Soundsuit Fun at the Art Museum

Last week, I spent the week taking an art class for teachers at the Boise Art Museum.  First of all, if you are a teacher and have the opportunity to take one of the summer educator classes at the museum--do it!  They are so much fun!   Much of the artwork we created was inspired by the current exhibition at the museum, Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth.  THis exhibit is full of Nick Cave's "Soundsuits."  They are unlike anything I've ever seen.  They also haves a set of suits that perform around town.  We are hoping to catch a performance.  Here's a couple images.

The more time we spent with these Soundsuits, the more fascinated I became.  On Saturday, they were offering a family workshop, so I signed us up.  We had fun discussing the art and even got to make sound suits of our own.  I loved having the opportunity to do this as a family.  Austin got totally into performing his suit.  I have video of both boys performing their suits, but I haven't figured out how to get them off my phone.  I'll try to post the videos later.  In the meantime, here's some photos of our artsy fun.

Drawing

 Making Music

Working on Soundsuits

Getting ready to perform:

If you are interested in finding out more on Nick Cave, I found this video but PBS.

Watch Nick Cave Brings Art, Sculpture to Life With 'Soundsuits' on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

Relay For Life

Last night we participated in Relay For Life for the second year in a row.  It's such a beautiful event.  It's a chance to remember those who have lost their battle with cancer and to celebrate the survivors.  As those who are close to us know, our family has been hit hard in the last 15 years.  I've lost an uncle and three great uncles.  My brother was diagnosed at 24 and is a survivor.  My cousin was diagnosed a couple years ago and is living with Leukemia.  We've also had a number of people in our family who have had skin cancer remover.  As you might imagine, Cancer organizations get our full support.

I love being a part of Rely because you get to interact with the survivors and hear the stories of those who have battled this horrendous disease.  Even though there are always tears shed, it is an evening of celebration and heartwarming to see so many people come together for a good cause.  Plus, we always get my brother up here for a visit :)

Here are a few of my photos from the event.

My favorite!  My brother, Andy, with the boys.

My mom and Austin

Kait and Bren

 Backs of our team shirts

 Survivor Lap

 Inside the tent.  The boys stayed all night with buy mom and Andy.

Luminary bags--a couple of them.  I realized too late that we should have used thicker, darker markers  because they didn't show up very well in the dark.

 The memory lap lit only by candlelight (and a few stage and booth lights).

Idaho Travel Album Using Cruisin'

You'd think with summer off, I'd get around to blogging more.  That hasn't happened so far.  I did want to share this little 6x6 album I made yesterday.  My grandparents came for a visit and I wanted to put something together to document their trip and share the photos I took.

I used Cruisin' papers from CTMH, along with the coordinating foil stickers and bottle caps.  I also used a few miscellaneous stamps and rub-ons.  The pages are fairly simple because I wanted the photos to stand out and my grandparents don't really care for fancy, heavily embellished items.  I was so happy to get this out in the mail for them today.  I hope they love it :)

June Club Pages--Victory

This month we are using Victory papers and Stickease for our pages.  The first two layouts are from the Victory Workshop on the Go.  I haven't added titles or journaling to some, but hey, the first two use photos from our Alaska trip, and we just got back Sunday :)  I will post more photos of the trip later this week.  I only took 450 pictures!  

This layout will have a 7x 9 1/2 photo of the beach across the top.  I haven't been back to Costco to pick it up.  These are from our Oregon Coast last year. I'll re-post it later.

Lucy Cards

 I'm not sure why these cards never got posted.  They were from Card Club back in March.  I used Lucy papers, Lucy Rub-ons, the Lucy Workshop on the Go stamps, Happy Birthday, and THank You stamp sets.  I also used lots and lots of Bitty Sparkles.

This one was based on a card I saw on Pinterest.  Click here to see the original on Split Coast Stampers.

This last one was an Easter set using My Peeps stamp set.