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CRAFTNIGHT! @AKBAR! 9pm • April 10th, 2019 • Variety!

As I type this, I am on hold with Juror Services, and they have TWO songs on rotation for their hold music. The songs keep getting interrupted by static, the tunes are muffled and muted, they are standard “Muzak-style” jazz-ish numbers but… TWO songs?

The Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles can’t afford a playlist of more than two songs? This is unacceptable. But this is the “normal” of automated government management: websites that STILL look like they were designed in 1998 and antiquated touch tone phone hold systems from 1983.

Civic duty is my bag, despite feeling like every bridge in the country, real and metaphysical, is crumbling. Woo hoo!

ANYWAY. We were going to do fusion beads tonight, but instead we’re going to do “variety” because I found some fun stuff in the craft vault and I want to do that instead! This means tonight shall be a selection of different crafts, a little of this, a little of that!

See you at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain (and possible Juror!)

April Antics in Progress:

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April 10th – Wooden Block Bank, 24th – Cactus Wind Chimes

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JP Happy Hour Mondays at Akbar: 4pm to 9pm! 15th, 22nd! Come on in and say hello!

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CRAFTNIGHT! @AKBAR! 9pm • April 3rd, 2019 • Kite Craft!

We have kites, we have KITES, WE HAVE KITES!!! These are plastic kites, and honestly, when I ordered them I thought to myself “these are pretty inconsequential, just a bit of frippery. And then they arrived.

And they’re BIGGER than I thought they’d be, these kites, they actually might WORK. I don’t mind much if a craft isn’t functional in the traditional/acceptable version of craft trends in the nation. I’m okay with a craft being 100% inoperative at its completion. To me, the PROCESS is where it’s at with this week-to-week sit down. The goal is to have us doing something with our hands that is not work, or tasks, or a phone.

The bar is the place, the craft is the novelty, the cocktails are the liquid courage, the interaction and connection between each other as human beings via ART is the secret mission. If a craft ends up actually being useful, reaching a second life after its inaugural conclusion, well, that’s a BONUS!

So WOW, I’m pleasantly surprised, you could actually take your newly decorated kite out and fly it! And if you were to sit on the porch with a kite and ask it some advice, a kite might say:

• Ya gotta put in effort to rise above malarkey and FLY.
• A very long thin and almost invisible-seeming string can mean a lot. The anchors in our lives can be hidden, but imperative.
• Some days you soar like an eagle, other days it’s hard to get off the ground.
• The great expanse of sky and the nuances of the wind can lift your spirits. Get outside when ya can.

Tonight I have a lot of PENS for you to draw shapes, sayings, scenery, etc. on your kite. If you don’t like to draw, consider writing, perhaps a ballad or a jaunty tune?

Here’s my favorite kite-flying song by the Free Design, since kites are, indeed, fun. “All that’s between us is a little yellow string, but we like each other more than anything”

See you at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain

April Antics in Progress:

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April 10th – Fusion Beads, 10th – Wooden Block Bank, 24th – Cactus Wind Chimes

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JP Happy Hour Mondays at Akbar: 4pm to 9pm! 8th, 15th, 22nd! Come on in and say hello!

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