Day with Suze Weinberg at CraftRange

Caz, Jo & Jayne with wax collage panels

  

What a magic day I had yesterday at CraftRange in Burnley! On Monday, (thanks to my lovely kind, helpful, friend Jayne, making a call to the shop) I was so lucky to get a place on Suze Weinberg's meltpot workshop. I sneaked in to surprise my good friend Caz who didn't know I'd be there.

 We were welcomed at this fab craft store with tea and fresh toast and all day the staff were so attentive, friendly and helpful. Congratulations to Debbie and Janet and her team for such a wonderful level of customer service.

Besides being a superb crafting opportunity we had the pick of their cafe menu for lunch and and the pick of any of their amazing homemade cakes for afterwards. We were so stuffed after the lovely main course that we saved the cakes for afternoon tea! All day long we were joking with a male member of staff about his ardent service getting us clean cups and helping generally that we were calling him "chef" and pulling his leg, only to discover at the end of the day that it was "El Primo", the Boss, the OWNER of the 

store, Michael Toms!!! 

My Wax Collage

Below are the collage successes  by Lynne, Paula, Jayne and Caz

In the morning session we explored wax collage, which was great fun. Despite desperately needing a snooze, on a red velvet chaise longue, to recover from our amazing lunch we revved up again and did lots of UTEE techniques.Whilst I've used a meltpot many times, I gleaned so many tips, hints and ideas from Suze and we all produced so many items from all the techniques we covered. Suze was so giving of herself and of her ideas. Such fun and such a warm person. With it being a small class in numbers, it was good to share the opportunity and enjoy a full day in her company. 

Check out Suze's blog where she has posted her great photos of the day and I feel so proud to be a part of it.