the lunch box project

My apple cozy is featured on Lisa Orgler's website today! Started in January 2009, the Lunch Box Project is Lisa's resolution to paint an image of food daily. As you can see on her website, she has already achieved her goal of 365 illustrations, but has decided to carry on the tradition by adding a new twist. For 2010, Lisa's goal is to pick monthly themes to focus her food paintings.

In her own words:

"After many weeks of nagging from my nine-year old daughter this month I bring you... Beatle Food.... On a five hour car ride to Wisconsin, while listening to Beatle music, my daughter started noticing all the food references in their songs. This month is the list of titles she jotted down in the car that day."

Apple records was a record label founded by the Beatles. Check out some green apple art that Lisa curated here including my apple cozy pictured above!

inspire :: daisy lew

(found via Eclectica)

Check out these New York City mixed-media, pop-up books by designer Daisy Lew. Pop-Up NYC is a series of books inspired by New York City icons (the Big Apple, the Chrysler Building). From one angle (top view), the image represents an icon while another icon, represents the cityscape (side view).


Check out Daisy's full portfolio on her website by clicking here. I highly recommend it.

things to do :: Swap-O-Rama-Rama TODAY!

illustration credit: contrarymary

A friendly reminder that today is Swap-O-Rama-Rama Vancouver!

What?
Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing and craft supply swap in which a community explores reuse and creativity through the recycling of used clothing. A series of DIY stations will be on-hand to unleash your creativity including screen printing by Blim and sewing stations by Plush On Main. Take as little or as much as you like! All remainders will be donated to Big Brothers of Vancouver.

When & Where:
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
11:00am to 4:00pm
Museum of Vancouver – 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver

Admission:
$6.00 at the door plus a bag of clean clothes and / or a bag of craft supplies to swap.
(leave with all the clothes and supplies that you can carry!)

Tips:

1. Wear easy to change clothing in case you need to try things on
2. Bring a reusable bag to carry your goods
3. Bring a friend!

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For more information and details on what to bring, visit http://www.gotcraft.com/swap

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Licensed under Creative Commons: visit www.swaporamarama.org

a brief haitus

The Gluten Free Epicurean

After Got Craft at the beginning of May, we went straight into wedding coordination mode which is what I am using as an excuse for the lack of blogging lately.


heyday design

It's a long weekend here in Canada today and I am using it as an opportunity to get organized and kick start the to do list. As much as the break was needed, I'm back and ready to share upcoming events, tutorials, local shops and all things crafty!



Showing off her swag bag goods and the pinwheel from Spool of Thread's DIY table

If you missed it at the beginning of May, here are some images from Got Craft. More images can be found on flickr or our facebook fan page.


Lockette [Paper + Fabric}

photo credit: Studio Jeanie

crafty kisses to all

photo credit: Studio Jeanie

Thank you to everybody that came to Got Craft yesterday! We had a fantastic turn out and as always, so much fun! A big thank you to all of our vendors including Spool of Thread Sewing Lounge who hosted the DIY table and taught everybody how to many those snazzy pinwheel pins and Jeanie for being our A+ / 5 diamond / #1 photographer!

Did your receive a swag bag? The line up this year started at a record breaking 6:30am! That's 3.5 hours before the show started! By 7:30am, all 30 bags were spoken for. Read one woman's pursuit for a coveted swag bag over on her blog - Travelling the Amaranth Road - love it!

Oohhh... and the kittens! Thank you to Marilyn from Vancouver Fashion eZine who was on-site selling printed issues with half of her profits supporting the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association. Got Craft attendees broke her record by purchasing a whopping 50 issues and raising $268 with a few additional donations! Yay kittens!

Mark your calendars! Our holiday show is on Sunday, December 5th, 2010 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion. Interested in participating? Applications are available online.

artists pictured from left to right starting at the top: telly, Jennifer Conway, Sassy Contessa, Thistle Town Studio, A Farmers Daughter, Uncle Phil, kove, unknown, Laura Bucci Handmade, Queen Bee Luxuries

things to do :: Got Craft?

illustration by The Beautiful Project

Vancouver’s largest indie craft fair is kicking off the 4th annual Spring show with 55 local, handmade vendors and a DIY table hosted by Spool of Thread Sewing Lounge to make your own crafts.

Got Craft?
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
10:00am to 5:00pm
Royal Canadian Legion – 2205 Commercial Drive (at E. 6th Ave)
Admission $2.00 (kids 10 and under are free)

Did I mention there will be swag bags? The first 30 people through the door will receive a handmade tote bag filled with goodies from all of our vendors! Here are some sneak peeks from hudsonny, Owl + Pussycat, telly designs, kove handmade and Bliss in a teacup.

Also, check out these lovely posts including....
Hold Handmade, heyday design and telly designs feature on Scout Magazine

Girls of Got Craft feature on Handmade Evolution

A round up of Got Craft vendors on Poppytalk

Buy handmade write up on Granville Magazine

For more information and a full list of participating vendors, please visit our website. See you there!

hints :: win a YUDU

We announced last week that Got Craft will be giving away a YUDU to one lucky winner at our Spring show on Sunday, May 2nd. You can read the full announcement and contest details here. Remember, contest closes on April 30th, so start uploading!

A few of you have been asking me for hints and we have been staying pretty tight lipped, but thought we would share a few tips...

1) Check out the photos in our flickr group. Just because somebody has uploaded an image, doesn't mean that you can't go to the same street corner and take another photo.

2) Check poster poles in these neighbourhoods - Kitsilano, Commercial Drive, Main Street

3) Does Your Mother Know?, Capers on 4th, Barefoot Contessa on Main St, Bean Around the World on Main St, Plush on Main, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House, Gene, Solly's on 7th Avenue, IGA on 4th Avenue, Black Dog Video, Jitters Caffe, Arbutus Coffee, Our Town, Britannia High School, JJ Bean on Commercial, Commercial Drive Organics.... some places to check ... you know.. just saying

xx double points xx
If you see our poster covered by somebody elses, please remove it and reposition theirs elsewhere. Take a picture before and after.

DIY @ MOV round two

Congratulations to the Museum of Vancouver for another successful DIY night! Got Craft was invited to hold a mini craft fair at all three events - DIY @ MOV, Handmade Nation, DIY @ MOV 2 - and we are so thankful for being a part of the team! It seemed like the first event had a bigger turnout, but you had to keep in mind that DIY@MOV 2 was held on a sunny and dry Friday night instead of a Thursday night in the middle of January. That being said, there was still a fantastic turn out and the quality of the interaction between attendees and solicitors was top notch. Not only did they have amazing workshops hosted by Collage Collage, Urban Source and Fibre Manipulator; Birkleland Wool was on-site with laps looms, wet needle felting and some amazing displays. Started in 1939, Birkeland Wool is a crafty institution here in Vancouver, so next time you are on Main and E. 20th Avenue, you should definitely go check them out. Thank you to everybody at the Museum of Vancouver for organizing, to all of our Got Craft vendors that came out and set up displays and to all the crafty attendees for supporting this fantastic event! You can read and check out the images from the first DIY @ MOV here.

contest :: win a YUDU

Enter the Got Craft Spring 2010 Contest!

The next Got Craft is coming up on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010. Mark your calendars! Posters are starting to pop up all over the City, so we thought we would celebrate by holding a contest.

To enter, take a picture of a Got Craft Spring 2010 poster that you find at local shops, coffee houses or poster drums in Vancouver. Once you have your images, upload them to the Got Craft Spring 2010 contest flickr group and win yourself a brand new YUDU screen printer by Provocraft worth over $300.00. The more you upload, the more chances you have to win!

Flickr Group: Got Craft Spring 2010 Contest

please make sure to read all the rules before entering ...

one
Contest open to Got Craft Spring 2010 posters only and to residents of the Lower Mainland. (Must be available to pick up the prize at the Spring Got Craft show on May 2nd, 2010)

two
Pictures must include the entire poster and if possible, the poster drum pole / board / wall that the poster is attached to and some background that shows where it was located. No close ups on just the poster. See example.

three
When uploading, include where the poster was found - i.e. store name, intersection, etc. Entries not properly named will not count. See example.

four
Each qualified image uploaded to the flickr group = one entry to win

five
Contest closes April 30th, 2010. A winner will be announced on May 1st, 2010. The winner of the contest must be available to pick up their prize at Got Craft on May 2nd, 2010.

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If you have any questions, please contact us by email at info (at) gotcraft (dot) com or leave a comment below. Good luck!

the * i want * list

A necklace made from broken tea saucers by Silver Trumpet

These are a few of the things I want to buy from Got Craft on Sunday, May 2nd! Start marking your calendars and making your own shopping list by checking out the works of over 50 local and handmade artists here.


Loving the knit accessories by kove!


Abeego - reusable food storage product made from a hemp/cotton fabric infused with a blend of beeswax and plant extracts



Some wood pennents by Bliss in a teacup or a guitar pick for a dad-to-be.


A too cute for words hunting jacket by Escargot for a mom-to-be.


Need to add to my current collection by heyday design


A show isn't a show when I don't stop by Olive for my annual fill up of soap.

* photo credit goes to the respective shops listed

got craft :: 2010 :: spring edition

photo credit: Roberta Grove

Instead of a featured artist this Monday, I decided to feature all 49 Got Craft Spring show vendors. * Smile * It's like a big class picture !

2-Faced
3H Craftworks Society
a Cagey Bee
A Farmers Daughter
Sam Made
Abeego Designs
Billy Would Designs
Bliss in a Teacup
BuenoStyle
cabin + cub
catalyst reaction
Citizen Craft
Divesin
Chanda Stallman
Escargot
Firefly Notes
GroovyGlassGirl
heyday design
Him Creations
hold handmade
hudsonny
irit sorokin designs
Its Your Life Handmade
Jennifer Conway
joanie gyoza's Tasty Treats
K.K. Creations for a cozy world
kove handmade
Laura Bucci Handmade
Lockette {Paper + Fabric}
Locomotive Clothing Co.
love bobbie
Olive
Owl + Pussycat
Peach de Liss Headbands
Penelope Brown
Phaulet
Plush Off
pomo mama design
Queen Bee
roxypop
Sassy Contessa
Silver Trumpet
Smeeta
telly designs
The Beautiful Project
Thistle Town Studio
Track and Field
Uncle Phil
Wikkerink Design
Post Creative
Spool of Thread Sewing Lounge

a night of social crafting

Last Thursday, the Museum of Vancouver hosted a DIY night and invited Got Craft to be a part of it. Let me tell you... if you didn't make it down there, you missed out! It was so much fun!


The ladies from Yarn Bombing were on-site with yarn demostrations throughout the evening. There was a mountain of yarn that you can choose and make stuff with.


Jackie from Divesin oversaw paper collage workshops which were insanely popular. Opus donated all of the materials that you could possibly need to make the perfect take home wooden panels.


Got Craft had a super mini craft fair set up with SamMade, Divesin, Olive and myself (Roxypop).

Thank you to the MOV for all of their hard work in putting this event together. Hope to see many more DIY events! In the meantime, stay tuned for more information on 'Fine Craft' vs. DIY on Thursday, March 4th.

Mini Got Craft

As part of the DIY @ MOV event on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at the Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street, we will be holding a super mini Got Craft fair! The event starts from 7:00pm and ends at 11:00pm. There will be workshops throughout the evening such as button making with Blim, paper collage with Divesin and so much more!

Tickets are $15.00 and can be purchased at the door or you can purchase a membership to the Museum for $35 which includes a whole list of bonuses!

The super mini Got Craft fair will include....

Bliss in a teacup


Olive


SamMade


Roxypop


Divesin

Swap-O-Rama-Rama Vancouver

Swap-O-Rama-Rama Vancouver is looking for a new organizer!

Swap-O-Rama-Rama (SORR) is a clothing swap and wearable art creation event. The swap begins with a giant collective pile of clothing, the unwanted costumes of all who attend. For a minimal fee and a bag of clothing, everyone is welcome to dive in and find their next new / used items from the pile. Take as little or as much clothing from this pile as you like!

After you have chosen your new clothes, move on over to a crafting station, where you can cut, sew, glue, paint, silk screen and otherwise renew someone else's rags into your riches. Materials are available through a crafty supply swap that was added to the event and sewing machines were available to help you unleash your well-dressed muse. Or, attend a workshop where you can learn how to modify your re-fashioned finds in unexpected ways.

Any useable remainders go to local charities.

SORR was born in New York, when artist Wendy Tremayne saw the power of small-scale clothing swaps among friends, and decided to extend it to the community level. These community-based, environmentally-friendly, and fun events were instant hits, and have since been embraced throughout the US. Vancouver textile artist Heather Cameron and the Work Less Party collaborated in September 2006 to first bring this event to Vancouver. In 2009, the event was then passed to the Vancouver Craft Mafia and Got Craft as a joint production.

We are currently seeking an organizer or a group to take over this Vancouver event. Organizers will be responsible for producing the entire event including volunteers, workshops, marketing, etc. Any information gathered from past events will be passed on. Interested applicants can leave a comment with your contact information or send an email to info(at)gotcraft(dot)com.

DIY @ MOV

After a pleasant holiday break, the crafting community is back and this event looks like a good one! DIY @ MOV is a night dedicated to celebrating the creativity and community of the growing DIY (do-it-yourself) craft, art and design movement in Vancouver. Materials and workshops for a range of craft activites from paper and paint to yarn will be on-hand and everybody from the craft newbie to seasons creators is encouraged to participate. Love the item that you made? MOV is providing exhibit space for those that believe are worthy for your items to be viewed for several weeks after the event.

Not the crafty type!? The event will also have a party vibe with a DJ and music by Vancouver-based indie artist, local food and a bar featuring local brews.

Museum of Vancouver - 1100 Chestnut Street, Vanier Park
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
7:00pm
$15.00, members free

For more information, please visit the Museum of Vancouver.

Did I mention we have swag bags ?

Oh yes! Oh yes! The first 30 people through the door at Got Craft will receive a lovely Craft Stylish re-usable tote filled with goodies from all of our vendors including the Museum of Vancouver, Sublime Stitching, Portobello West, Funky Finds and Button Button.



(these 3 swag bag pictures show an assortment of what could be in your bag)

To say that these go quickly is an understatement. We had girls line up at 7:30am for an 11:00am opening last May and I hear that there's some competition this year. So get there bright and early!!


Umm... and yeah... We also had our first fight last year for one of these bags. So for the holiday show, we will be initiating a new system where the first 30 will receive a ticket which they would need to turn in to claim a bag. Please note that you must stay in line until opening (bathroom breaks / coffee runs are ok).

Got Craft? holiday show vendors

* drum roll please*

We are pleased to announce the list of participating vendors to the Got Craft? holiday show. Full details coming soon!

3 Geniuses
a Cagey Bee
A Farmers Daughter
Abbego Designs
Amis de Montagne
Billy Would Designs
Bliss in a teacup
Bueno Style
cabin + cub
crooked walker
Clay Zakka
Cutesypoo Toys
District Thirty
Divesin Design
Look Forward to the Past
Felt Curios
Firefly Notes
Florence Ann
GroovyGlassGirl
Haiiku
Hand & Shadow
heyday design
Him Creations
Irit Sorokin Designs
It’s Your Life
Little Red Caboose
Locomotive Clothing
Love Bobbie
Maked Crafts
Modus Paperie & Press
Moobs
My Chocolate Tree
Olive
Phaulet
Plantscapes
pomo mama design
Queen Bee
Radjuli
Roxypop
Sam Bradd Designs
Sam Made Designs
Sassy Contessa
Smeeta
Smidgebox Designs
Some Button Loves You
Taisa Anderson Designs
telly designs
The Beautiful Project
the pauhaus
Thistle Town Studio
tinywarbler designs
Track & Field
Banoo
Wikkerink Design

Got Craft? deadline

Don't forget that the application deadline for the holiday Got Craft? show is September 19th. That's this Friday! For more information, visit our website and download a copy of the application under vendor information.

Please read your application, website and / or FAQ as most of your questions are answered in these places. Remember, all vendors will be contacted by email approx. one week after the deadline.

Got Craft? goes bite sized!

Sunday, June 14th (this Sunday!) kicks off our first monthly show! Held the second Sunday of each month between June to November, it features a rotating list of 12 vendors including:

Kohana Jewellery
Olive
Clay Zakka
Earthly Presence
My Little Eye
hudsonny
The Mustache Press
Jen Ellis Designs
My LoLo
The Beautiful Project
Love Bobbie
Aramid Custom Bead Jewelry

... and special guest.. Ehren S. from Little Mountain Gallery

Come check us out ...

Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Little Mountain Gallery - 195 E. 26th Avenue (at Main Street)
11:00am to 4:00pm

Admission by donation to support the Vancouver Craft Mafia

PS. Sunday is also car free day on Main, Commercial and the West End plus Blim market is happening just down the street from us, so don't miss out!

Got Craft? has gone bite sized!

The rumors are true!

Vancouver’s largest indie craft fair has gone bite sized! Got Craft is set to take place every second Sunday between June to November from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at Little Mountain Studios located at 195 E. 26th Avenue (at Main Street).

Featuring a rotating list of 13 vendors, Got Craft? showcases the best hand made vendors in the City!

Interested in participating?

Contact me at info(dot)gotcraft(com) for an application