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3-D Haunted House Craft! • Oct. 19th, 2016

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: 3-D Haunted House Craft! 
$3 Donation Please 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Rise Up, Move Ahead! 

Build your own little purple piece of real estate at CraftNight tonight, it’s 3-D Haunted Houses!!! Assemble it yourself, lots of foam pieces AND lots of EXTRA foam pieces I’ve gathered from craft travels. I’ve got eyeballs, witches, cats, bats, ghosts and MORE! You can really dress this up, makes a great table centerpiece or place to hide your hide-a-key, or part of the fascinator you’ve always wanted, or throw it in the city fountain and watch it float!

Halloween is on the horizon, don’t be caught without decorations, most notably, the aforementioned one above that is a LOT of fun to make! Halloween decor is the best, because it’s not smarmy, overly sentimental, too scrumply, or outrageously expensive. Some of it comes with complicated wiring, electronics, fog, or lights. It’s the time of year where green scaly hands and snot are in fashion! The more discombobulated you can make your guests with frightful accents, the better! This is also the time for weirdo food items, stuff’s allowed to be atrocious and delicious at the same time. What’s more, at the end of this month, you can basically knock on ANYONE’S door at night, say “Trick or Treat” and they give you candy… or a rock… or cough drops… hopefully candy. Tonight we’ll have some candy in a candy dish that, if you want, we can teach you how to make at CraftNight LAB next week on the 26th. It’s special. Read below for more info.

Also next week at 9pm it’s BYOPumpkin carving, so get ready for that, get your pumpkins together, and come on over where we’ll have knives, tarps and candles! Who let’s you get drunk and play with knives? CraftNight!!!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain


 

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Visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day! You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything, it’s viewable on your phone, your desktop, your tablet, YAY!

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October 26th 7pm – 9pm @Akbar – CRAFTNIGHT LAB!!! Ticketed Event Craft Workshop with Food and Special Treats! Project: Lighted Fright House Candy Dish >>> Learn More Here!

9pm – Midnight or later @Akbar – B.Y.O.P. Pumpkin Carving! (We supply the tools, you supply the squash, or you can order one from us and we’ll have it ready for you)

 

 

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3-D Halloween Lanterns! • Oct. 5th, 2016

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Halloween Lanterns with Optional battery candle for purchase! 
$3 Donation Please (if you want a battery-operated tea light, that’s another buck!) 
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Solutions for a Small Planet 

screen-shot-2016-10-12-at-3-22-23-pmThe light begins to wane ever slowly every fall. Though we are quite a few weeks away from Daylight Savings, here could be they way for you to avoid the Headless Horseman while making your way through the darkened thicket on your way home.

Make yourself a 3-D Halloween Tissue LANTERN! It’s a luminous and darling craft for your Halloween decor collection 2016!!! I have battery-operated tea lights for sale that you can put inside your DIY Halloween decoration to create a colorful and eerie glow.

Your kit features cardboard frames, tissue paper sheets in autumn colors and sheets of acetate to make them sturdy and stable. These lanterns are perfect for hanging from the porch on fright night or for using as party centerpieces for your evening dinner soiree.

Includes tissue paper squares and acetate sheets, and I’ll have all kinds of foam decorations, gems and other goodies for you to embellish your lantern to your heart’s content.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain


 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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Visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day! You don’t have to go anywhere or do anything, it’s viewable on your phone, your desktop, your tablet, YAY!

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October 17th at Akbar it’s BET YER BOTTOM BINGO HALLOWEEN STYLE!!!! >>> 8pm to 10pm at Akbar • Creepies, Crawlies, Drinkies, Prizies, Numbers, Balls, Cuties, Crazies, you don’t want to miss this one, it’s oh so sinister, bone-chilling, spine-tingling FUN!!!

October 19th 9pm Akbar – 3-D Foam Haunted Houses – A Fan favorite!

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October 26th 7pm – 9pm @Akbar – CRAFTNIGHT LAB!!! Ticketed Event Craft Workshop with Food and Special Treats! Project: Lighted Fright House Candy Dish >>> Learn More Here!

9pm – Midnight or later @Akbar – B.Y.O.P. Pumpkin Carving! (We supply the tools, you supply the squash, or you can order one from us and we’ll have it ready for you)

 

 

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Halloween Bracelet Night • Oct. 5th, 2016

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This Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Sassy Halloween Bracelets!
$3 Donation Please
$4 Drink specials! Akbar: Stronger than Dirt!

Embrace the season, the Halloween crafts are HERE! We have these bracelets that you will want to wear!

Align yourself with nature and be untamed! Revel in the light, the wind, the hunt for pumpkins, the taste of crisp apples and hot tea!

Not only that, but visit www.gothtober.com which is our way of sharing the Autumn season with you! We host 31 days of online art treats, a new one revealed with each day!
In the words of Wendell Jones (a big fan of ours, which means we’re a big fan of his)

“For those of you who have never experienced it, a bunch or artists, inspired madmen and women and friends from all over the City of Angels create one video or spooky art project a day for all of October.
Each day you check in to be amazed. This is feminist friendly, LGBT positive, people of color loving, subversive creativity. And you don’t want to miss it!”

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

 

 

Posted by on October 5, 2016 in Jewelry Craft

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BYOPumpkin• TONIGHT!!! • October 28th, 2015

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, Oct. 28th, 2015 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: B.Y.O. Pumpkin Carving Night!!!
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: Drink Well, Spend Less. 
CURRENTLY ON VIEW Gothtober.com is up and running, 31 days featuring 31 artists, look at it on your phone, your tablet, your laptop! 

It’s a CraftNight Halloween favorite, where we actually seriously officially condone drunk people with knives once a year! If we survive tonight’s terrifying CraftNight, we’ll be back next week with the first in a series of ThanksCrafting projects! Halloween movies will be playing on the Akbar Jumbo-tron, Halloween music will be playing through the Akbar Hi-Fi, and we will have CANDY and TREATS and FUN and DRINKS and more!

If you BYOP (Bring Your Own Pumpkin), then $3 will get you VIP (Very Important Person) access to the Craftnight pumpkin carving tools, unlimited Craftnight PDCs Premium Drop-Cloths, clearance to use Craftnight SHDPGBs (Super-Heavy-Duty Pumpkin Gut Bags), and executive networking access to CORs (Changemakers of Our Region), who will also be carving pumpkins alongside you!  Trust me, friends, nothing breaks the ice with a potential business colleague than accidentally flinging pumpkin guts onto their blouse.

BYOP! (Bring Your Own Pumpkin)

CYOP! (Carve Your Own Pumpkin)

DBYOPCT! (Don’t Bring Your Own Pumpkin Carving Tools)

DCOPP! (Don’t Carve Other People’s Pumpkins)

COPP-OIYHATCTP-ATHSY? (Carve Other People’s Pumpkins Only If You Have Asked To Carve Their Pumpkin and They Have Said Yes).

SCOPP-ITSNAAT-EITHOSY!! (Stop Carving Other People’s Pumpkins If They Say “No” At Any Time, Even If They Had Originally Said “Yes”).

JP Craft Captain

 

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Halloween Craft Smörgåsbord! • October 21st, 2015

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, Oct. 21st, 2015 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Halloween Craft Smörgåsbord!
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: Where cocktails live
CURRENTLY ON VIEW Gothtober.com is up and running! Yesterday AND today DAYS 20 and 21 features work by your Akbar Bartenders, Jennifer, and Kim! See the world’s only countdown calendar to the days of Halloween, brought to you by SparkleBlob (which also powers CraftNight and other arty things…)  

The “smörgåsbord” became internationally known in the year of 1939 when it debuted at the New York World’s Fair in the Swedish Pavilion. Today we use it to describe a table that features a variety of dishes. I am doing this for you this evening, but what we have is a smorgasbord of Halloween crafts. I do have quite a variety of options from years past, there’s something for everyone! So please visit the Craft Table, I’ll be playing my Marshmalloween music mix that I made especially for tonight. I will have some interesting candy treats for you to snack on, as always, and a movie on the Akbar Jumbotron, and generally a very positive experience overall.

JP Craft Captain

NEXT WEEK’S TOTAL FUN TIME!!!!
Oct. 27th Bet Yer Bottom Bingo: Tuesday • Akbar • 8 to 10pm • COSTUME CONTEST in addition to our usual session of gambling fun! Win big bottles o’ booze, and enjoy our night of boys, girls, balls and other prizes!
Oct. 28th – Craftnight’s BYOPumpkin (or order one through CraftNight!) A night of long knives and scared squash! A CraftNight Halloween FAVORITE!

 

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Posted by on October 21, 2015 in Multi-Variety Craft

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