This Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 from 9pm until 12-ish, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Lil’ Wooden Rubberband Powered Windmills
$2 Processing Fee, please • Drink Special: Cosmopolitans
I spend a fair amount of time rummaging around Los Angeles, searching, hunting for fun crafts for us to do at CraftNight. Some craft projects fall into my lap, and it’s the easiest thing ever, and sometimes a craft is obnoxiously elusive… and then I find it. Tonight is one of those nights.
I think I actually did let out a mangled squeal (trying hard not to look completely unhinged) when I found these amazing rubberband-powered tiny wooden windmills, ready to be assembled and painted. I had a mini freak-out and practically did squaredance jigs with strangers nearby.
This windmill craft holds “real live trinket” status, in that it’s so darling, so mini, so delectably tchotchke-liffic, you’ll want to take it with you everywhere. You’ll want to make it your talisman for the tough road ahead, you’ll want to wad it into a ball and throw it at your imaginary attackers, you’ll want to grind it up and add water to it to make a paste for healing cracks in the Great Wall of China. Somehow, with a little rubberband-powered windmill in your possession, you will never need to know certain types of defeat.
I am not offering sage advice here, I’m just tellin’ it like it is.
March is starting with a bang, and as usual, we’ll have superb crafting all year, but due to the limited supply of windmills… if you really want to make one, windmills won’t likely be happening again for awhile.
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
