Handmade Holiday 2011
Time for holiday cheer! The Richmond Craft Mafia yearly Handmade Holiday Craft Show is this Sunday. I’m busily sewing away on more pouches and may make some new items to throw in the NLD mix. Here is a sneak peak of what I am working on.
pouches in progress
wristlet progress
Nose to the grind stone. I have some sewing to do. I’m gearing up for the Handmade Throwdown at Crossroads Art Center!
The Richmond Craft Mafia is participating in the “The Art of Business Throwdown.” It is a competition between two teams (RCM and the Real Small Art League) competing to promote 2 visual artists of different styles. ( us = craft, them = art) The teams will be judged on: media coverage, overall sales, (from the gallery show) and the impact of the event on the artist’s platform. Think Donald Trump’s television show “The Apprentice.” and you have an idea of whats going on… HANDMADE THROWDOWN! Its going to be paint, clay, soap, beads, and fabric carnage everywhere! I kid, I kid! It will cool and you need to be there!! (did I use enough exclamation points!)
Wristlets
-Opening Reception is July 16th (6-9 pm) at Crossroads Art Center, 2016 Staples Mill Rd (we are in the Caboose Gallery) – The show run from July 16th to September 8th. 10% of opening night sales & 5% of sales thereafter benefit the Richmond SPCA.
Tell your friends about it on Facebook!
Handmade Throwdown
Its that time again! The 5th annual RCM Handmade Holiday craft show, our second year at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond at 1812 Main Street, Richmond, VA 23220. I’m going to be there, my peeps the Richmond Craft Mafia and 40 more awesome crafty Richmonders.
If you are there, you’ll get to see the new Nicole Lee Designs pillow line in person. Cute Eh? I think so. 
Pretty Birdie Pillow
Fun Fungi Mushrooms pillow
The details:
Preview Party Friday: December 11th – 7pm to 10pm, first dibs on fabulous local handmade gifts. No tickets or invite required, just a suggested donation of $10 at the door to benefit The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (formerly the Hand Workshop). There will be yummy holiday snacks and a cash bar for beer & wine with the music of Fan District Caroling Association.
Free & Open to the Public Saturday: December 12th – 10am to 5pm, Buy local & handmade from some of Richmond’s most talented indie crafters and designers.
Handmade Holiday
The Divine Design and Craft Boutique
Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 7-9pm
Gallery open daily: November 14-December 6
Location: Gay Community Center of Richmond
1407 Sherwood Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220
804-622-4646
Its a Ladies Night! Come for a night of an informal open house of Flower Peddler Bath and Beauty, complimentary spa mini-treatments, appetizers, free gifts and an opportunity to shop from me and other awesome businesses.
Where & When:
Friday, October 23, 2009 5:00-9:00 PM
Flower Peddler Bath & Beauty is located at 11138 Air Park Road, Suite H, Ashland, VA (in the Hanover Air Park). Please call us at 804-496-6381 for more information or directions.
For more details click on the flyer below!
http://flower-peddler.com/store/Ladies-Night-p-1-c-402.html
as the James Taylor song goes and its not just in my mind. I’m heading down to be one of the awesome crafters/designers at the Handmade Market.
The Handmade Market
This is the Handmaidens 7th market and I’m looking forward to hanging out with my Raleigh friends.
Another Spring Bada Bing has run its course. I’m soo proud of my fellow RCM members and all they do to pull off this show. A steady stream of customers all day and lots of positive feedback on the show from vendors and shoppers. There was even a line a half a block long to get in that morning! It was awesome! I’m just now fully coming out of my post show vegetative state.
We had a really nice write up from the Richmond Times Dispatch follow the link and read it for yourself. Its a first for us in the Times Dispatch which is a big coup.
Photo credit Mark Gormus / Times-Dispatch
If you are into unique, cool, kitschy, awesome handmade items, the Spring Bada-Bing (SBB) is the place to be!
This is the 4th year the Richmond Craft Mafia has been organizeing SBB and its shaping up to be one of the best. So what ya say? Come on out on Sunday and spend the day.
Finally Spring is here and the craft train is starting to leave the station. I have two upcoming shows, Spring Bada-Bing, April 19th and The Handmade Market, May 3rd. Really excited about these two shows, SBB of course, its the one I help organize. But its the The Handmade Market in Raleigh, NC I’m geeked for. Its one show I’ve tried to get into for 4 years, with year 4 being the charm! Well, officially three, I didn’t apply last year. I didn’t want the face the rejection of another year (que the violins!) and I was already signed up for craftshow craziness 2008.
More of the new!
I’m really grooving on toile this year. I have 2 more Urbanna bags in the hopper in other prints. And I’m thinking a nice toile print would look really nice in a dress design. Hmmmm, off to the sketchbook.