Practical Home Living
ABC Cake Decorating
This professional level course is a good foundation on which to build a cake decorating career. Topics covered include: covering a cake, making royal icing, piping base & side borders, piped flowers, simple embroidery, calligraphy, floodwork pictures and other simple decorating techniques. You will need to purchase a kit of equipment and materials from the tutor. The cost of the kit is $100. It will be possible to go on to do a sugar floral art course next term. Learn more about our tutor, Helen, by visiting her website at www.sugarartcreations.com.au.
Tutor: Helen Dissell
Duration: 6 Wednesdays
Cost: $275
Code: TXC311A121
Location: Tweed Community College
Detox Your Home
Does your home have a chemical dependency? Do you clean your bathtub with harsh chemicals and then soak in it? Homes these days are more sealed up than ever before and are more reliant on chemicals making them hotbeds of toxins, causing all sorts of health issues. This session will take you through your home, room by room, showing you how to get rid of unhealthy chemicals and thereby benefit the health of your family and the environment. Each participate will receive a complimentary, naturally derived, foaming handwash to take home.
Tutor: Margaret Smith
Duration: 1 session
Cost: $20
Code: TXC324A121
Location: Tweed Community College
Grow Your Own Nutrient Rich Food
Learn the basics of growing nutrient rich food. Learn how to measure nutrients in your plants and how to create optimium sustainable soil conditions so that your edible plants contain maximum nutrition and other benefits for your overall health. You will discover how much better home grown living food is for your health than shop-bought food which has been stored for weeks or months before you eat it.
Tutor: Tony Boutros
Duration: 1 session
Cost: $39
Code: TXC125A121
Location: Tweed Community College
Save Power Save Money
Bring along your own recent electricity bill to this subsidised workshop to learn more about your energy use and how to reduce it. The hints and tips you will gain on energy cost saving will help you significantly reduce your power bills (which means the course fee is a good investment!). Topics covered include: the top 5 household energy users, star ratings and efficiencies, cost vs benefit of making changes, how to minimise air conditioning and heating and lots more.
Tutor: Dan Walton or Lilian Smith
Duration: 1 session
Cost: $39
Code: TXC123A121
Location: Tweed Community College
Start Sewing Now
Bring along your own sewing machine and learn basic skills while you create a skirt and shirt. Skills covered include sewing in zips, interfacing and completing a waistband, constructing a collar, tab fronts and buttonholes, inserting sleeves and overlocking stretch fabric.
Tutor: Vanessa Strickland
Duration: 6 Saturdays
Cost: $165
Code: TXC321A121
Location: Tweed Community College
Sugar Floral Art for Cake Decorating
Learn how to make correct flower paste to make beautiful, modelled flowers and to make wired and unwired sugar sprays to complete a wedding cake using the correct fundamental principles. Learn balance, proportion, colouring and the do's & don't's in flower arranging in sugar. Find out more about your tutor, Helen, by visiting her website at www.sugarartcreations.com.au.
Tutor: Helen Dissell
Duration: 6 Wednesdays
Cost: $275
Code: TXC311B121
Location: Tweed Community College
