What Women Create Magazine Now Available On the Newsstands and Online

     What Women Create Fall 2022 Edition which is featuring the City Girl Farm's "When Feathers Come Together - A Global Chicken Collection" is now available on the newsstands at the local bookstores and some craft shops in the U.S.  It is also available to see here online with the free trial deal.  I am in this magazine!  I am so excited and would like to congratulate the City Girl Farm for this successful project.  Thank you to What Women Create for this beautiful magazine and article! 

Photo Credit: Christy McGarity

    

What Women Create Magazine

     The City Girl Farm's Show "When Feathers Come Together - A Global Chicken Collection" is featured in a magazine "What Women Create Fall 2022" Edition.  My page is from p90 through p95.  I am very excited that my work and my story are included in this nationally-known beautiful magazine!  The printed magazines are going to be available at major bookstores and craft shops soon for the next couple of month.   

The Front Porch "Celebration of Dream" for Old Mill Tasty Shop and The Community of Wichita

     My daughter and I had great time creating the front porch at Old Mill Tasty Shop.! The design was inspired by Old Mill's 90th anniversary. While the porch stays there for one year, we hope you can visit Old Mill to have their delicious foods and congratulate them! Not just for eating at Old Mill, everybody is welcome to the porch for just sitting and talk!

We call it, "Celebration of Dream," because we believe a long-running business might have been the owners' dream come true. Old Mill is a family friendly place, so we kept it in our mind to create a design that invites children as well and hoped it will be inspiring to them to have dreams. The design also represents the city of Wichita as a good "home" where we see good businesses and the people of the community who support them.

We're very thankful to the people who helped us - especially Farha Construction, Nam Le, Bob, Tina, Croix, and James. Thank you to NMW Crafts in Michigan as well for their excellently-crafted miniature Dutch Mill paddles. We are so grateful for the opportunity that Downtown Wichita gave us with the funding from National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation Fund at the Wichita Community Foundation. Thank you to Emily Brookover and Megan Radley at Downtown Wichita for their marvelous leadership and support.

It was also great to get to know the other Front Porch Project creative people for the other five locations, Belinda, Kevin, Drew, Elizabeth, and Engy. Their porches show each person's amazing talent from their rich experiences in their own specialties. I am going to miss our weekly zoom meetings. Hope we can keep in touch!

     At last, but not least, It was definitely mother-and daughter bonding time.  With Sarah's positive spirit and God-given smile, I had many many happy moments.  This will become a lifelong memory for me,  Thank you, Sarah!  Love you! 

About the Front Porch Project, please see the Down Town Wichita's link. If you're interested in the process of making, please go back to my previous posts in this blog, or check out the reels in my Instagram.

The Front Porch at Old Mill Tasty Shop by Chiyoko and Sarah Myose

Place: In front of the Old Mill Tasty Shop at 604 E. Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67202

Date: The porch will be there through July in 2023.

Launch Party of the Front Porch Project at Old Mill Tasty Shop

 My daughter Sarah and I had lot of fun at the launch party of the Front Porch Project at Old Mill Tasty shop.  We were in costumes inspired by Old Mill's delicious banana split.  Thank you for stopping by everyone!  Here are the links to Wichita Eagle's article on this project and KAKE News TV coverage on the event. If you missed it, don't worry, the front porch is going to stay there for one year!

Old Mill Tasty Shop

604 E. Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67202

The Process of Making the Front Porch at Old Mill Tasty Shop 4

 Working with sun shade sails

 Reshaping and resewing the sun shade sails 

James helping with checking the sun shade sails

We went to check the sails day and night until we got the right length.

We also went to buy plants which go to the planters.  Considering the location of the porch and the timing of the year, we chose this plant Angelina Stonecrop Sedum which should survive all year long and in extreme heat and direct sunlight. It should turn orange/brown in the fall and may create yellow flowers in the summer. 

We added a DIY self watering system to each planter, which should help alleviate the number of times of the watering. 

Sun shade sails are up with the help of Farah Construction.  We barely made it in the morning of the launch party!  So happy!  

It looks nice as we planned!

From the third floor of the Old Mill

Front Porch Project flag was installed, too!  We are ready for the launch party!