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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

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TONIGHT! Wednesday December 19th, 2012 from 9pm to midnight (or later!) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Cork Reindeer, SnowGlobe Diorama Ornament and MORE!
$2 Donation suggestion
Drink Special: The $4 Akbar Cosmopolitan: Unpretentiously luxurious!

This is the LAST CraftNight before we start thinking about 2013! If you haven’t been to CraftNight all year long, if you’ve been thinking and mulling and musing “Gee, I really gotta get in there” the last 360-something days of 2012 and you never made it in to see us, THIS IS IT! It’s going to be terrible fun, because I’ve got seasonal crafts galore for you to do, including TWO KINDS OF REINDEER CRAFTS and an amazingly charming little snowglobe diorama-type ornament thing that is sort of too awesome to believe.

The next CraftNight on the roster will be January 9th, 2013. I’m taking TWO WEEKS OFF to regroup and bring you new and exciting premium craft experiences!

What a year it was. As you sweat in your cable knit sweater, in your cloak and your wellingtons as you stare off into the fog on the edge of the cliffs gazing out into the distance like someone in a Bronté novel, I’ve got a few meditations for you.
1.) Your successes, what were they?
2.) Did you learn any lessons new this year? Anything you’d do over if you could?
3.) What would you like to accomplish in 2013 that you didn’t do in 2012, and why is it important to you?
4.) Who are the people you are most grateful for?
5.) How do you give us the best of you, and how will you share the best of yourself with us in 2013?

CraftNight wishes you a warm and happy holiday season, take the time to have some unscheduled “nothing” time if you can. Reflect on your basic goodness, the luck you have had, the things you can do, and know we’ll be rooting for you along the way now and always. In the midst of running around with all this holiday stuff, between every bright lightbulb and 20% off sign, around the brake lights, interchanges and crosswalks, we’re all just so much human fluff. The fluff of human kindness constantly needs bolstering and help from your heart and others, and now is as good a time as any to get started (see links below.)

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

LINKS for HELPING:

The U.S. Postal Service has established a unique Post Office Box for people to send letters of condolence to the Newtown, Connecticut community.If you wish to send expressions of comfort you can address them to:

Messages of Condolence for Newtown
PO Box 3700
Newtown CT 06470

Newtown Youth and Family Services said that its Caroline’s Gift fund will accept donations and relay the funds directly to those affected by the shooting.
You can also provide financial support to the families for funeral services and a memorial to the town by donating to the The Newtown Memorial Fund

Two hundred thousand displaced Syrian children need protection from the cold. Donate to help UNICEF to meet the urgent needs of these children.

Donate to the Philippine Red Cross to help give much needed services to survivors of Typhoon Pablo.

Hurricane Sandy recovery is still going strong, here’s where you can donate to the Red Cross.

Here is the Red Cross Holiday Giving Catalog, where you can help nationally or globally with things like shelter, vaccinations and food.

TONIGHT! December 12th, 2012 from 9pm – 12-ish at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Assorted Hanukkah Crafts and Gingerbread People 
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: The Akbar Cosmo, Solution for a Small Planet.