Learn How to Make Leaves for the Garden
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10 a.m.–Noon.
Class Fee and Supply Fee: $60 (includes supplies)
Instructor: Susan Harp
Minimum students: 5, Maximum 12

Unleash your inner child learning to make popular and unique cement leaves and create some lovely garden art in the process. Susan will teach you different ways of molding and shaping your leaves, mixing the cement to the right consistency and other techniques for success. These leaves can be used for whimsical display, as bird baths in your garden...or even as part of a fountain design. This fun, messy and creative class will require about 2 hours and you'll get to go home with two or three different sized and shaped leaves to display and enjoy in your garden and proudly show off to family and friends. Towards the end of the class, Susan will demonstrate how to paint the leaves and the type of paint she would recommend.

Susan Harp has been a gardening enthusiast for many years and studied horticulture at Lake Washington Technical College.  She offers garden design and coaching through her company  "HarpScapes" and has lately begun adding another fun and creative angle to gardening:  'Cement Leaf Art.'  After taking a class in cement leaf art, she was hooked, and has continued to make and offer her unique, natural looking leaves for sale at small boutiques and Bassettis, as well as offering classes in Cement Leaf Art.

When not gardening or making her cement leaves, she can usually be found walking the dog or driving carpool for her three busy kids."

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