CRAFTNIGHT!

It’s the holidays, everything is weird.
Places have weird hours, they’re either closing too early or open too late. CraftNight is no exception, last week we ended on a square dancing high note that was the perfect sendoff to 2011. We shall reconvene on January 4th, 2012 with some exciting new projects for you to make!

As you sit by the crackling fire with the brandy snifter lazily whirling around in a clockwise motion by your attentive armchair hand, I hope that you have a lovely holi-jolly end of December, with the goodness, sweetness and joy that make these lucky days of ours all the more grand.

And if you are sitting in Akbar right now, reading this on your smart phone while someone is checking out your butt… GET OFF THE PHONE!!! Have a cosmo, they’re $4 on Wednesdays!

See you in 2012 at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 from 9pm until the cows come home, at Akbar,  it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Craft: Holiday Craft Project!$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmo Drink Special – Yule be sorry if you don’t try one! 
SPECIAL EVENT(S)
SQUARE DANCING WITH TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT and Expert Square Dance Caller Extraordinaire, Susan Michaels!
MINI CRAFT FAIR Featuring Goods from Panorama Press, Erickson Ceramic Designs and PinkFouffy!

It’s that time of year, when Los Angeles gets bonkers with Christmas lights and people are scurrying around from one holiday party to the next, trying to make sense of how we suddenly arrived at DECEMBER! How did we get here?!? It’s true it’s true, eleven other months went by and somehow now its all holly berries, merry making and jingle bells chirping out of every store in town!

At some point, you just have to take a good long look at all the stuff that’s happening, and decide there’s only one thing to do tonight: CraftNight.

If you come and visit us, it’s basically a 5-in-1, you can do A LOT all in one place:
1.) Delicious cocktails in the Akbar Ice Cave (if you haven’t seen the ice cave yet, get in here, it is unprecedented)
2.) LIVE Old Time Music being played by Triple Chicken Foot!
3.) AMAZING Square Dance Calling Specialist, Susan Michaels, who will help you realize what an awesome square dancer you are, even if you’ve never been to a square dance, or know what square dancing IS
4.) Mini Craft Fair with some really cool items for sale made by local artists!
5.) Fun Holiday Crafts that you can make for friends, family, or yourself!

It’s a treasure trove of holiday magic, please come and join us!

And one last thing, my puppet show is this final weekend, and I’m going to say this right now: Get your tickets HERE and use the discount code: CRAFT to get 5 bucks off admission!!! Seats are going very fast, you don’t want to miss it!

See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain

www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

This Wednesday November 30th, 2011 at Akbar from 9pm (ish) til midnight it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Elves (felt)
$2 processing fee please
$4 Cosmopolitan drink special, pinkie drinkie!

Veronica LeBron, CraftNight Lieutenant offers up some felt fun with ELVES tonight, tiny little critters who want to meet you. Tiny little people who use popsicle sticks for skis, haven’t you always wanted to know people like that?
Also: This is a plug for our upcoming holiday show, visit www.sparkleblob.com

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
(stay tuned for square dancing holiday party with triple chicken foot and probably something mint flavored)

Wednesday November 16th, 2011 – NO CRAFTS – Craft Captain too sick to craft (Akbar’s open though! $4 cosmos!)
Wednesday November 23rd, 2011 – NO CRAFTS – Akbar Annual Awesome Dance Party! (Hot dancers, hot drink specials!)
Wednesday November 30th, 2011 – CRAFTNIGHT! – TBA

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, but no Virginia, there will be no CraftNight for TWO HONKIN’ WEEKS! Forgive me, but I caught a cold, and not just a cold, but some kind of phlegmy leviathan that has attached itself to my ribcage and won’t let go. It has caused headaches, respiratory misery, coughs from hell lethargy, sore throat and total grumpiness.
Talking is uncomfortable, and since
1.) I’m sure you don’t want to get this unsavory malady before the Thanksgiving Holiday and
2.) Talking is a fair amount of being a Craft Captain
I think its best that I just stay home and get better in order to return fit as a fiddle for CraftNights to come. This is actually the VERY FIRST cancelled CraftNight of 2011, to my recollection. I have had Lieutenants in my stead hosting CraftNIght to make sure we’ve had nearly 52 for you to attend this year. There is LOTS of FUN scheduled for December Crafts, and I’m not gonna miss any of that, dang-it.

Next week is the Akbar pre-Thanksgiving holiday dance party, so there will be no crafting, but there will be plenty of tail-shaking! Rumor has it there will be a fun visual treat in the bar very soon, so keep checking our lovely neighborhood oasis, it may be transformed before you know it for some holiday magic.

See you in two weeks at the wellness Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

PS – If the Kitchen next to AKbar is serving their chicken noodle soup: HAVE SOME!!! It’s delicious, and fights the good fight, you’ll feel like you can lift 5 logs after eating it.

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www.akbarsilverlake.com

This Wednesday November 9th, 2011 from 9pm(ish) to midnight(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Corn Husk Dolls
$2 Processing Fee, Please
$4 Cosmos! Tastes Great, Less Filling! 

Man is it cold, I could use a night of assembling corn husk crafts! Last week I was talking to Terry (your illustrious Akbar door associate) and we started talking about corn husk dolls, and how awesome corn husks are, and how you can make them into just about anything!
Corn husk crafts are a great way to instill sentimental feelings about fall and the bright blue sky and how the stores are overstocked with canned pumpkin and brown sugar.

“The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.”
- Emily Dickinson

Or… like… I dunno, you know it’s Fall when you see a courageous woman kayaking down the gravy river from the banks of the baked potato. (see photo.)

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

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