I will be teaching two Fanciful Utility workshops at the Genesee Country Village and Museum’s Domestic Skills Symposium. 
The Symposium takes place on Saturday, November 1st, with Workshops on Friday and Sunday. This is an incredibly affordable program at $75 for Saturdays Symposium with 4 full presentations.
Key lectures include:
- A survey of printed fabrics from 1760-1860 by Susan Greene, author of Wearable Prints
- Midwifery from colonial times to the Civil War, by Nancy Webster
- A history of 19th-century sweets and confections by Patricia Tice
- Kitchen Gardens and Seasonality by Emily Conable.
Friday and Sunday Workshops cover domestic skills such as:
- 18th century Pastry Making
- Wool Spinning
- Making Your Own Trivet
- Choosing Appropriate Fabrics for Reproduction Clothing
- Sit Not in Idleness
- Make your Own Hand-bound Notebook
- Custom Draping a Personal Pattern
- Recreate a Day Cap From the Susan Greene Historic Clothing Collection
- Making Green Sage Cheese
- Civil War Cookery
- Fun will flax
- Tin Care & Make a Tin Nut Grater
- The Complete Confectioner
- Making a Rolled Sewing Case **My Workshop**
- Making a Mid-19th Century Sewing Box **My Workshop**
- Make a Cheese Basket
The only bad thing about teaching workshops is missing attending the others. “Sit not in Idleness” sounds like so much fun. I’ve really wanted to get Lily a trivet. I would love to have a hand-bound notebook for when I set up the millinery. Um, Yum, Cheese! And, a basket too?! It would be great to know more about taking care of tin. Plus, I loved the little tin nut grater we had when I was a kid.
I hope to see many of you there. The museum is just outside of Rochester, NY; about an hour from Buffalo/Niagara Falls and 2ish hours from Syracuse. There is a beautiful B&B right down the street. There are several nice hotels in Henrietta too.
The full description of the program along with registration information is on the museum’s site: www.gcv.org
If I Had My Own Blue Box: 
I so wish I could! Sounds great.