September 2026:
Wreathing the Threshold
What would you hang on your door right now, if you could name exactly where you are?
This month, we're making wreaths — not just for the season, but for the moment you're in.
A new chapter beginning. Something ending quietly. A move, a loss, a shift in who you are or what you're carrying. The transitions that don't get a party, a card, or a witness.
Wreaths have always marked thresholds — doors, gates, sacred spaces. They've crowned the victorious and honored the dead. They are, at their core, a circle that says: something significant is happening here.
We're keeping that tradition alive on a Sunday afternoon in September. Because some transitions deserve to be named. And because making something beautiful with your hands is one of the oldest ways humans have ever said: this moment mattered.
When We’re Gathering
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2026
Time: 3:00-4:30pm EST/12:00-1:30pm PST
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Online
(Zoom link sent at registration)
Cost: $20
What We’re Really Reclaiming
Most people don't come for another project; they come for ninety minutes that belong to them.
Some are in a season of transition. Some are reclaiming creativity they set down a long time ago. Some are just reclaiming a Sunday afternoon from everything that wants it.
Come as you are. Leave with something you made and a little more of yourself than you walked in with.
This Month’s Making
Making and conversation go hand in hand. As we weave, twist, and bind our wreaths, we'll also…
Explore
What thresholds we're standing at — the named ones and the ones nobody else can see
How circles teach us that nothing is truly linear — what ends becomes what begins
What it would mean to crown yourself for something that went unwitnessed
Gently Unlearn
That transitions only count if someone else marks them
That honoring yourself is too much, or too soon, or not quite earned
That the in-between is something to rush through rather than tend
Practice
Gathering materials — paper, fabric, dried flowers, twigs, whatever your home offers — and weaving them into a circle
Naming the threshold you're standing at and what you want to carry through it
Hanging something on your door that says: I was here. This mattered.
Creative Lineage: Who’s Inspiring Us
Our project this month draws inspiration from:
Greek and Roman laurel wreaths — awarded to athletes, poets, and generals as the highest honor.
Japanese shimenawa — sacred ropes twisted and hung to mark the boundary between the ordinary and the sacred.
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cornhusk traditions — braided and woven circles made at harvest time to honor the cycle of growth, rest, and return.
Día de los Muertos traditions — floral crowns and wreaths woven to honor those who have crossed the greatest threshold of all, worn by the living as an act of remembrance and connection
Welsh wassailing customs — communal wreath-making and singing to mark seasonal passage, rooted in the belief that transitions needed to be witnessed together
These traditions remind us that wreaths are never just decoration - they are acts of marking that say: something sacred happened here, and I was present for it.
What You’ll Need
The Usual Suspects: Keep these basics on hand for all Art & Alchemy sessions:
Scissors
Glue stick, white glue, and/or glue gun
Markers, colored pencils, pastels, or crayons
Paper (any kind works)
For This Session
A base for your wreath: a wire hanger bent into a circle, a paper plate with the center cut out, a bundle of twigs or vines twisted into a loop, or cardboard cut into a ring
Materials to weave or attach: fabric scraps, ribbon, yarn, dried flowers or herbs, leaves, paper strips, tissue paper, twine
Something meaningful to include: a word written on paper, a small photo, a charm, a sprig of something from your garden — something that marks this threshold specifically
Optional: paint, washi tape, beads, buttons, or anything that wants to be part of your circle
What You’ll Receive: A Zoom link, detailed supply list and inspiration guide will be sent when you register, along with a downloadable guide to our favorite craft products.
Your Co-Hosts
Alice Chen has spent years studying how people make meaning from the materials of their lives. She holds the reflective space for our gatherings — asking the questions that slow us down long enough to hear our own answers. This month, she'll guide us through what it means to honor the transitions that go unmarked, and what we might finally give ourselves permission to crown.
Megan Rossi creates with Chaparral Made, working with natural materials and the quiet power of objects chosen with intention. She knows that what we choose to gather and bind together reveals what we're truly tending — and she'll help us build wreaths worthy of the thresholds we're standing at.
You’re inner creative is waiting for you. So are we.
Join Us
What is Art & Alchemy?
A monthly VIRTUAL gathering where we make things with our hands with what we’ve got in our homes while tending to what's happening in our hearts.
Each session weaves together a specific creative project with facilitated reflection on questions that project holds. We're about creative practice as a way of staying grounded, reclaiming time for yourself, and being in joyful company with others doing the same.
No experience needed. No talent required. Just you, your hands, and whatever you've got lying around.