BUST Craftacular!

Hello! For the 5th year in a row, I'll be at booth #167 at the BUST Craftacular this weekend! It's a 2-day event, but I will just be there on Saturday. It's gonna be a super-fun time, and I hope you come say hi if you stop by!

Details: 

December 10th and 11th, 2011Saturday: 11 AM - 8 PM; Sunday: 11 AM - 7 PM
82 Mercer St. between Broome and Spring, New York, NY 

Shop, eat, drink, and craft with more than 200 handmade craft and specialty food vendors at BUST Magazine's biggest and most popular event of the year -- the BUST Magazine Craftacular and Food Fair Holiday 2011! Join us for our first ever two-day holiday shopping extravaganza where you'll find the best handmade gifts, food, a craft beer garden, gift-making demos, DJs, and more.
Be one of the first 300 shoppers each day and receive a free goodie bag!
Admission is $3.

Bust Craftacular 2009 and Give-away winner!!

Hello! I'm fully recovered now, from a totally awesome day at Bust's Holiday Craftacular, last Sunday. Lots of fun, happy people with incredibly nice things to say, lots of sales, awesome neighbors and location, and just overall good vibes everywhere. Bust even interviewed me! Here's some pictures of my table:






Also, I picked a winner for my Give-away! With the help of Random.org, commenter #4 is the winner! #4 happens to be the super-fabulous Jeni Treehugger! You should all check out her blog, because she's awesome and funny and makes delicious food!

Thank you to everyone who entered; I think you are all pretty super-awesome and wish I could give a calendar to all of you. I will definitely have more give-aways in the future!

Thanksgiving '09 Foodz + Bust Craftacular

Hello! Hope you had a relaxing weekend with lots of yummy food and catchup sleep! I sure did, and am getting a bit sad-faced that Monday is almost here. I haven't reached the sick-of-leftovers phase yet, so I figured I should post about it now before I am!

I went with Bryanna Clark Grogan's Seitan tofurkey for the main in the roulade style (I super-spiced it up though, with fresh sage, rosemary, thyme, and garlic), roasted brussel sprouts (I shredded them up for extra-yumminess!), corn, mashed taters with mushroom and onion gravy (modified from VCON), stuffing, cranberries (with apples added! BUT, I forgot about them in the fridge, so we didn't get to eat them until the next day, with leftovers!), and Pumpkin Cheezecake Pie for dessert (and soyatoo on top!) with a homemade graham cracker crust. Everything was pretty successful and delicious! We didn't eat until 9ish at night, due to a little underestimation in the timing, but it was all good. Super-happy thanksgiving! Some pictures:







I've also been super-crafting this weekend, preparing for next weekend's Bust Craftacular. If you are in the NYC area on Sunday, December 6th, come say hi!

and everyone rejoiced

Phew.

Craftacular is over. A great time was had. So many people! I heard reports of the line going waaaay out the door all day long. So awesome. I only briefly got to wander around and a few booths in particular caught my eye:

my favorite mirror and art star

Such great things everywhere really. There was also a really cool headband booth with all sorts of neat embellishments, but I didn't catch their name in my sleep-deprived daze.

This is the finishing touches of preparation and finally the booth itself. I promise that I'll shutup about this now!


Miles gives me a stern look, as if to ask when the hell i'm gonna clean up the disaster of my living room.




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and now for some food pornage:

Eggplant wingzz and green beans
Roasted Chestnuts from Nik's parents!

ALMOST

Reminder!! Bust Magazine's Craftacular is this Saturday at the Metropolitan Pavillion in Manhattan! 10am-8pm. $1. First 300 people in the door get a goody bag (i want a goody bag!) Oh, and Amy Sedaris will be there!! *swoon* I'm at booth D5, which, i don't know if that really tells you anything. Along the outside, in a little alcove? EXCITED.

Click picture to read it or go to BUST to read more. LOTS of vendors with really cool things. I hope I get a chance to shop too. Hope to see you there!!



and the onion stands alone...

so much to cut still...

These are my business cards. I decided no one really keeps business cards anyways. They sit in wallets or on desks or go straight for the trash. I mean, really, 90% useless! So bookmarks. I'm going with bookmarks. Who knows though, maybe people don't read either.

I used a semi-bad screen to print these (only half of the image prints...) on both sides of the heavy paper, and then I chopchopchopped them up. I printed stickers with my url on them, because there was no way in hell I was going to write it out 250 times like i originally planned.



Sometimes funny things happen:

Fields of color

productive thanksgiving

crafting the niiiiiiiight away

New updates to the Craft section and Print section!! I've been busybusy crafting for the Bust Craftacular, so I also took updated pictures of the things that I have been making. Also, I needed a break. Print updates are old sketches that I like.

I watched the movie Chicken Run the other night and after watching the "making of" section of the dvd, it made me want to animate my veggies. Just kidding, I don't have that kind of patience. It would be fun though.

Some of the updates: