Monthly Archives: February 2012
All these recipes are basic kitchen-chemistry. With a quick trip to the grocery store (and perhaps the health store for fragrance oils) you’ll have everything you need to mix them at home. Host a spa science party perhaps?! We shared our favorite recipe here… Continue reading
We are thrilled to announce our Curious Jane overnight program! This one-week-only session is designed specifically for girls entering 5th and 6th grades, with the theme “Tell Me a Story.” Continue reading
Sage and I layered felt hearts, cinched them at the bottom with a few stitches and attached them to elastic wristbands and barrettes. The perfect accessory for the day!
This weekend, thirteen girls joined us for our Field Trip to Makeville, a professional woodworking studio in Gowanus. The studio owner, Robyn, led the girls in a two-hour workshop to create their own mini brownstone boxes from scratch. There was a quick introduction, and within five minutes, these girls were using the vices, saws, measuring tools – it was amazing! Continue reading
This past summer, we had the chance to submit a project how-to from both our Curious Jane and Blue Tree girls, to be included in Kiki magazine’s Feb/March issue. And it has hit the newsstands! Continue reading
Samantha Razook Murphy is the founder of Curious Jane and Blue Tree. She was inspired to create these unique programs to give her girls, and all girls, a chance to be creative and inventive in a high-energy, collaborative and gender-affirming space. She loves designing, tinkering and figuring out. Samantha is the mother of two girls and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds her BA from Yale and Masters in Industrial Design from Pratt. In her spare time she coaches volleyball and rides her bike around Brooklyn.