The Flatbush Artrepreneur Project Encore

Hello Creating Legacies Family.  I hope that 2014 is as beautiful as each of you. Thanks to your support and encouragement, the Creating Legacies family is growing.  We have shared in parties, play dates, workshops and events these past few months and I am thankful that our little legacies are sowing and growing as we are blossoming into spring fulfilling our purpose.  I try to keep you posted as much as possible about things that I think may be of interest to you.  Today I am calling out to all of you visionary entrepreneurs who have existing business or ideas about starting one.  You know me well and how my life is steeped in entrepreneurship, so business is in the blood.

I am humbled to share that the mayor’s office reached out to us directly in efforts to collaborate in presenting an encore workshop of, “The Flatbush Artrepreneur Project.”  This time we are honored to welcome special guest presenters, Maria Cruz Lee, Project Manager at the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Gregg Bishop, the Deputy Commissioner Business Development Division, NYC Department Small Business Services and a representative from The Brooklyn Public Library.

Creating Legacies, Nostrand AvenueMerchants Association and The Flatbush Enterprise will host this next workshop on Saturday, March 1, 2014 11:00 am -1:00pm@ The Crown Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

It will be an informative and invaluable experience.  The flyer is attached.

Kisses to little ones and hug rubs to the babies in bellies!

Please register soon as space is limited.

RSVP: nycreatinglegacies@gmail.com or (718)774-5466

Special thank you to: Citizens Committee for New York City for making this program possible.  

The Snowy Day

It’s nap time on this snowy day, so I have a moment to relax and reflect.  Staying inside with a toddler in this weather can be challenging without continuous activity.  I try my best to have some themed activities for our 2 year old son, Sage.

Today we read the children’s classic, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.   I am a fan of arts and crafts, so I chose to follow up with a winter crafts activity.   I strapped Sage in the high chair and pushed him up to the table covered with a plastic table cloth.  I put on his Ikea apron and put some card stock in front of him with Crayola washable finger paint in paper plates and two paint brushes.  I let him exercise his creative genius on the sheets of paper and left them to dry.

After the finger painted masterpieces dried, I drew an outline of a mitten on one of the pieces of the card stock and cut it out.  I traced the mitten onto all of the painted pieces and cut them out for Sage to embellish.

I placed a bunch of buttons in a paper bowl and some cotton balls on the table.  Putting Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Gluealong the edges of the mittens, I assisted him in placing the cotton at the edges to look like fur.  I then put dots of glue all over the mittens for him to add the buttons.

When his mittens were all complete, we hung them on twine from the 99 cent store with clothespins.  (Be sure to always write your child’s name, date and age somewhere on their projects.)

We will read the Spanish edition of, The Snowy Day after nap time ;)  Enjoy The Snowy Day.  

A Conversation about Service and the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Creating Legacies

Community Conversations

A Conversation about Service and the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King’s life and work has inspired generations of Americans to serve and make the world a better place.  Each year we pause to reflect on his legacy of service and its meaning in today’s world.

Creating Legacies families gathered on Saturday, February 1, 2014 to read an excerpt from W.E.B. DuBois’s 1898 commencement address at Fisk University and talked about the personal and social importance of public service and civic engagement.  We look forward to more family community conversations in the months to come.  We hope that you will join us.

This program was made possible by New York Council for the Humanities