Lapidary Club

The Lapidary Club offers a wide variety of arts and crafts activities for Leisure World residents. The club is a fun and rewarding place to learn new skills or cultivate skills that people may already have. Shannon Brennan is a supervisor on Monday mornings who has done many kinds of crafts for the past 50 years. She described members of the club as “engaging, like-minded people who are always willing to share their skills and interests to help you make a project.”

Whether people want to work with beads to create jewelry, repair old jewelry or transform an existing piece into something new, the club has everything a person might need—including thousands of beads available for a small cost and equipment for shaping, grinding and polishing stones. Creating jewelry is fun, and a great way to make gifts for birthdays and holidays.

The club offers different classes, instructions and activities to make sure that everyone can participate in something they find both rewarding and challenging. The club has the latest equipment and knowledgeable instructors who assist in teaching silversmithing, lapidary, faceting, metalsmithing, glass fusion and jewelry-making.

People can learn how to work with silver, glass, stones and other materials to create jewelry or other kinds of decorative pieces.

In addition to working on projects, the club holds potlucks, picnic barbecues and a holiday party. The club is open six days a week with supervisors helping everyone both morning and afternoons.

The club meets in the Lapidary Room in Clubhouse 4, Mondays-Fridays from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon.

—Jan Friedland