CRAFTNIGHT!

This Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 from 9-ish to 12am at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: FALL SAND ART! • $2 Processing Fee, please • Drink Special $4 Cosmos

We won’t be approaching the Winter Solstice for another month yet, but WOW, the wind almost blew the cat through the air, not to mention some garden boulders and an ill-placed patio umbrella. While this blustery behavior could be seen as the harbinger of winter, it’s NOT WINTER YET! Nosiree, and CraftNight is celebrating MORE fall-centric projects by doing some Autumnal sand art. This craft involves removing  the yellow paper from the card, which reveals a sticky section to sprinkle on the colored sand and voila: a picture is revealed!

In limited supply, I’ve got leaves, pilgrim hat-wearing turkey and pumpkin fall tableaus. Also: you will get your very own individual helpings of colored sand, and if you don’t like those colors, I happen to have MORE colors. If you want to be a rebel and change those deciduous leaves to coniferous, you CAN!

Extra Curricular Moment: After the recent rain, and the wonderful wind whipping all around, it’s better than ever to take a walk and look at leaves. When’s the last time you got all nature-like and wandered your neighborhood noticing that it’s dinner time, and the trees are changing? If you have time, take some!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

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TONIGHT! Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 from 9 – midnight or so, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Turkey Paddleball OR Teepee   • $2 processing fee, please  • $4 cosmo drink special!

We only have THREE CraftNights in November, thanks to a wonderful and sure-to-be-tawdry dance party at Akbar on Thanksgiving Eve. There will be no crafts that evening, but there will be music, revelry and all the trimmings of a gay night out!

That said, I’m starting some Turkey shenanigans a little early, with the idea that if you gussy up this craft just right, you may be able to deliver it by hand to an unsuspecting relative on Thanksgiving Day! I have Turkey Paddleballs, and teepees. If you get to CraftNight on the earlier side of things, you can pick which one you want, but if you get here late… you’ll have to pick something else.

And if you’re not into the whole Thanksgiving Turkey-Native-American-Fall-Corn-Scarecrow vibe: just say “to hell” with the instructions, and use the pieces provided to bend the accoutrement to your personal whim. We’re all about ingenuity and inventive solutions to everyday challenges at CraftNight.

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 from 9pm – midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Tiny Wooden Coffins • $2 processing fee, please

Musical Guests: LIVE music from Triple Chicken Foot & Squaredancing Caller Extraordinaire, Cory Marie Podielski

Special Bicycle Tour Ending at CraftNight, the 2010 Gothtober Ride (read more below)

OH MAN, DID I SPLURGE!!! I saw these tiny little wooden OG-style (6-sided tapered at the shoulders) coffins and HAD to have them, because they are so macabre, yet fitting for whatever mood you’re in as far as decorating and painting tiny coffins goes. You can either make/use them as jewelry cases, or store your pills, snuff, marbles or other unmentionables in them, OR you can even make a tiny vampire that lives in it. But just in case, if you’d prefer a different craft, I also have popsicle stick pumpkins and haunted houses for the discerning crafter. It really is a smorgasbord of delights at the Craft Table this week.

SQUARE DANCING!!! If THREE types of Crafts to choose from doesn’t leave you spoiled enough, you can scootch your booty to the old-time beat with Triple Chicken Foot with Ms. Cory calling the shots from her calling platform. This is a wonderful way to get to know new people, or even people you already know! They play fiddle, guitar and bass, it sounds lovely, treat yourself to some cardio and have some laughs!

GOTHTOBER BIKE RIDE: This ride is led by none other than Jen Hofer & Rob Ray. It is called “A Spin of the Wheel: a musically-inspired chance operation bicycle expedition” Meet at Union Station front Entrance at 8pm RAIN or SHINE • This ride is FREE! • This ride will end at CraftNight around 10 or so. Tunes by 12 local and non-local bands will inspire this bicycle adventure that will explore and enjoy the city!

If you get to the meeting place late, and want to catch up, call or text Jen’s cell (323)428-4611 and you can get more info by clicking DAY 20 on the Gothtober Calendar (link below.)

And yeah, when you get a chance, please visit GOTHTOBER, it was made for you to visit, it’s a packed with crafts, songs, videos, and many other diversions of the first-rate category.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain (back from NY, ready to CRAFT with you!)

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TONIGHT! October 13th, 2010 from 9-ish to 12am at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: Bead Pumpkin Craft • $2 Processing fee, please

Special Note, you should visit: GOTHTOBER.COM for crafts, recipes and MORE!

Also Coming Up: October 20th, 2010 CraftNight >>>> SQUAREDANCING!!! Live Music from Triple Chicken Foot, Squares called by none other than the fabulous Cory Marie Podielski!

Tonight’s Craft is a PONY BEAD craft, where you assemble and take home your very own verisimilitude of America’s favorite orange seasonal squash: the pumpkin.

Why couldn’t the pony sing?

He was a little horse! (GET IT?!? HORSE, HOARSE?!? HA HA HA HA HA!)

But seriously folks, what IS a pony bead? The answer to this question is: I don’t know! But they seem to be bigger than your average beads, made for being seen and worked with easily. The clincher is, however, that this handsome pumpkin pony bead clip is just that: a CLIP. You can sport it on the zipper of your sport jacket. You can wave it around like an 18th century watch fob. You can keep it in your pocket and use it as an autumnal abacus for when you forget how many leaves have changed color this month.

Come in and see what it’s all about, Lieutenant Coral Lobera will be at the helm this evening, give it a whirl!

JP Craft Captain [NY dispatch]

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 from 9-ish to midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: DIY Arachnids

$2 processing fee, please • $4 delicious cosmo drink special!

Heeeeeyyyyy, it’s October, which means GOTHTOBER HAS LAUCHED!!! We’re in our 8th year of this crazy curated countdown calendar, packed with crazy stuff like edible graveyard recipes, bizarre gender-bending fashion shows, and a Halloween reading list TO DIE FOR. You can view the calendar at the link above, and if you want to know more about Gothtober, visit our BLOG.

I’m writing this from NY! Anyone you know in NY who wants to see a fantastic kids puppet show? Come check us out at 45 Bleecker, come see Pasta! a Pop Ups Puppet Musical! I’ll be there until the 14th!

Me being in NY doesn’t mean CraftNight isn’t happening, nosiree, October is always a CraftNight cavalcade of good stuff, and tonight will be hosted by Craft Lieutenants Lori, Coral, Elaine and Ashley. Ashley is baking cupcakes. CUPCAKES. Come in and get a sweet treat while supplies last!

The project is SPIDERS, you get a web/spider kit with some little spiders, as well as a separate BEAD spider that you can make to to with the web kit. This makes about three spiders in all, which is the perfect amount of arachnids, in case you were wondering.

And yes, square dancing is on the horizon, the 20th, with Triple Chicken Foot & Corie Marie Podielski, and there are rumors of Abdikraut visiting and selling some wares…

See you at the Craft Table (well, the Lieutenants will, anyway!)

JP Craft Captain

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