Trips Planned to State Farm Stadium, Lake Pleasant Patricia Ingalls During October, LifeLong Learning (LLL) is offering a day trip to tour State Farm Stadium in Glendale and another trip to take a lunch boat cruise on Lake Pleasant, northwest of Peoria. For full details and to register, go to lifelonglearningatpc.org. Registration for both trips…
The fall season of PebbleCreek (PC) dances is upon us. The PC Ballroom Dance Club (PCBDC) invites all residents of PebbleCreek to join us at our popular weekly group dance lessons, located in the air conditioned dance studio at Tuscany Falls (enter through the side door). We invite couples and singles. If you are single,…
Interested in trying something new and creative? This class gives you the opportunity to try a new craft and see if it’s for you. Introduction to Ceramics offers you the basics of how to clean greenware and how to paint or glaze it as a final, fired piece! When you come back to pick it…
Carol Meier Come and learn a new craft at the Creative Arts Center. Kumihimo is an ancient form of braiding developed by the Japanese that dates back to the 6th century. With Western influence it has evolved today to include beautiful cords used for jewelry, interior décor, and other complimentary art forms. The class is…
Kitty Kowalczyk We were finally able to have our “spring” Beginner Fused Glass class in July, led by former glass club board president Karla Heinz and helpers Kurt Goss (current VP), Dee DeCostera, and Steve Nathan (past president). Our September Beginner Fused Glass class will be held 8:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Sept. 10…
Carol Meier Come and learn a new craft at the Creative Arts Center. Kumihimo is an ancient form of braiding developed by the Japanese that dates back to the 6th century. With Western influence it has evolved today to include beautiful cords used for jewelry, interior décor, and other complimentary art forms. The class is…
ShowTime Gets Ready for the Holidays Laurie Farquhar Is it too early to sing “Deck the Halls” and think about the holiday season? Not for the cast and crew of ShowTime’s fall production who have started rehearsing a musical twist on a classic Dickens tale called A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol. When the story of…
Cynthia Schwartz and Maureen Strachan For several weeks throughout this past season, two sessions of color theory classes were led by Jan Ochterbeck. Jan has been a member of the PebbleCreek Quilters since 2021, when she moved into the community. Participants learned a comprehensive approach to understanding color, how colors work together, and color harmonies.…
Sue White A beginners Mah Jongg class was held for four weeks in May. The attendees learned how to play the game by learning the names of tiles, how to set up to play the game, and strategies of the game. They played Mah Jongg on their first day, and each table had a Mah…
Kitty Kowalczyk Barbara Sanford and Sharon Dawe shared their expertise with our Glass Arts Club members during an April jewelry class. Students learned how to make pendants and earrings using fusible glass—opal, translucent, and dichroic—in the first jewelry class offered in the past couple of years. Barbara and Sharon have different techniques that they shared…