COS Town Tidings #25-292

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🌟 Local Spotlight: 🎨 To design her future, she had to rediscover her past

📰 News from this week in Colorado Springs!

🤗 Wellness Tips you missed

🍳 Sizzle Up Your Week with Our Recipe Archives!

📆 Local Events + Concerts, Farmers Markets & Fall Fairs/Festivals

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What do you call a clumsy watercolor painter?

👉A washout! 🤣

🏙️ An Architect’s New Blueprint for Beauty

🎨 To design her future, she had to rediscover her past

For decades, they waited. A small collection of watercolor paints, dormant treasures from her teenage years, a time when her world was filled with art. They journeyed with Ivy Ng-Coffey from Hong Kong to India as she built a career as an architect.

Then, in Colorado Springs, settling into life with her husband and watching her sons reach one milestone after another, something shifted. Life wasn't waiting for the buildings she designed to be finished. It was happening right now—in morning laughs, in mountain sunsets, in the quiet moments she'd been too busy to experience. Those familiar paints suddenly called to her with a different promise: not to create monuments that would last forever, but to capture the moments that wouldn't.

It was a return to her first love. Ivy began capturing the intimate beauty of our mountains, creating art that transforms a shared memory into a timeless keepsake—a painting of the very trail where a couple got engaged, a view that feels like home. This sparked her mission: to make art a part of everyone’s daily life, not a luxury for a few.

Her philosophy shines brightest in her stunning calendars. The concept is a brilliant fusion of practicality and beauty: for the investment of a single print, you receive 12 frame-worthy paintings. She even adds a QR code to each month, inviting you to watch a time-lapse of its creation. It’s an act of profound connection, sharing the magic of turning a blank page into a living landscape.

This spirit of giving is the foundation of her Ivywild Studio, named for the neighborhood where she and her family feel truly welcomed. You’ll find her at local school and church fundraisers, choosing venues that give back to the community she loves. Ivy isn’t just painting Colorado’s beauty; she’s inviting you to fill your home with it.

To bring a piece of Ivy’s world into yours, visit IvywildStudio.com and follow her journey on Facebook. Here’s where you can see her work in person.

🎉 Let's celebrate and support our local artists! 👩‍🎨

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📰 News from this week in Colorado Springs!

Here are some of the stories we shared this week. Check out any issues you missed.

• 🌟Real Estate Roundup: 🏡 Colorado Springs Housing Market: Latest Home Sales and Market Insights (Issue #25-291)
   

• 🖼 TRIVIA: COS’ Hidden Wild Side—Captured by This Woman (Issue #25-287)

   

• 👵 Protect Your Info, COS Seniors (Issue #25-289)

   

• 🥫 Surge in Need for Local Vets (Issue #25-286)

   

• 😬 What Health Inspectors Found Will Shock You (Issue #25-290)

   

• 🚒 Fewer Firefighters? (Issue #25-288)

• 💳 When Bills Trigger Anxiety

• 🥾 Crews Gulch Trail Connects Parks & Nature

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📆 Sample Local Events

*Weather permitted

• Oct thru 31: Old Colorado City October Strolls

• Oct 19, 9am-5pm: Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival @ Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N Cascade $50-$65

• Oct 19, Noon-8pm : NIGHTS OF HORROR film festival @ Ivywild School Gym Auditorium $10

• Oct 19, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Oct 19 (2:30pm), 24-26: First Company Theater Presents, Brigadoon @First United Methodist Church, 420 N Nevada $20

• Oct 21, 5:30-7pm: Vegan Community Potluck and Social @ Westside Community Ctr, 1628 W Bijou

• Oct 22, 11am-2pm: A.P.P.L.E. Project - Apple Preservation Class @ Colorado State University Extension, 17 N Spruce St $60.54

• Oct 25, 6-9pm: Murder Mystery, Game Over @Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Dr $74.95 (3 tickets left - Halloween Costume Show)

• Oct 25, 6:30-8pm: Movies Under the Stars - Trick ‘r Treat (R) @Bristol Brewing FREE

• Oct 25, 7pm-midnight: Salsa Night At Ivywild @ 1604 S Cascade Ave $23.18

• Oct 26, Noon-3pm: Owl Be There Art Class with Renee Darling @Jaks Brewing, 555 Amelia St $75

• Oct 26, 10am-Noon: Beginner Dot Mandala Painting Workshop @Treehouse Cafe, 5965 N Academy $50 (3 Spots Left)

• Oct 29, 6pm: Secret of Black Forest Bistro Murder Mystery Dinner @6750 Shoup Rd $80 (Limited Seats Left)

• Oct 29, 7-9pm: Murder Mystery Dinner: Midnight at the Masquerade @ ViewHouse, 7114 Campus Dr $70

• Nov 1, 7:30pm: The RiP Improv: Artificial Intelligence @The MAT, 1626 S Tejon $17.50

• Nov 2, 1-4pm: Lighted Block Mosaic Class @ The Glass Collective, 828 East Fillmore $80 (Filling Up Fast)

• Nov 8, 8am-noon: Bear Creek Bear Run @Bear Creek Nature Center $20-$65 (Registration open for this fun, family friendly annual event!)

• Nov 8, 7pm: Oxymorons Comedy: Hunger Games Charity Event @Peak Improv Theater, 3440 N Carefree $15 (family friendly)

👩‍🌾 Farmers Markets - Weather permitting

• Oct 19, 11am-3pm: Southeast Farmer's Market (Food Coalition) @Stompin' Groundz, 2050 Jet Wing Dr (Last one for the season)

• Oct 26, 9am-2pm: COS Sunday Market @Acacia Park, Downtown (Last one for the season)

🎶 Fall Concerts - Weather permitting

• Oct 19, 2pm: Fall Concert @ Trinity Church of the Nazarene, 5055 El Camino Dr FREE

• Oct 19, 3pm: Woodwind & Brass Concert @ St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 2111 Carlton Ave

• Oct 23, 5-8pm: Jazz: Colin McAllister @Mining Exchange Hotel, 8 S Nevada FREE

• Nov 7 & 8, 7:30pm: COS Philharmonic: Top Gun: Maverick @Pikes Peak Center $58

• Dec 21, 3pm: Pikes Peak Philharmonic: Jazz @ENT Center for the Arts, 5225 N Nevada $14-$20

🍂 Fall Festivals, Fairs & Activities - Weather permitting

• Oct thru 31, Director's Cut: Haunted Lantern Tour @Cave of the Winds $45 (Ages: 13+)

• Oct 19, 9am-4pm: Colorado Springs Markets & Craft Show @ 1150 Panorama Dr FREE admission

• Oct 19-31 (Fri's 9:30am-2:30pm), (Sat/Sun 9:30-4pm): Pumpkin Fest @Gaither Mountain Blooms, 5210 S Hwy 85 $11.17

• Oct 19-26, 10am-5pm (Every Fri, Sat & Sun): Long Neck Pumpkin Farm @ 7595 California Dr, COS $18

• Oct 19, 11am-3pm: BARKS & BOOS FALL FEST @ Under the Sun Dog Training and Daycare, 6540 Vincent Dr FREE admission

• Oct 19, 24, 26, 31, 4-8:30pm: Boo at the Zoo @ Cheyenne Mtn Zoo $24

• Oct 24, starting at 5pm: Manitou Ghost Tours @Manitou Springs Heritage Center, 517 Manitou Ave $19.89 (Last day)

• Oct 25, 9am-4pm, Miner's Pumpkin Patch @ Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 North Gate $13 (Last one for the season)

• Oct 25, 10am-7pm: Emma Crawford Coffin Races @downtown Manitou

• Oct 25, 9:30am-4pm: Pup-Kin Days @Gather Mountain Blooms, 5210 S Hwy 85 $5.72

• Oct 25, Noon-5pm: Spooktacular Saturday @Everyday Girl Adventures, 2506 W Colorado Ave FREE

• Nov 1, 10am-2pm: Everything but the Oink @Rock Ledge Ranch $8

• Nov 14 (10am-5pm), 15 (10am-6pm), 16 (10am-5pm): Colorado Springs Christmas Gift Show @Colorado Springs Event Center, 3960 Palmer Park Blvd $12 (Save $2 through Nov 13)

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