With hundreds of local businesses participating in the festivities throughout the state, we are calling on you to shop & eat local all weekend long.
Let’s start our junk journals together in this fun, low stress journaling class! Junk journaling is a way to document your year with full artistic freedom. Whether its a concert ticket, a girls night out receipt, a cocktail napkin from date night, or even a cereal box clipping. Save your junk and let’s get journaling!
Class includes a spiral journal, two click art pens, and access to our junk drawer.
Sunday || June 29th || 1-3pm
Interview & Book Signing with Jennifer Croft at Commonplace Books on Thursday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Have you taken a calligraphy class before? Looking to dig a little deeper into the craft? This workshop is designed to refine your calligraphy skills and elevate your personal style. We’ll focus on achieving smooth, flowing letter transitions and dive deep into styling techniques like bounce lettering and flourishing.
A brush pen & dip pen will be provided to explore both calligraphy tools. The take-home supply kit will also include tracing paper and a traceable workbook.
Saturday || June 21st || 1-3pm
Bedazzling Freaky Friday at Commonplace Books, Friday June 13 from 6-10 PM. Tickets required
Get crafty for a cause at the Pride Loom Bracelet Workshop – join Suzie from Handmade with Love(less) to design your own vibrant creation with beads in all shapes and sizes! $10 from every ticket goes straight to the OK Pride Alliance! Looms will be available to purchase during the class.
Sunday || June 8th || 1-4pm
Conversations with gardeners on Wednesday June 4 from 7-9 P.M.
Come celebrate Shania Twain at this ceramic painting workshop! We will be painting boot earrings and making Shania Twain’s best one liners into ceramic dishes– just because it’s our prerogative to have a little fun. Only a love for the country-pop queen is required. No art skills are necessary. As the icon says, let’s go girls!
The class includes a set cowboy boot earrings and trinket dish.
Sunday || June 1st || 2pm-4pm
Looking for a new hobby or to build skills you have? Come learn the ancient art of paper quilling and leave with a beautiful framed art piece. You will receive a kit with papers, tutorial, rhinestone embellishments, a tool kit with quilling tool, mini circle sizer and precision tip filled glue bottle to take home after class. Choose from a black or white frame and white, cream, black or kraft color background.
Sunday || May 31st || 1-4pm
Book signing and Author interview on Monday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Interview and book signing with author Sarah Damoff at Commonplace Books on Friday May 9th at 7 P.M. Register at the link here.
A full calendar of book clubs for the month of May at A Novel Idea Bookshop at 116 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Oklahoma.
A full calendar of events for the month of May at A Novel Idea Bookshop at 116 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Book launch celebration with the author of Organize First, Decorate Second, Whitney English at Commonplace Books on Tuesday, April 29 at 7 P.M.
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on April 26 all day in store and follow @centralokbookstorecrawl to learn other ways to participate!
Have you taken a calligraphy class before? Looking to dig a little deeper into the craft? This workshop is designed to refine your calligraphy skills and elevate your personal style. We’ll focus on achieving smooth, flowing letter transitions and dive deep into styling techniques like bounce lettering and flourishing.
A brush pen & dip pen will be provided to explore both calligraphy tools. The take-home supply kit will also include tracing paper and a traceable workbook.
Saturday || April 26th || 1-3pm || $70.00
Bingo Book Club discusses and plays Jenny James is Not a Disaster on April 24 at Commonplace Books starting at 7 p.m.
Sci-fi Book Club meets to discuss When the Moon Hits Your Eye at A Novel Idea Bookshop on April 23 from 6-8 p.m.
Storyteller Book Club discusses Broken Country on April 22 at Commonplace Books starting at 7 p.m.
Dark Romance Book Club meets to discuss Cruel Dominion Kings & Consorts at A Novel Idea Bookshop on April 22 from 6-8 p.m.
Nourished Book Club discusses Nourish at Commonplace Books on April 21 starting at 7 p.m.
Hive Heroines Feminist Book Club meets to discuss Nikki Marmery’s Lilith at A Novel Idea Bookshop on April 20 from 2-4 p.m.
Women of Guthrie Book Club meets to discuss The Warbler, at A Novel Idea Bookshop from 2-4 p.m. on April 19.
Get creative this spring with our Colorful Checkered beading workshop! Learn the brick stitch, the foundation for endless beaded designs, and craft your own checkered earrings. Customize your colors, pattern, and size to make a one of a kind pair of earrings!
No experience? No problem! We’ll guide you step by step in a fun, relaxed setting. Leave with a handmade accessory and the skills to keep creating.
Saturday || April 19th || 1-4pm
A Novel Idea’s Historical Book Club meets on April 17 to discuss American Brutus from 6-8 p.m.
Rebel Readers Book Club meets on April 16 to discuss Jodi Picoults, Ninteen Minutes at A Novel Idea Bookshop from 6-8 p.m.
Classics Old and New Book Club discusses Brave New World at Commonplace Books on April 15 starting at 7 p.m.
Fiction Book Club meets to discuss The Rabbit Hutch at A Novel Idea Bookshop from 6-8 p.m. on April 15.
Book signing and author interview with Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on Monday, April 14 at 6 p.m. at Commonplace Books.
Celebrate eight years of Commonplace Books in Oklahoma City! Open from 9 a.m.- 8 p.m. with a special celebration party from 5-8 p.m.
Looking for a new hobby or to build skills you have? Come learn the ancient art of paper quilling and leave with a beautiful framed art piece of a hanging floral basket. Choose your paper colors from over 50 options or a pre-selected color kit. You will also have your choice of a black or white frame and white, cream or kraft color background.
Sunday || April 6th || 1-4pm
