renegade la 2010

Hooray! It was a successful first Renegade. Thank you to everyone who was able to come visit the booth and say hi. It was so nice to see friends and meet some new people. Unfortunately I didn't have very much time to get up and walk around and take pictures of other booths, but there were some great crafts and talented people. My favorites of the booths I saw included Berkley Illustration, Chez Sucre Chez, randL, Dan Bob Thompson, Erinzam, Eri Sugimoto, Fern Works,  Flock Home, Fugu Fugu Press, I Made You A Beard, Jen Skelley, Krank Press, Love Nail Tree, Miniature Rhino, Nate Duval, Oh Hello Friend, Paper Pastries, Pie Bird Press, Planted, Rae Dunn, Rebe, Ribbit Stopit, Sycamore Street Press, The Birds and the Beasts, Thief and Bandit and Thing. I'm sure I missed a lot of vendors in my haste to get back to my booth so you should check out the complete list of vendors on Renegade's site.

Thank you to Eva of Sycamore Street Press for including my booth in her roundup of Renegade on Poppytalk. I am very honored.

I'm working on getting up all the new items you see in these pictures up in the Etsy shop for sale as soon as possible.  Keep checking back to see the bird and alphabet prints, bird card sets, wooden earrings, and possibly individual bird prints and a new version of the reusable manila (yellow) envelope.  Thank you to Malachi and my parents for helping me run the booth and to Erin Dollar of I Made You A Beard for sharing her space with me!

business cards

The night before Renegade I screenprinted some double-sided business cards on a vibrant orange-red stock. I wouldn't have been able to finish them if my friend Paul hadn't helped me finish up a bunch of other stuff. Thanks Paul! I will post some pictures from the fair including a shot of the other side of the business card tonight. For now I'm going to go see Inception!

renegade la!

Come check out all the fine handiwork at the Renegade Craft Fair in LA this weekend from 11-7 at the LA State Historic Park. Here is the info page. I am going to be sharing a booth with I Made You A Beard at booth #108. Please come. I need money.

I will post some pictures of it up after the weekend! See you there!

petra sofia

My friends, Matt and Danica, just had a beautiful baby girl! Her name is Petra Sofia. Pretty cool name I think. So I made her a baby blanket with some fabrics I thought would look nice in their baby room.

The back side is a stripe fabric with orange, olive, and gray-blue yarn ties.

mango and sticky rice

Many fruits are good with sticky rice, but mango is still the best.

the race to renegade

I just got back from an awesome tour with my band, The Denouement! You can see some photos from the tour here. Now it's time to start making a whole bunch of stuff for the Renegade Craft Fair! I'm getting a bit nervous about it. Today I screen printed a bunch of boxes for the leaf pins that I make. There's a lot more to do! Hopefully I'll have time to post in process pictures these upcoming weeks.

birthday loot

It was my birthday last weekend and it was fun. Malachi and I walked around Little Tokyo in LA and Abbot-Kinney Street in Venice. I also got some cool presents! Another Come Home magazine to add to my meager collection, a Japanese craft book on felt animals, a wooden whistle, a SWEET backpack made in Peru and purchased at Reform School in Silverlake, and a couple of knitted animal finger puppets to add to another small collection I am starting. The knitted finger puppets are so beautifully made and were only $3 a piece! Thank you Malachi and my wonderful parents. :)








Just as I am writing this a package has arrived at my door from my Small Adventure partner, Anna Hurley! Oh boy! So much cool stuff! Delicious treats made by Anna herself that came in beautiful Quattro Stagioni jars and chocolate and pink meringues and a vintage box of erasers and little cards with cool drawings all wrapped in pretty fabric. And topped off with a birthday card printed by Fugu Fugu Press! Thank you Anna! You are too awesome of a friend to me.






Lastly, a super versatile skirt that my sister made me for my birthday using a striped fabric and a gray elastic waistband with pockets of equally awesome fabric! I put this one last because the pictures I took of it aren't very good. I should have also ironed it before I took a picture. But the skirt itself is so beautifully made. I have been wearing it all the time because it's so comfortable and the colors are perfect. Thank you sister! I couldn't have asked for a better friend to grow up with.