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If you’re in the Bay Area head over to the Bead Expo at the Oakland Marriott (1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA) which runs from now through the weekend ending on Sunday, April 15th. You can check out over 150 booths of beads and more form all around the world or take some workshops. Arwen O’Reilly took […]
Our peep Bonnie points us to The Washington Post’s Peeps Diorama Contest and you’ll love looking at all the entries. Here are some of my favorites, Marpeep Antoinette: Let Them Eat Jelly Beans”, “Say Anything: I Gave Her My Heart, She Gave Me a Peep” (Love the Peep John Cusak!), and “She’s My Peep. No, […]
Beth Fuller a grad student at Pratt Institute and designer of the Beetle Bag which we posted here on CRAFT, has a new eco-friendly design with her Zipper Wine Bag Collection. Beth writes: The Zipper Wine Bag Collection embodies an elegant mix of style, function, and eco-friendly design. Each bag is made with organic cotton […]
Hey Crafters! The deadline for submissions to Plush You 2007 is this Sunday, April 15th! Due to the overwhelming response, they are going to be very strict about the deadline so get those submissions in! Visit Plush You for more details. Link.
Veer writes: Taking art from found objects to new depths, Miwa Koizumi uses heat guns and soldering irons to sculpt startlingly realistic sea creatures from discarded liquid containers. Her PET project cleverly takes its name from PET (polyethylene terephthalate) – the highly recyclable, plant-based oil the containers are made from. See more of Miwa Koizumi’s […]
Austin makers, dorkbot-austin is tonight! dorkbot7 April 12 7PM Cafe Mundi (1704 east 5th st) http://www.dorkbotaustin.org One of the projects involves large, open flames. Need we say more? Line-up: Edwin Wise (http://www.simreal.com/mt/edwin/) – Rubens Tube Marvin Neibuhr (http://www.intelligentdesigns.blogspot.com/) – Screamin’ BabyHead lead Singer is now complete. Oh no. Silona Bonewald’s League of Technical Voters (http://leagueoftechnicalvoters.org/) […]
Wendy sent in all the info for the next Swap-O-Rama-Rama in NYC! Here are the deets – The Spring SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA is Here Earth Day Sunday April 22nd, 1pm to 6pm In conjunction with NYU’s Earth Matters @ New York University Eisner & Lubin Auditorium 60 Washington Square South (at Laguardia Place), 4th Floor entry $10.00 […]
