Events + Workshops
DAHLIAS AND DREAMS
- A CREATIVE STUDIO -
MAY 2025
Who loves to make things with their hands, heart, and soul?
Let’s enjoy the beauty of flowers, gardens & spaces together!
Dream Garden Workshop
May 7, 2025
$35/40
6:30- 8:30pm
Conklin Barn
Huntington, NY
Get your Dream Garden ready!
Grab your favorite inspirational magazines and Pinterest boards- let's have some fun preparing your garden for Spring/summer 2025!
Join Dahlias and Dreams & The Huntington Historical Society for a 90-minute workshop on planning (and planting) your dream garden. Whether you have sun or shade or are a beginner or intermediate gardener, these easy-to-implement 6 tips will go the distance with you, year after year!
The workshop will include a 45-minute presentation + 45 minutes of inspirational vision boarding for your dream garden! Come create, connect, and leave with a little more beauty and intention in your day! All supplies are included— but please bring your own magazines + Pinterest images for your board!
ASSESS: Home landscape (sun/shade)
PREP: soil health/ soil amendments
PLAN: plant selection (perennial & annuals)
PLANT: transplanting and planting timelines
CARE: fertilization & water
ENJOY: VISION BOARD
Includes a special 20% friends & family savings for future garden design + wholesale shopping for perennials + annuals.
Hammered Flower Note Cards
Date: TBD
Cost: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Huntington, NY
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
Mindful Mandalas for Moms and Kids
Date TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Huntington, NY
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
Limited to 24 attendees (kids + moms)
