Pictures from Urban Craft Uprising 2010

Urban Craft Uprising Holiday 2010 - nearly 10,000 shoppers came thru the doors of the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. It was awesome. There was so much crafty goodness it was nearly overwhelming. The shopping frenzy was buzzing as usual. A lot of my artwork (as well as all the other vendors at this show!) will be given away as presents this holiday due to the success of this show.

I would like to say big Thank You to everyone involved, shoppers and organizers!

This is the line on Sunday morning of shoppers waiting for almost 2 hours to get free swag as they entered the show.

This is Moxie's booth - she is one of the wonderful women who throw this show. Her felted creations and new book I Felt Awesome are amazing! Monsters and octopuses and mushrooms and balls and bowling pins and felting kits that come in milk shake containers.... oh how I swoon...

These felted terrariums were just scrumptious! Amanda Fiebing creates these incredible little fiber creations - look at the felted mushroom terrariums! They are just too cute!!!

I loved this sock monkey booth - so bright and colorful...

meant to buy one of these kits from Monkey Sock Monkey... but I had trouble getting out of my booth (cuz it was so busy!! yeah!) and when I took these pictures there was no one around to take my money (it was in the morning before the show started)... the kit is great, comes with everything you need, and they have an orange kit. What more could I ask for!

Beautifully handcrafted dolls with handmade clothes and accessories, and more handmade mushrooms

Bird Mafia

Bread and Badger

and this little video shows my booth... this was in the morning on Saturday before we opened... you can hear Moxie announcing for the volunteers to gather and get ready to open the doors! What a fun and exhausting weekend.

Urban Craft Uprising

I will be there - come check me out if you live in Seattle - I have packed up my car with all sorts of beautiful mobiles and cute glass bits... much including an exquisite batch of terrariums... and if I remember to make up a sign - I have a free ornament with every purchase!!

36 Tiny Terrariums

These little tiny terrariums simply make me swoon. I love their every detail. Pictures were taken and I didn't even edit them, I just made the collection of photos into a little video to share and remember... I know they will all find good homes.

Holiday Craft Show Prep

I am knee deep in holiday prep - working my way thru holiday craft shows. Prep involves many things, like stamping bags....I tried to take a few pictures today so I could share here...
I've been making more terrariums... these pictures are fun because people keep asking me how I make the tiny little arrangements - look see! - I use my old dissection kit!
The q-tips are for cleaning the glass if I get a bunch of dirt stuck to the inside of the terrariums...
I also made a bunch more "care cards" and stickers... more packaging details... the care cards are for the terrariums to tell people how to care for them...

I've been strategizing on how to fit a lot of stuff into a small vending space... this weekend I am working with 5ft by 10ft. Last weekend it was 6ft by 4ft. So I made up this piece of graph paper and cut little pieces of paper to represent my display stuff... put a little sticky glue on the back of the cutouts and this way I can play around with display ideas...

Last week I sorta set some stuff up in my living room to see what I had to work with...

and I bought this cake plate from Ikea to display my tiny terrariums underneath. I LOVE it.

Give Handmade

The Give Handmade Sale was this past Sunday - previously known as the Secret Society Sale - it outgrew its old location (the Secret Society Ballroom) and moved to the Left Bank Annex this year (and took on the new name)
Here is my spot (fuzzy picture) next to Isaac Watson and Amy Stoner - excellent neighbors! The show was full of all sorts of wonderful things...

there were owls

chocolate and flowers

mushrooms

clothing

bags

accessories

glass and mosaics

artwork, prints and paintings

soap and lotions

here's my neighbor Isaac and his cuffs made from camera lenses

this amazing old hoist was hanging from the ceiling. I want one of these in my studio :) The Left Bank Annex is a really great space. Its an old building that was re-done a couple of years ago... this was the first time I'd been inside.

I had fun, sold lots of little miniature mobiles and earrings... and I sold some terrariums - they make me smile.

Team Building Exercises

This garland of handmade panties has been hanging as an installation at the coffee shop across the street from Tim's apartment, the Albina Press.

While waiting for our drinks we were admiring this garland of underpants the other day... Tim told me that when he first noticed it he asked the coffee barista if it was a team building exercise. She said it was not.

This makes me laugh. A garland of handmade panties = a team building exercise?! And why would baristas have team building exercises? And panties? Why? They are pretty crafty too, some are embellished g-strings and whatnot, some are paper creations. Its pretty awesome, and strange... and I simply love the idea that making such a thing could be a team building exercise.

Maybe for my Idle Hands Ladies Auxiliary Club... now that could be a fun crafty get together!

4 Years on Etsy

I opened my Etsy store 4 years ago today!

Four years of sales and hearts and feedback and forums and street teams and trunk shows and meetings and get-togethers. Its been pretty amazing. I have sold a lot of mobiles thru my Etsy shop - and I have worked hard for each and every one of those sales! Whew, its sure not easy!

Want to help celebrate my four years of success - I am offering 25% off all day for my anniversary! Help me share my mobiles with this holiday season - this is my way of saying Thank You to all the Etsy shoppers out there.

Use the code 4ETSY in your purchase from my shop today and you get 25%off

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