This Wednesday (tonight) from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: LAMINATED CraftNight! 
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special – Makin’ Memories with the Akbar Cosmo…

Tonight we’ve got the laminator, and we’re not afraid to use it. We’re sort of on the “heat-based” craft kick this month, since we did Shrinky Dinks last week. This is a color and cut craft as well, it’s a real crowd pleaser!
If you’re not sure how to begin, I’ve got some home made templates of mini license plates which look great on any bicycle or miniature tractor or trailer. And I’ll also have a luggage tag template, which will help you make the most awesome and unique luggage tag this side of the Rio Grande (and maybe on the other side of the Rio Grande as well.)
If it’s flat and can be laminated: we’ll laminate it.
There WILL be sparkles, there WILL be pens, there WILL be cocktails.
Why in heavens would you want to miss any of it?

See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday (tonight) from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: SHRINKY DINKS!
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special – If you don’t have time to cut a sandwich in half, calm down and cosmo it. 

This Wednesday (tonight) from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Cinco de Mayo Craft!
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special – ¡Ole!

We’re making sombreros out of paper plates and cups, it’s Cinco de Mayo on the 5th of May, so it’s good to be prepared, don’t you think?
Only the extremely fashionable in Los Angeles will be seen with their paper sombreros this close to Mexican Independence Day.
The revolution begins with you.
Such a statement may sound trite and pithy, but I concur.
One small shift in the way you decide to saunter over to CraftNight and not to the cable box, and the thread of existence is already something other than it was before, a tiny change with HUGE results. What you do at CraftNight may feel silly, no big deal, a difference in pleasure and camaraderie imperceptible to the average nightlife attendee, but make no mistake, such activity is far from insignificant.
The tiny ways of working with puffballs, glitter, colors and shapes in a bar is another way of being in and of the world in a way that upholds an ancient consciousness that is elemental to humans hanging out together.
Come hang with us, it’s bound to be somethin’ special!

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday (tonight) from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Wooden Jungle Animal Puzzle
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special – Takes a Drinking and keeps on winking!

Be it gorilla, monkey, tiger or toucan, whichever one you pick tonight is yours for the assemblage and coloration to fit your fancy. I’m saying “puzzle” but that’s really a loose term, they come with instructions that are pretty easy, and we’re pretty relaxed about instructions around here anyway, when it comes to building your own kickass art project. It’s time to get wild like the jungle, like the clouds approaching from the Pacific’s weather system, mighty and unpredictable.

Upon viewing the weather reports, I was skeptical, but now that the trees are blowing fairly sideways and it’s a rollicking swirl of various native (and not so native) plants heaving about losing leaves… it might be safe to say that it’s going to rain. And if it rains, I implore you, visit us anyway, visit us because it’s SO MUCH FUN to brave the rain and feel like an explorer/adventurer in your own city! The big drops aren’t supposed to start until 11pm, if that. Maybe we’ll just get hit with wind and that’ll be that. However it turns out, we just want to see you walk in the door!

Attend CraftNight without any worry of some algorithm-seeking robot sending you ads by spying on your behavior, leave such onerous and creepy tasks to Google and Facebook! Try analog tonight and surround yourself with the company of very real humans and very real cocktails! Fight the borg! Use your hands! Do something useless, enjoy frivolity to the full extent that our physical quantity allows!

See you at the Craft Table (I’m back from Brooklyn!)
JP Craft Captain

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TONIGHT! APRIL 18th, 2012 from 9pm until 12-ish it’s CRAFTNIGHT & TITS N’ STACHE!!!
Project: Milk Carton Craft
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmopolitans (less than a gallon of gas and three times the fun)

DJ R.E.L. will be spinning all your lady favorites – Riot Grrl, Electro, 90s, Bmore

$2 Donation Kissing Booth! – A fundraiser to make our upcoming event bigger and better than last time! Bring your dollar bills and don’t be shy!

For more information Tits N Stache visit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tits-N-Stache/169446269737690

See you at the Craft Table! (I’m still in NY, but will be back next week!)
JP Craft Captain

TONIGHT! April 11th, 2012 at Akbar from 9-ish until about 12 or later, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Banks! 
$2 processing fee, please
$4 Cosmos – The Akbar Cosmo: No one can drink just one… 

It would be so much fun to just forget about taxes and not ever have to fill out the forms or keep the receipts or drive to weird far-away offices and sign things and mail things and hope it will be all okay and not anxiety-inducing. BUT. We’re into reality here at CraftNight, so we’ve got some paper BANKS for you to keep a little mad money for when you’re wondering just how much money it takes to fill a city pothole?
A person could perhaps use a little cash in a secret bank made of cardboard of which the government has no knowledge. This secret cardboard bank could be your safeguard in case of complete societal meltdown, we’d love to believe it isn’t so… but we are CraftNight, and we are ready for the future, no matter what the future may hold. Come in and make a bank!
Your hosts this evening will be Craft Lieutenants Veronica LeBron, Coral Lobera and Elaine Walker, experts in manning CraftNight, you’ll be in good hands. My hands are in Brooklyn, typing this, as well as the rest of me.

See you at the Craft Table (eventually),
JP Craft Captain

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TONIGHT! April 4th, 2012 at Akbar from 9-ish until about 12 or later, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Easter Craft!
$2 processing fee, please
$4 Cosmos – The best part of waking up is cosmo in your cup!

A smorgasbord of easter related fun!
This is the shortest CraftNight flyer blog-note thingy that I have EVER typed!
WOW!
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday March 28th, 2012 from 9pm until 12-ish at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Craft Stick Flowers and MORE!  
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmo Drink Special – Fill it to the rim with whim!

We were very “painty” last week to foster your inner painter, and this week we’re getting “buildy” so you can nurture your inner architect.

At the beginning of the CraftNight weekly brainstorm, I found someone’s internet plan about how to make super adorable flowers out of popsicle sticks (or “craft sticks” as the lingo goes).
But it seemed very limiting to only make flowers at CraftNight, when popsicle sticks are so versatile! Craft sticks are like tinkertoys in their diversity, you can build a box, a godseye (yes, I’ll bring some yarn!), a planter for a tiny plant, a pencil cup, a recipe holder, a birdhouse, a frame, a valet for your keys and wallet, a sign, an ornamental decoration, the plethora of items you can make is mind-bogglingly vast!

The other thing is, these little sticks, that have been holding up the nation’s popsicles since the early 1900s are made from birch wood. I don’t know if you know about glassine paper… commonly used in the wonderful crinkly translucent envelopes the post office used to package any stamps you may have purchased. Martha Stewart likes to make a big deal out of glassine envelopes and why not, they have an unmatched texture and sheen. Anyway, glassine paper is made not from any ol’ wood but from birch wood. Birch wood finds a way to make life lovely on many different levels, and so we send a hefty salute to it’s usefulness at the month’s end.

See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday March 21st, 2012 from 9pm until 12-ish at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Springtime Flower Pot Painting Craft!  
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmo Drink Special – Bloom with some Cosmo Flower Power tonight! 

The Vernal Equinox has all the flowers saying “Let’s Party!” and so we’re bringing you the chance to paint a lil’ flower pot to your heart’s content. Birth, renewal and regrowth are here for the taking, get rid of the old, bring in the new! If you’ve been draggin’ yer feet and feeling the mulligrubs, let CraftNight gently guide you toward a way to reclaim your life your job your house your bathroom (etc.) in an obnoxiously colorful way!

According to the internet (and the internet knows everything)
Spring has many customs:
1.) Christians are coloring eggs to throw at Jesus for when he finally wakes up!
2.) Buddhists are listening to the band Nirvana and hoping to get a free guitar pick from the river of existence.
3.) Iranians are buying new clothes made out of old lentils
4.) Earth Day decrees that everyone must wear sandals and eat at least one soy product when the moon rises.
5.) Lots of Jewish people are getting ready to cook a brisket and leave one plate out for an invisible guy.
6.) People in China are whipping clay oxen and waving flags.
7.) In Germany, fairies and sprites are crawling out of the woodwork to kill everyone! Quick! Light fires!
8.) There’s an ongoing argument in Sweden over whether it’s a circle dance or a ribbon dance around the May Pole.
9.) Any moment now we should be seeing the feathered serpent that the ancient Mayans will send down the stairway of Chichén Itzå
10.) And yes, there is cultural significance to “Spring Cleaning.” Move your body! Expand the confines of your living space! Clean and organize your Tupperware cabinet! Get into the yard and grow something! Walk outside more frequently! Shake hands with Mother Nature!

Anyway, as you know, you don’t have to bring anything to CraftNight, just yourself, your friends, enough dough for a cocktail or two, and two bucks for the skull at the Craft Table. Come over and play! Flower pots await your paintbrush!

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

PS – Bonus info: LaMuff’s EP is on iTunes if you haven’t checked it out, please do! look and listen! 

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This Wednesday (TONIGHT!) March 14th, 2012 from 9pm until 12-ish at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Photo Leprechaun Ornament (amaaaaazing) 
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmo Drink Special – The Luck o’ the Irish in a hot pink martini glass… 

It’s not enough to chase leprechauns anymore, just like it’s not enough to belong to just ONE social network.
Today’s modern times demand that YOU be YOUR OWN leprechaun and start partaking in various types of mischief.
Stop messing around building all those leprechaun traps! You have the power to grant yourself three awesome wishes and free yourself from the endless waiting!
You are your own fairy shoemaker!
You are your own pot o’ gold! (and I’m not talkin’ about the toilet…)
You are your own wizen’d wrinkled and bearded olde elfe!
You are the rainbow!
YOU ARE MAGICAL!
To further instill the idea that you can move mountains and wear buckles on your shoes and smoke from a meerschaum pipe, we’ll be working with a good luck ornament that involves tiny wooden spools, foam pieces and a space (1 1/4″ round photo size) for a picture of your head. You can choose a photo of someone else’s head, or the cat’s head, or you know… something totally naughty or crazy, use your imagination, it’s your thang, do what you wanna do. At the end of the evening, you will have this very cool looking leprechaun ornament!
You can hang it from someone’s car mirror to scare the heck out of them on St. Patrick’s Day! Leave it on the doorknob! Perch it on the coffee maker at work! It’s sensational, and I think its safe to say it will bring you good fortune beyond your control.
Your four leaf clover runneth over, see what I’m talking about, and see you tonight!

Erin go Braugh at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

PS – Bonus info: LaMuff’s EP is on iTunes and all over the place, I designed the cover, look and listen! 

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