It's been 2 weeks since my last post. One week I spent relaxing on the gulf coast of Florida . . ahhhh. The rest of the time I spent assembling art projects made by 79 kindergartners. My fingers are sore! As a fundraiser at my daughter's elementary school, each class is making an art project to be auctioned. I volunteered to do all four of the kindergarten classes and came up with the idea of creating lampshades. Do you remember making shrinky-dinks back in the 70's & 80's? You draw on a piece of plastic, pop it in the oven and it shrinks to about 50% of it's original size. It's so much fun . . . until of course,you've shrunk over 200 of them. Each child made 2 drawings on clear shrinky-dink tiles that I had pre-cut and punched holes in. I shrunk them all down, assembled them with jump rings and attached them to a lampshade clip-top wire. I then made a light diffuser by creating a cylinder of vellum which attached to the clip-top behind the shrinky-dinks. And voila! You have 4 cool table lamps made from kindergarten art! They'll be auctioned off at A Girl Thing on March 23rd. It's a night of shopping, silent auctions, hors d'oeuvres, drinks and desserts. Click on the photo for a larger view. I dropped them off at the school today so the kids could see the lamps before they are sold. The kids were so excited trying to find their pictures on the shade. Lamps with their lights on. Now I hope they bring in lots of dough! I need to come up with a starting price for each - what do you think it should be?
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This project was created for our local elementary schools art auction fund raiser. My daughters fourth grade class decorated the tiles.
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I never cease to be amazed at the energy and creativity of the Eureka Schools Foundation volunteers as they hosted another extremely successful fundraising event. Not only did they raise a lot of money at the ESF Art Auction & Music Exhibition on Friday night, but they provided an evening full of entertainment and fun for the whole community. The place was packed with parents, frantically bidding on the artwork created by the students and teachers. Kids were running around from booth to booth, where principals and teachers were in charge of a variety of art projects such as making a collage and face painting. While parents, teachers and students enjoyed listening to the band and choirs from all the different schools who performed throughout evening. There were plenty of fun, food and festivities for the families of the Eureka school district. Another great ESF fundraiser! Some of my favorite art projects that were being auctioned off that evening. This is one of my favorites, "Live, laugh, love, play!" which was created by Mrs. Hagan's class. It was so clever and cute that even though I didn't have a kid in the class, I just had to bid on it! Mrs. Hagan had each student lay down on a white sheet to form the letters in each word. Then she got up on a ladder and shot the photo looking down on them. Then she said she created this poster using Shutterfly. So clever! Why didn't she do this when Tyler or Allie were in her class?! Here is Alex, one of the triplets that live next door, who is standing next to the items that her class made. The triplets, along with their big sister Katie, come and visit me on a regular basis.. so I don't miss my own kids so much and I love it! We do homework together. They come help me clean out my candy jars and my pantry too. And I call them whenever I need to go grocery shopping so I don't have to go alone. Gosh! I really love those girls and it was fun to see them that night! More artwork! Dad was one of the sponsors for the event so Renee, the triplets mom, who was the MC that night, called Dad and Dr. Anello up out of the audience to introduce them... and then the next thing you know, she hands the mike to Dad. Without any warning or notice, Dad grabbed the mike and greeted the audience, talked about what a great event it was, introduced Jina (Dr. Anello) and chatted it up with the crowd. He was a natural! I knew that he was in his element when he struck this poise! And this is my favorite photo from the evening! This is my next door neighbor, Renee, mother of the triplets and cute Katie, past ESF President, past Auction Chairperson, best organizer and volunteer on so many ESF fundraisers, probably one of the biggest contributor in time and money to the ESF and to our community. She is so generous and so wonderful in so many ways that she deserves a blogpost all about her so I will stop there and save it for another day. But I will tell you that she had surgery less than 2 weeks ago then landed back in the hospital last week. She was told that she supposed to take it easy and even though she was scheduled to be the MC, that she should relinquish her duties that night... Right?!!! We all knew that wasn't going to happen. She just couldn't sit around and watch all the action take place around her. Sure enough, she was up on the stage halfway through the evening, much to everyone's surprise and joy. She is definitely loved by all! Holt Orthodontics had a booth and here are Carrie and Sandy, and Sandy's daughter, making balloon animals and flowers for the children. You can tell that they had a good time making the balloons and entertaining the children. Kim, Jina and myself with Renee at the end of the night. And Dad with the BracesbyHolt gals, proud sponsors and best bunch of balloon makers and wire benders in town.
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