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Puzzles • May 18th, 2016

May 18

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TONIGHT! Wednesday May 18th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Puzzle Time!   
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: The Gay Bar America Trusts 

If you were to merely pick up a jigsaw puzzle and start working on it, you would find that it would be great for your brain’s skills of dexterity, spatial reasoning and logic. But this is so deluxe because it’s not just a puzzle, it’s a personal puzzle, so YOU are the master of your puzzle! By crafting your puzzle, making it your own, you’ll also be using your brain to enter a meditative consciousness, as well as exercising patience and persistence while socializing with others.

You could make your personal puzzle look like a personal pizza, which may or may not be a drag if you put it together while hungry, but who cares, it’s yours. It’s your puzzle. You could still, technically, eat it.

It’s cardboard, you can color it in with pens or with paint, and it really is up to you. Here are some personal puzzle subjects/suggestions:

  • Secret love note
  • Flight information
  • Portrait of a corn dog
  • Seascape
  • Coaster for Cocktail Time
  • Poem for a good friend
  • Mysterious Tree full of Rabbits
  • Connect-the-Dots (a puzzle inside of a puzzle! Freak Out!)

Furthermore, if complete puzzles are not your thing, make the pieces into a necklace, it’ll look so good. And if you don’t want to solve the puzzle, if putting it together and “not knowing” is your thing right now, well that’s all right with me. There are so many things in this world that we’ll never know, which I fully endorse.

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

MAY MADNESS!  

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BET YER BOTTOM BINGO • AKBAR • 8pm to 10pm • Six Action-Packed Games! • Girls, boys, balls and prizes for our big winners!!!! 50 Cents a card!!!

FUTURE ART THANGS: Bird Houses, Masks, Metal, Druid Crafts…

 

 

Posted by on May 18, 2016 in Assembly Craft, Coloring Craft, Painting Craft

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Spring Bead Season • May 4th, 2016

May 03

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This Wednesday April 27th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Spring Beads, Spring Beads! 
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: You’re gonna like the way you look, we guarantee it.  

Springtime is bead time, where you adorn yourself with the things that you like, the stylish trappings of who you are. A great place to stop in and make for yourself a bauble, a fancy trinket, a treat for your wrist or a beaded headband for your mind, a place to make all of this on Wednesday is Akbar. I’m breaking out the beads, and beads are deep. Beads are more than colorful or pretty, beads are us.

Beads have been around a looooooong time! People used them for currency! They were also used as anti-stress devices, you could hold onto your beads and think about your life. This bead technique still works today. Beads are used for devotional praying, and they make great game pieces if you make a home made board game! Beads are so cool that we’re pretty sure the reason we as humans developed language is because we wanted each other’s beads. We built systems of language based on economic bead wants and needs. The oldest beads are about 72,000 years old, which means that when you wear a bead, you are wearing the first self help device known to humans. But beads didn’t just help one, they helped everyone!

Beads were around before farming, before language, before tools and shelter. Beads helped us develop social technology! Working with beads is mega primal, you’ll be like “Why does this feel so natural for me?” Come on into CraftNight and do some social technology with us, your ancient ancestors would be so proud!

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

HOORAY IT’S MAY!  

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*** SPECIAL EVENT*** FRIDAY/SATURDAY MAY 6th and 7th Beaches the Musical! Directed by yours truly! If you like historic gay enclaves with hot waiters serving you piping hot Mexican food and cocktails, if you like underground queer theaters, shoulder pads, wigs, drag, beards, lesbians, nurse hats, laughter, and music, it’s pretty much everything you need in one evening: TICKETS HERE! It’s all at Casita del Campo’s Cavern Club Theater! Dinner and a show!

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BET YER BOTTOM BINGO • AKBAR • 8pm to 10pm • Six Action-Packed Games! • Girls, boys, balls and prizes for our big winners!!!! 50 Cents a card!!!

 

 

Posted by on May 3, 2016 in Assembly Craft, Wearable Craft

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Leprechaun Clothespin Craft! • March 16th, 2016

March 15

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Wednesday March 16th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Clothespin Leprechaun Craft! 
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder… 

Despite the wish of some people who don’t want their Irish heritage to be represented by a mythical wish-granting gnome… that’s exactly what we’re doing this week at CraftNight.

We’ll give you a leprechaun craft kit that comes with adorable clothespin legs, googly eyes, a fashionable green outfit, and yes, his hair is red.

Leprechauns are financially responsible, they work as bankers, distillers and shoe cobblers and they smartly guard their gold with a rainbow mirage. If you chase them to steal their charm cereal, you are a total jerk. We, the neighborhood gay bar shall be celebrating our tiny green brethren to full potential because there’s a long history of fairies being friends with leprechauns.

Besides, everyone knows it’s the fairies who drink themselves to a stupor and party all the time. Akbar could use a few leprechauns; the bar is lousy with fairies, it’s just a merrymaking mishmash of fun and debauchery ALL THE TIME. We also are host to militant mermaids, ubiquitous unicorns, trashed trolls, wild werewolves, growling griffins, hollering harpies, and so much more. There is a lot of variety to be found on the corner of Sunset and Fountain, come see us, we’ll keep a beverage cold for you. All mythological creatures need refreshment.

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

Special Note: I have been posting the WRONG date about Bingo, please be advised, it is the last Tuesday of every month, so we’ll be seeing you on the 29th.

COMING UP:  
March 23rd – Easter Baskets 

MARCH 29th – BET YER BOTTOM BINGO: Boys, Girls, Balls, and Big Bottles o’ Booze coming your way! 8pm – 10pm AKBAR
March 30th – Pet Rocks! Rockin’ all Night Long!
April 6th – Monster Sand Art! Fierce!
April 13th – Finger Puppets! Fabric Fun in your FACE!

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Posted by on March 15, 2016 in Assembly Craft

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TONIGHT! Emboss a Metal Leaf Kit • March 9th, 2016

March 09

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TONIGHT! Wednesday March 9th, 2016 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: METAL FOIL LEAF EMBOSSING KIT 
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: The cocktail in front is an Akbar cocktail. 

March is National Craft Month, so we’ve been rolling out the deluxe crafts, this week is no exception. I have a metal leaf kit for you and it is SO metal. It’s structural, but not so much that you can’t put your very own individual factors into the final product. You never have to follow craft kit instructions at CraftNight because we want you to have as much as or as little guidance as you require when you sit down with us.

The kit comes with a pattern, a foil insert and tracing stick that looks like a tiny weapon. You can emboss a leaf decoration, OR you can emboss whatever the hell you want, like the face of your best friend, or your pet capybara, or a quippy message only you will understand. It comes with a rustic stick frame and some leaf gem pieces, daresay sturdy materials. This is a pretty top-notch craft I’m talkin’ about here, very swanky!

I know you get busy, and when that happens, stuff like crafting and spending time with friends is the first to go, but I tellya, that’s the stuff that makes the world go round. We have applause and praise to give your creative efforts, and cocktails to ease you into winding down the busy day. We’ve made it easy to be creative, and if you give us one hour per week, at the end of March, that’s FIVE HOURS of creative energy you’ve given yourself. Let us pamper you with googly eyes and glue, won’t you visit us tonight?

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

COMING UP:  
March 16th – Clothespin Leprechauns
MARCH 22nd – BET YER BOTTOM BINGO: Boys, Girls, Balls, and Big Bottles o’ Booze coming your way! 8pm – 10pm AKBAR
March 23rd – Easter Baskets 
March 30th – Pet Rocks! Rockin’ all Night Long!
April 6th – Monster Sand Art! Fierce!
April 13th – Finger Puppets! Fabric Fun in your FACE!

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Posted by on March 9, 2016 in Assembly Craft, Freeform Craft

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Sassy Spring Sand Art • April 23rd, 2014

April 23

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, April 32rd, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Sassy Spring Sand Art! 
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special: “The Lyla” Where Hospitality Meets Your Face!

Sand art oh sand art, how do I love thee, your colorific dilemma of granules so chaotic yet glorious! All vacuums bow down to your grainy dotty sparkly wonderment! Sand art is SO EASY. All of CraftNight’s crafts are traditionally undemanding, but this one really takes the cake, you just peel back to expose the surface you want covered with sand, and then pour sand on it, keep doing that… and pretty soon you have a full-on pretty picture!

Come on over and experience the joy of sand art!

FYI, Bill Cole’s Bday party starts at 7pm tonight, just sayin…

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

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Posted by on April 23, 2014 in Uncategorized

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