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Hey everyone! I have updated the class information pages for For Keeps Sake St. Louis and Scrapbook Springfield Mo with sample images and class descriptions. I will be teaching two classes and doing a demo at Scrapbook Generation in Springfield MO June 11-12, 2010.
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I will be teaching at For Keepsake St. Louis next on June 27, 2010. I will be teaching flower making featuring the Bazzill Flower Pot Collection.
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Friday, May 14 @ 6-9PM Join us for a "Charming" Make & Take evening! Our staff of instructors will help you create a unique charm using Tim Holtz Idea-ology. We will provide the Idea-olgy bracelet & you will go home with a different charm from each station! H'orderves & drinks will be served. Only $20
I am so excited to be a part of this fun evening! I have seen what the other instructors are creating and you will love them all! We are each doing our own thing so when you are finished you will have a fun bracelet full of inspiration. At my station you will be making charms from Tim Holtz's Fragments featuring alcohol inks, stamping, and vintage book paper. The bracelet above is a sampling of my charms. It is sure to be a great time so call the store and save your spot!
If you are in St. Louis, the St. Louis Etsy team would love for you to stop by and visit us at our holiday show!
We will be at Off Broadway, 3511 Lemp Ave. St. Louis.
When you win an award called a "Kick Ass" award, you just gotta imagine what the trophy looks like. . . .
Wait, what is that on top?
Why yes, it is what you thought, a trophy guy kicking an Ass.
Last night I was really honored to be one of the recipients of this year's Kick Ass awards. The Kick Ass Awards in St. Louis are sponsored by 52nd City and seek to honor people who are doing things to make the city great and a more interesting place to live and play. When you look at the people who have been nominated, they are all people doing really great and really important things; things for the environment, teaching, developing the community, ect. They selected me for my work on St. Louis Handmade site. If you aren't familiar with it, St. Louis Handmade is a website I run which features and tries to promote handmade artists, products, and events in St. Louis. Don't get me wrong, I believe in what I am trying to promote on St. Louis Handmade, I believe in arts and crafts and truly want to celebrate the people who are embracing the dream to create. I believe in it and believe it is important. But still, when surrounded by people working to save the environment and live eco friendly, to shelter abandoned animals, or teaching others how to grow organic foods, well, I just felt unworthy. Honored, extremely honored, but so unworthy. I think that was kind of the jest of what I said when handed my award. I am not sure. All I could hear was my heart racing in my ears, it was a very weird and loud roaring sound. I am so not a public speaker. I think I said that too. I am not sure. David assures me though that it wasn't anything too doofusy or goobery. I hope he was telling me the truth and not just being kind. Okay, so aside from having to speak in front of this room of people, I have to say this was one of the absolute coolest nights of my life. The people there who shared were so inspiring and funny and just all out cool. It was held at Joe's Cafe which is hands down the most unique, fascinating, and odd places I have ever been too. Bill Christman, who owns it is the artist behind Beatnik Bob's Museum of Mirth, Mystery and Mayhem at The City Museum. I wish I had words to describe it . . . but there just aren't any. The Cafe and art gardens are just full of curiosities and wonder. Ohh, and lest I forget to mention, we saw a little stage show with girl wrestlers. . . you had to be there, trust me. I laughed until I cried and then walked out with a big grin and a huge Kick Ass trophy. A very kick ass night indeed.
I now have my sample book for ribbon and fabric colors along with my wedding line samples in the shop. If you are in the St. Louis area and are looking for handmade items for your wedding, you should stop by the shop! Besides my items, several other artists in the shop offer custom work for weddings and other special occasions.
If you are in the St. Louis area on Saturday October 3rd, I hope you will stop by Tower Grove Farmers' Market and say "hi"! I will be there in the Show Me Etsy booth with the fabulous Emily (Candy Calamity) and Amy (Ginger and Tu). I will have several new pieces of my metal stamped jewelry and some fun new felty things. The market is also hosting a special event in cooperation with the Farm Aid event and will have lots of extra features that you don't normally see there. It sounds like a great time so if you are looking for something to do on a lovely fall day, Tower Grove just might be the answer!
Hope to see you there!
My favorite photog in the whole world borrowed my favorite wee girl for a fun quick photo session today. I am thinking Em may have a future in modeling because she started breaking out moves and poses that rivaled those of top models. We don't have a clue where she got them since we don't watch any of those modeling shows. I wish we had brought a video camera with us to capture some of it. I think I cried a little from laughing so hard!
One of the results is the above shot that Holly is featuring in the ad for her Valentines special. If you are in the St. Louis area and are interested in some great, fun, and easy photos of your kids, of yourself, or maybe of you and your sweetie, you need to grab a spot in this special event!
You can get the full details on Holly's site: Holly McCaig Art & Design.
I mentioned in my last post that I had another project that I had been working on. . . I have been so busy with it and some assorted life things that I kind of neglected sharing about it here.
I recently started a new website, St. Louis Handmade, with a little help with some very creative friends. I had been spending some time on Etsy looking at all of the amazing things and kept noticing so many people who lived in the same area as me. I thought it would be really great to create a place for people who live in this area to have a spot to come to learn about other artist ans crafters, see what they are creating, find places to buy handmade, and basically celebrate everything about handmade! Of course you don't have to be from the St. Louis area to stop by and visit and soak in the total eye candy, everyone is welcome! If you are in the St. Louis area though and love arts and crafts and love handmade, then I hope you will find the site to be a great resource to you!
