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One off activity weekend breaks Crieff and Perthshire

Photography Workshop

flexible dates - and new dates below
A weekend residential break, with bed and breakfast and tuition

Struggling to achieve the picture that you want? Jo's photography classes aim to help you feel comfortable and more confident with your camera. Covering essential basics, help with composition and the technicalities of photography to build your knowledge helping you make better pictures. All levels are welcome.
Contact Jo to book a place on the course on 07931 357977 and the accommodation here.
E-mail: Photography Workshop enquiry


Paperweight Masterclass: Flexible dates

Work through the creative processes and make your own glass paperweights with local craftsman, John Deacon. Book your place on the course with him on 01764 652079; and B&B with us.


2010

Two Bags in Two Days

*** Course Fully Booked ***

Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th March

Create two distinctively different bags using a variety of patchwork, appliqué and machine embroidery techniques

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Easy 2D Garden Mosaics

*** Course Fully Booked ***

Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st March 2010

This weekend introduces you to two possible methods of making mosaics for your garden walls and fences, so planning for summer but in the comfort of a local studio. Vouchers available should you wish to give a place on this course as a gift.

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Outdoor Mosaics

Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd May 2010

*** Course Fully Booked ***

Weekend break bed and breakfast and Mosaic course

A mosaic workshop focusing specifically on frost resistant outdoor mosaics, in anticipation of a glorious summer in the garden. This craft course uses such diverse materials as slate, plant pots and concrete along with stones, porcelain and glass to create stepping stones, bird baths or wall slates.

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Outdoor Mosaics

Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May 2010
Weekend break bed and breakfast and Mosaic course

A mosaic workshop focusing specifically on frost resistant outdoor mosaics, in anticipation of a glorious summer in the garden. This craft course uses such diverse materials as slate, plant pots and concrete along with stones, porcelain and glass to create stepping stones, bird baths or wall slates.

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Outdoor Mosaics - How to Mosaic your Garden - 5 day residential course
Monday to Friday 3rd – 7th May 2010

During this course, you will learn more about the methods used to apply mosaic to a wider range of garden surfaces, such as walls and paths, tables and pots, and have the opportunity to tackle more ambitious projects.

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Flowers, Forests & Foraging For Free Food - with Patrick Harding
Friday 21st – Monday 24th May 2010

This course will help people to identify Britain’s native trees and some of the local wild flowers but, far from being just about names, it will concentrate on the uses of the plants found – wood products, medicinal herbs and wild plants that can provide us with both food and drink. This class will run simultaneously with Drawing and Painting Flowers with Jean Binney

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Drawing and Painting Flowers with Jean Binney
Friday 21st – Monday 24th May 2010

Here is a chance to enhance the pleasure of garden flowers through painting, on a residential course at Galvelmore House (and garden). Jean will guide you through drawing and painting techniques helping you create art work based on flowers from Katy and David’s large garden. Teaching sessions will take place either in the garden with its extensive flower beds (weather permitting), or in a designated teaching room in the house. This class will run simultaneously with Flowers, Forests & Foraging For Free Food with Patrick Harding.

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Mushroom Foraging Weekend
Friday 24th (evening), Saturday 25th, Sunday 26th and Monday 27th (morning) September 2010
And
Monday 27th (evening), Tuesday 28th September, Wednesday 29th September and Thursday 30 th September 2010

Residential break Mushroom Foraging in Scotland.

Search for fungi in the Crieff countryside, under bracken, in grass or on trees, at a beautiful time in autumnal Perthshire. Boletes, chanterelles, beefsteak fungus and Chicken of the woods can all be found in the area. Patrick Harding will teach you how to identify the mushrooms, and how to determine which ones are edible. David will provide a good fry-up with those picked.

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Words from the Woods
Monday 11th - Friday 15th October 2010

Be inspired by the autumnal woodlands that surround Crieff. Incorporating gentle walks to gain the inspiration, paper making, printing and book making to create your own journal of the week. The creative process of writing is also included, though not compulsory.

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Residential Weekend Mosaic Course
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th November

Learn the techniques of cutting and nipping tiles and other ceramic items to create several pieces of mosaic art. This art holiday will give you the basic skills to create wall panels and mirror frames in the class and give you the courage to extend your skills once at home. Vouchers available should you wish to give a place on this course as a gift.

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Activities on the doorstep in Crieff:

Golf Riding Cycling Fishing Walks Watersports Falconry Tennis4x4

Art Galleries Gardens History and Heritage Childrens activities

One off activity weekend breaks

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Tourism in Scotland

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Crieff - Perthshire - Scotland

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