Archive for August, 2010
I’m excited about the Eat Real Festival this weekend happening at Jack London Square. I’ll be hanging around from 10am to 1pm doing something unspecified with the Oakland Museum of California and then I plan on hanging out and seeing stuff. Like the chicken 101 class and the goat milking demo. See whole weekend schedule [...]
My sister traveled to England recently and lamented the fact that she couldn’t find any suitably hilarious punk commemorative tea towels. So, obviously, I had to quickly dash off a few Sex Pistols inspired tea towel designs to Spoonflower for printing. First, the classic calendar style tea towel with sid vicious and some paint splatters: [...]
Grace Dobush – Crafty Superstar – Cincinnati – crafty supermarket craft fair Jamie Chan – Urban Fauna Studio – Bazaar Bizarre SF How to NOT freak out while juggling crafting, full or part time non-crafting related job, family, etc. For people who are not really interested in taking their craft business full time. Balance, personal [...]
With Lisa Congdon (Rare Device), Sally Brock (Fancy), Faythe Levine (Paper Boat) and Jennifer (Trophy Cupcakes) Advice for business owners Jennifer shea and Sally Brock – Business plan! ditto! Faythe levine – no business plan! no right way to star t a business. Lisa Congdon – Do I want to do this by myself? It [...]
Yesterday or maybe the day before there was like 20 minutes of quiet in this house. I could hear some vague rustling coming from the craft room but decided not to interupt whatever Jack was doing. and LO. I just went in there a second ago and found my book Ella by Bill Peet that [...]
I can’t wait to make this fabric into pillow cases. I need some ruffly white lacy shit to put on there too. I imagine that when I am sick it will be so nice to put my head on a nice cool pillow encased with the this kitty bud fabric by Melinda Josie.
I’m off to Seattle tomorrow at 7am (gah!). I absolutely HAVE to pack light for this trip since my suitcase has to be stuffed with 50 pounds of conference programs. Even though there are a few glaring problems with it it still came out fairly cute. What conference you ask? The Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs [...]
News flash! This place is huge. And awesome. And really big. Liz wrote up yesterday pretty well here so I won’t rehash it. Except maybe to say that when we at the entrance to Central Park it was so very alluring. I need to go in there. I am looking forward to doing one of [...]
omgomgomgom. I’m so excited to be in NY. I swear I never really thought about NY at all as an exciting place I would want to visit. Now that I am here I want to run around and lick everything. Except, actually I am in bed in my hotel room with laptop. Soon, soon I [...]

