If you love reading about or listening to true crime stories, our true crime club is for you! The club will be meeting the last Thursday of each month from 7 to 8 PM. No reading is required prior to meeting. When we meet, we will take turns talking about and discussing true crime events that have caught our attention. The library has new books available to read on quite a few cases! The next meeting will be tonight from 7-8 PM. Come join us!
Northern Lights Mug Class
Our class today was great! Participants got to see how their Northern Lights patterns turned out. They all looked wonderful! (The first 6 pics are some before-and-after firing pictures followed by pics of all the finished mugs and of new mugs being dipped.) Tim even gave the class an awesome surprise – a drawing which gave some of the participants the opportunity to do a dip mug! It was interesting to watch the dip process. It went quick and was easy. However, getting the big planter pot into the same 5 gallon bucket next month could be a lot more challenging! Thank you, Tim, for providing such a great class!!
Health Counts in Cowley County
Udall Public Library is teaming up with Health Counts in Cowley County to collect ANONYMOUS input into what resources YOU want to have available in YOUR community in order to make Cowley County a healthy place to live.
Stop by the Library to take the FREE survey either on paper OR on the computer. The survey only takes 15-20 minutes. As an added incentive, we have $10 Winfield Chamber Checks to award to the first 25 survey takers! The checks are good at multiple locations in Winfield. Only one adult per household can take the survey.
Week 1 of the Northern Lights Mug Class a Success
Tim came today to teach our class how to do a northern lights mug. We started by watching a demonstration on how to pour a mug (followed later by how to dump out the excess slip and unmold the mug). Next, we cleaned our pre-fired mugs and then learned about different ways to apply glaze to get different effects on the mugs. Based on what was learned, many of the students then applied 3 layers of black glaze followed by 3 layers of merlot and 3 layers of green (only to top 75% of the mug!) to get the northern lights look. A few did other glaze layer applications. We had a very wide variety of glaze application patterns. It will be exciting next Saturday when we get to see how they turned out (after firing). It was another super class by Tim!
Leather Pocketknife Holster Class Was Great!
On Feb. 24th, Sharlissa led another super leather class. We had a great time learning how to pocketknife holsters. We learned how to use acrylic templates to trace out patterns, how to stamp leather, how to stain and seal it and how to stitch pieces together. It was awesome seeing a piece of leather turn into a very nice looking and very useful item. The holsters turned out great. We are totally thrilled to have Sharlissa teach these classes – they are wonderful!
Air Dry Clay Class is Lots of Fun!
On Saturday, Jan. 27th, we finished our 2 week air dry class. On Jan. 20th, we learned how to prepare a container to use as a mold and how to form clay into multiple shapes. We then had fun creating our own rectangular dishes out of those shapes. On the 27th, we removed edges from the clay and then learned about acrylic and watercolor painting on clay surfaces. It was an awesome class with Llyonesse! The final products turned out great! It was a lot of fun!
Free Christmas Cards!
Are you needing a last minute Christmas card (or two)? Come look at the library!! We have a nice assortment of them in the wooden stand in the library’s foyer. You are welcome to come in and pick one out anytime the library is open. They are FREE!!!
Free Monthly Unusual Holiday Craft Kit
Every month we will feature a new unusual holiday for a fun, take-home craft kit! Every kit has a fun craft, a new bookmark, fun activities, a calendar of events, and sometimes even a snack! Hurry in, we only have 4o craft kits per month.
This month we are learning about letter writing!
Our library has an official logo!!
We received 22 entries in our library logo contest! This nice logo, designed by Audra Vela, is the winner. We thank her for all her work on her entry and congratulate her on submitting the winning logo! We also wish to thank all the others that submitted entries for taking the time to create and submit logos in order to help us find a logo that was personalized for us.
New Movies and Video Games!
We now have the following movies:
Super Mario Bros., Black Panther: Waconda Forever, Haunted Mansion (2023), Patriot Games, The Grinch, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
New Games Include:
XBox1: Titanfall 2, NBA 2K 20, Rocket League
Playstation 4: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Spyro, Paw Patrol Grand Prix, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, Little Nightmares 2, Cuphead, Resident Evil 4, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Call of Duty:Modern Warfare III
Nintendo Switch: Mario Kart 8, Legend of Zelda:Tears of the Kingdom
XBox 360: Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing, Rayman Legends
PSVR: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
PS5: Spiderman 2