Innovative Classes and Community Bonds

What if your passions could ignite a wave of creativity and community connections? This episode of Brewtifully Made explores the vibrant journey of opening our new storefront and the endless possibilities it brings. We share the exhilarating experience of meeting passionate souls and turning their interests into unique learning opportunities—from guitar and harp lessons to digital creativity and sports strategy. Get inspired by the stories of our dedicated teachers who juggle their full-time jobs while nurturing their love for teaching. Plus, get a sneak peek at some upcoming classes that will push the boundaries of creativity, like photography that turns into puzzles and painting with augmented reality.

Imagine a dining experience that transcends the ordinary, where each course is an adventure at a different brewery or restaurant within a plaza. We introduce an innovative progressive meal concept that ends with a delightful dessert and craft-making activity at our shop. This episode also explores a potential daytime beauty and shopping event, featuring local businesses like nail salons and cosmetic shops. Our goal is to foster a sense of community through creativity, food, and shared experiences. Tune in to hear our plans for bringing these innovative ideas to life and how you can be a part of this exciting journey.

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Chapters

• 0:04 Creative Classes and Community Engagement
• 11:10 Creative Food and Craft Experience

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Hi, welcome back to Brutally Made. This has been a great first week and a few days of the opening of my storefront and I am learning so much, getting to meet so many people in my community and really, oh my gosh, the classes, scheduling classes, creating classes, getting those samples created and put on my website as available. It's been phenomenal. So that's what I want to talk about today. So today's sketch though the prompt is from Elo Lovey on Instagram and it's instrument, and I thought that was kind of fitting because I would love to have a class with some lessons, like a six-week running course in something, maybe guitar. I had a lady that stopped by that has a harp and she was talking about you know playing the harp and I was like, oh, I wonder if she teaches that Every time somebody shares their passion. Do you share that? Do you know how to teach that? Do you want to teach that? And it's a great conversation starter, but it's a genuine question because I love learning. I will never stop learning and I love sharing new ideas. Just when people hear that there's a space that they could gather their friends and we can take a class, we could learn something new. You don't need to know how to do this. You don't need to be a professional and no, never, not at all. This is kind of like look at things on Pinterest and I want to know how to do that. Let me know, I'll create a class for it. I love their face, I love their expression, I love how they light up and it gets them excited about learning something creative. And that's the whole point. That's the whole. You know, objective of this space is that, at any age, anybody, I want them to enjoy being creative and finding that in anything that they do. And it really does help in all realms of what you have on like a day-to-day basis.

Speaker 1: 2:29

Creativity helps in business, it helps in manufacturing, it helps in research and development. It helps not just in someone with an artistic interest. Everybody needs to understand how creativity plays in a day-to-day life. You know, even if you are a parent and have young ones and you're like, oh, I see this creative, you know spark and I want to foster that, and they aren't, I guess, interested in something that you would consider a traditional craft and maybe it is something in a digital world, you know, there's, we have, I have classes, I can create classes for that. That's just as important as someone that is interested in painting, because it translates into so many different things, even in sports being creative.

Speaker 1: 3:22

How do you think those plays and stuff are developed? It's creativity. It's like what am I going to be able to do that somebody else isn't doing? That's going to be effective and that takes a creative mind, and so I just love the fact that everyone coming in has some sort of like light bulb that comes on when they see either a craft kit that I have available, a paint kit, a coloring book, a class lesson, a sample.

Speaker 1: 3:51

Even if it was a piece of clothes and it's something that I have my designs on. They're like how did you do that, you know? How did you create a pattern? How did you, you know, draw this? How did you get this on these clothes? How did you, you know, make this? And it's just a great conversation starter. I'm still getting the ones that think that I'm a brewery or a coffee house, and I love it because it's still just a way to just start a conversation and they laugh and then they walk around and then they're blown away and I just get so much joy from that. I mean that this is bringing me so much joy and this has been just so energizing and positive and I am blown away and I already have like five teachers on the schedule and my goal is to see if they would come on a call for an episode each month and talk about their passion, of why they're doing what they're doing Because some of them have other full-time jobs too and do something else but they're teaching a beautiful, creative lesson and I want them to talk about it.

Speaker 1: 5:05

We have a port acrylic artist and she has jewelry in the shop and she's going to have a class. That's a new one. I have a bonsai tree class and he is also a teacher. He's an an educator, but he has this amazing bonsai um business that's booming and I have sold out half of that class. Um, our hands-free or, I'm sorry, hand knit instructor with tools free and arm free knitting um, our classes are sold out until the last one in december and I have two spaces left and I haven't even looked. It could are sold out until the last one in December and I have two spaces left and I haven't even looked. It could be sold out because that's a fun class and everybody loves yarn arts.

Speaker 1: 5:47

Either it's weaving or crocheting or it's knitting, and so I would love to have Carrie on and have her talk about her passion. She's self-taught and now she's teaching that and it's a lot of fun, let's see. Oh, we gotta have Jude on. Jude is a photographer and so she has a two-fold class. It's two days in a row, one week back-to-back, but it gives you time to do some homework and then, when you're done with that class, you're going to be able to have that final picture that you're taking placed on a puzzle that you'll be able to share with your family and friends and talk about the class that you learned how to use your digital camera in, and so you know, I'd love to have Jude on to talk about that class. And then I've got painting classes and I have sculpture painting classes for a black cat treat bucket for the holidays I have. The painting class is an augmented reality little ghosty that you're going to paint, and then, when you're done, the little ghosty will fly off the canvas and then back on, and so something to share with your family and friends when you hang out. Just really kind of cute and fun. It's for all ages.

Speaker 1: 7:01

I'm getting ready to do, since the yarn classes are so big, we're going to have a knitting machine class and you're going to make a set of three pumpkins and so a variety of ways to make the stems out of found materials, and yeah, so that's going to be another way that you get to do your yarn arts. I have a punch needle class that you get to make a cute little coaster patch and then you're going to adhere that onto an accessory bag. So that's another class that you'll get to do. Stuff them like yarn art type of you know fun things with. Just there's so much more. I have a book class book from one of my favorite Halloween movies, and you'll be creating a box that will look like the favorite book in the movie that has an eye that looks forward to you. So that's real spooky, but yeah, so that's a class. Oh, my goodness, just so many things. With the holidays coming up, there's so many interactive and fun you know events that I want to hold and so I've got to get all of those on. And it's just, man, I'm just so excited. It's just got such great feedback. So many people have been in to talk to me about it so they can share it, and I appreciate every one of them for that I have to give a shout out to Amy.

Speaker 1: 8:32

Oh my gosh, amy Pleasant, from Seattle, is an amazing artist and she was in the Canton area at the Canton Museum of Art for her exhibit and, my gosh, the paintings were just phenomenal beautiful the colors, the textures, the stories, just everything. I was blown away. I loved it. And she was back in the area and she came in to say hi and I was just like fangirling. I was just like blown away that she took a moment to do that, to say hello, and I just loved having her in. I got to see her for a moment. She went away with a Canton t-shirt.

Speaker 1: 9:09

So thank you, amy, for that support and I am just thrilled to follow her journey. She's so inspiring. I mean, I just love seeing her work, it's just gorgeous and it was just an honor to have her in the studio and for her to take a moment of her time to say hello to me. So that meant the world to thank you, amy. I mean people are inspiring and I just feed off of that. I love learning, I love learning, I love sharing and I love supporting and so those are the main goals of this location and if you haven't heard, that genuinely come from me in any kind of you know, either video or report or anything. Please hear it from me right now, because that is the whole goal of this space and I still need a September artist. I still need someone to display an exhibit for September and I would love to have all their artwork on that wall. I'd love to have them on an episode to talk about what they do and if they would like to teach, that would be another way they could make their income for their creativity. Remember, if you sell anything from your exhibit and your gallery wall, it's 100% your proceeds. I mean I don't take any commission. I want to promote the artists in the area, in a surrounding area, and I want them to have eyes on their art and people to appreciate their work. And I just want to be a little spot for that. I mean, I'm not thousands of square feet, but I am here and I have people coming in and there's no reason in the world not to support and share Another creative thing I want to do so, if any of the plaza restaurants and businesses are listening, I want to do a progressive meal throughout the plaza.

Speaker 1: 11:10

I think we're going to be at either eight or nine breweries or restaurants within the plaza. So I would love to have a few like meal. I want to say, like plans put together, that they would be stops at different locations, so one place would be an appetizer, one place would be a salad, the next place would be an entree and next place would have a drink, and then you would end at my shop with the support of one of the other restaurants to provide dessert and that dessert would be served at my shop and you would take a moment to have that and create a craft. And so you would get to have this whole experience of this progressive meal and then end making something creative with a great dessert. And what's nice is that you know it's kind of a surprise. So when you go to these restaurants, what you get is something maybe you've never had before. So all I need to know is like a dietary restriction and I'd love for the restaurants to participate and maybe we could limit. I mean, I see 20 out in my public classes in the tables, so that would be the limit and I would just love to have that available. I think the public would love that.

Speaker 1: 12:28

You know the amphitheater is wrapping up here at the beginning of September. I think the last concert at least scheduled is the first week of September, the week of Labor. I think the last concert at least scheduled is the first week of September, the week of Labor Day, that Thursday, and it would be fun to do this on Thursday night. But yeah, so if you're a plaza restaurant, you're listening and you would want to participate in something like that, let me know. I'm trying to reach out to find out if they have like a monthly or I don't know, quarterly meeting that I could talk to everybody. And I'm trying to reach out to find out if they have a monthly or I don't know quarterly meeting that I could talk to everybody. And I'm going to try to make a flyer up. Oh yeah, in my spare time to do this.

Speaker 1: 13:04

But I want people to experience everything in the plaza. I would love to do it during the day, maybe like on a Saturday in the afternoon, so it could be like a shopping day because, like the bird's nest is there, it could be a beauty day. There's a nail place, libby has cosmetics, so there's a lot of fun things, even during a work day. I don't know during a weekday if that would work. I know that's when Libby is open, but I just think it would be fun to have like a beauty day and you get to have like a lunch, a brunch or I don't know what you would want to call it, and you get to go shopping and you get to get your nails done and maybe you would go get a scalp treatment and you know, and then you would have your meal and then you would end with a fun you know, like little fun craft at my shop. So again, I just want to involve everybody in the plaza, because everybody's doing such amazing things and everyone really loves that location.

Speaker 1: 13:58

And, again, just trying to think creatively and how you could incorporate as many people as possible. So that is really. You know, what this episode is about is just sharing and being passionate about your dreams and being creative in every aspect that you can. So I can't wait to talk to you next time and share what's been going on and hopefully have one of the artists on so you can learn a little bit about them. So instrument, so I hope you do it a little long. If not, it's okay. You can just have that in the back of your mind and when you're waiting, do something. Maybe you'll a little long. If not, it's okay, you can just have that in the back of your mind and, when you're waiting, do something. Maybe you'll just start drawing. So you were brutally made. Thank you for being with me and I will talk to you next time. Bye.