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Soft Star offers leather scraps to local customers for use in craft projects.  Recently Art Instructor Tonya Gainey used the scraps with 54 of her students to create some beautiful leather baskets.   Featured below are the photos of her students work. 

Tonya and her students wove in many local ingredients-- including Oregon native Myrtlewood bases donated by family-owned Myrtlewood Mystique Gallery in Philomath. (Fun store to check out :-). Students sculpted the beads to top off their baskets which were then baked and hardened. You will notice the beads in a variety of decorative shapes, animals (snakes, salmon, penguins, cats....) or objects of art crowning the baskets. Fantastic work by all students and kudos to Tonya Gainey for her enthusiasm and dedication!

Hoover Elementary (Kindergarten - 2nd Grade)

Mountain View Elementary (2nd - 5th Grade)