Adult Makerspaces

On the elusive 5th Wednesdays of months that are lucky enough to have a 5th Wednesday, we offer Adult Makerspaces for those crafty adults* in the IFPL community!

This week we are making something like this:

 or even, something like this...

Keep in mind, that this is what we (and people on Pinterest) made with the materials... you can let your imagination and creativity take you in different directions! Call 208.612.8462 to sign-up for tomorrow's Makerspaces!

Why do we do Makerspaces? 

We do it because it gives people of all ages a place for self-directed learning by experimentation with individual idea development and conception. We encourage all participants to be in control of their own life-long-learning goals.

August Book Club title...

Mark your calendars for the next IFPL Book Club, Chapter 2 meeting on August 26 @ 7pm on the 3rd Floor

August 26 @ 7pm

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.

In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

July Journal Prompts

Sadly, I'm a day late about this as Journal Group met last night... but here are the prompts to get you going during this very busy month of July!

• what's a favorite thing to do on your own?
• what is a special summer memory?
• use paint, crayons, or markers to add color to a page in your journal
• who is your best friend--today or one from the past?
• what are you missing about Winter?
• what's your dream job?
• what or who makes you laugh?
• what's your favorite movie?
• what exactly have you done TODAY?

Remember... Journal Group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month in Conference Room 2. The next meeting will be on August 12 at 7pm. If you have questions about Journal Group and what we do, please call Jenniffer 208-612-8460 or email her jhentzen@ifpl.org.

*Thanks to EmilyJane.Typepad.com for inspiring these journal prompts!!