December 29, 2008 – 11:17 am
Aloha!
Please join us for the next monthly meeting of
the Church of Craft
Sunday 1/4 2-6pm
at Etsy Labs!
325 Gold Street, 3rd Floor
Downtown Brooklyn
Happy New Year! I’ve said it before: I don’t do resolutions, I just don’t like to think of it as a once of year kind of thing. So I’m not going to ask you to resolve to honor your own creative spirit more than you already do. I’m not even going to ask you to resolve to make it to the meetings you always mean to attend. The Church of Craft just isn’t that kind of thing. You already are the incredible crafty person you dream of being, and you don’t need me to tell you so, and you don’t need to prove it to anyone. What I’m offering you this month is a place to come to see your love of creating reflected in the faces around you. If you make it this month or not, know that your making is important! Craft on!
The Etsy Labs are well stocked: all the favorite tools and supplies are still there, and they are so well organized! There are lots of tables and chairs and a couch for us to spread out on. More about the labs at EtsyLabs.etsy.com in the profile section.
Etsy is all about encouraging people to make stuff, just like us, so we get to have this special event craft-on every month, where access to all of their goodies is totally free. If you like it there you can go back and craft Monday evenings!
Our meeting will be the usual casual drop in affair, come any time, bring anyone, bring anything you are working on or come & just check out what everyone else is up to. Snacks are welcome.
December 17, 2008 – 3:09 am
"ice, ice bunny" card by willotoons
The holidays are upon us… and you know what that means? It’s time to break out the glue & craft up some handmade presents! 
Please join us for the December Church of Craft in Oakland this Sunday, December 21st from 12-5pm:
12-1pm Sunday School
A Glitzy ReDo of Dull Ornaments — bring one or more ornaments of yours plus glittery crafty things (beads, mirrors, buttons, etc) to revive ornaments that have lost their luster.
1-5pm Craft on!
Bring whatever project(s) you are working on. As well, we’ll have a (very informal & optional) potluck. Please feel free to show up at any time.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA
RPSC Phone: 510.238.9171
For more information, leave a comment here, or contact the Oakland coordinator directly: lesley.moore@earthlink.net
Happy Holiday Crafting to all!
December 3, 2008 – 5:17 pm
If you live in the Providence area, please have a peek at Craftland! There are so many amazing artists participating there, including, ahem, me! It is sure to be a fantastic shopping experience. What a great way to shop handmade!
December 1, 2008 – 7:05 pm
I am very pleased and excited to announce that after being absent for many months Church of Craft Manchester is back.
After struggling to find a suitable venue, Church of Craft Manchester took a hiatus and I felt very sad about the lack of places for creativity in a city with such a rich heritage for creation and originality. I was clearly not the only person to feel this way and for many months a group of people have been toiling away to create a new arts place in Manchester. Based in the Sunshine Building, Marbella Cafe is an awesome space for eating, hanging out, finding new art and people and just being you know, creative. Having sampled the food, I highly recommend the place. It’s got a good feel, the kind of place you can walk into on your own and feel at home.
From January 2009 onwards, this will be the new home of Church of Craft Manchester, I believe that it’s the ideal place as both CofC and Marbella have the same values. I’m sure it’s the start of many great things to come.
November 30, 2008 – 2:07 pm
I’ve been delinquent in letting you all know about three awesome new books out in the last few months, all from devoted friends of the Church of Craft.
Firstly: Faythe Levine’s companion book to her forthcoming documentary Handmade Nation! Gorgeously illustrated by the talented Kate Bingaman-Burt, including essays by Yours Truly, Andrew Wagner, Garth Johnson, Susan Beal and Betsy Greer, and is co-authored by Courtney Heimerl.
The documentary and the book follow the rise of DIY culture over the last 10 years. If you are familiar with or new to the Craft Scene this is an inspirational taste of the crafty lives Faythe has documented.
And Betsy Greer’s essay finds full bloom in her new book Knitting For Good. This book has lots of personal tales of a craftily considered life, in addition to great patterns you can knit for yourself or for charitable giving.
Last but certainly not least is Two Bits, from our very own Parson Chris. Who is this dude who devotes so much unpaid time to make the Church of Craft website look and work so smashingly? Well he is a really smart guy who studies and teaches about humans and information technology. This book is all about free software. He says it is really all about craft.
Get them at your library or wherever you can afford to get books these days!!
