Events + Workshops


DAHLIAS AND DREAMS
- A CREATIVE STUDIO -

PARTNERSHIPS

Making things I love with my hands, heart, and soul.

Join me, let’s make some cool stuff and enjoy the beauty of flowers, gardens & holistic well-being together!

UPCOMING DATES!

the art of flowers & gardens
creating beauty for your heart and home

Workshop: Hammered Flower Note Cards (Botanical Arts)
(Huntington Art Week)
Date: will be rescheduled for March 2025
Time: TBD
Cost: $10+ $1 online fee

Create your own botanical arts note cards (5) with fresh flowers, using their natural pigments that seamlessly transfer to cardstock with ease and longevity.

Through this hands-on activity, we’ll explore patterns, creativity, and the beauty of nature while crafting unique notecards to take home.

You’ll create your own botanical collage (artist choice!) using vibrant colored fresh & dried flowers, a small hammer and a transparent plastic overlay sheet (I went to school in the 80/90s IYKYK!)

This workshop is designed to be a relaxing experience for adults. Come create, connect, and leave with a little more beauty and intention in your day!
All materials will be provided: Flower symbolism charts, fresh & dried flowers, acid-free card stock, plastic sheets and small hammers and light fixative spray


Location:
Suite Pieces
1038 New York Ave.
Huntington Station, NY 11746

Attendees are limited to 12


Apologies. This workshop will be rescheduled for a future date in March 2025

Workshop: Mindful Mandalas for Kids & Moms (Botanical Arts)
(Huntington Art Week)
Date: will be rescheduled for March 2025
Time: TBD
Cost: $10 + $1 online fee

Join us for a creative and mindful workshop where children will design their own Nature-made Mandala using dried flowers, leaves, and other natural elements. Through this hands-on activity, kids will explore patterns, creativity, and the beauty of nature while crafting a unique mandala to take home.

While the little artists create, moms can enjoy a moment of peaceful reflection with Mini Intention Setting with Mandalas. You can relax with a mandala square and colored pencils– where you’ll set a personal intention for the season, and embrace a moment of calm and creativity. Ahhhh.

This workshop is designed to be a fun and enriching experience for children (ages 6-12) and a soothing, mindful break for moms. Come create, connect, and leave with a little more beauty and intention in your day!

All materials will be provided:
Mandala templates, Mandala cardstock 8x8, flower symbolism charts, dried flowers, natural materials, glue sticks, modge podge, qtips, acid-free card stock, and light spray fixative

Location:
TBD–

Limited to 24 attendees (kids + moms)

Apologies. This workshop will be rescheduled for a future date in March 2025

Workshop: Dream Garden Vision Board
(Huntington Art Week)
Date: will be rescheduled for March 2025
Time: TBD
Cost: $10+ $1 online fee

Manifest your dream garden in time for spring or summer!

Using vibrant visuals and captivating colors and inspiring words, we’ll mindfully design your dream garden! Whether a big landscape of shrubs, trees or flowering perennials, small cutting gardens of dahlias and cosmos, or an abundant vegetable garden–  sow your dream out to the universe and watch it flow (and grow) with ease.

This workshop is designed to be an inspiring experience for adults. Come create, connect, and leave with a little more beauty and intention in your day!

Materials provided: Gluesticks, boards, markers and scissors

Attendees: please bring your favorite magazines, stickers, photos or anything else you’d like to place on your vision board!

Location:
Fresh Design Group
140 East Main Street 
Suite 9
Huntington 11743

Limited to 10 attendees


Apologies. This workshop will be rescheduled for a future date in March 2025


Workshop: Floral Intention Jars
(Huntington Art Week)
Date: will be rescheduled for March 2025
Time: TBD
Cost: $10 + $1 online fee

Manifest your dreams using the power of the Aquarius season and the spark of the Lunar New Year and highlight your heart’s desires.

Mindfully choose some themes in your life to focus on, write your intentions down on 5 pieces of paper, and pair them with dried flowers and reiki-charged crystals to supercharge your intentions or dreams. Place them in the jar, tie them up with a bow and let the magic unfold for the next few months.

No dream is too big to write down and cast out to the universe!

This workshop is designed to be an inspiring experience for adults. Come create, connect, and leave with a little more beauty and intention in your day, and maybe also leave with a piece of inspirational jewelry!

All materials will be provided. Flower symbolism charts, dried flowers, reiki-charged crystals, paper, markers, mason jars and ribbon

Limited to 12 attendees

Location:
Elyse Boutique
745 Pulaski Rd
Greenlawn, NY 11740

Elyse is a whimsical accessory store specializing in unique jewelry, handbags, hats, perfumes, lotions and potions. It's like stepping into an Old Hollywood dream closet filled with eye candy galore. Elyse curates every piece from vendors around the globe and carries limited quantities so that each person creates their own individual sparkle. No outfit is complete without the perfect scent to go with your mood. Enter the Apothecary, a cozy room sure to ignite your inner goddess.

Elyse is open M-F (11AM-6PM), Saturday (11AM-2PM), by appointment only on Sundays 718.915.5543
IG @elyse.boutique

Apologies. This workshop will be rescheduled for a future date in March 2025

Let’s create your floral dreams together!

Text me or call me. I love a good phone chat!
646-757-0740

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