Altered Book Program Update

Well, it's done. YIPPIE!!!!

I was told it went well, but you never can tell. After I finished with my "spill" and the teenagers started working, I was quite bored. I spent my time going around looking at what they were doing and taking LOTS of pictures. There weren't many teenagers there, but somehow I managed to take somewhere around 160 pictures. ;-j Just FYI, I LOVE my camera. My sister (who is a librarian there) was on hand and took a few pictures, but worse than that, she also made a video of my "spill." I could tell even before she told me that that was what she was doing because she was standing still and just holding her digital camera still (that means video is being made). She's "threatened" to put it on youtube. Don't know if she has, though. I was probably not the best person for this task. Based on the advice given to me by members of the altered book group I'm in, I was probably just giving a bit o' a speech and then turning 'em loose. In my defense, though, this program lasted from 2pm-4pm (there abouts) so there wasn't much time to go teaching a whole lot. I did let them know about the Altered Art Club so hopefully some of them will join.

I was told by the aforementioned members to be ready for some "dark" themes. Maybe I don't understand what "dark" is, but I don't recall such. There were a couple who went fairly sci-fi, but that was about it.

One encouraging thing came about during clean-up. One of the teenagers (a summer volunteer) suggested that the volunteers create a scrapbook using what was left of the original book (the books for the program were made by tearing pages out of another). I hope they do and can't wait to see how it looks (I think).

I had to laugh a lot at the volunteers (these were the aforementioned teenagers. they weren't volunteers for the program). One created a few sci-fi pages and another used paint for all but one page. Because I kept explaining to her that she didn't have to paint ALL the pages, she created a page just for me. ;-j It had some unknown material (not necessarily as in fabric) as the background and had butterfly sequins on it (I love butterflies).

Those present seemed to enjoy themselves. We did loose two near the beginning (I guess they decided this wasn't for them after all).

Some of the parents and a few patrons nearby also seemed to think everyone was having a good time.

I almost forgot to mention, in the beginning, there were two tables set up for supplies. In the end, it almost looked as if the two front tables (used for the AB work) had turned into supply tables as there was so much supplies on them.

I think this pretty much covers it.