Available ONLY to customers who have purchased the Groupon Voucher.

Just in time for Spring, this Groupon special class gives you the opportunity to create a beautiful glass flower paperweight! You will learn how to gather and shape molten glass, apply the colours of your choice and create the unique flower shape with a variety of tools. We polish the final product and you get to keep it.

This class is a prerequisite for Part 2: Ornaments.

3 hour class
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: None

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Flo is pleased to offer a summer special on ‘Part 2: Ornaments’! This three hour class advances the skills learned in the extremely popular ‘Part 1: Paperweights’ prerequisite class. Here you learn how to use the blowpipe, create hollow forms and work as a unified team.

Previously $110+hst, 
NOW ONLY $69+hst!

This is a limited time offer, registration ends Tuesday June 25th, 2013.

3 hour class
$110.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: “Part 1: Paperweights”

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Customize and blow your very own hanging glass globe. Perfect for those who want to dip their toe into the world of molten glass. All ages welcome, bring a friend and come have a ‘ball’!

1 hour class
$35 for students 17 years and up
$25 for students 16 and younger
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: None

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Learn how to make a glass paperweight from start to finish and keep your final creation.

3 hour class
$110.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: None

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This is our most popular introductory glassblowing workshop allowing students a full day to get to know liquid glass and get comfortable playing in the heat. Emphasis will be on gathering, marvering, shaping and jacking. Each student creates and keeps their own paperweights and ornaments.

10:00 am – 4:00 pm
$175.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: None

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This course is offered to students who want to have the best first look into glassblowing. The course will overview safety in the studio. Emphasis will be on gathering, marvering, shaping and jacking. All students will design and create their own paperweights and ornaments, working in teams and developing the basics needed for all areas of glassblowing.

Both days 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
$325.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 4 students/class
Prerequisite: None

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Building off the skills and techniques learned in Part 1: Paperweights, learn how to make a glass ornament from start to finish and keep your final creation.

3 hour class
$110.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: “Part 1: Paperweights”

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Building from the foundation of Beginner’s Bubble, students in this course will follow the process of glassblowing to include more complex forms. Students will work with partners and learn to ‘punty up’ designing their own glass objects and executing them with the tools built over previous sessions.

2 days 10:00 am – 4:00 pm or 4 evenings 5:30-8:00 pm
Both courses are the same in length and course content. You choose if you’d like a full weekend intensive or a 4-part evening course.
$325.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 4 students/class
Prerequisite: “Beginner’s Bubble” or “Play with Fire” or “Part 2: Ornaments”

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Special focus evening classes.

5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
$75.00+HST (includes materials)
Max 4 students/class
Prerequisite: “Bubble and Beyond”

Topics covered include:

Colour Overlays - glass colour encasing
Focal Forms - bowl and heart shaped vases
Wraps and Threading - trailing colour onto forms
Bit Work - handles, stems and blown glass bits
Pulling Cane - stretching long colour tubes
Cane Pickups - incorporating pulled cane onto blown forms
Meet the Feet! - creating solid and blown feet for goblets or snifters

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Flameworking is a small scale version of glassblowing. Students are seated at a bench with a small torch flame that’s used for melting rods of different coloured glass. The work is intricate and detailed – perfect for creating glass jewelry or small sculptural items.

Learn the fundamentals of beadmaking with Melody in a 1 on 1 session or take the class with a friend. Students will acquire the foundations needed to work independently on their own creations, and the marbles and glass beads are yours to keep!

Topics covered include:

• overview of safety, tools and equipment
• how to make a basic bead
• shaping beads
• decorating with dots
• creating stringers and twisties
• decorating with stringer and feathering
• decorating with gold/silver leaf
• making marbles
• encasing beads

Instructor: Melody Jewitt
No experience necessary
Cost: $180 + HST for private 1 on 1 booking. $95 + HST each for a 2-person class

Contact Melody to book a class!

Contact us to book a private class for you or a group. We will tailor the class to fit your specific needs and schedule!

Private group classes cost the same as the public classes of the same type and cover the same material. They will take more or less time than advertised depending on the number of people in the group.

Private one-on-one classes cost $50/hour and can cover everything from perfecting fundamental techniques to creating custom pieces with the help of an instructor. Typically private classes take 1-3 hours depending on what you are making.