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February 6th, 2013 • Mardi Gras Mask Craft!

February 05

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This Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 from 9pm until 12 (sometimes later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!!
Project: Mardi Gras Mask Craft
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: You’re in Good Hands with Akbar. 
NEW FEBRUARY BADGE: Brand new badge for a brand new month, while supplies last! 
Prepare your mask, give it your personal style, your signature best, and scare the hell out of someone when Fat Tuesday rolls around next week! What better way to make the week one to remember than terrorizing co-workers or roommates with a homemade feathery glittery mardi gras party mask? No one will doubt that you are ready to party, no one will question it at all!

It’s also Chinese New Year, so if the Georgian New Year wasn’t your thing after the NY-Waterford Crystal Balldrop New Year… well here’s to more beginnings! It’s the year of the snake, so maybe you want to make a snake hat, just don’t start speaking in parsel tongue, it’ll probably cause more trouble than you know. Anyway, slither in here and see what we have for you!

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

Posted by on February 5, 2013 in Uncategorized

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January 30th, 2013• Groundhog SuperBowl Paper Doll Touchdown Smackdown!

January 29

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This Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 from 9pm until 12 (sometimes later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!!
Project: Groundhog SuperBowl Paper Doll Touchdown Smackdown
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: The Akbar Cosmo, sheer drinking pleasure. 
GOLDEN PINECONE BADGE: Totally Out! New pin in February!

The annual pagan ritual of the SuperBowl happens this upcoming weekend. The SuperBowl is not going to prognosticate the weather for you, we have groundhogs for that.

In recognition of this ancient sports/woodchuck-oriented weekend I’m combining groundhogs and football to bring you the classic hand-illustrated (by yours truly) groundhog football player paper dolls! Raven and 49er fans will BOTH have an opportunity to dress up and color their groundhog in team colors.

Don’t dig football? Don’t worry! There are other outfits for this cutie of a groundhog, If you want to dress up your “land-beaver” in something more fashionable or interesting, I’ll have an exciting non-football option for you to worth with, and ultimately, everyone should leave CraftNight with a lovely keepsake.

Many exciting ancient pagan winter celebrations ultimately have to do with worrying about whether its going to stay cold forever, or if there is hope, if there is light. Did you know that if you can flip a crépe in a pan with one hand, and hold a 50 cent piece in the other, that’s a sign of prosperity in the coming year? This most current full moon is called “The Wolf Moon” because wolves are getting hungry, the forest is no longer lush with rabbits and rats to eat, food is disappearing! Be glad you don’t live in a yurt where a wolf nose might poke into your tent hoping to eat you! Did you know that people carry candles at Candlemas because when the infernal god, Pluto kidnapped Proserpine (Persephone) and took her to his swanky underground lair, her Mom, Ceres (Demeter), searched in vain for her with candles? The pope totally tried to turn that pagan holiday around by saying it was about the Virgin Mary, and nobody really cared as long as they got to walk around together in the dead of winter holding candles, so there you have it.

Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah! Ahem… I was born on Geary St. in San Francisco, I’ve got sourdough and fog in my blood, therefore: GO NINERZZZZ!!!! (Couldn’t help it, I know you’re rolling your eyes…)

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

Posted by on January 29, 2013 in Uncategorized

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January 23rd, 2013• Crafting on the High Seas on National Pie Day

January 22
This week's CraftNight flyer brought to you by Sarah Williams

This week’s CraftNight flyer brought to you by Sarah Williams

This Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 from 9pm until 12 (sometimes later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!!
Project: Seafaring Crafts on National Pie Day 
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: The Akbar Cosmo is the one Cosmo to have when you are having more than one.
GOLDEN PINECONE BADGE: Almost out!
NATIONAL PIE DAY: There will be pie!

According to The National Pie Council, this Wednesday is National Pie Day. Take a moment and just let that sink in. The gift of pie will be present at CraftNight for anyone lucky enough to get here and have a slice. Support your local pie makers!

Gray whales are heading down south in large numbers, the sea is rich with a highway of super mammals, all heading for their calving grounds in Baja. You can drive 60  miles north, get on a boat and possibly see WHALES near the Channel Islands. Now if you’re not in the mood for that, you can drive 60 miles east, get yourself up to Mt. Baldy and go tubing or skiing in the SNOW.

If anyone is giving you crap about Los Angeles this week, tell them that in January you can see WHALES AND SNOW ON NATIONAL PIE DAY and then see what they say. Because that’s just crazy, isn’t it? I mean, nothing’s crazier than that. The only thing that could possibly be crazier would be a gray whale in skis, doing a slalom down Mt. Baldy while also eating a piece of delicious pie. We live in an amazing arena of incredible opportunities!!! Along with whales and snow, you get crafts, pie and cocktails, there’s so much stuff to do around here I’m not sure how anyone can even THINK of being bored.

This craft will involve eye patches, sailing ships and some other sea-themed knickknacks for you to assemble and decorate! I also have a few sea-themed appliqués, available this Wednesday ONLY!!! And don’t forget: there is still a wee chance you could show up at CraftNight and get the coveted January “Golden Pinecone Pin” one in a series of 12 pins, a different pin each month. Very few are left, I hope you get one!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

 

 

Posted by on January 22, 2013 in Uncategorized

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January 16th, 2012 • Yarn-n-Sparkle Beer Bottle Candle Craft

January 15

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This Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 from 9pm until 12 (sometimes later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!!
Project: Yarn-n-Sparkle Beer Bottle Candle Craft 
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: The Akbar Cosmo, richness worth a second cup. 
SPECIAL OFFER: Crafters in January will receive a free “Golden Pinecone Badge” in January only! Limited stock! You only get one by showing up in person, first come, first serve, when I’m out, I’m out! Every month a different badge, collect all 12!

This yarn and beer bottle craft only happens every two years, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often, because I have enough yarn to knit a sweater for Akbar’s entire building. Look for more yarn crafts in 2013, we have only the best and brightest skeins for inspiration.

The general tendency for this weeks featured craft is to obtain a bottle (done very easily at our bar) and put glue on it, and then arrange yarn onto the bottle in pleasing colors and patterns, and voila, it makes a great candle holder! So then we’ve got yarn, bottles, candles and more!

This year, I’m taking it to the next level, revvin’ it, ampin’ it, jackin’ it, vampin’ it UP WITH SPARKLY THINGERS! You will be able to add sparkly personality to your candle in the form of pokey things that are kind of a combination of gems and tacks, in that you can stick them IN the candle and make the candle itself be part of your miraculous centerpiece!

Before you get all cold feet and freaked out by thinking “oh, this is a complicated one!” just STOP thinking that way and get in here. You’ve got to remember that there’s nothing to fear at CraftNight, and even if there was: the emotion of fear has nothing to do with success! Lots of people are scared to try new experiences, or things that are complex or new or weird, and just the attempt to try anything new or differently is a success in itself.

If you feel flubbed up on your New Year’s resolutions, the Georgian New Year happened just last night, so you can start over, and if that doesn’t work for you, the Chinese New Year is coming up, and you can revisit your goals and aspirations, dust yourself off and try again.

See you and the yarn at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

Posted by on January 15, 2013 in Uncategorized

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January 9th, 2013 • Pinecone Pinecone, who’s got the Pinecone!

January 08

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This Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 from 9pm until 12 (sometimes later) at Akbar, it’s THE FIRST CRAFTNIGHT OF 2013!!!!
Project: Total Pinecone Craft
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: The Akbar Cosmo, don’t let thirst happen to you. 
SPECIAL OFFER: Crafters in January will receive a free “Golden Pinecone Badge” in January only! Limited stock! You only get one by showing up in person, first come, first serve, when I’m out, I’m out! Every month a different badge, collect all 12!

Far be it from CraftNight to overlook the ingenious pinecone.
We’ve been in quite the wintry way these past few weeks, with night time temperatures in the 40s, an exciting development for our glittery city by the sea. It’s a two-parter, wherein you can make a pinecone gift to nature, OR make a pinecone conversation piece, or both! Here are the details:
1.) PINECONE BIRD FEEDER – In the “cold” weather, birds need FAT, so I’m stirring up a little birdseed/peanut butter/shortening mixture, which we’ll call “veggie suet” and you can spend some time packing the mixture into the cone, tying some yard to it and hanging it on a tree when you get home. Los Angeles is home to many a brown nuthatch, and they LOVE to eat!
2.) PINECONE CREATURE – This will be a fanciful home made kit I’m putting together that will enable the crafter to build a creature of some sort, diagrams will be supplied, but if you want to just freeform it, that’s okay too, and this ornament will be suitable as a gift, or a showpiece for your home or office.

It’s nice to be back, come one, come all, get ready for an exciting year of wonderful crafts!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

 

Posted by on January 8, 2013 in Uncategorized

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