Monday, December 13, 2010

A Spectacular Craftacular

This weekend turned out to be a super crafty weekend. First we made our awesome brooches and then we wore them to the BUST Magazine Craftacular where we got lots of compliments. I have to admit that I didn't know about BUST Magazine until we came across them at Maker Faire, but the more I learn about them the more I like them.

I'd meant to get there earlier but we didn't manage to arrive at 18th street until nearly 10am and when I saw the line going to 6th Avenue, up to 19th street and back around towards 7th I had a little pang (ok maybe a big pang) that I wouldn't get a goodie bag.

Here's the contents of my goodie bag, plush purchases, cards I picked up, and my brooch.

As it turned out we did get a lovely gift bag with nifty stuff and which conveniently helped me to cart my purchases to two holiday parties, then home.


Here Ginger sits on, I mean models, the drapey sweater that Sofia convinced me to purchase in turquoise.  I was drawn to these shirts by the interesting designs and then I touched them and they were so soft I knew I'd have to buy one.  The people at the Pomelo Press booth were really nice and the let me try it on and everything.


Ginger also wanted to be in all of the rest of my pictures to here she is with the latest edition of BUST magazine which as lots of stuff I really want to read. 


Did I mention Ginger tried to be in all my pictures?  As soon as I got everything laid out she promptly ran across the cards.  Todd advised that she wanted to be picked up so I tried, but what she really wanted was to stand on top of everything.


Some of the fun purchases I made also included these adorable little glycerin soaps in the form of the characters from Space Invaders from Lollibomb Beauty.  


At the by {craftgasm} table Sofia and I went through a whole basket of clever little buttons made from maps to find these buttons.  Our pics included buttons featuring Prag (or Praha) where we spent a mini vacation several years ago when I was visiting Sofia during her year in London.  Another featuring Helsinki which we seem to remember being a required stop in all Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego games.  Finally I was drawn to a button with a little flowery doodle. 


The nice woman at the Mama's Hungry table had chocolate cake made with Coca Cola that looked delicious and she told us about here list of good southern food in NYC which we were extremely interested in.


This postcard doesn't actually do justice to the beautiful and creative cards that were on display at Alton Weekes' table.  I could easily have gotten carried away and purchased several of them, but I took one of his postcards instead so that I could peruse them online.


One of the more unusual things we came across were little moss habitats from two different companies.  Twig Terrariums featured environments that included little scenes with figures and even an environment in a light bulb.  SPIRITelemental had more open pieces with many including crystals.  Two different takes on a nifty idea. 



Everyone has a friend with bottle cap magnets, or a bottle cap belt, or maybe a bottle cap covered bar, but I'd never seen bottle caps turned in to jewelry before, especially not jewelry that wasn't obviously a bottle cap.  Jen Roder makes elegant jewelry out of things that most people flick towards the trash, including earrings, pendants, and cuff links. 


There was actually a lot more food and than I would have expected and one of the food/drink tables featured tea where they gave out tiny samples of sweetened Peppermint Patty tea on the way in and Coconut Vanilla Chai on the way out.  not just tea had some really interesting flavors so I asked them to suggest a third and they came up with Butter Cookie so I came home with three little sample tins.

We spent nearly four hours at the Craftacular and we didn't see all of it.  There were two floors of tables, but there were so many people that it was still hard to move around and to see everything.  We visited Anna Hrachovec's Mochimochi Land booth where we got our dose of adorable mini knitted creations, but I had really hoped there would be more knitted, plush, and yarn related stuff. 


I guess I'll just have to get my knitting fix from the latest volume of Interweave knits...

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