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After Culinary Club, Ella had stayed behind, along with Sebastian, to help Alice pack up the leftovers, do dishes, and clean up the student kitchen. Where Sebastian was using bits of magic, Ella was happy to clean up by hand. Cleaning gave her a chance to clear her head, which could frequently be difficult. Sure, sometimes cleaning brought back traumatic memories... but so did most things. It was something she could push through if it was for her best friend.

Once the kitchen was spotless, Sebastian asked if Ella were planning on going to Art Club. Ella quickly agreed. He walked her down to her common room, then waited, while she hurried to her dorm and got her little sewing box. She was hoping to work on practicing her new skill. She also grabbed the book Milan had bought for her, then hurried back out where Sebastian was still waiting.

The two of them walked together, quietly talking about class plans for the week. They heard some chatter from the studio, which Sebastian identified as two different girls, probably younger than them, plus Lewis.. While she hated that he had his affliction, but she had to admit it had some small things that could help in the day-to-day.
They walked in, and sure enough, the two that were talking were correct. "Hey guys, welcome in! I'm Lewis, the captain of Art Club. You're welcome to any of the snacks or supplies. Feel free to work on any projects or even just chat and learn about the respective art of others. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask."

As they walked into the room, Ella was a little glad that Sebastian opted to handle their greetings. "Hey Lewis! Hi guys! Me and Ella are here!" Seb spoke up, a lot more loudly than Ella would. She offered a wave toward Lewis, who smiled back. "Hey Seb, hey Ella! Come on in. There's cookies, plus Peggy and Jazz are here. Go ahead and find whatever you'd like. All the mediums are available as always. Make yourselves at home."

"Thank you, Lewis. I just brought some embroidery things so I can keep figuring it out." She said in her usually quiet tones. With quiet steps, Ella climbed up to sit on the windowsill, then grabbed out her little embroidery hoop. She bit the tip of her tongue as her tiny hands worked to try and continue embroidering the leaf and flower design.

After a rather fun meeting of a few other clubs, Wendel was (finally) preparing to go to the one he already knew was his favorite. With cousin Rey's help to make sugar cookies, Wen had made up some royal icing to decorate them. It wasn't quite as fancy as when he made them with Papa Milo, but it was still plenty fun! He carried the tray of colorful cookies carefully up the stairs, hoping not to trip and spill the lot. He was really, really excited to surprise Rosa (who hadn't practiced cooking with mumndad nearly as much as he had) with them.

"Rosarosarosarosa! Look what me and Rey... oh... you already got snacks?" He looked up at his big sister, a small frown settling on his face. He didn't know she was going to get a whole buffet of snacks! "We... um... we made these for ya. They're Auntie Laili's recipe, but Papa Milo's icing. I used all the brightest colors I could find." Well... decorated cookies were sorta like art, right? He carefully lifted the tray to add it to the table of snacks, feeling a bit bad that his weren't quite as fancy as the ones Rosa had gotten. Wait... those looked awful familiar! "Hey! Did you ask Uncle Kalin? And you didn't even ask for those caramel thingies that dad won't let me eat anymore?!" How rude!

Wen huffed a bit at his sister, but standing there in his way-too-big sweater (that totally hadn't been stolen or anything), he looked a little less than intimidating. After a moment, he grabbed his sketchbook and the little tray of colorful pastels and grabbed a sugar shaker cookie for now. There was a little window seat that offered a really nice view. Of course, he was currently working on a project.... but maybe that could wait a bit? He turned the page and pushed up his long sleeves (after all, mumndad always sighed when clothes got covered in charcoal dust or paint residue), and grabbed the nice yellow-green pastel block and started carefully tracing the shapes in the grass way below.

While feeling a bit sad at his cookie tray, Rosa also seemed a bit confused. She very quickly said they could replace the brookies with the cookies he'd decorated. Wait, she thought his and Rey's cookies would be better than Uncle Kalin's treats?! "An art display might be nice... but I didn't know if these were like... artsy enough. I'm not as good at drawing as you are!" Well... yet. Dad did always say he was really good, but all things needed practice. Maybe this was one of those things? While he was setting the tray up on the table, Rosa hurried to root through a closet. What was she doing in there? Wen was about to peek in when an "aha!" surprised him.

She returned with a fancy tea-stand (one that perhaps Lewis had used to display snacks too?) then started to move his cookies onto the fancy stand. When he questioned where she'd gotten the treats, Rosa did confess that she'd asked Uncle Kalin, who apparently vetoed the caramel cookies. "Dang it! Mumndad really made it hard on us to get the really good snacks, didn't they?" Of course, Rosa could always just take out her retainer (provided it didn't fall off the counter and into the toilet.... again), but she was the only other one he knew with orthodontic issues.

"Also, I told my friend Tegan to meet me here, so I hope that's okay too. She thinks she's not very artsy, but y'know what dad always says. 'Everyone's got art inside them, it's just a matter of getting it out!'" Wen quoted, even standing up on his tippytoes to try and get somewhere in the realm of their dad's level of tall. But as he settled into the window seat, he really worried that maybe Tegan wouldn't want to come on her own. Even though he'd already started, he felt a bit bad. Scrambling down from the seat, he set his sketchbook and pastels in his spot, then blew a raspberry at his sister before running out of the room. Thankfully, his new friend was pretty easy to find. "C'mon, Tegan! There's about a thousand snacks and also it'll be fun!" He grabbed her by the hand, happily leading her back into the art room. "Rosa, you remember Tegan. She's you-and-Rey-and-Mea's friend's sister! She's gonna do art!" He lit up as he spoke all on one breath, his usual energy running high.

Benji was excited for art club because one of his favorite hobbies was his charcoal sketches and Mum had just bought him a new sketchbook and charcoal set from the shop in Diagon. He had already filled the first couple pages with drawings before the club meeting even happened. The Muggle primary school he'd gone to didn't have an after school art club, but he had been in an art class which was basically the same. The difference was, the art class had required him to work with means he wasn't quite a fan of, whereas with the club, he could hang out with other artists and do his own thing. That's what he was really looking forward to. The day of the art club meeting, Benji was practically vibrating with excitement and had left his dorm, though thankfully not the common room, without his sketchbook and charcoal set. He had to awkwardly run back up the steps to the dorm to grab his stuff before he headed out to find the art room. It had taken him only a little of wandering before he was able to locate the room in question. There already seemed to be a bunch of people here and he even recognized the two first years in the midst. "Hey Tegen, hey Wen," he said excitedly. Tegen glanced around for a second, wondering why her sister was here before realizing he was talking about OneN. "And hi everyone else. I'm Benji... uh, Scott-Wright. And I like charcoal drawings. My mum bought me a new sketchbook over the summer and I'm gonna fill it before winter break," he said confidently.