Category: Art/Craft
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Chapter 116- Orange Gallery
Hey all! If you’re free tonight, check out Orange Gallery’s Grand Opening! I was lucky enough to attend the soft opening in February, and wanted to share about this cool new shop. Ngoc is a fabulous lady (pictured below, left) who has put together the collection of artwork, jewelry, clothing and general awesomeness in the gallery.…
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Chapter 115- Milwaukee Ballet’s Cinderella
My mom treated me, Little T and Little A to the ballet! And because it was Cinderella, the girls took another opportunity to wear some sweet dress up dresses I found at Goodwill last year (because the attire is pretty standard on regular days at home, too). And Little T was extremely lucky…as one of…
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Chapter 112- Performing Arts in the Park
I found out through the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Facebook page that the United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) put on a cool and free event to bring arts to families. There were events at Humboldt, Lincoln, Gordon, Mitchell, Lafollette parks and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center. We chose the latter location because First…
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Chapter 108- Mitchell Park Domes
A few weeks ago, my good friend Chai came up to visit us from Chicago. Chai has two amazing girls, A & V, who have most definitely inherited their mother’s creative bone. I’ll get to that at the end of this post. Anyway, we met up on Monday morning at The Domes. It was an incredibly busy…
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Chapter 101- Play Date With Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Since we spent a month doing such exciting things as coloring on boxes, wearing finger puppets on our toes, and taking pictures of Rescue Bots, it’s been pretty quiet around here. The Storm house was hit hard with the flu among other awesomeness, and there was literally a full week where we didn’t leave the…
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Chapter 100- Drink & Ink at Bay View Printing Co.
More from adventures in letterpress! After my trip up to Two Rivers, I discovered that right here in Milwaukee, there are folks here just as excited about letterpress. Bay View Printing Company is a full-service print shop, with dedication to community workshops and spreading the love of this craft. They offer Thursday night Drink &…