Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

News from the CC

• When I signed up for a show, it was in spring 2011. Now it's been moved up to...summer 2010.

HOLY SHIT THAT'S A YEAR AND A HALF AWAY HOLY CRAP SHOULD I WORRY ABOUT THIS NOW?!

I think I am going to do a "chaos and change" theme, have a Persephone section, have a Tower/tarot section...that sort of thing. Oh, and Eris. Need to throw in some Eris.

I also need to work on something yarny for it, don't you think? Maybe something from all my areas of expertise. I've got glasswork, jewelry, and ceramics with a pomegranate theme, and some glass-ish stuff in Tower stuff, I think...

• Four days into signups, nobody is signed up for my class. Gee, I guess it wasn't as much of a hit as people thought.

That's a bummer, but on the other hand, it's not that big of a deal to me if it runs either. It gives me a free weekend, and technically it's not like I can get paid for it anyway.

• The classes I am signed up for this quarter have nobody but me in them.

That's not a good sign at all.

Okay, I got an idea...make my own "motley" yarn. Spin with any ol' random colors I get ahold of, mix them together at random. Then it doesn't matter if it doesn't match, and I can make as much as I want!

More T-shirt projects

 

I made the orange bag out of CC shirts for the staff auction. The backpack (also for the auction) was designed with another sewing instructor after I misread the instructions and ah...ran into difficulties.

Here's some skirts I donated to the auction.

And then I got the idea to make a rug out of fabric/shirt scraps... and ended up with these balls of "yarn" to crochet with.

 

I got a ginormous crochet hook and went to it...

And here's the finished product:

Superhero

So, I found out the volunteer party theme this quarter is SUPERHEROES!!!!! So. Excited.

I gotta come up with an outfit. But what? I mean, I loves me some Buffy, but the characters on that show don't have a distinctive costume style. Dress as Buffy and you're wandering around with a large knitting needle to stake people with and dressing in a stylish manner, or wearing something vaguely RenFaire-ish to go as Willow or Tara when they dress up. It isn't exactly anime cosplay. Actually, I wouldn't mind going as Yomiko Readman, but nobody would know who I was. And the CC folk probably don't read Breakup Girl to recognize the outfit either.

I've tried on the crap Spandexy costumes at Halloween, but...no.

Maybe I should make up my own superhero? Like what, Craft Girl? With a utility belt? Oh, wait....

In other news, I am NOT selling at Whole Earth this year. I feel sad and weird about it. But I didn't make anything new all year that I wanted to sell (mostly I have been making yarn-related items, or gifts, or sculpture, so nothing sellable), and nothing I did new last year sold At All, and what's left after that is stuff I've been recycling for the last 3 years. And I realized that...selling is depressing. Even if I make money, I feel utterly worn out sitting there all day watching people ignore my stuff, and my feelings get annoyingly butthurt. So I am taking a year off (well, let's hope it's just a year) to see if I feel better next year after not doing it. We shall see in a year, I guess.

This year's CC auction pics.

Show dilemmas

I finally signed up for a show where I volunteer....for spring 2011.

Miranda has just found out she's doing a show in a year and is freaking out over what to do. I relate to that...

This year's booth.

Whole Earth wrapup.

1. Made $120. This turned out to be more than I thought I did, as it was a slow year for everybody. The usual trope is that "everyone does better on Sunday", but in this case, not so much. I think it was because we had 18 people the first day and a whopping 10 returning on the second (don't ask me where they all went).

2. All of the runes I worked on? All of that hemp? All of the wire wrap? NONE of it sold. Not a bit. It was a good thing I decided to fish my old stuff out and put a good chunk of it up for sale, because that's all that sold.

3. What did work? Putting up a "Everything $5" bin where I chucked all my old pendants that I gave up on selling last year. Suddenly, people loved those.

*boggle*

Maybe I should give up and just sell EVERYTHING for $5.

4. However. There is the possibility of joining in a small alternative weekend craft fair-type thing that we heard about this weekend. Would have to get a business license and whatnot, but otherwise it wouldn't be a big financial layout. So, that could be interesting.

Craft Center auction stuff is up.

Auctions for this year's craft fair are up!

Got some categories this year. Some of them are only up for three days (the rest are probably going to the CC auction), so bid fast if you want those.

Glass pendant necklaces:

• blue and yellow wire-wrapped
• multicolored heart
• green wire-wrapped
• pink heart
• pink heart with triangles
• pink and red heart
• dark purple
• light purple

Earrings:

• 2 sodalite/lapis heart earrings.
• Sodalite/lapis moon earrings.

Pendants:

• Green apple glass fused pendant.
• Green triangle glass fused pendant.
• Green glass fused pendant.
• Shiny dichroic glass fused pendant.
• Blue fused glass pendant.
• Hot pink slab wire-wrapped pendant.

Seashells:

• Seashell necklace with mermaid pendant.
• Seashell necklace with circle mermaid pendant.
• Seashell necklace with sand castle pendant.
• Seashell necklace with shells as pendants.

Some of Jess's hemp collection:

• Black beaded bracelet.
• Black and white beaded choker.
• Brown beaded choker.
• Brown bar beaded choker.
• Blue fish choker.
• Red fish choker.
• Teal fish choker.
• Blue Hello Kitty choker.
• Double barred choker/anklet.
• 3 white Hello Kitty chokers.
• White Hello Kitty bracelet.
• Sunflower bead bracelet.
• Tribal beaded anklet.
• Tribal beaded choker.

And you might remember this one...it's perfectly fine, just not fitting me.

• Pink FEFI sweater.

Day 2, WEF, year three

Sorry I didn't get to posting this earlier. I may slap a photo of my booth up later...but yesterday I passed out early and barely managed to get the Whiplash entry finished(ish) and uploaded before the deadline.

Anyway, I made $168 in two days- Sunday was my better day once again! Best day ever, I think. Huzzah!

After having the aforementioned $5 conversation with the roommate, I dropped some prices on the second day. Most of the stuff that sold was $5 or $10 or $2 hemp, so... yeah, there you go. Interesting.

Roommate sold about $180 worth and got it all converted into cash to wave around triumphantly. I keep expecting him to break out into the Dance of Capitalist Superiority any second now.