Remember how Hand-Eye Supply asked us to vote on which creative makers/builders/crafters/designers would grace their float at this year’s Starlight Parade? And how they promised they would throw a party to announce the winners? Well if you were on such voter, drop by the shop tonight from 6-9 pm, where they’re announcing the lucky floaters […]
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Embroidered Book Covers
Holy stitches, these embroidered book covers by Jillian Tamaki are bitchin’. Penguin Classics commissioned them for release in the fall. I know what my niece is getting for Christmas. Jillian Tamaki Jillian Tamaki Wrap-around book cover for Emma More after the jump. h/t to Heather for the link Jillian Tamaki Jillian Tamaki
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Last Chance to Join The Craftiest Craft Show in Town
Ack! The deadline to apply to be one of the vendors in the gianormous bi-annual Crafty Wonderland show is tomorrow, y’all! This legendary event features hundreds of various makers, and millions (what, it seems like millions) of attendees. If you can hang with the crowd it’s a great way to get all of your shopping […]
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Geek Aprons (That Will Probably Make You Horny)
Look, I know exactly what it says about me that aprons sometimes get me horny. I’m a crass, misogynistic, perpetrator of the patriarchy and I should hustle my ass over to the community college for some womens’ study classes, STAT. That being said, how am I supposed to resist these geeky superheroine aprons designed by […]
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Good News From Crafty Wonderland
Unless you’ve been hiding out and avoiding downtown, you’ve probably seen or heard tell of this year’s excellent lineup of downtown pop-up shops, one of which has been occupied by everyone’s favorite craft curators, Crafty Wonderland. A combination of efforts from various agencies and entities made the shops possible, giving local retailers high-visibility real estate […]
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Halloween Ideas…For NEXT Year
I feel like every May I get an idea for a great Halloween costume, and I think to myself, “oh, I’ll remember that, it’s too good to forget!” Then come October I’m out of ideas, don’t have any money, and am unmotivated to think of a good costume, frustrated by the fact that I cannot […]
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True Blood Paper Dolls
I’m not sure what else to say about this. Someone created True Blood paper dolls. All I can think about is how I normally like to make dolls hump each other, but in this instance it would just be derivative. They’re all pretty good likenesses, though Sam’s doll is clearly the weirdest. He doesn’t get […]
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Innovation, Meet Wasteful Spending
Carstache: just in case they can’t see the one you’re already wearing through the dark tint on your windowless van. This report proves there is no excuse for being a victim of this recession, as long as you have the tact to invent a ridiculous niche market novelty product that will make you thousands before […]
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Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Holiday Sale: It’s Back Already!
If today’s rain hasn’t already driven you into a catatonic depression marked by the conviction that you’ll probably never have a real summer again, ever, in your whole entire life, and you’re still functional enough to absorb information off of a computer screen, good for you! Is it too early to talk about Christmas? No, […]
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First Week of Events at Luce
You may already have heard about Luce, the new event space(s) opened by the husband and wife team of Giovanna Parolari (owner of the Una boutique) and John Toboada (chef and owner of Navarre) that’s taken over not one, but two addresses at 2138 and 2140 E Burnside. Not quite a restaurant (I’ll leave the […]
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The Regretsy Interview Uncut
A teeny, tiny version of my interview with April Winchell, creator of Regretsy.com, is out in the new issue of the paper this week, but IMHO, the full-length online version is worth checking out. Winchell has some surprisingly great perspectives on what the Regretsy site’s purpose is (which she goes into in Regretsy the book, […]