Wednesday Open Art Journaling
2025-11-26 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-10 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-17 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-24 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-31 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-07 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-14 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) and 3 more dates
If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals! If you have some supplies you’d like to bring for a swap, that would be wonderful but not required.

My Favorite Things – An Altered Book Class
2025-11-29 11:30 - 13:30
Each page invites participants to highlight one favorite thing in their life—people, places, hobbies, small joys, or an experience.
Start with a children’s board book I have prepared for you, and use paint, themed papers, pages, and ephemera to fill with your creativity. Each page can be a place to highlight one favorite thing in your life—people, places, hobbies, small joys, or an experiences. Add extras like small fabric swatches. or interactive elements like tags or pockets for extra journaling. All materials are supplied, but you are welcome to bring things you would like to include. No experience in art, or art journaling is needed.

Holding Memories: A Heart Journaling Workshop for the Holiday Season
2025-11-30 14:00 - 16:00 | C² Counseling LLC, 701 Ward Avenue Northeast, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States
The holidays can stir both joy and sorrow, especially when someone dear is missing. In this gentle workshop, we’ll create a handmade journal using a mix of beautiful papers, envelopes, and pockets—each one a space to hold memories, letters, or small keepsakes.
As we work, you’ll be guided through quiet reflections and creative techniques that invite both remembrance and renewal. The process offers a calming way to honor your loved one while also giving yourself permission to move through the holidays.
No art experience is needed—just a willingness to explore, remember, and create something personal and meaningful.
Please note that this workshop will be held at the beautiful, historic home that is now
C² Counseling LLC
701 Ward Avenue Northeast
Huntsville, AL 35801

Colored Pencils
2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:30
Not your kids coloring pencils
Well maybe they are. But we are going to elevate the humble colored pencil to a new level of creativity! Learn the basics about colored pencils, the differences between the types, best papers to use, and some techniques for blending and shading that will surprise and delight you! You’ll get to choose your winter bird picture from several options.
This is a two week class (1.5 hours each class). All supplies are provided.

December Creative Latte & Learn:
2025-12-12 14:00 - 15:00
Using super easy methods we’ll make unique designs of washi tape. Perfect for your art journals, cards, or any other mixed media projects.
Your class includes something to sip from Good Company Cafe.
You can choose from the following: (I’ll be in touch the week of the class to get your order)

Cold brew
Ice Tea (Sweet or unsweet)
Mocha Latte
Honey Latte
Bottled water

Vintage Christmas Altered Book
2025-12-13 12:00 - 14:00
Start with a board book (provided for you), and learn creative ways of adding layers to the pages to create a unique Art Journal, which you can keep adding to at home. Use vintage style ephemera, paint, book pages and much more to make a book that is full of character. No experience is needed and all supplies will be ready for you. This is really a fun project that is perfect for anyone 12 and up.

Somerset Challenge
2025-12-20 11:30 - 13:00
We’ll take one of the projects included in a Somerset Studio magazine and do it from start to finish – together! A week before each class I’ll send out 3 choices in my weekly letter. You get to vote on which project we do, and I’ll have all of the materials ready for us in the next scheduled class. If you are not already on the email list, click here to join.

December Open Art Journaling
2025-12-20 13:30 - 15:30
The newly EXPANDED Monthly Saturday Open Art Journaling happens one Saturday every month for two hours! If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits and single art journals here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals! If you have some supplies you’d like to bring for a swap, that would be wonderful but not required.
Did you know, you can purchase a pack of 10 Open Art Journaling sessions for $120? That’s like getting 2 free! You can use them anytime, and I’ll keep track with a punch card in the studio.

A Simple Abundance Art Journal
2025-12-27 13:30 - 15:30
A classic since 1990s, this book is made up of daily essays that will resonate with a busy woman who is dealing with home, family, work…
This is a two-hour class that will introduce the book to you (if you have not already read it) and how you can use an Art Journal to enhance your reading. More than that, this book and art journal together are a wonderfully positive activity that can lead to a daily practice of creativity. And we know that creativity is so good for us!
The book begins on January 1st, with this title, “A Transformative Year of Delight and Discovery” and here is an excerpt” ” New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery.”
The art journal is where you can respond to the reading using collage and incorporating writing. It’s very rewarding!
You can purchase a ticket that includes the book, or if you already have one you can bring that, and purchase the ticket without the book.
What you get:

Hardback edition of Simple Abundance*
Premium art journal
Art Journal Primer
Creativity Bundle
Code to attend one free Open Art Journaling Session in 2026

* If you buy the ticket without the book, you’ll receive everything else listed

Creative Embroidery 101
2026-01-13 11:00 - 13:00
This is a two-part class, Tuesday, January 13 & 20 from 11am-1pm. You’ll learn all about the materials, how to do several stitches, and how to start a project.

This is the perfect class for you if you’ve been wanting to get started in embroidery. Guest teacher, Dezzy Moon, will teach you the very basics and get your started with several stitches, working with the tools, and then how to plan a project. This is fun and no stress! Bring a friend or make new ones in the studio! All materials are supplied.
About Dezzy Moon:
Dezzy Moon is an artist based in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020. In printmaking, she works primarily with screen print and woodblock. She is also dabbles in many crafts, especially textiles. Her biggest loves are music (particularly rock from the 1960s-80s), pop culture, travel, roller skating, and all things vintage.

Vision Board Mixed Media
2026-01-16 11:00 - 13:00
What’s your word for the New Year? We’ll make a creative mixed media board celebrating your word of the year.

The shiny new year awaits! Let’s set the tone for it by making an Accordion Vision Board. We’ll pick one main word or phrase that inspires and encourages each of us, and gather colors, images and quotes that reflect our own mission and goals. These can be personal or business goals, it’s totally up to you. We’ll collage them onto canvas board. You are welcome to bring whatever you want to include in addition to the studio supplies.

Creative Embroidery One and Done
2026-01-17 11:00 - 13:00
This is a two hour class, teaching you some simple yet powerful stitches!

Several people were interested in this class but could not make the first session, so we are going to offer the first session as a one-and-done class on Saturday, Jan 17. You will learn how to create simple stitches in this class. If you are interested in the 2nd session which is Tuesday, Jan 20 11-1, you can buy a ticket for both session, but you don’t have to. All materials are supplied.

About Dezzy Moon:
Dezzy Moon is an artist based in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020. In printmaking, she works primarily with screen print and woodblock. She is also dabbles in many crafts, especially textiles. Her biggest loves are music (particularly rock from the 1960s-80s), pop culture, travel, roller skating, and all things vintage.

January Open Art Journaling
2026-01-17 13:30 - 15:30
The newly EXPANDED Monthly Saturday Open Art Journaling happens one Saturday every month for two hours! If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits and single art journals here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals!

Color Mixing
2026-01-21 13:00 - 14:30
This is a 1.5 hour class on mixing colors in paints, where we look at how colors work together, and why saturation, temperature, and transparency are so important. We’ll work with acrylics but you can apply what you learn to oils and watercolor as well. If you’ve ever tried to mix a color and ended with something you didn’t intend, this is for you. Imagine all the paint when you don’t have to guess!

Word Candy: Poetry
2026-01-22 13:00 - 15:00
Making poems yours
2 sessions, January 22&29 @1-3pm
Learn how to make poems from poems. For each session, we’ll focus on two poems, taking each apart to see how they work. Then we’ll build a recipe for writing our own poems based on the ingredients we discover. This low-pressure intro to writing poetry allows you to discover by doing, learning about the elements of poetry from the inside-out. Have fun, build knowledge, and explore new forms of self-expression. Each session will have plenty of time to write and share during our time together.

LINE, STANZA, IMAGERY: We’ll examine the building blocks of poetry in our first lesson, line and stanza, along with imagery and the ways we use language and figures of speech to establish a mood Poems: William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say”; Mary Oliver, “Sleeping in the Forest.” (1/22)
METAPHOR AND MUSIC: This lesson goes to the next level as we dip into the mood and magic of poetry: in particular, the layers of meaning we find in metaphor and the added dimension of rhythm and rhyme. Poems: Emily Dickinson, “Hope Is a Thing with Feathers”; Seamus Heaney, “Blackberry-Picking” (1/29)

SUSAN DAVIS has taught writing and literature to students of all ages for over three decades. A recent convert to art journaling, she is currently working on her first chapbook of poems.
You can find more about her work at susan-lucille-davis.weebly.com/ .

Stronger Composition in Art
2026-01-28 13:00 - 14:30
In this 1.5 hour class we’ll look at how to design paintings (or art journal pages) that have strong composition, as well as how to fix common issues. You are welcome to bring in a piece you have been struggling with, and get guidance, but you don’t have to bring anything.

Watercolor 101
2026-01-31 11:00 - 13:00
This is a two-hour introductory class for Watercolor. Get to know the characteristics of this type of paint, how to get started, and of course we’ll have plenty of painting time. No experience is needed, and all materials are supplied.

The Art of Stillness: A Heart Journaling Workshop
2026-02-01 14:00 - 16:00 | C² Counseling LLC, 701 Ward Avenue Northeast, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States
In this 2 hour workshop, we slow down, pause, and let ideas take shape, by observing the world through the lens of an artist.

Slow down, pause, and let your ideas take shape.
In this class, we’ll experience the world through an artist’s lens. Using intentional observation techniques, we’ll create a personal creative vocabulary, and then use it to make a multi-layered piece of art.
This class is a chance to enjoy a slower rhythm of making while giving yourself time to appreciate beauty in subtle details.
No art experience is needed, and all materials are supplied.

Please note that this workshop will be held at the beautiful, historic home that is now
C² Counseling LLC
701 Ward Avenue Northeast
Huntsville, AL 35801

Creative Embroidery 201
2026-02-03 11:00 - 13:00
This is a his two-part class, Tuesday, February 3 & 10 from 11am-1pm. You’ll learn all about the materials, how to do several stitches, and how to start a project.

This is the perfect class for you if you’ve been wanting to get started in embroidery. Guest teacher, Dezzy Moon, will teach you the very basics and get your started with several stitches, working with the tools, and then how to plan a project. This is fun and no stress! Bring a friend or make new ones in the studio! All materials are supplied.
About Dezzy Moon:
Dezzy Moon is an artist based in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020. In printmaking, she works primarily with screen print and woodblock. She is also dabbles in many crafts, especially textiles. Her biggest loves are music (particularly rock from the 1960s-80s), pop culture, travel, roller skating, and all things vintage.

Art Journaling 101
2026-02-07 13:30 - 15:30
If you have been wanting to try Art Journaling, this is for you.
What is Art Journaling? It’s the same idea as a written journal or diary, but instead of writing everything, we use paint, pieces of colored paper, scraps from book pages, tissue paper…and the list goes on. You can write in your art journal…or not. It can have a theme…or not.
In this complete introduction to Art Journaling, you’ll learn some great techniques and have plenty of time to work in your journal. This is a 2-hour class.
Includes a mixed media, lay-flat journal, art supplies to use in the class and a “to-go” bag to fill with creative goodies you can take home. You don’t need any experience with art journaling! Be sure to stop and get a treat from Good Company Café just across the way from the new studio. This is going to be awesome!
