Well, open studio style classes are no more at the. East Hardford Tandy Leather, they'll be replaced at some point with "structured classes" with everyone working on the same project, and with hefty class fees, if the classes listed on the company website at other locations are anything to go by.   It will  probably be a -long- time before one comes around that I'll be interested in. I'm especially annoyed at the at the lady in pink , (presumably a new manager, but since she didn't make any move to introduce herself she'll remain the "lady in pink" ) who said that the open classes had to be cancled because they were aganst company policy and she seemed to regard the fact that if customers were annoyed by them being cancled, it was the fault of the way yhe store had been run previously.  Well, It's highly likley I never would have -started- the craft if it hadn't been for that format, to say nothing of the progress I've made since.