Monday, December 8, 2008

Indie Craft Fest at DWR

Saturday, December 13, 10am-6pm

Get your last-minute shopping done in time to enjoy the rest of the holiday season. Peruse handmade goods and meet local crafters of Washington, D.C.’s favorite indie craft collective, Craft Mutiny. During this one-day event at the Studio, you’ll find one-of-a-kind clothing, stationary, prints, jewelry, handspun yarn, plush items and more. As always, you can test-drive DWR’s large selection of modern designs for the home and workplace. Our gift to you: free standard shipping on all items under $250 through December 16. Coffee, bagels and fruit will be served.

RSVP at Georgetown@dwr.com

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Holiday Craft Markets

Come visit me at the Holiday Booty Market

This Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- 12-6pm
Hilda's Giftshop in the National City Christian Church
5 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC
This event is sponsored by DEKKA, Miss Pixies, and Chiptole.

The Craft Mutiny Collective presents its 3rd annual Holiday Booty Market! This super fun event will be your chance to find that perfectly unique handmade gift before the holidays. Come and check out our indie craft event in the heart of Washington, D.C. Admission is free. Music and snacks provided! All you have to bring is your shopping list!!!

Vendors

Twenty rad vendors from the Washington, D.C. area display their handmade goodies.


Tigerflight
I draw, sew, and try to make something every day. I use my chronic doodling and collection of toys and pictures out of magazines and newspapers as inspiration. I am as equally influenced by graffiti in Paris and Philly as I am by artists like Chris Ware and Charles Burns. Tigerflight's Pirate Yeti is our show mascot!


El Jefe Design

El Jefe Design creates hand crafted art prints and concert posters for a variety of local and national acts including The Decemberists, Foo Fighters, Wilco, and The Raveonettes. Each poster is hand screen printed on recycled paper and done in limited editions.


De*nada Design
De*nada Design is a design boutique specializing in knits, bags and graphic tees that are comtemporary, fun and energetic.


60 Bugs
If you are a rad kid in D.C., it is likely that you are wearing something by 60 bugs. Debbie of 60 bugs loves the 80s, music, pop culture and DIYing, and likes to incorporate these themes into her embroidery and gocco printing.


Tina Seamonster
Tina Seamonster silk screens shirts and cards in small batches at her kitchen table with a Print Gocco. She is inspired by her life as an urban mom of twins in DC. Check out her new Grumpy Gnome line of cards and ornaments!


Dekka

DEKKA is a Fashion, Art, and Music Showroom/Retail Store in the hear of DC's most exciting are, the U Street corridor. We feature over 30 local and international designers and artists, as well as offer the latest underground music at our listening station. We thank DEKKA for being both a vendor and a sponsor of this event!


this chickadee
this chickadee is on a mission to create all sorts of magical things for you and your home. Aprons, totes, and table decorations are one-of-a-kind creations, stitched with love. The aim of this chickadee is to provide an alternative to mass-produced items and to inspire, educate and brighten.


bLuGrn design
My craft ranges from jewelry to paper goods and now baby onsies. My jewelry and paper goods consist of nature silhouettes, braille and the shark teeth i find on the chesapeak bay. My baby onsies (as well as some of my jewelry) was born from my new little mooshy gooshy boston pup, El guapo.


Pile of Craft
Pile of Craft turns colorful, bumpy, fuzzy handspun yarn into scarves,
hats, and handbags. She also creates unique and useful decorative items
out of custom-mixed polymer clay. She creates fuzzy tree cards and
other happy stationery sets, too!


Charming Vices
Charming Vices offers kitschy jewelry and accessories for guys and gals. I am compelled to recycle objects that need new lives into one of a kind creations.


Kristina Bilonick
My designs are derived from childhood memories, pop culture and a general nostalgia for the 70s and 80s. Hand printed on a mix of new and vintage apparel,kb designs add pizzaz to the dullest of wardrobes. Check out the accompanying line of glass accessories to complete the look!


8th Street Soap Kitchen
8th Street Soap Kitchen soaps are handcrafted with quality natural ingredients. Painstakingly made from scratch in small batches, these soaps lather richly, are naturally colored and carefully scented, and clean delightfully.


block party press
As with many artists, I have been drawing and making things for as long as I can remember. Sometimes my brain overflows with more ideas than my hands and my wallet can keep up with. I love texture, patterns, contrast, color (especially red, white & black and any pastel color paired with chocolate brown).

Kitten Rocks Well

Kitten Rocks Well features handmade nicnaks and stationary sets. Many of the sets are made using upcycled book and old magazine pages.


latebloom
one-of-a-kind bags handmade with vintage/weird fabrics, screenprinted designs, reworked fashion finds, and various other inspirations.


Booklish Lady
Bookish Lady makes blank journals by hand, folding and stitching or gluing each page of every journal herself. She also tracks down antique letterpress blocks (or designs her own) and uses them to print the kind of cards she likes to send to her pals.


Fisticuffs Leather
100% recycled leather and found object cuffs and watchbands...soon to have dog collars too!


Daisy Lacy
Info coming soon.


Folktale Fibers
I am a full-time spinster who carefully sources local, animal-friendly, and sustainable fibers and spins them into whimsical but practical skeins. I sell handspun yarn, handdyed and handcarded fiber, felted baubles/beads, and handknit accessories.

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Friday, September 19, 2008

Bazaar Bizarre

I forgot to mention in all the excitement that Chickrocks and I will have a booth at Bizarre Bizarre in Austin!


October 18th, 2008 from 10am to 10pm and
October 19th, 2008 from 10am to 6pm *
Travis County Event Center and Fairground
Bazaar Bizarre began in 2001 in the Boston-area as a hodge-podge of friends and acquaintances cobbling together their handcrafted DIY wares to sell and staging an offbeat entertainment extravaganza. In 2004 the Bazaar Bizarre spread to Los Angeles and Cleveland and in 2006 Make took us under their wing to include the Bazaar Bizarre as part of the Maker Faire

Maker Faire Austin
Mayor Will Wynn declares 2nd Annual Maker's Weekend in Austin celebrating Austin’s creativity, ingenuity and the Do It Yourself spirit.

Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It's for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things.

Featuring over 300 Makers
Online tickets - discount pricing available through 10/3/2008. Online ticket purchases from 10/4/2008 - 10/16/2008 will be full price and tickets will be picked up onsite at will call

Tickets are also available at Austin Children's Museum and Whole Foods (downtown 6th & Lamar)
  • Onsite Ticket Pricing
    • Adult - $25.00
    • Student (13-21, or with student photo ID) - $15.00
    • Youth (4-12) - $10.00
    • Children 3 and under are free

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    Tuesday, August 19, 2008

    Finally...

    Back from some travels ... and with some great news! Just happens that a spot opened up for Crafty Bastards and I'm in! YAY!!! (snoopy dance)

    That means ready to start crafting like a bastard. ;)

    Also if you happen to be in San Antonion, Texas the month of September I'm showing a few of my photographs in their monthwide photo festival FotoSeptiembre.
    I will be showing my photographs at Loft Studio with Juan I. Garcia, Marriana Urrutia, Raul & Claudia Garcia, Mark Forsyth, and Wiliam Gay. The opening reception is Thursday, September 4 from 6:30- 9:30 pm. Come join us for some drink and show.

    Here's a Sneak Peak:

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    Tuesday, July 15, 2008

    Why make/buy Handmade Goods

    Crankbunny is a "Animation Director by day and paper puppet magic rabbit fish at night." Based in NY she makes quirky and beautiful "paper puppets" and popup cards.

    She also made this great video about why she makes handmade.
    Check out her video i just saw via city paper cut the craft blog.


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    Saturday, June 28, 2008

    Craft Fairs

    We just got back from a hot but fun day at the Crafty Bastards fair in Silver Spring Maryland... i went to check out the vendors and their set ups and get a couple of gifts...and yes stuff for myself.

    I also recently went to a Crafty Bastards 101 discovery series where they gave out tips for those looking to become part of the craft fair experience... i thought i would share and get some thoughts..

    1)
    Pick the right show for you....makes sense. Don't want to be selling to the wrong crowd.

    2) Customer relations... basically smile and make friends. If they don't buy right then they will buy later... i've found this to be quite true.

    3)
    Accept credit cards! SO TRUE.. most of my sales are CC. If you don't accept credit cards make sure you know where an atm machine is close by....to direct your customers.

    4)Booth set up. ..this is one of the reasons why i went to check out the silverspring show. (see my pics for more examples of set ups) but basically be organized and neat... wear your own merchandise. Bring mirrors, apron, calculator, pens...

    5)Have promo items... i found this tip especially interesting. Basically if you have a cool promo item that a customer is willing to keep and display, they're advertising for you for free... they're suggestions were postcards with and image of your product(s), stickers, pins,... also something i hadn't thought about before but makes a lot of sense.... have a pic of your stuff on your business card.. at the end of the day you may have a ton of cards you collected but can't quite remember what everyone did unless there's a pic or good description on your card.

    6) email list sign up for those wanting to keep up with your sales and shows.

    Also consider having items at all different price levels
    have things at eye level....(added benefit is it keeps things out of reach from toddlers )

    Anyways, i just applied to the crafty bastards show here in d.c....hope i get in. I'm really inspired by everyones really cute displays and wares! Hope everyone had a great weekend!
    CHEERS!

    Resources:
    etsy.com
    overnightprints.com
    bannerstogo.com
    stickergiant.com
    stickerrobot.com
    busybeaver.net .... i just ordered some pins from here... i can't wait to see how they turn out!

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    Thursday, May 29, 2008

    Spring Cleaning

    Spring is soon to be gone which means lots of cleaning house. Along with emptying my closets and pulling out the dyson this weekend I've decided to add a little fun to this time honored ritual.

    SALE!!!!

    check out what goodies have been marked down....and see what else is new.

    Lastly ...

    Friday's fab five favorites + 1 to grow on ;)



    Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
    celula.etsy.com

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    Monday, January 14, 2008

    February Craft Fair

    bLuGrn design at Crafts & Kisses Fair!

    WHEN: Sunday, February 3, 12 noon to 5 pm

    WHERE:
    Josephine Butler Parks Center
    1247 15th Street NW
    Washington, D.C.

    MORE INFO: http://craftsandkisses.com

    SNEAK PEAK:

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