Artsy Friday

HELLO, YELLOW FRIEND:  We spend a fun Friday participating in an artists conference at a local elementary school.
We spent the first 45 minutes of our day being the audience. We enjoyed a concert by one of our favorite Favorite FAVORITE musicians, Morgan Taylor of Gustafer Yellowgold fame!

Taylor had spent the week working with students at the school to produce original songs and stories, much like the workshop CJ and Annabelle were so fortunate to have participated in with him last summer. 

We loved his performance as always, and he closed the show with a rocking rendition of Cakenstein!

For the balance of the conference, we went from being the audience to being the attraction. Specifically, we offered an 'edible arts' workshop.

It helped our cause that when the students came in, they saw our own homemade version of Cakenstein projected on the white board. Instant street cred, lol.

Meanwhile, we had the tables ready to go for them. After an introductory PowerPoint presenation about the joys of playing with one's food (including having your cookies eaten on the flight deck of a space shuttle!)it was time to get to work.

Here's how we had the tables staged for the caprese ladybug projects. Wish I had an after shot, ha ha. 

We had an ambitious schedule, making caprese ladybug bites and sunflower cupcakes. but managed to pull it off during both sections, thankfully.