FINALLY!

Today was my first workshop! I facilitated the "Green Up Your Wallet" workshop using bike innertubes to create awesome recycled wallets.

In preparing for the workshop, I created my very first lesson plan as well as step by step visuals to help me demonstrate as well as help those visual learners get the hang of it!

Today was so exciting! It was the first workshop I have been able to attend-due to my work schedule. The tables were covered with supplies for making the wallets as well as Lauren's jewelry making workshop and there was tons of people working on their bikes.

Angie and Val ( who are the facilitators of our group and are so super awesome!) came and showered us with support and positive energy!

We had little activity-other than our own creations and bouncing new ideas off one another--stop by our workshop. There was in fact, one family who came and Lauren and I were able to offer more individualistic attention. I was able to show one "student" how to make a wallet. He wasn't excited at first, then I showed them the visuals I had created. (I think he thought we were making purses! :) )

He was a natural! I decided last minute to just hand sew the inner tubes together, rather than getting out the sewing machines. It worked out just as well. As I was helping him understand the technique, it was hard for me to not just do it for him... to just let him get his own flow and rhythm. I caught myself a couple times underestimating him-just thinking to myself that he probably doesn't know how to tie that knot, etc... However, I stopped myself and let him do it! Over time he told me he was in high school-just a freshman and loves BMX bikes...

In the end he created an awesome wallet! He was teaching me techniques!

I also got to make this super awesome necklace!