Pumpkins & Gourds Clay Workshop
A two-hour-plus clay workshop at Centered Clay Studio where you make two pieces: funky gourds, a luminary or jars. $65, ages 12 and up, and the studio glazes and fires your work for pickup in about four weeks.
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Nerikomi Clay Date Night
A Friday date-night pottery class at Centered Clay Studio using nerikomi, a Japanese technique that sets colored clay shapes into handbuilt mugs, bowls or plates. $75 a person, with studio snacks and non-alcoholic drinks.
Make It & Decorate It Clay Workshop
Make a cup, vase, bowl or plates at Centered Clay Studio on a Sunday afternoon, then decorate them with transfers and patterns. $65, no experience needed, glazed and fired for pickup in about four weeks.
Botanical Impressions: Ceramic Dessert Plate Workshop
A Longwood class held at Centered Clay Studio in Kennett: build slab dessert plates and press leaves and needles into the clay for texture, then color them with pigments. $125 ($112 for members).
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Rice's Market (Tuesdays)
Thirty acres of flea market, farm stands and antique dealers going since the 1870s. Gates at 7am and it thins out by midday, so come early and bring cash.
Bird Town Bird Walk on the Pennypack Trail
A morning bird walk with the Liberty Bird Alliance on the third Tuesday of the month at Lorimer Park in Abington. Free, run by the county parks environmental educator's office.
Executive Scramble
Nine simulated holes before work with a rotating cast of local business people. Ninety minutes, no handicap required, and the point is the conversation between shots as much as the golf.
