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Gay Pride Sparkle Visor Easy Listening Dance Basement • June 4th, 2014

June 04


This Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Sparkle Visors! 
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special: “The Lyla” • A hanka for a hunka Lyla! 

We’re celebrating Gay Pride all over the map, and just because we’re such flagrant homos over here, the thing to wear is a sparkly glittery visor shining brightly with flashes of summertime light!
I only have 24 of them, so get here early if you want to make one, otherwise, the rest of you will get to explore CraftNight “GRAB BAG” who knows what you’ll get! 

ALSO: BASEMENT DANCE PARTY!!! Easy Listening Style!!! 

Remember being a kid and thinking that adults were sooo weird? Remember how all they’d want to do is stand around, have drinks and TALK?!? Sometimes they’d dance a little, but not much. Other times they might invite each other over and have food… that part always seemed to make sense. But now you can be your own weird adult, and do whatever you want. 
Anyway, I’ve put together a special summertime mix of tracks for you to sway and dance to, channel your inner Stevie Nicks, your Steely Dan, your Kim Carnes, your Linda Ronstadt… I could go on… 

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

GAY PRIDE, GAY PLANS 

Dyke Day LA at Barnsdall Park! 

Lavender Menace Celebration of Women 

First Elders 

 

Posted by on June 4, 2014 in Uncategorized

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LadyBug Bead Craft Majorly Solves All Your Problems • May 28th, 2014

May 27

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This Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Ladybug Bead Project
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special: “The Lyla” • Don’t drink a cup of hot fat! Drink a Lyla! 

This ladybug craft will make it so that you won’t be able to concentrate on anything else while you make it. The little craft kit consists of bright pony beads, lanyard material and a handy clasp and clip so that when you’re finished making it, you can tote it around anywhere.
Why a ladybug craft?
Ladybugs signify spring the way spiders represent autumn, it’s just one of those seasonal bugs. A seasonal bug reminder is necessary.
To tell you the truth, however, ladybugs are beetles, they absolutely aren’t bugs. Europeans have been calling them ladybirds for over 500 years, and scientists, being ever proper, call them lady beetles. Lady beetles belong to the Coleoptera class of insects. Contrary to popular belief, you can’t tell the age of a ladybug by counting its spots, you can denote species by color and spot placement, but not the former.
Boy ladybugs are also just called ladybugs. They don’t let being called “ladybugs” keep them from being really great male bugs.
Ladybugs also don’t really seem to care if they’re beetles or birds, they just eat aphids in really large quantities and never look back.
BE LIKE A LADYBUG.
Don’t give a CRAP what anyone says, just do your thing no matter what the hell anyone calls you or whatever, just DO YOUR LIFE and eat stuff that you like and don’t worry about your house being on fire, that’s just ladybug propaganda from back when farmer’s burnt the fields to get rid of other insects.
We’re making ladybug crafts because the ladybug is a symbol reminding you that old stories no longer own you, you’re free!

A woman walked up to the bar, this Memorial Day Weekend.
The music had changed, she said to me “Is Dyke Hour over?”
I looked at her, squinted my eyes and said “Dyke hour is NEVER over.”
She shook my hand.
Because it’s true, if only 10% of the population is Dykes, you can’t afford to be thinking they’ll all disappear when the music changes.
Don’t be letting the music, or the surroundings, or the school, or the work, or the place, or your car, or procrastination keep you from what you want to find, be, do or have. BE A LADYBUG AND GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT!
See? All your problems solved.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

 

Posted by on May 27, 2014 in Uncategorized

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Wind Chimes • May 21st, 2014

May 19

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This Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Springtime Windchime
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special: “The Lyla” • Those who have no time for exercise will have time for a Lyla!

10 Ways your CraftNight Wind Chime Will Totally RULE YOUR FACE: 

1.) Your CraftNight wind chime will tell you when it’s WINDY, that’s the first way it’ll rule your FACE.
2.) Then your wind chime will be really goddamn awesome because YOU painted it, how’s THAT for ruling your face? YEAH! 
3.) Then your totally amazing CraftNight wind chime will rule your face because you HANG IT SOMEWHERE THAT RULES so people will see it. Near your FACE!
4.) When visitors see your CraftNight wind chime in front of your place, or inside your place, and they eat a complimentary bowl of cereal that you made them, the wind chime will make them feel so GOOD that they’ll wash their own dish and not put it next to the sink, they’ll turn into a DIFFERENT KIND OF NICE PERSON… which rules your face.
5.) The wind chime will make sounds that neighbors will hear, and instead of cutting each other off with their bicycles, cars, buses and personal roller skates, they’ll HUG. Rules your face.
6.) Your wind chime will RULE YOUR FACE because you’ll get a text that the pizza’s on its way and the pizza really will arrive when it says it will, no lie. Like NO ONE will be late texters all day.
7.) The interesting and made-by-you wind chime will inspire people who haven’t even seen it to begin understanding some of nature’s secrets which, in turn, will rule your face.
8.) The crap of the world will melt away if you give the wind chime a chance, if you just stop being suspicious and worried it’ll just rule your face and that’s okay.
9.) Corporations don’t care about raising prices and thinking you make more money than you do because they know nothing about you or reality or what’s actual, and you won’t care about them either because your face will be ruled by your new creation, your CraftNight wind chime, and you’ll put on some Kool and the Gang, and things will be fine.
10.) The new CraftNight wind chime that you make will rule your face because honestly, why would it not?

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

 

Posted by on May 19, 2014 in Uncategorized

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Charming Bird Necklace Power Amulet • May 14th, 2014

May 14

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Charming Bird Theme Necklace Kit 
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special: “The Lyla” • Your Ticket to Urban Paradise!
Expert Craft Ops Specialist and CraftNight Lieutenant, Elaine Walker at the helm tonight!
SPECIAL APPEARANCE by the Ukulele Orchestra of the Western Hemisphere! Serenading you sometime after 9:45 or so…

You know you want to make crafts to the sounds of beautiful strings strumming lovely hits of today and yesteryear, right? And you know you want to stroll the sidewalks of your city wearing a “Charming Bird Necklace” that will charm people so outrightly, so unabashedly, that they’ll just be filled with an elation they can’t describe?

The Charming Bird Necklace cuts through the crap and says things we’re all trying to say: The World is Beautiful, Birds are Rad, Air is for Breathing, People are Nice, It’s HOT in Los Angeles… The Charming Bird Necklace makes it so that you don’t have to say these truths, you can just WEAR them and it does the work for you. It’s highly pragmatic to have an accessory that does the work for you, no?

Wear this Bird Necklace to outings and events and just see how many doors it will open for you. Your Charming Bird Necklace will help you concentrate on your 18-month plans AND your long term dreams. The Charming Bird Necklace is your personal power amulet, enhancing your talents and ambitions! What’s more, the oppressive LA heat will hopefully subside and it will be lovely to have a cooling cocktail, a craft project, friends old and new, and yes: LIVE UKULELES!!!

Be near us, Elaine will probably be wearing a dress that you need to see.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

PS – Do NOT forget your oxygen mask when you take off on your Sky Kanga (see photo)

www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

 

Posted by on May 14, 2014 in Uncategorized

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Flower Power Recipe Holder • May 7th, 2014

May 06

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This Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Flower Power Recipe Holders 
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special: “The Lyla” • For fast fast fast relief!

Mother’s Day is around the corner! This craft is highly malleable, you can give it to Mom or whoever sang “Itsy Bitsy Spider” to you 40,000 times when you were small and requested it endlessly. Or give it to whoever kept you from eating the second caterpillar. Or give this gift to whoever picked you up at the party and didn’t say a word, just got you home safe while your mind tried to comprehend how making a typewriter out of leaves and mud isn’t practical. This flower power recipe holder is a way to say “Thank You” to that person, a person who has had your back for a long time, knows who you are and, like many people: enjoys cooking and eating.

Because what bonds us like FOOD? That whole “breaking bread” thing is super real, food and love are linked, like it or not. Sharing and social exchange was born out of our ancestors having an abundance of food from hunting and farming, and sharing it. This repeated sharing had our bodies harboring a gut-brain connection (hormones, hippocampus, memory) connecting our last really good meal with survival. And this is why even TODAY when you smell “HillBilly Surprise” if that was a specialty made for you when you were little and you loved it, you STILL respond to it like it was yesterday and you want it, no matter how many people are like “REALLY?” It means survival, it means love. Look at your favorite meal, look at someone you love and your dopamine levels rise, it’s crazy.

Index cards will be on hand to write some recipes, then you clip it to the recipe holder you just made and BLAM-O, instant fabulous gift. For instance, you could pack a jar full of dried beans and spices and then give the recipe for what to do with all of it (chili? drunken beans? BBQ beans?)  and tie the recipe holder thinger to it and it’s a pretty cool gift. This little kit is super simple to assemble, and if you don’t like the whole “recipe holder” thing, it can also hold a photo, a note, a name card, you name it!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

 

Posted by on May 6, 2014 in Uncategorized

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