I really enjoyed Iris's creative and crafty workshop! Thoughtful instructions and great prep work…read moremake it really easy to get into the jewelry making, even as complete newbie. It was a fun and educational experience that I shared with one of my good friends. We both walk out with our very own necklace, played around with designs and colors and are super proud of ourselves. Iris has a beautiful presence. She offer help where needed as she is a professional and has created some stunning pieces, but also leaves everyone their creative freedom to try things out on their own, if preferred. ;) I can highly recommend this workshop.

My sisters and I were gifted a private session with Iris and we had SO much fun! We all took the…read moreBART in and had lunch in a nice little boba cafe along the route to her studio. Iris was very welcoming and thoroughly explained the steps. Throughout the entire process, she was very attentive to each of us, allowed us to let our creative thoughts shine through and offered great advice to help us execute our visions. We are already planning our next Sister's Day!

Susan is an interesting character and soooo passionate about art. She teachers you like the old…read moremasters did.........you pick a masterpiece painting and she teaches you to paint it from beginning to end. It is an investment in the beginnning, but her supplies are the best and last forever. Best part is her class schedule. There isn't one! You come and paint whenever you can. If she has room, you are in. No pressure. I love painting here. The teacher attracts a very genuine type of painter so the class is always filled w/great people.......but never more than 5 at a time. And Starbucks is right across the street. What more could you ask for?

Susan for Mayor! I love Susan, her art, her husband, and her dog Max!…read more I used to work at the shop above her store and she was the best neighbor ever. She is always fun to talk to--so passionate, so full of life--and it translates into her art, of which I own several pieces. I don't get over to Union Street as much as I'd like these days, but whenever I do, I always have to visit Susan and catch up. And pet Max, of course!

Liz is, in a word, great. She responds quickly, is really fun to work with, her prices are…read morereasonable, and I like her work. I've used her for several projects, mostly social media background design work, and I refer people to her for websites all the time. It's refreshing to find such a dependable, pleasant, talented designer who is also a wonderful person!

Aki has been a regular speaker at our Co-op preschool. I really enjoy listening to her talks and…read morelearning new parenting tools from her. She is an engaging speaker. Recently I had a question that I thought of after one her talks and I emailed her. She promptly replied, asking that I call her. We played phone tag a couple times and I finally got a hold of her. We spoke for a few minutes. She provided some concrete advice about how to go about handling my issue. I am happy to report that her advice was on spot. She even emailed back to follow up. Aki is awesome!!

Shout out to Aki! She is just wonderful. I first came across her on a Mama FB group we are all a…read morepart of, and she was hosting a webinar on figuring out the "preschool puzzle" that exists in SF. Right away I loved her energy. She is friendly and enthusiastic about parenting and all that comes with it, which is so necessary in the face of the challenges that come up. i was impressed with both her knowledge and her totally impartial attitude, giving us mamas all the room in the world to make the choices we wanted to make. Recently, I ran into a challenging situation in my family, and when I was contemplating who I could speak to about this, she came to mind. she was very responsive and we set up a phone consultation immediately. The second we got on the phone, I felt relieved. I explained the situation to her and she was SO compassionate and non judgemental, reassuring me while also addressing the challenges as something to be dealt with. She gave me some great information about how my son is developing at his age and how the challenges would impact him, and some concrete ideas of how to improve the situation. I left the call feeling so much better, lighter, with specific actions to take. I highly recommend Aki's phone consultations- they are easy to set up, you do them from the comfort of your home, and you get top notch support. Thanks Aki!

I worked with Kim to create a custom drawing for my friend's wedding and was so pleased with the…read moreresults. Kim took the few vague ideas I threw at her and came up with a great design. She was a pleasure to work with, responsive and the final product was a hit! Highly Recommend!

Kim is truly the best of the best. She came highly recommended from a listserv network, and I was…read morefortunate enough to find that she was available in the short time frame I needed and at the right price. Kim produced our company's 20 page annual report in just under 4 weeks- and it was flawless. She is very responsive, timely, and she produces high quality, beautifully crafted work. In the short time of 4 weeks, I felt that Kim grasped my company's style and the work we do and our 2014 annual report accurately represents us. I would use Kim again in a heart beat and for any graphic design work, business cards, reports, illustration, etc. she is fabulous. You can view our Annual Report that Kim designed here: http://www.tetratechdpk.com/images/stories/annual_reports/annual_report_2014.pdf

Truly life changing - I'd been searching for someone to help me tap into my whole being and I…read morecannot speak highly enough about my Akashic record reading by lyndsey! I was skeptical and nervous but lyndsey made me feel so at ease. Weeks after my home clearing and Feng Shui tuning session, I was having a tough day, and I came across a crystal lyndsey placed in my window sill. I immediately felt an overwhelming warming sensation, it was as if it intentionally appeared to remind me to be patient with what's to come!! BEST SELF CARE EXPERIENCE EVER

I have a black cat, and she is extremely difficult to photograph. Erika made a great painting of…read moreher that captured her much better than anything I could have imagined. I get complements on the painting all the time. I was afraid a painting of a cat would be somewhat silly, but my cat looks regal and dignified. Erika is definitly an inspired artist. I highly recommend her and hope this review will be helpful.

It was a great experience working with Erika to surprise my wife on our anniversary with a drawing…read moreof us and our 2 pups, she was able to use 2 separate pictures and make one great drawing. She was also able to have the drawing done within a week since I procrastinated a bit and did priority shipping and arrived within 2 business days! My wife loved the drawing! We can't wait to hang it up in our wall Thank you again to Erika, highly recommend!

Very pleased with how Susan is always available to respond to my questions , how she takes her…read moretime to go in detail a d explain . I am very happy with her services .

Rating 2.3 stars; rounded to 2. Here's my backdrop info if you haven't read any of my other reviews…read moreof psychics. In addition to being a scientific/engineering consultant, I'm a mystic, spiritual teacher/healer & intuitive. When I travel, I often get readings from psychics. I've received readings from 250+ psychics in my life. Since I'm a mystic, my life is filled with Divine love & grace, and my mind is calm & quiet; this makes it easy for a good psychic to read me, but a psychic with limited abilities won't see much b/c there are no dramas/crises/problems in my life that would emerge as blips on the psychic radar screen. Please note that when I visit a psychic, I'm not seeking help with problems, nor with any wishes, nor answers to questions, nor am I seeking spiritual guidance. Rather, I visit them because God asks me to do so, and to have a fun way of connecting w/ supernatural practitioners. Finally, I am very good at setting boundaries with people, including pushy salespeople & unethical psychics who may to con me or upsell me. So, when reading my reviews of psychics, it may be VERY HELPFUL to bear in mind what I wrote above, b/c your own experience with the same psychic might be very different from mine -- your mileage may vary (from mine)! Further, my reviews of all psychics are for psychic readings only, and never for extra services that they might offer, such as healings, cleansings, or spiritual guidance. I visited Susan for a tarot reading on 12/16; I prepaid the $150 fee online. As I always do when getting a reading, this was a totally cold reading: I told Susan, prior to the start of the reading, only my name and date/place of birth. I told her nothing more about myself until after the reading ended. Susan did ask me for 3 questions before the reading, but I declined. I also noted that I did not expect any future predictions (fortunetelling), because, beyond a few immutable events that are fixed in space and time, it is difficult to accurately forecast the future (because humans have free will). Overall, the reading was not at all accurate in terms of Susan's reportage of my life; as I told her several times during the reading when she asked for feedback, I felt that the reading was 95% inaccurate, with another 2% that was vaguely accurate but also misleading, wherein two things that she had presented as happening in the present had occurred 27 years ago. The few things that she managed to report accurately, although they were almost always somewhat vague, were that I seemed to be an old soul, that I seemed to be very healthy, that I would live a long life, that I have a very good and loving relationship with my wife, and that animals (which I love) are strongly attracted to the love that emanates from me. Susan also offered the observation that my tarot card spread contained an unusually large number of major arcana cards, and that the spread contained almost exclusively only very positive cards (and yes, that is an accurate meta-level snapshot overview of my life). She also briefly and very vaguely mentioned that one card indicated healing energy around me (which, while very non-specific, was accurate). Overall, she seemed to keep the reading at a very vague, generalized and philosophical level, never offering specifics or details about anything (in any case, as noted above, 95% of what she said was inaccurate). Incidentally, I must mention that strangely, Susan kept referencing my birth signs (in Western & Chinese astrology) to offer bland and generalized claims about me that were often inaccurate. Worse, these boring and uninvited philosophical ramblings about astrology were not from tarot, nor from any other supernatural sources. The reading at times became tediously annoying, because Susan often strayed into uninvited/unsolicited philosophical discourses about tarot, and it felt like she was attempting to turn the reading into an academic class on tarot, rather than giving me information about my life. This was NOT what I paid for! Even more strangely, she asked me three times if I would like to learn more about reading tarot cards or other cards so that I could do readings; each time I firmly declined. I later realized that these repeated and entirely uninvited/unsolicited overtures were sales pitches to try to interest me in purchasing her books/courses on reading cards. Incidentally, unlike many psychics, Susan did not attempt during the reading to push any upsells on me, beyond her multiple unsolicited attempts to interest me in lessons on reading tarot/angel cards, nor did she try any cons on me. LEGAL STUFF: FULL TRANSPARENCY DISCLOSURE RE POTENTIAL COMPETING INTERESTS: Shortly after this review was published on Yelp, Susan contacted me via email & offered me a full refund of the fee if I would remove this review. I declined her ethically-questionable offer. This unethical offer caused me to derate her original star rating by 0.3 points, from 2.6 down to 2.3.