners and experts alike.

Some fabric colors will be available.

When you register, you’ll be able to select your size.

The price includes all materials and lots of good advice!

NB: Workshop time is indicative, and may take longer for some participants. We therefore recommend that you don’t schedule an appointment right afterwards!

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Soap making level 2 – (re)discovering ancestral soaps

You’ve already made cold-saponified soap, but don’t dare stray from your recipe? Would you like to take your skills to the next level by working on some of the must-have recipes of artisan soapmaking?

In this 3-hour workshop, we’ll (re)discover three great soapmaking classics that have stood the test of time for generations! We’ll be making two skin care recipes: Aleppo soap and Castile soap, followed by a recipe for a vegan all-purpose household soap, adapted from the famous ‘savon du pays’.

After an introduction to the ingredients and properties of these ancestral recipes, we’ll look at different techniques for incorporating natural active ingredients. These will bring even more virtues to our soaps, and allow us to personalize them! We’ll talk about medicinal plant macerates, exfoliating agents, softeners and stain removers.

Everyone will leave with 6 soaps (2 from each recipe), adapted to their needs and scented to their liking.

Skills required: previous experience of soapmaking or cold-saponified soapmaking.

Price includes all necessary materials and lots of useful tips!

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Create a wall-mounted storage ladder

Would you like to learn woodworking and make something useful? Are you short of space and want to store your clothes or towels in style?

In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn the basics of woodworking by making a solid wood wall-mounted storage ladder! The ladder is equally at home in a bathroom, bedroom or hallway.

This will be an opportunity to discover different machines and techniques, such as the use of different drills to make clean holes; the miter saw to make straight and angled cuts; and the trimmer or router to mold an edge. We’ll also work on glue-and-bead assemblies.

Dimensions (H x W x D): 60″ x 16″ x 2 to 3″.

Skills required: none, except a love of wood and tidy apartments!

Price includes all materials and lots of professional advice.

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Pastry – Making ice cream, sorbet and wafers

It’s sunny, it’s hot, and ice cream season is here! Would you like to make your own, and don’t want to have to choose which flavors to enjoy all summer long?

In this 3h30 workshop, we invite you into the frosty world of ice cream. Using an ice cream maker, we’ll learn about different freezing methods and temperatures, flavor variations and mixing techniques.

Using wooden spatulas and whisks, we’ll produce wafers and learn how to obtain creams with a smooth, creamy texture. Everyone will go home with two scoops of ice cream, two scoops of sorbet and two wafers.

Skills required: none! (This workshop is open to all sweet-toothed people.
The price includes all necessary materials, kitchen equipment, raw materials and lots of professional advice.

Note: remember to bring a small cooler or other container to keep your produce cold!

IMPORTANT: Closed-toe shoes are mandatory.
Please arrive 15 minutes early.

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Discover woodworking – Building a solid wood birdhouse

Birdsong brightens your day, and you’d like to give them a cozy nest to hear and observe them up close?

In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to build a birdhouse out of solid wood.
You’ll learn how to use the tools and techniques to cut straight and at an angle with a miter saw, as well as how to drill holes with a drill press. You’ll also discover how to nail quickly and efficiently with a pneumatic nailer.
To complete the assembly, we’ll cleanly install a piano hinge on the cabin roof. Perfect for keeping an eye on the comfort of your little feathered tenants!

At the end of the workshop, we’ll prepare our tree house for finishing at home, whether with oil, varnish or paint, following a sanding step.

Cabin dimensions: 16” long, 10 ¼” wide and 8” high. Its exterior dimensions can be modified if you want to make it smaller, and the layout of the interior compartment can be arranged to suit your taste.

Skills required: None. This workshop is open to anyone who wants to add a little life to their balcony or garden!

The price includes wood, tools, hardware and professional advice, but not the birds!

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Introduction to welding – Making your own wall-mounted bike rack.

Is your bike lying around in the middle of your living room? Would you like to store it neatly on a wall while learning how to weld?

In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to weld steel tubes to make your own wall-mounted bike rack that you can proudly mount in your own home.

You’ll develop your electrode welding skills in a fun and safe way, while learning all the basics.

Skills required: none. This workshop is open to anyone who’s curious, or just loves to spark things up!

The workshop includes all materials and tons of tips from a welding pro.

NB: Protective clothing is provided, but please dress in long clothes for the workshop and wear closed shoes.

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Introduction to sewing – Create your own fabric roll-up tool case

Your brushes, pencils, knitting needles and magic wands are always scattered all over the place, and you’d like to find them more easily by storing them in a pretty fabric tool case adapted to your needs?

In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to make a roll-up case from fabric scraps, and customize its width to fit your collection of small tools. You can bring them with you to make sure you get the compartments just right.

The overall size of the open case is approximately 25cm x 30cm.

Suitable for pencils, pens, brushes, knitting needles, leather stamps, hooks, etc…

It is not designed for heavy, sharp tools such as kitchen knives or chisels. 

Skills required: none, this workshop is open to all. We’ll cover the basics of the sewing machine. 

The price includes all necessary materials and expert advice from our seamstresses!

We’ve got everything you need, but if you’d like to use special fabrics, ribbons or buttons to decorate your case, you’re welcome to bring them along (with no change to the workshop price).

NB: Workshop time is indicative, and may take longer for some participants. We therefore recommend that you don’t schedule an appointment right afterwards!

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Learn how to crochet embroidery

Would you like to learn a new embroidery technique using a crochet hook? Would you like to personalize everyday objects with embroidery?

In this 3-hour workshop, Marielle will help you discover crochet embroidery and create decorative embroidery! Once you’ve mastered this technique, you’ll be able to personalize all kinds of projects: decorations on dishcloths; patches for your favorite bags; ornamentation on cushion covers…

After learning how to stretch a fabric on a hoop, we’ll create our design on the fabric. Then we’ll learn how to embroider with a crochet hook; how to connect the stitches of an outline shape and fill a shape; and how to finish.

Skills required: none, apart from a little patience and attention to detail.

Price includes all necessary materials, professional advice and unlimited creativity!

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