47 – Weekend awesomeness.
December 8, 2008
This past weekend was full of so much creativity that I could barely contain myself! Friday night I headed up to Fishtown for a little craft fair that a couple of my friends were showing stuff in. A couple of people that caught my eye were:
Lauren Ingalls – really beautiful and elegant pottery/candle holders.
Caroline Santa – enjoyable prints and drawings, great compositions.
HYMY Industries – contemporary prints & calendar (website still very much under construction).
After the show I was super motivated to start creating myself, and got to work on a set of hardbound notebooks that the boyf’s mom has specially requested to give as gifts this year!
I’m using the same 3 images from Travel Series 1 notebooks (softcover), and building these little books by hand! Now that I’ve got the general idea of how to build them, I hope to get a couple versions of them up in the Etsy shop! (Perhaps that fantastic vintage flocked wallpaper I picked up on ebay a month or so ago?)
Saturday was equally exciting. In the afternoon I walked down to see a house being built in South Philly that will be one of the first certified LEED Platinum homes in the country! Construction sites are always fun, and this one was especially interesting with the sustainable twist. It also made me long to build a place of my own one day…one day. Saturday evening, the boyf and I headed over to Studio 27.28 for an especially lovely opening. I was very much in like with all three of the current artist’s work, especially the bright and clever stencil graffiti pieces by Jonathan Wakuda Fischer. The patterns, colors, and juxtaposition of subjects are absolutely delightful!
Of course, there’s still plenty of holiday gifts for the care packages to work on, so I spent a little while Sunday night filling little nylon tea bags with aromatic pomegranate white tea and wrapping each one in little envelopes designed to coordinate with my whole holiday theme this year!
I know, I’m a tad on the design OCD side this year, but so what!? I think they turned out great – and while it’s sort of a tedious process cutting & folding each of the little envelopes, I know I would be thrilled to find them on my doorstep Christmas day! More holiday crafts and projects to follow as they’re completed! What did you do this weekend?
yeah, sure: “pomegranate white tea” indeed!
WV: iducell – What everyone at Art Shop was trying to do Friday night.
The tea designs are *amazing* – I’m giving away tea this year, I think I’m going to have to pull from your book! Wow!
And the books look outstanding. You have some serious skills, miss.
Your Mamaw would be so proud of you and your paper crafts!
i was not nearly as productive as you were this weekend! love the tea envelopes. they’re so fun!