The fourth annual Urban Craft Uprising Holiday show is right around the corner! That''s right folks; this year will knock your socks off! We have some of the BEST indie crafters coming to Seattle to strike your fancy for all your holiday needs. Over 100 vendors under one roof for one stop holiday shopping that will make you feel good about the holidays. Support local and independent designers! Shop outside the box!
Date: Saturday, December 6th and Sunday, December 7th
Time: 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Where: Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
Admission: Free!
What is Urban Craft Uprising?
- A craft sale by indie designers and crafters throughout the day beginning at 11 a.m.
- Swag bags will be handed out to the first 100 visitors each day with samplings from vendors and sponsors - so be sure to arrive early! Last year a line started before our vendors arrived!
- DIY wrapping station- recycled materials to make your wrapping unique and green
- Free giveaways every hour
DIY Wrapping Station
The Creation Station will be sponsoring our first ever, wrapping station. Make all your holiday presents fun and festive with your own wrap job. Creation Station is an innovative crafts store and art studio located in Lynnwood, Wash. For the past 15 years, they have supplied surplus and recycled materials to teachers, students, artists, inventors, scientists, engineers and all those who love to create and dream and now to Urban Craft Uprising shoppers! For the low cost of $3.00, get all your presents ready for under the tree, stocking, menorah, you name it!
For a preview of whom you might see at this year''s UCU please visit us online at www.urbancraftuprising.com
Posted by Christy Petterson on 2005-03-22 15:06:08
Post Subject: website
Our website is finally up and running and looking fabulous! Please check it out....we are still taking applications for the craft sale and fashion show and we're also looking for volunteers, models, etc.
AND if you can't be there you can still participate by being a part of our swag bags and advertising!
So Check it out!!!!!
Its going to be great!
www.ice-atlanta.com
Posted by Christy Petterson on 2005-01-31 10:08:21
Post Subject: New Big Crafty Event!!!!!!
Hi everyone!
I'm very excited to announce the Indie Craft Experience. This is going to be a craft sale and fashion show in Atlanta on June 18 at Eyedrum (a really cool art and music venue-- www.eyedrum.org).
We are still working out some details and creating our website, but I wanted to go ahead and tell people about it.
You can check out our website www.ice-atlanta.com and check back often because we'll have stuff up soon. Or if you want to email me, I will send out an email to everyone once our registration information is up.
We are hoping to get people to come from other cities so spread the word! As far as I can tell, this is the first really big crafty event in the Southeast. Look for our ads coming up in Art Papers and Bust.
It's going to be lots of fun!
Posted by courgette on 2004-08-30 21:45:50
Post Subject: LadyfestEast Crafts!
first of all, I apologise if this is considered spam.
Ladyfest is a not-for-profit org and other than the rental fee, everything goes towards you, the artist.
I know a lot of you like to make beautiful things.
Ladyfest East, which will be held from Oct. 28th
through Halloween, includes a craft sale which will
take place at OfficeOps
(http://www.officeops.org) in Brooklyn.
You can get a table for selling your wares at the
filthy cheap rental cost of $20 for the hours of 12-
3pm, on October 31st. (Don't worry, you'll still
have time to get all dolled up for your Halloween
festivities.) We're looking for anything handmade,
be it a knitted vibrator cozy or pins churned from
your buttonmaker or shirts lovingly screenprinted
by you. Ladyfest is all about the DIY ethic.
Learn more about Ladyfest East at
http://ladyfesteast.org. If you're reading this and
thinking, "YES! I'm so into it!" you can send
payment through Paypal on the Ladyfesteast
homepage and write 'for craft sale table' in the
notes section, and message me and let me know
that you've paid so I can make arrangements for
you.
thanks for reading this, and I hope a lot of you in NY come out to Ladyfest, whether to sell craft or to just check out the music and artists. We'll be holding craft tutorial workshops at OfficeOps as well.
Posted by Countess on 2005-10-03 00:07:45
Post Subject: Urban Craft Uprising in Seattle!!!!
Urban Craft Uprising - your one stop Indie Holiday Shopping Experience! A gathering of over 50, artistic and crafty vendors from the Pacific Northwest to give you a shopping experience like no other.
Date: Sunday November 6, 2005
Time: 12pm-6pm
Where: Artists Gallery of Seattle 902 1st Ave. South, Seattle, WA
Admission: Free!
What's Happening Sunday, November 6th?
A craft sale by indie designers and crafters throughout the day beginning at 12 p.m.
Swag bags will be handed out to the first 50 visitors with samplings from vendors and sponsors - so be sure to arrive early!
Posted by Christy Petterson on 2005-01-31 10:10:24
Post Subject: New Big Crafty Event--ATL!!!!!!
Hi everyone!
I'm very excited to announce the Indie Craft Experience. This is going to be a craft sale and fashion show in Atlanta on June 18 at Eyedrum (a really cool art and music venue-- www.eyedrum.org).
We are still working out some details and creating our website, but I wanted to go ahead and tell people about it.
You can check out our website www.ice-atlanta.com and check back often because we'll have stuff up soon. Or if you want to email me, I will send out an email to everyone once our registration information is up.
We are hoping to get people to come from other cities so spread the word! As far as I can tell, this is the first really big crafty event in the Southeast. Look for our ads coming up in Art Papers and Bust.
It's going to be lots of fun!
Posted by brdgt on 2005-10-24 09:04:24
Post Subject: Wisconsin Holiday fairs
Just checked in on my favorite local craft shop, The Glitter Workshop, and they are advertising another High Noon Saloon craft fair and the Art vs. Craft sale in Milwaukee:
http://www.theglitterworkshop.com/
November 18: Art vs. Craft
November 26 and 27: Craftmas at the High Noon Saloon
Posted by Christy Petterson on 2005-03-04 16:47:59
Post Subject: Indie Craft Experience--Atlanta
Hey everybody!
I posted about this earlier but I have more info now so I wanted to post again.
We are organizing a big event in Atlanta for June 18. It will be a craft sale and fashion show and we are having it at an art and music venue called Eyedrum (www.eyedrum.org). It is going to be really great and we're trying to get people to come from other cities. Look for our ad in the next Bust and Art Papers.
So our website is www.ice-atlanta.com
Unfortunately, we've run into a couple of glitches with getting the whole website designed and so there isn't much info up on their but I wanted to let you know that I have a document that I can email out that has all the information and the application page. Basically it is $50 to have a spot in the sale. $50 to be in the fashion show (4 runs--$15 for each additional run) and $85 if you want to do the sale and fashion show. So anyone who wants the document please email me or respond here or on my blog.
We are also offering the opportunity to advertise in our fashion show program for those who can't make it to the ATL or who would rather advertise than participate. And it also includes putting your items in our swag bags. So all you girls who live far away that would be a really great way to let folks know about your website.
ok, crafty love, xoxo
christy
Posted by Tracy Parker on 2005-07-06 18:37:07
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Is this still going on? Hello? Minneapolis?? Hey - so long as I'm here if any of ya'll are interested we're planning a craft sale in December and we need crafters. Check www.nocoastcraft.com
Posted by PamTheQueen on 2004-05-22 15:00:34
Post Subject: Finding like-minded crafty souls w/out hurting feelings
As i've mentioned before, I seem to have trouble finding like-minded crafty souls. The tastes of the people I most often come in contact with are far from my own. I'm talking about the women who make the same church craft sale stuff my mom and her mom made (and items that aren't retro cool now). Oh, and also throw in the moms in the 'hood who scrapbook, but instead of thinking creatively doing their own thing, all follow scrapbook page recipes (making the same pages as their fellow group members).
My idea is to put up a notice for interest in starting a local group at the local coffee shops, bookstore and library BUT (big BUT) how do I politely keep out those who are not like-minded but want to join everything?
I have certain people in mind who drive me nuts but I am always too nice to be mean. I know they will latch on to any group I try to start just because and then I will end up bitter and ranting on message boards (hehe). I really feel like an awful person for suggesting I want to be picky. I try to be open-minded about most of life, but having already spent time in groups that were a waste and not very creative (See scrapbook mom mention above). I want to see what people make and what their idea about creativity is before I commit to spending time and effort on them.
Geez, I am picky!
My idea is to make up a poster/flyer and list magazines and websites (like this one) I like. If they like them too, they can contact me. Kind of like a personal ad.
Geez, I still sound picky and silly!
I need someone to think logical about this for me. Or tell me how you found crafty people you like. I'm at a loss. The closest I found was the 6th grade daughter of a friend down the street who made a bag out of duct tape after she found a copy of Ready Made. Nobody else in this bedroom 'burb outside of Indianapolis knows what that magazine is! I really don't want to hang out with 6th graders though! :(
Posted by manus on 2004-06-25 10:19:51
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Brandy, over at Loosetooth has a great craft show information page where she basically tells you about her day at the Renegade Craft Sale, what she did that was good, and what she would change next time. Also includes a list of things to bring. Very informative.
Posted by shawneemonkey on 2004-07-28 13:38:01
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Brandy, over at Loosetooth has a great craft show information page where she basically tells you about her day at the Renegade Craft Sale, what she did that was good, and what she would change next time. Also includes a list of things to bring. Very informative.
i've participated in a couple of craft events, most recently in Bazaar Bizarre West in L.A. (http://bazaarbizarrewest.org), and i used Brandy's craft show info to get a handle on what i would need to set up my table. it was VERY helpful. i have to say, i had more success at BBW than any other craft event i've participated in, and i think that was mostly due to the fact that the crowd and vendors were, for the most part, tuned in to the same frequency. plus, there was a great deal of advertisement before the show: lots of word-of-mouth, previews in the Times and the Weekly, and the reputation already built up by Bazaar Bizarre on the east coast. there were SO many great vendors, and SO many customers, it was non-stop pretty much all day. which was a very happy, lucky thing.
Posted by doulabitsymama on 2005-07-14 19:09:03
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I asked the Dunglohaire Soap people (Mpls) to make/cut some of their yummiest flavors of soap into 2 in strips and then I cut them down into cubes and wrapped them in strips made from our extra invites and glued them together with glitter glue gun dots.
Of course the best man had to do some explaining, saying "This is not tea -tree fudge, people!! It's soap! No eating!!" All said just before a helluva roast on my hubby and me!!
You could talk to any soap maker at a craft sale or farmer's market.
Enjoy this process!
Posted by Ratti Pillo on 2006-04-05 22:26:26
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my mom was always crafty and i guess i caught her crafting bug. I remember when I was in third grade there was this really cool crafting kit- pom poms, glitter, all that fun stuff, and my mom bought it for me. I had so much fun with that thing. I also made tissue paper dresses for all my barbies and have them do runway shows. My first craft sale was indian beaded necklaces that i sold to my friends for a quarter- they were quite a hit. I abandoned crafting after a while- through middle school and high school, but i took sewing classes bc i wanted to go into fashion design. That idea busted though, but started doing crafts again my frosh. year of college- beading and handsewing stuff,decoupaging old cigar boxes with my friends and redesigning thrift store tees.
I started working in a cafe and we had to wear all black- boring. So i bought a couple of headbands- fabric ones, but then i figured out how to make them and began to sell them. I missed how much sewing was so relaxing, and i picked it up again. i'm so happy i rediscovered crafting, and since it's becoming so mainstream there are so many more resources- and also the fact that it's become modern and hip, feminist, etc doesn't hurt as well.
