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November 30, 2008

Check out the Craft Mutiny Holiday Booty Market Vendors!~

This is what I have been working on. It should be really fun. Do come out and bring your friends!


3rd Annual Holiday Booty Market
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 Chipotle.

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.

November 21, 2008

Someday I hope you get paid to be who you are. It will likely be the most important thing that could happen to you.

>>>For more handmade gift ideas, check out my post on Hello Craft.<<<

I went to NPR today to record a segment for Weekend Edition Sunday with Liane Hansen.

I was really afraid because the focus of the piece was making holiday gifts and I quickly realized that while I am well versed in the world of indie craft, I am more interested in the business of craft. I so heart buying and marketing and building an indie business more than the actual making, which made me kinda laugh.

But I got through it. Beth (Tigerflight) was nice enough to meet my on the corner in Columbia Height with a bag of her owls, some vintage buttons (thanks to Cori for the buttons, too!) and some thread, all things that I needed for my video and audio taping. I even asked her to explain felting to me as my cab pulled away. This all made me realize that I don't spend enough time actually making. Dabbling, really. I make lots of stuff, especially right now with the demand for ornaments in which zombies attack santa pretty high, but I don't dabble. When I get more time, I need to do this so that next time I am asked to craft on video, my hands don't shake.

There was this moment, sitting there in the darkened studio when the host did her outro: "I'm Liane Hansen and we've been talking to Tina Seamonster. Tina is a crafter, a podcaster and a blogger." Hearing myself in these terms by this stranger with a familiar voice was completely startling. I know that I am and do all of those things. But in that one instant, it felt completely for real, important. I thought, heavens, I am who I want to be when I grow up. I might not really get paid for it, but I am here and I am me and this matters. And I thought of that line in the song "My Rollercoster" by Kimya Dawson where she sings, "And my mom would say, I hope someday you get paid for being Kimya Dawson" And for that one instant I felt how it must feel to be paid to be Tina Seamonster. Someday I hope you get paid to be who you are. It will likely be the most important thing that could happen to you.

All of that said, I should be on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday this Sunday (11/23). You can find out what time via your local NPR Station as each station plays the show at a different time. Locally in DC, WAMU plays it from 8 to 10. I will also be doing a live chat online at either 1 or 1:30 EST at http://www.npr.org/gifts. You will have to register to chat. You can also upload photos of your projects to their holiday community page while you are in there. Please stop by and ask me a nice or funny question.

November 19, 2008

Craft Mutiny Holiday Show

November 13, 2008

Rock the holiday season and buy handmade with two awesome Craft Mutiny Holiday Shows!

Mark your calendars!

3rd Annual Holiday Booty Market
Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- 12-6pm
Hilda's Giftshop in the National City Christian Church
5 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC

Start your holiday shopping off right, by buying handmade from the 20 coolest indie crafters in Washington, DC. We will have snacks and music and free goodie bags to the first 100 shoppers! Vendor list coming soon, but I will be there selling stuff as well as awesome other folks like Block Party Press, Denada and 60 Bugs. It should be really cool with lots of Crafty Bastards Veterans.

Craft Mutiny Holiday Trunk Show
Saturday, December 13, 2008 -- 10am-5pm
Design Within Reach - Georgetown
3307 Cady's Alley N.W.
Washington, DC 20007

Get your last minute indie holiday shopping done with Washington, D.C.'s favorite indie craft collective Craft Mutiny, at Design Within Reach on Saturday, December 13th.

Buy handmade goods and meet local crafters at this one-day event, hosted at the slickest home store in D.C. One-of-a-kind goods for sale include clothing, stationary, prints, jewelry, handspun yarn, plush items and more.

The studio is located on Cady's Alley just off 33rd St NW between M St NW and the canal.

About Design Within Reach - Georgetown
Our Georgetown Studio is located in historic Georgetown, in a landmark building sited along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. As a part of the Cady's Alley design development area, the 2,072 square foot space represents the best in modern furnishings from around the world. Displayed gallery style is an assortment of designs for the lounge, workspace, bedroom, patio, restaurant and cafes, in addition to lighting and floor coverings. Proprietor Ann Blackwell, a longtime modern design fan with a background in Marketing to the creative industry, oversees the Studio with her charming and knowledgeable staff.

For more information email craftmutiny@gmail.com.

November 12, 2008

Some day we will all become our grandmothers.

I am thinking of her and her kindness. I am thinking of her and her honesty. She gave me both. To keep. So I pass it on.

November 7, 2008

New Episode of Television Zombies

TVZ Ep. 62: "Gandalf McMerlin"

This week, the TVZ team takes a look at the new syndicated fantasy series Legend of the Seeker, True Blood and The Office. Also, the news of the week and Preston of Cornish Scifi Supplement comments on the history of the BBC.

Check out the episode!

November 5, 2008

We are voting for him. Where is he?

The girls and I spent the day roaming the streets of DC. People were happy. Like Christmas eve happy. This is a lovely city. Our home.

The girls were excited to go vote for Obama. We didn't realize that Rachel thought voting for someone meant they would get to meet them. Rachel cried and yelled when Obama wasn't there at our polling station to be voted for. "We are voting for him. Where is he?" Rachel asked. Young people and their expectations. I fear if the girls ever met him, they would talk his ear off and the Secret Service would be brought in to rescue him from two 3 year olds.

November 3, 2008

Hello Craft Episode 2

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade.

This week, I talk about my grandfather, John Ross Henry. He was obsessed with making throughout his entire life and it wore off on me.

Click here to download the episode (right-click and choose "save as" on PC, or control-click and choose "save as" on Mac)

You can contribute to the show, too! It is easy. Check out the instructions.

Check out the rest of our new Crafting Blog and Podcast, Hello Craft. Hello Craft is also working on a unique event for DC for 2009.

November 1, 2008

Halloween Princesses

Three year old girls like princesses. And there is nothing this anti-princess mom can do about it. And so I don't try. I know that in 10 years these kids will be surly steampunks or something, so whatever. Here are the girls in their princesses dresses made by Jeff's mom, hats from the RenFair.

This would have horrified me before I had kids, but I am so happy that the girls were excited about their costumes.

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