Jeanice Cress didn’t become a homebody when she retired several years ago as an Allen County Extension agent. Nor did Rita Sanders, who continues to teach piano and gets out and about.
The two participated in Monday night’s Valentine’s Day crafts workshop led by Carol Meeker and sponsored by Iola Public Library at the library’s Flewharty-Powell Annex.
Meeker handed each a template, the outline of which turned into a small box with an interlocking lid once snipped from heavy paper and folded one way and then another.
Another box appeared when Meeker sliced a greeting card in two and proceeded to fold and cut some more.
She also showed how to make a card that resembled a small stained glass window. Again she started with a piece of heavy paper and after cutting figures from an old card she recycled the elements onto pape.
Voila, “you have a card,” she said.
If having just two attendees to teach crafting skills was a disappointment, Meeker gave no indication. She cheerily went about what she had planned, to the delight of Cress and Sanders.
Too bad more people don’t turn out for such events, Cress allowed, but noted it was understandable, “People are just so busy these days and most of them have a hard time squeezing in anything else.”
“I’m glad you called,” Sanders told Cress, of a reminder about the class.
