Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at Akbar!
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This Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 from 9pm to midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Shrinky Dink Ornaments
$2 processing fee, and if you make a buncha ornaments, consider donating a little more, if you please!
ALSO: BONUS CRAFTNIGHT this Saturday Dec. 6th! Potato Prints! CraftNight at the BUST Holiday Craftacular at the EchoPlex! Make your own cards, wrapping paper and gift tags from POTATOES and paint! Craft Lieutenants will be standing by! POTATO PRINT MANIA!
Where did November go?!? How did that happen? Goodness gracious me, we’re on the last month of the year, how implausible and eerie. Hmmm. Guess you should drag your foxy bones over here and make something cool, because you’re just not going to make anything cooler than a SHRINKY DINK this week, are you?
You could build a jet pack that runs off of vegan twinkies, or find a tiny arachnid that rollerskates and does the splits, or you could register a newfound holiday where everyone gets 5 days off of work and the government is harassed into giving us all free balloons and watermelon poprocks… but making a SHRINKY DINK at CraftNight is way cooler than any of those silly old things, and face it: a lot simpler.
If you don’t know what a SHRINKY DINK is, then you are hereby designated to mandatory CraftNight attendance, because honestly, they are so cool, people go nutso and get all nostalgic and they hug each other and buy each other drinks and sing songs and it’s warm and fuzzy and the quality of human life goes up about 89 points, and everyone tunes into their underlying connection with the unity of all creation. Do you really need an explanation? Okay okay, SHRINKY DINKS involve drawing, coloring, heat and plastic, and that’s all I’m going to tell you. Arrive and be enthralled. If anything, knock back one of Akbar’s famous $4 Wednesday Night Cosmos, it will probably give you a few new ideas for sure!
Oh and Lars’s films Tulips and Forgiveness are each premiering at the Vine Theater at 8pm, go see them if you can, if you visit the site and RSVP, you can get in for free! Red Carpet! Wooo! Lars’s production company is called “Crabtastic” so we’ll have some crab drawings, if you want to make some Crabtastic SHRINKY DINKS in honor of Lars after the premiere! And of course, you might run into some fabulous celebrities from the films, wandering around like they do at Akbar, our little neighborhood oasis.
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
This Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 it’s the AKBAR PRE-THANKSGIVING DANCE PARTY!!!
CraftNight will continue its regular programming on December 3rd, 2008
THANK YOU VERY MUCH:
1.) For AKBAR, the neighborhood oasis, the Sunset & Fountain haven where you can drink to trouble, talk about everyone else’s troubles, or make NEW trouble! The Akbar family network of friends and personnel makes CraftNight tick, from Ms. Mike Glass’s expert spinning and craft-tastic assistance week after week, Terry’s door-jammin’ hunkiness and help, Mikey, Stefan and Sophie pulling cocktails, Jeffrey, Ruth, David, Peter and Scott, and everyone else it’s a true miracle dream to call Akbar home.
2.) The KITCHEN! Oh hey, get yourself some macaroni and cheese from the kitchen! Winter goodness at its best! Of course, you can’t beat the chicken noodle soup either, oh jeez, just get in there, you’ll see what I mean! Thanks to Dave, Rochelle, kitchen staff, and of course, the Owner from Handsome, USA: Fred!
3.) For CRAFTERS! Because what’s CraftNight without you coming in and making stuff with us? We’d kist be gluing googly eyes to our foreheads and blathering nonsense all night! Thank you for those of you who have been coming in for the last 6 years since CraftNight’s inception, for those of you who jump in and start crafting before you even knew you sat down, for fearless and shy crafters, early and late crafters, crafters who might not always come to CraftNight… but who always read the bulletins!
4.) For CRAFT LIEUTENANTS! You guys keep the fire burning bright with your tireless efforts and generosity! And special thanks for those who have made craft supply donations, or whoever that troublemaker is that puts 20 dollars(!!!) in the donation skull from time to time, for those who send photos of CraftNight events, who bring in odd geegaws for crafting, for those of you who help me set up at the beginning of the evening and/or help me clean at the end of the night, thank you for your time and kindness, it’s a pleasure to have you.
5.) For THANKSGIVING! Because though it has totally bunkus roots in the historical sense (a robust nationwide feigned ignorance regarding nasty real-estate squabbles, pestilence, back-stabbing, muskets, dorky hats with buckles on them, maize…) it has another set of themes that endure year after year: togetherness, appreciation for the harvest and the theme of gratitude in general.
6.) For OBAMA!
7.) For everyone who worked hard to make a difference on NO on 8! Hey, remember prop 22? Though prop 8 passed, we’ve made so much more progress and made so many more people aware of gay rights! It’s only a matter of time, we’ll get there, let’s keep working!
8.) The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! REALLY REALLY BIG BALLOONS!
Okay then, I’m sure there’s so much more to be thankful for, make your list today!
If you don’t have any plans on Thanksgiving, take a peek at Gobble Gobble GIVE! Go schlep food to those in need, you’ll be better for it!
See you next week at the Craft Table!
Food, fun, family, friends, festivities,
JP Craft Captain
This Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 from 9pm ’til midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: HAND TURKEYS
$2 processing fee, please
Fact #1 – Your hands are your chief organs for physically manipulating your environment.
Fact # 2 – Wild turkeys are brightly-plumed cunning birds of flight.
Fact #3 – A hand turkey is a drawing of a turkey made by tracing your hand, typically using the thumb to represent the turkey’s head, and the fingers for feathers.
Grab your meat hooks and some construction paper, and take part in CraftNight’s Annual Autumn Tradition: THE GRAND AMERICAN HAND TURKEY.
Modify your turkey to suit chosen themes, personalities, moods!
Make a sparkly turkey, a robot turkey, a turkey in roller skates, a turkey that looks more like a lame duck, a pack of turkeys, a mini-turkey, a maxi-turkey… make any kind of turkey you want!
And then send it!
Send it to a friend, send it to an enemy!
Put it in a care package or place it on someone’s windshield, knock on someone’s door and run and hide, and make sure a hand turkey is taped to their doorway!
And speaking of turkeys, I designed a Thanksgiving card for Panorama Press that you can view right HERE!
AND, you can also view my Xmas design HERE!
Ye Olde CraftNighte Christmas Faire happens during December CraftNights 10th and 17th, if you want to sell your wares, contact me! Wooo!
See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain
This Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: CraftNight GRAB BAG!
$2 processing fee, please.
Prices from 1981, projects from the future, CraftNight is the KEY to your good times! In all honesty, I’ve been doing CraftNight for 6 years now, which seems like complete fiction, but it’s not, it’s real. And you know what is really real? The MOUNTAINS of leftover crafts from all the projects I’ve devised from the last 6 years. The house fairly teeters with the beguiling flotsam and jetsam of glorious CraftNights past. So I’ve decided to make little mystery bags, little craft kits where you’ll just have to take a gamble and see what your project for the night just might be, and I guarantee that whatever you get will be experimental and begging for your vision.
And, just so you know, I’ve updated the CraftNight website, so you can go see what kind of projects are in the near future, as we start up the end of the year.
Also, the “Ye Olde CraftNighte Crafte Faire” is coming up, December 10th and 17th, so if you want to be a vendor and sell things, contact me.
Okay then, see you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
