Dragonfly Designs is a woman-owned, art experience company based in San Francisco Bay Area. We specia
Join us at our Bay Area studios for after school art classes and camps, birthday parties, adult workshops and group events. We also host engaging virtual and in person company team art events and our DIY Kits have everything you need to get crafty at home.
11/18/2025
Today, we want to highlight one of our more unique event offerings - LEATHERWORK!
This fall, we held an awesome event in which participants got to make leather bookmarks, experimenting with leather stamping, hot foil stamping, and hand stamping. It was so much fun seeing everyone explore different styles, colors, and designs, and everyone seemed to have just as much fun doing so themselves!
Special thank you to for choosing us for your event!!! 😊
Please feel free to reach out if you’d like to bring this project to life at your next event! 📘🔖💛
11/17/2025
Looking back at a few recent birthday parties… So much fun doing tie dye, beading, and face paint!!! 🌈🧿🐯
We love seeing kids light up when their creations come to life!
Thanks for letting us be part of your celebrations 🥳
10/31/2025
Spook-tacular successes at our Halloween events this year!! 🧡🖤💜
From Halloween Lanterns for kiddos in a class to Halloween Terrariums for adults at an event, this season has been full of awesome festivities!
Wishing everyone a fun and safe rest of their day!!! 👻🎃
10/29/2025
THANKS for having us AGAIN !!! 🤩🤩
We love bringing the joys of creativity to you all! We hope you had as much fun as we did “Designing Your Digital World” at this VR/AR Launch Canvas Painting event! With the curated collection of stencils we brought, from geometric interfaces to celestial constellations and cosmic explorers, we hope you all felt like you truly created your “digital identity.” 🔭🚀👽
‘Till next time, y’all !!
10/29/2025
Reminiscing over our last two Jewelry Making Parties… 😇✨
We feel so lucky to have spent these past two weekends with such fun bunches of kiddos! Such wonderful moments and such beautiful pieces… 😌
Looking forward to three more parties this coming weekend!! 💜💛💚
10/25/2025
A HUGE thank you to and for having us last week!!! 🤩🤩
With a guest count of 850 and a great turnout, we loved seeing so many smiling faces! We had an awesome time offering our bead bar to you all and hope you had an even better time selecting beads and charms, stringing them together, and leaving with a piece of your very own !! 🤘⚾️❤️
10/20/2025
We recently did an awesome event for Latin Heritage Month involving painting skulls! 🎨
Participants and instructors alike had so much fun, we’d love to make it happen again! Good for Latin Heritage Month celebrations, Halloween, and birthdays alike - our Skull Painting event is surely versatile!
If this sounds like something that you and your coworkers, colleagues, friends, or family would like to do, please feel free to reach out to us 🤍
10/11/2025
Calling all little creators!! 🖼️🌈💛 We are currently enrolling for THREE after-school classes!! Dragonfly Designs classes help children soar creatively and developmentally by offering various projects, a welcoming space, and enthusiastic instructors who have been informed on early childhood development.
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1️⃣ MAKER’S LAB: AFTER-SCHOOL ART CLUB (BURLINGAME)
DESCRIPTION: 6- to 12-year-olds explore clay, jewelry, textiles, and mixed media.
ADDRESS: Roosevelt Elementary School, 1151 Vancouver Ave, Burlingame, CA 94010
SCHEDULE: Mondays, 3:25-4:25pm, from 10/20/25-12/15/25 (no class 11/24)
⏰ SIGN UP DEADLINE: 10/13/25 ⏰
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2️⃣ WEARABLE ART AND COSTUME DESIGN (REDWOOD CITY)
DESCRIPTION: 7- to 10-year-olds use upcycled materials to turn old clothes into bold, wearable statements.
ADDRESS: Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation, 1400 Roosevelt Ave, Redwood City, CA 94061
SCHEDULE: Mondays, 4-5pm, from 10/27/25-12/8/25 (no class 11/24)
⏰ SIGN UP DEADLINE: 10/20/25 ⏰
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3️⃣ COSTUME CREATIONS (SAN FRANCISCO)
DESCRIPTION: 2nd- to 4th-graders bring stories to life through colorful, handmade costumes.
ADDRESS: Commodore Sloat Elementary School, 50 Darien Way, San Francisco, CA 94127
SCHEDULE: Mondays, 4:30-5:30pm, from 11/3/25-12/15/25 (no class 11/24)
⏰ SIGN UP DEADLINE: 10/27/25 ⏰
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08/28/2025
✨ To wrap up the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, we hosted a tie-dye art activation to celebrate 🌈💀🌀 Guests loved how easy and fun it was to create their own designs — the colors, the creativity, and the smiles said it all.
Want to bring this kind of magic to your event? ✨ Book Dragonfly to host a custom tie-dye activation and keep the good vibes rolling 🎶✌️
08/14/2025
🎨✨ Give your party a spin! ✨🎨
Our Spin Art station is the ultimate burst of color and creativity, perfect as an add-on for birthday parties or as a crowd-pleaser for group and corporate events. 🌈💫
Your guests will love creating their own one-of-a-kind masterpieces to take home!
📅 Book your event today and let the colors fly!
📲 Tap the link in bio to reserve your date.
07/11/2025
🎨☀️ Still time to book a colorful summer event!
Whether it’s a birthday party, team building experience, or special celebration, our hands-on creative activities bring the fun.
Tote bags, tie dye, jewelry, painting. Have another idea for an item you want to create? Let us know! We will help bring your idea to life!
Perfect for all ages.
No stress, no mess setup. We bring it all.
🌈 Don’t miss out on the summer magic. Tap the Linktree to get started.
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Hi, I’m Stacee Gillelen, mother of four, artist, and founder of Dragonfly Designs. After my second daughter was born, I left my career in banking to focus on raising my children while pursuing a degree in social work. Then, by chance, I fell in love with the art of jewelry making, and found that I just couldn’t stop spreading the joy of it to others.
The parties, classes, and camps we offer grew naturally out of sharing my passion for unique, handmade jewelry with family and friends. What began as a retail and wholesale jewelry business has evolved into a holistic expression of my commitment to art education, social justice, and philanthropy. Plus, it’s a whole lot of fun!
As our team and mission have grown, we’ve been blessed to share many forms of art with many awesome students. In addition to jewelry making, we now teach an ever-expanding list of disciplines including art exploration, painting, textiles & fiber arts, metalsmithing, leatherworking, dance, and yoga & meditation.
We’ve also expanded the languages in which our classes and camps are taught to Spanish and Mandarin. I’ve seen just how beneficial language immersion has been for broadening my own children’s worldview, and I’m excited to provide immersion camps and classes to second language learners who want to engage with art in their target language.
I invite you to experience one of our parties, classes, private events, or camps. Your children and guests will thank you, we promise! Live outside our service area? Try one of our DIY jewelry making party kits!
Need additional information, or have a custom event in mind? Give me a call! I’d love to tell you more about fun, fabulous, and memorable experiences from Dragonfly Designs.
– Stacee
Dragonfly Designs is a family owned and operated business located in the San Francisco Bay Area with a service area that expands out to San Diego. We are an Art Education company that provides after school enrichment classes, jewelry making birthday parties, private events, camps and classes to adults and children. The aim of our family business is to enable children’s creativity through jewelry making and holistic art education.
We sell art & jewelry making kits necessary to "do it yourself" at home, as well as provide the instruction to do so.
