I forgot to tell you that I’ll be vending, demo-ing and schmoozing at KidsQuest Children’s Museum on Monday, December 1st. I do Shopfest every year, and it’s always fun… especially because my table is near the Waterways exhibit and I like to splash!
From their website:
WINTER WONDERLAND SHOPFEST
Monday, December 1st
11am-2pm and 4pm-8pm
Kick off your holiday shopping and support KidsQuest! Local vendors will share unique products and The Explore Store will offer a 15% discount (that’s 25% off for members).
From 11am-2pm bring the kids and KidsQuest staff will watch them while you browse and buy. From 4pm-8pm join us for adult only shopping with wine and snacks. 15% of all your purchases go to support the Museum’s educational programs.
The Mini Monster kit she mentions also has a fill-in-the-blank personality profile to help you give your new friend an outlook on life. They have a ton of fun kits for sale at the Maker Shed, and I’m not just saying that, I swear. My favorites, besides the monsters of course, are the Felt Bird Brooch Kit, Wet Felted Flower Kit, Designing Automata Kit, and the Yarn Spinning Kit. They have a lot more, and there’s a 10% discount until the end of November using promo code CRAFTER. Clicky.
That’s the tag line on The Sketchbook Project website, and it sounds fun.
We send you the sketchbook, you make the art. Then Art House is taking all the sketchbooks on a 6 city tour to galleries and museums across the U.S. The goal of the exhibition is to encourage anyone to create artwork and build a collective of sketchbooks made by artists from all over the world.
I didn’t know what Jute was, so here’s the first part of the wiki
about it:
Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. {snip} The fabric made from jute is popularly known as burlap in North America.
Is that too embarrassing to say out loud? Should I feel shame? Guess what? I don’t care, I gots to get me some essence that smell like vittles!!
My sister Rachel is a creative individual and a licensed cosmetologist specializing in makeup and skin care. She gave me some lovely vanilla perfume oil for my birthday because I confessed to her my desire to smell like cookies. (By the way, having a smart beauty expert for a sister is like having a doctor in the family. Seriously, you should be really jealous.)
She got it here, and now I do smell like a baked good. Trouble is that I think I need to smell like more foods… Maybe apple, or strawberry or chocolate or something!? I don’t know but I’m going on a snack smelling journey. Advice is gladly accepted.
(Part of me hopes I find a perfume oil called “Swedish Meatballs” or “BLT” but I would never wear them… probably.)
Turns out that the bruise lady, also known as Awesome Joolie, has another great flickr set of sign boards in her town being “improved” by neighborhood tricksters.
I LOVE this kind of thing. I may have even been involved in some… I’ll try to find the photos. For now, here’s more from Awesome Joolie. Clicky.
I love everything about what Jamie Noel does. I am attracted to her themes and ascetic, but when you add in her execution, her work makes my heart pound.
She refers to her jewelry designs as “interactive” and indeed, that’s where she shines. Take this Circus Mix Up Necklace for instance:
From the Etsy listing:
It starts with a custom made frame divided into four shadow box compartments.
Next the characters are added: the tattoo lady, the strong man, the lion tamer, and a very dapper monkey. This circus troupe comes from vintage circus advertising posters.
The process is finished with tiny panes of hand cut glass and beautifully scalloped sterling silver solder.
This handmade brooch is actually a miniature puppet theater with moving parts!
Pull the sterling silver lever on either side of the brooch and Punch and Judy disappear behind the curtains.
Push the lever and they come back on stage. Gently jiggle the lever and watch them dance.
She has a lot more to see in her Etsy store. Go there now if only to gawk at the splendor. Clicky.
