FREE computer classes. Registration is not required but is available for anyone who wants to participate in the live stream course. Completion certificates are available for live stream classes.
Monday, October 12th at 4:00 p.m.
Aprende cómo encontrar tu negocio en línea con Google. Este taller explica cómo funciona el Buscador de Google y cómo puedes mejorar la visibilidad de tu página web a través de la optimización de motores de búsqueda (SEO).
Email libtrain@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL Live on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Saturday, October 10th at 1:00 p.m. to make DIY cosmetics with inexpensive ingredients. You can find the majority of ingredients at local stores like Wal-Mart, Albertsons, & La Montana Co-Op.
Ingredients: Homemade Rosewater: • 7 Organic Roses • 1.5 L Distilled water (enough to cover the rose petals)
Homemade Rosewater Face Toner: • 1 Tbsp. Pure Rosewater • 4 Tbsp. Distilled Water (or enough to fill your spray bottle) • 1 – 2.5 oz. spray bottle
Instructions: Homemade Rosewater: 1. Remove petals from stems and run them under luke-warm water to remove any leftover residue. 2. Add petals to a large pot and top with enough distilled water to just cover (no more or you’ll dilute your rosewater). 3. Over medium-low heat bring the water to a simmer and cover. 4. Let simmer for 20-30 minutes or until petals have lost their color and are pale pink. 5. Strain the mixture to separate the petals from the water. 6. Discard petals and place water in a glass jar to store.
Benefits of Rosewater? • Helps balance the pH of the skin • Soothes skin irritation • Reduces redness (has anti-inflammatory properties!) • May reduce fine lines and wrinkles
Instructions: 1. Combine all ingredients in a mason jar or cup. 2. Top with hot water. 3. Place a plate or top onto mason jar and let infuse for 20 minutes. 4. Remove plate and filter tea through strainer or cheesecloth. 5. Add honey or sweetener if desired. 6. Sip and enjoy!
Chamomile – Chamomile is a relaxing nervine that helps encourage restful sleep. Better sleep = decreased stress. Lavender – like chamomile, lavender is a relaxing nervine that helps encourage better sleep. In addition, multiple clinical trials have shown that lavender decreases anxiety and perception of pain (source). Lemon balm – As an antispasmodic carminative, lemon balm is useful when stress or anxiety affects digestion (i.e. IBS) because it acts on both the digestive and nervous systems. Holy Basil – also known as Tulsi, this adaptogenic herb works with your nervous system to bring it into balance. It also has a relaxing and uplifting quality, acting as a mildly relaxing nervine which makes it a great option for those with anxiety and depression. Eleuthero – known as the “work hard, play hard” herb, this adaptogenic powerhouse can help balance the nervous systems of those known to work a little too much and play a little too hard. It helps boost physical and mental stamina and endurance as well as promoting a healthy immune system.
Instructions: 1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and cloves in a large bowl. 2. Top with coconut oil and molasses 3. Using the back of a fork mash the wet ingredients into the dry to make a crumbly mixture. Depending on how solid the coconut oil is, you may need to use your hands. 4. Place scrub into a mason jar with a secure lid. Will last for several months in a cool location
To use: 1. On wet or dry skin, apply scrub liberally all over the body. 2. Scrub into skin to remove dead skin cells. 3. Wash off completely.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Friday, October, 9th at 4:00 p.m. with special guest and storyteller Rosalia de Aragon who will perform as La Llorona, The Wailing Woman, the famous ghost story from Spanish folklore.
FREE computer classes. Registration is not required but is available for anyone who wants to participate in the live stream course. Completion certificates are available for live stream classes.
Wednesday, October 7th at 4:00 p.m.
Learn to use Google slides to create slideshows and presentations for school presentations, meetings, and more. We will also learn how to make the presentation using meeting software such as Zoom
Email libtrain@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Call to Order – Janet Tempest, Library Advisory Board Chair or designee
BUSINESS AGENDA
August 26, 2020 – Meeting Minute (action)
CONSENT AGENDA (These items are placed on Consent Agenda so the Board may designate by unanimous consent these routine items they wish to be approved on one motion. If any item does not meet with the approval of all Board members or if a citizen so requests, it will be heard as a separate item)
• Library Updates – Tammi Moe (information/discussion) • Friends of the Library Updates – Anne Price (information/discussion)
NEW BUSINESS
• Election of Officers (discussion/vote) • Shared Drive for Library Advisory Board Materials (information)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
• Design of Strategic Planning Process (discussion/action) • Absentee Library Advisory Board Members (discussion) • LAB Report for Council and Mayor (discussion/action)
Create your own art using various materials found around your home! These courses are geared towards individuals 15 years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis and can be requested below:
Tune in on Monday, October 5th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration of drawing techniques that explores the relationship between form, light, and perspective. Learn simple techniques to create three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface by sketching and defining drawing techniques.
Drawing Definition:
In fine art, the term “drawing” may be defined as the linear realization of visual objects, concepts, emotions, and fantasies, including symbols and even abstract forms. Drawing is a graphic art which is characterized by an emphasis on form or shape, rather than mass and color as in painting. Drawing is quite different from graphic printmaking processes, because although a drawing may form the basis for replication, it is by its very nature, unique.
Forrest Fenn was a NM Poet that loved the outdoors and encouraged others to do the same. He created a treasure hunt that baffled the world for a decade.
To honor his memory and the outdoor adventures he loved, OFPL has created a Treasure Hunt! Watch for a poem to be posted on each of our social media platforms, @galluplibrary on Saturday, October 3rd.
Follow the clues in the poem to find the treasure we have hidden somewhere in the Gallup area. Find our treasure, enjoy the contents, take a photo with it, and share it with the library. Enjoy the thrill of the chase with this great adventure!
Join us Live on Facebook and YouTube, @galluplibrary for beginning Spanish lessons and silly spooky science experiments this month. Videos are posted Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:00 a.m.
The Library will have weekly virtual fun with games, guests, and more! Join us Live on Facebook, @galluplibrary Friday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. to participate in Fun Friday interactive events and the opportunity to win some great prizes!
• Friday, October 2nd – Feast of Legends • Friday, October 9th – La Llorona • Friday, October 16th – Virtual Lotería • Friday, October 23rd – Clue Trivia • Friday, October 20th – Halloween Trivia
Register below for a copy of Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot now through October 9th.
A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder…MORE.
