Your Lunch Break Called. It Wants to Make Stuff.

I used to eat lunch at my desk, usually over my computer. If I’m being honest, I still do several days a week.

After about twenty years of desk lunches, I finally tried something different. In 2019, I started taking my staff to an art studio on our lunch breaks. We made ceramics and fused glass, tried block printing and screen printing, and gave ourselves permission to experiment without needing to be good at any of it.

We were making things, but we were also getting out of our heads. For a little while, we could leave the stress of the day behind and remember what it felt like to do something just for the joy of it. And that little taste of joy, smack dab in the middle of the workday, made all the difference for our time together as a team, and as people. It gave us an anchor to look forward to, without adding in the complications of scheduling something after work.

That’s what I had in mind with our new Bite Size Workshops.

They're lunchtime mini-classes and projects you can create while you eat lunch, in the middle of the day. 

Our Bite Size lunch time workshops start Oct. 28 with a Worry Stones Workshop. Four little stones, made by you, in an hour or less. You can pick out textures, press your thumb into the clay, and make something for your pocket or for someone you love. Then go back to your day. Maybe with a little clay on your sleeve.

I think we sometimes make creativity too big a thing. We wait until we have a free weekend, a clean kitchen table, or some clear idea of what we want to make. Personally, I would be waiting a very long time for all three.

You’re allowed to come in on a regular day that ends in Y and make a small, weird thing just because you want to. It doesn’t have to become a hobby. You don’t have to be good at it. And you definitely don’t need to earn an hour away from your email.

Please eat lunch, too. Bring a sandwich. I’m not trying to get between you and a sandwich.

I just want there to be room in the middle of a busy day for something you actually wanted to do.

Come make a little something with us.