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Greetings from Camp Sew & Sew; A weekly creativity retreat for your busy life!
Learn to sew or maybe just hone your skills. Share, laugh and sew together! From complete and utter beginners to the more experienced or in between, all are welcome!
We will give you the skills you need to become a confident “sewist”. Learn to mend clothes, sew clothes or costumes for yourself or the kids, and make home accessories and much more! We also review the confusing the world of threads, notions, all those interfacings and even talk about how to clean your bobbin case!
Our group is growing each week! Join us for sewing in community! Tuesday mornings from 9:30 to Noon; just $85 for 8 fabulous weeks of fun and creativity. Rolling enrollment means you won’t have to catch up! You work on your own ideas in every class. Attendance does not need to be consecutive because we KNOW you are busy! To sign up: call or drop by Cotton Weeds Quilt Shop 865-4600 (across from Buck’s Naked BBQ on Rt. One) or for questions please call or text Susan Pennoyer 207-807-1815! See you at camp!
NEWSFLASH! Stay tuned for information on Summer Family Sewing Camp happening Tuesday mornings in July and August! Families that sew together grow together!  (05-10-11)

 

Center for Grieving Children Pet and People Walk: Come join in the fun on Saturday morning, June 11, 2011! We will meet in Payson Park at 9:00 AM and the walk will kick-off at 10:00 AM. After the Walk we will return to the Park for Music, Contests, Prizes, Face Painting, Paw Readings, A Story Walk, Crafts, Personal Trading Cards, Kite Flying, a Treasure Hunt and more! No pet necessary to walk!
Register online at www.cgcmaine.org. Form a team and encourage family and friends to join you! By raising money for The Center you are helping The Center to provide loving support to grieving children, teens, families and the community through peer support, outreach and education.
For more information please visit www.cgcmaine.org or call 775-5216. (05-10-11)

 

The Waldorf Shop has been re-launched with new, user-friendly updates and expanded categories. The Waldorf Shop is an affordable, updated, user-friendly venue to connect Waldorf-related vendors and service providers with Waldorf parents, teachers, supporters and caregivers worldwide. Gratitude! and May-Time Blessings, Shea and Andrew Darian, Your Waldorf Shop Sponsors

The Waldorf Shop

 

 

Kim John Payne, M.Ed., author of Simplicity Parenting and expert on childhood and adolescence, will be speaking at Delano Auditorium at Maine Maritime Academy on May 12th from 6-8 PM. The title of his talk will be Raising Socially Resilient Children, which we’re told will address bullying among other issues in the social lives of children. Sponsored by the Adams School of Castine, this event is free and open to the public.

 

Dear Friends of Immigrant Kitchens: Join me Friday, May 13, for a cooking lesson and dinner at the Freeport Community Center. We'll be making lamb meatball soup, ghee-scented rice, and stewed beef with sour golden plums and chestnuts. I cannot believe how easy it is to make the homemade noodles for the soup with Zemfira's family method. You don't need any mixers or fancy attachments! Just a bowl, flour, egg, water, a rolling pin and a knife. It's incredible!!! I can't wait to share. My kids' eyes were bugging out of their heads how cool this method is!
WHAT: Azerbaijani Family Meal
lamb meatball soup, beef with sour plums and chestnuts, golden rice
WHEN: May 13, 2011 Friday Evening 7-9pm
WHERE: Freeport Community Center
53 Depot St, Freeport, ME
(3 blocks from L.L.Bean)
COST: This is a project to raise money for the Freeport Food Pantry.
$35 suggested. All are welcome, pay what you can!
DETAILS: cooking starts at 7, dinner's at 8:30; it's BYOB
RESERVE YOUR SPOT: lindsay@lindsaysterling.com
NEXT CLASS: July 8, 2011, we'll make an awesome Ghanaian peanut soup with habaneros, ginger, peanut butter, chicken, basil...delicious!   Lindsay Sterling

 

Summer in the Parks Concert Series, July and August 2011, All concerts are free.

Click here to view their flyer: Summer in the Parks flyer. (05-03-11)

 

Functional Home Sewing for Beginner/Intermediate Sewers: Spaces open in upcoming sewing class in Falmouth. This class is geared toward adults with minimal/moderate sewing experience and an interest in becoming confident home sewers. Students will choose projects (from baby shoes to children's clothes to sewn home goods and clothing alterations) and will be guided through the process of using a pattern, creating a pattern from & recreating an existing piece, and gaining confidence with different types of seams, button holes & gathers along the way. Our meetings will be held in an intimate setting with plenty of space for creativity and guidance. Please bring yourself and your sewing machine. FMI please contact Jane at jmfrederick@gmail.com (04-26-11)

 

Class on Geology of Maine and North America: On Monday evenings in June, I'll be offering the following course in Geology through Freeport and Yarmouth Adult Education. Perhaps you might like to join the class or know of someone who might be interested.
GEOLOGY of MAINE and NORTH AMERICA
John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain will be our guide as we explore the world of physical and historical geology. Following our four-week class, we'll schedule a Saturday field trip for a first-hand look at our landscape.
Instructor: Bill Rixon
Dates: June 6-27
Days: Mondays
Time: 7:00 - 8:30p
Location: PORT Teen Center, Freeport Community Center
Fee: $35/$45 non-rsu5
Course #: 24-117 call Liz Burtt at 865-6171

Submitted by Bill Rixon (04-26-11)

 

2011 Brunswick's All Species Parade, May 13, 4:30 p.m. Celebrate community! Bring your costume or puppet to Brunswick's Green at 4:00 on May 13th. Everyone is invited to participate. The only rules are no live animals, no motorized vehicles and no banners or words. Free! For all ages! Music welcome! More info at www.allspeciesparade.org. (04-26-11)