CRAFTNIGHT! @AKBAR! • Wed. Feb 27th, 2019 • Shrinky Dinks! Craftnight is donation-based, your donation keeps CraftNight alive, thank you! xoxo ~MGMT
People often ask me what my favorite craft is. The answer is: Shrinky Dinks. If you do not know what a shrinky dink is… there is a possibility that you will make one at CraftNight tonight, and the naked truth of tenderness will cleanse you. Does that freak you out? Well breathe fully, and lemme just say, that Shrinky Dinks are TRANSFORMATIVE. They have the power to perhaps revitalize the place in you that is raw.
A Shrinky Dink looks like a lil’ dippy piece of plastic that you draw on, and who cares, blah blah, you use the pencils, half-mindedly scrawling whatever and then… our certified Shrinky Dink Technician puts it in the toaster oven (or uses the shrink ray) and ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE. It shrinks! You panic! It wads up and you just aren’t sure you can take it, and then it unfolds and flattens out and WOW YOU MADE THAT! And you wonder what you were doing and thinking before this moment, before you had this test of faith and triumph.
That’s how shrinky dinks make people feel.
It’s polystyrene! When you bake a sheet or segment of it, the result is a durable 1/3 size creation that is 9 times thicker than the original measurement. They were invented in 1973 by Betty Morris and Kate Bloomberg, two housewives from Brookfield, Wisconsin.
In 2008, UC Irvine Professor Michelle Khine applied shrinky dinks to create mini structures for the application of microfluidics to topics such as stem cell research. And in 2014, a team from Harvard University and MIT used Shrinky Dinks to create self-assembling robots.
Shrinky Dinks have given us so much, and continue to be used in new and inventive ways, that’s why its my favorite craft, come make one… or two… or three…
See you at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain
Wait it’s almost MARCH?!? (Yes, yas, yep…)
March 6th Craft – TBA
March 13th – St. Patricks SAND ART!
BET YER BOTTOM BINGO! 7:30 – 10pm MARCH 17
Details HERE!
March 20th – FIRST DAY OF SPRING! Flowerpot Craft!
CRAFTAOKE!
8pm @Akbar, it’s a rollicking good time featuring our special guest, KJ Terioke and a rollicking good puzzle craft!
More info HERE!
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