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This Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 from 9pm(ish) till Midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: CHINESE NEW YEAR Fortune Cookies and Red Packets!
$2 per craft kit, please!

Hey, it’s going to be Chinese New Year on the 26th!
CraftNight wishes you an OXpicious year of the OX! (Ugh, bad pun, couldn’t resist.)
We’re making felt fortune cookies, and traditional red packets!
Nobody does the new year like the Chinese, FIFTEEN DAYS of celebration, welcoming in the deities of the heavens and earth, visiting with relatives, meditating and thinking about introspective stuff and having alone time, paying respect to the dead, lighting fireworks, celebrating everyone getting a year older, drinking tea, frying lots of food, tasting sweet dishes for a sweet year ahead, and finally, guiding the spirits home with candles.
Phew! We’re just doing day One, but if you want to do all fifteen, be our guest!
And what does it mean to be in the Year of the EARTH OX?
Experts have been consulted, and they say:
We have hard work to do, like a cow in a field. But often, hard work pays off, cows are resilient, yet one should expect a few cow pies here and there, but you know, seriously speaking, it’s all about exercising our stability. Go slow, dude, one step at a time and don’t cut corners or take short-cuts. Get practical, get down-to-earth, check the small print, slow and steady wins the race.
This nation has recently inherited a rather large pile of manure… and we’re going to have to shovel it one scoop at a time. So roll them sleeves up, and get ready to endure a bit of economic difficulty for a bit.
Bringing us back around to why you should come to CraftNight, because for 2 dollars, you can have a zillion dollar experience!
Come on down, we’ll be here with the crafts, just like all those usual Wednesdays.
JP Craft Captain
CraftNight Website
Akbar Website

This Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 from 9pm until midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Inauguration Crafts
$2 for the first button (the general CraftNight donation request) and 50 cents per button thereafter!

Oh yeah, I’ve got the BUTTON MACHINE. It makes teeny tiny buttons, like only about an inch or so, but you can make ANYTHING YOU WANT, and I’ll turn it into a button for you. So cool.
And in honor of the inauguration, there will be some donkeys to color, maybe you can make a donkey button, since donkeys are happy these days. Come on over, bring your ideas, tiny photos, little drawings… make buttons!
See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain
Craftnight’s Site
Akbar’s Site

This Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 from 9pm until midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
$2 processing fee, please

Ah, it’s been a wonderful holiday break, but now it’s time to get back to it.
Perhaps you’ve kind of bamboozled yourself into some kind of New Year’s resolutions or lack thereof, something to do with mind, body, heart or soul… or biscuits, I dunno.
If you’re blazing a trail of success with your goals and aspirations, more power to you, and if it’s otherwise and your flourish is flattened, I can’t think of a better way to fluff it up then to drag your fine frame in here and fuse some plastic beads together, melt some colorful stuff, and save the world with one small craft.
Small steps are where it’s at, cat, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was CraftNight! Pat yourself on the back, you are just the kind of patron that makes configuring crafts worthwhile, we salute you!
Fusion beads are an action-packed project involving small plastic beads, tiny plastic spike bead holders, magic paper and a searingly hot iron: always a bad idea, therefore, we have to do it!
Looking forward to seeing you!
JP Craft Captain

CraftNight’s Site

Akbar’s Site

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at Akbar!
Sunset & Fountain!

This Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 from 9pm to midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: Shrinky Dink Ornaments

$2 processing fee, and if you make a buncha ornaments, consider donating a little more, if you please!

ALSO: BONUS CRAFTNIGHT this Saturday Dec. 6th! Potato Prints! CraftNight at the BUST Holiday Craftacular at the EchoPlex! Make your own cards, wrapping paper and gift tags from POTATOES and paint! Craft Lieutenants will be standing by! POTATO PRINT MANIA!

Where did November go?!? How did that happen? Goodness gracious me, we’re on the last month of the year, how implausible and eerie. Hmmm. Guess you should drag your foxy bones over here and make something cool, because you’re just not going to make anything cooler than a SHRINKY DINK this week, are you?

You could build a jet pack that runs off of vegan twinkies, or find a tiny arachnid that rollerskates and does the splits, or you could register a newfound holiday where everyone gets 5 days off of work and the government is harassed into giving us all free balloons and watermelon poprocks… but making a SHRINKY DINK at CraftNight is way cooler than any of those silly old things, and face it: a lot simpler.

If you don’t know what a SHRINKY DINK is, then you are hereby designated to mandatory CraftNight attendance, because honestly, they are so cool, people go nutso and get all nostalgic and they hug each other and buy each other drinks and sing songs and it’s warm and fuzzy and the quality of human life goes up about 89 points, and everyone tunes into their underlying connection with the unity of all creation. Do you really need an explanation? Okay okay, SHRINKY DINKS involve drawing, coloring, heat and plastic, and that’s all I’m going to tell you. Arrive and be enthralled. If anything, knock back one of Akbar’s famous $4 Wednesday Night Cosmos, it will probably give you a few new ideas for sure!

Oh and Lars’s films Tulips and Forgiveness are each premiering at the Vine Theater at 8pm, go see them if you can, if you visit the site and RSVP, you can get in for free! Red Carpet! Wooo! Lars’s production company is called “Crabtastic” so we’ll have some crab drawings, if you want to make some Crabtastic SHRINKY DINKS in honor of Lars after the premiere! And of course, you might run into some fabulous celebrities from the films, wandering around like they do at Akbar, our little neighborhood oasis.

See you at the  Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

CraftNight Website

Abkar’s Website