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CRAFTNIGHT! @AKBAR! 9pm • March. 13, 2019 • St. Paddy Sand Art! Suggested donation is $3, but we won’t turn anyone away for lack of funds or too many funds, lol. Your donation goes toward supplies for CraftNight and SparkleBlob programs.

We haven’t done sand art in a dog’s age, so it’s high time we did some, in the shape of leprechaun heads, rainbows, and shamrocks! There will also be some supplemental St. Patty crafty surprises while supplies last for earlybirds and newcomers!

There’s a LOT of Irish walking around the City of Angels, most unlikely turning out to be ME, lol. Thanks to some fun and lively results from 23andMe, I found out that I’m around 15.7% British and Irish, with likely connections to places like Tyne and Wear, Greater London, County Cork, and County Limerick, to name a few. Thus, I’m in the mood to celebrate!

We want you to have your crafts in time for St. Patrick’s Day, which is not nearly the jamboree-drinking and partying fest that exists on the east coast. But we’re gonna do our BEST. Give the crafts you make tonight to someone who could use a bit of luck in their day. Wear green, pinch butts, find rainbows, seems like a pretty good to-do list.

If you want to celebrate in an especially raucous and fun way, join us for upcoming festivities with Bet Yer Bottom BINGO SHAMROCK EDITION this St. Patrick Sunday! Prizes galore, terrible jokes, boozy giveaways, and probably a limerick or two, after all, it’s my heritage and I want to share it with you.

See you TONIGHT at the Craft Table, JP Craft Captain

March Antics:

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March 20th – FIRST DAY OF SPRING! Flowerpot Craft! 

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JP Happy Hour Mondays, 4pm to 9pm! March 18th, 25th 

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April Craft Preview: Kites, Banks, Necklaces, Windchimes and MORE!!!

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…)

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March 6th Craft – TBA

March 13th – St. Patricks SAND ART! 

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March 20th – FIRST DAY OF SPRING! Flowerpot Craft! 

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JP Happy Hour Mondays, 4pm to 9pm! March 11th, 18th, 25th 

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