Testimonials

Nici

I had been thining about doing the Woodwork For Women course for about 18 months. I finally signed up and started the course 5 months after the birth of my daughter. The course was a wonderful opportunity for me to learn a new skill, as well as taking on a new challenge.

I operate my own jewellery business and am a full time mum so it was great to know I had one day a week where I could concentrate on learning something that was for my pleasure and interest only.

As well as being interesting and giving me an avenue for meeting other like-minded women, I now have a new skill which enables me to make...well...anything I want! I am not limited by what I can find to buy. I can make things the way I want them to look.

Nici Bruckner

Janice

Thoughts on woodwork
Because I work in an environment where creativity is not encouraged and my life is so regimented, woodwork has become my creative outlet - a form of meditation for me in which I lose all sense of time and negatives become POSITIVES.

My work becomes an expression of my personal self. I can do all of the things I never believed I could do, but have always wanted to do. Every time I pick up my woodworking tools, I know I am going to learn something of myself as I take the next step in my latest project. I have learned through the support of this group of wonderful women, that I have an inner "me" who is special and creative and I am coming to like her very much!

I have learned that patience is definitely a virtue and that taking short cuts is not an option in achieving the result I want in my work and, by extension, in my life.

I look forward to every class with positive anticipation and the knowledge that I will learn something new and will be able to give something of myself in return.

Janice McDermott

Jane

What woodwork has been for me
As I was driving in to Byron to go to woodwork I remember thinking that I was glad to be going there. That I was doing something that I had always wanted to do.I had looked at woodworking classes before, and never gone, I don't know why. Then someone mentioned for me that there was a class for women. For some reason that appealed to me. And I know why now.

The support and encouragement that Patt and Maggie give to students is exactly what I need. I am learning something I feel proud of.

I also thought on my drive down, what a positive thing I am showing my children. Being a single mother, doing things rhat I enjoy, and showing my girls that you can 'make your own table'. I can see their faces when Mom brings home a whole Table that she made herself. That makes me smile. Knowing I am not only giving myself a gift but my children as well.

To be able to do that in such a friendly supportive environment with other, exciting, women who each have been a role model in some way to me makes me feel we are truly blessed.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Jane Schneider