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Holiday Craft Grab • December 2nd, 2015

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Wednesday, Dec.2nd, 2015 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Holiday Craft Grab! 
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: Why limit happy to an hour?  

 

A premium selection of choice crafts will be of your choosing this week. Some of them involve buttons, some of them involve felt, if you want to make a gift for a friend, the abundance of supplies that we have is more than enough to get you started. A bouquet of projects, none of them have ever been seen by crafters, they are new and exciting. 

December is all about time, money, and energy. How are you going to spend yours? What will you require of yourself and others? As we get all our holiday gear together and survey the calendar with all of it’s various invitations, activities and due dates, remember to just pause and drink a large glass of beer, egg nog, or water. Take naps. Get sleep. Eat food. Take care of yourself. The driving and the planning and the shopping isn’t going anywhere, and the true happiness is hidden in the nooks and crannies of repose anyway. You might as well have fun, try some leisure.

Buy the dog a hamburger. Call an old friend. Send a card to your favorite relative. Bake some cookies just to fill the house with an incredible cookie aroma. Make someone a gift at CraftNight. Make something because we live in a world full of perfect mass-produced items that cost 99 cents. Your imperfect gift is priceless, because it was made by hands, your hands. Watch an old movie. Break the tyranny of the monolithic urgency of holiday tasks and duties, do something that is wildly “un-holiday” or go eat soup by yourself in a restaurant.

DECEMBER SO MANY THINGS!!! 

December 9th: Hanukkah Crafts!

December 10th – 20th – SparkleBlob and Automata present “Holidays on Icing: A Christmas Cookie Crumble” GET TICKETS NOW THEY SELL SO FAST EEEEK!!! (Written and directed by your Craft Capt)

December 16th: Xmas Shrinky Dinks and Ye Olde CrafteNighte Crafte Faire • EARLY START TIME!!! 7pm to 12:30pm (or later) Local Vendors, Crafting, Drinking, Music, Laughter rings out, YEAH!

December 22nd: Tuesday 8pm to 10pm it’s Bet Yer Bottom Bingo HOLIDAY EDITION!!!! Naughty and Nice Bingo? He sees you when you’re sleeping… creepy. Big bottles of booze and some amazing prizes for you so don’t miss it!

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Posted by on December 1, 2015 in Assembly Craft, Collage Craft, Coloring Craft

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TONIGHT! Hand Turkeys! • November 18th, 2015

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 2015 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: HAND TURKEYS, a CraftNight Annual!
$3 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: Thinking’s fine, drinking’s fun! 

It’s our last week in November for Crafts, we take next week off because Akbar will have you shaking your giblets to some serious beats starting at 9pm, it’s called PIE!!! And there really will be delicious pies for sale by Tammie Brown, more details, info, etc. down in the Cornucopia section of this bulletin.

Now then. CraftNight’s Annual Autumn Tradition: THE GRAND AMERICAN HAND TURKEY.

I bet you just think you’re walking around with hands like any regular ol’ day, not knowing that you can trace them and make the tracings into turkeys for the purpose of artistic satisfaction! You and your opposable thumbs are just that much more awesome, you’re sitting on a craft goldmine! It’s a time-honored convention of grade school glory, and if you haven’t made one in a few years, or even if you made one yesterday… well… you can never make enough hand turkeys.

Make a Hand Turkey(s), tonight, made of paper, made with glitz and glamour or down-home sensibilities. You make hand turkeys, and you gaze at them over gravy, or you give them to those you love. We’ll show you how to do it, it’s quite simple, a lot of fun, and it’s your last time to see us before we take the rest of the month off and emerge with December crafts!

Your hand turkey can be a manifestation of your mood, your outfit, your political beliefs, your favorite colors. Your turkey can be anything you want it to be, it can be a night or day turkey, it can be a turkey posing with a wagon wheel, or a turkey that just got a prank call from Ruth Bader Ginsburg! You can make 10 of these tonight and then distribute them around your neighborhood. Or you can make four of them and make a Warhol-esque quad of turkey heads for your wall.

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

CORNUCOPIA-CABANA AKBAR FUN!  

November 25th: NO CRAFTS!!! It’s Akbar’s mega-dance-party called PIE where you can sweat your arse off before ingesting copious amounts of mashed potatoes the next day! Such a delicious night, come on in and give thanks to all the hotties dancing with you. Pies by Tammie Brown, special guests: AMBROSIA SALAD – FIFI LAFILLE – SQUEAKY BLONDE- JAMES CERNE- SHAWN MORALES- STACY CHRISTINE! • Dancefloor chef: T.K. DISKO (Split Secs, Machine Limited) • Front Room Maitre d’: CHRIS BOWEN (Bears in Space, Cub Scout, Pitch Black City)

November 24th: Tuesday • Akbar • 8 to 10pm • BET YER BOTTOM BINGO!!! It’s a WILD Turkey Edition of your favorite High-Rollin’ Cocktail Drinkin’ Gamblin’ Good TImes! 50 cents to play, win big bottles of booze, glassware, and other fanciful items! And yes, the bingo calls will be Thanksgiving-themed, so get ready for that!  I’ve got 2 pairs of tickets to see ROBERT DELONG @ Fonda on 11/28, wanna shot at winning those? Get in here next week!

December 16th: Wednesday • Ye Olde CrafteNighte Crafte Faire • 7pm to 12:30pm (or later) Pick out goods and sundries from local Los Angeles vendors at our Pop Up holiday faire! CraftNight going strong, lots of surprise treats and fun waiting for you!

 

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Fox-Turkey-Owl-Squirrel • November 11th, 2015

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 2015 from 9pm until midnight (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: Fox-Turkey-Owl-Squirrel! 

$3 Processing fee, please

$4 Drink Specials at Akbar: Everything you want in a drink, and more

Step into CraftNight and take your pick of two very specialized project bags that we’ve put together just for you! You can pick the bag with the Fox and the Owl, or you can pick the bag that has the Turkey and the Squirrel.

If you’re feeling Sly and Wise, the Fox/Owl bag might be your thing.

If you’re feeling Spry and Delicious, the Squirrel/Turkey bag might be your jam.

Take the pieces and parts and bits, assemble them together however you like, and then place on colored paper to build a sort of tableau, a vignette, a scene from the fabulous fall season. Give it to someone who could use some autumn energy, or to someone who just loves nature’s creatures. See you tonight!

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

CORNUCOPIA-CABANA AKBAR FUN!  

November 18th – 9pm – Hand Turkey Craft! A CraftNight CLASSIC!!! 

November 24th: Tuesday • Akbar • 8 to 10pm • BET YER BOTTOM BINGO!!! It’s a WILD Turkey Edition of your favorite High-Rollin’ Cocktail Drinkin’ Gamblin’ Good TImes! 50 cents to play, win big bottles of booze, glassware, and other fanciful items!

November 25th: NO CRAFTS!!! It’s Akbar’s mega-dance-party called PIE where you can sweat your arse off before ingesting copious amounts of mashed potatoes the next day! Such a delicious night, come on in and give thanks to all the hotties dancing with you.

December 16th: Wednesday • Ye Olde CrafteNighte Crafte Faire • 7pm to 12:30pm (or later) Pick out goods and sundries from local Los Angeles vendors at our Pop Up holiday faire! CraftNight going strong, lots of surprise treats and fun waiting for you!

 

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“Turkey Time” Paper Clock Sculpture • November 12th, 2014

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TONIGHT! Wednesday, November 12th, 2014 from 9pm until 12am (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: “Turkey Time” Paper Craft Clock Sculpture 
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink special: It’s the Lyla, with ginger beer and whiskey, the key to great things. 

  • UPCOMING

    Wed. November 19th 9pm >>> SQUARE DANCING CRAFTNIGHT with TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT!!!
    Tues. November 25th 8pm – 10pm >>> BET YER BOTTOM BINGO!!!
    Wed. November 26th >>> No CraftNight because AKBAR’S “PIE” DANCE PARTY!!!


What time is it? TURKEY TIME, at least that’s what this jaunty paper sculpture says when you look at it and laugh. Any of your friends or relatives who enjoy corny jokes is going to LOVE this thing. It’s a perfect gift. It’s something to talk about. It’s a piece of decor that will compliment your life, or anyone’s life you give it to, it really is just that good. It involves a paper plate, which you can rip off the wall and use as an ACTUAL PLATE in times of emergency.

With this one, I’m going easy on you, it’s simple, it’s direct, there’s not a whole lot of commitment involved.  If you have friends who are scared of crafting, or if you have a date that you want to impress or get to know better while doing something that appears seasonal and also innocuously endearing, this could be for you. It’s the perfect kind of craft for light and airy fun, just pop in and make one, make it a keepsake for yourself or your pals.

This is our second to last CraftNight of November, the week after this it’s hand turkeys and SQUARE DANCING WITH LIVE MUSIC FROM TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT!!!! And then OMG it’s December! Eeeek!

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
www.crafthead.com
www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

 

Posted by on November 12, 2014 in Assembly Craft

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HAND TURKEYS • November 14th, 2012

Wednesday November 14th, 2012 from 9pm – 12-ish at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Hand Turkeys, a CraftNight Classic!
$2 Suggested Donation 
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: The Akbar Cosmo, Now You’re Drinkin! 

All you need to make a hand turkey is: Your hand, markers, paper, maybe some glue, an Akbar cosmo, your hand…

The “Hand Turkey” is a CraftNight classic, we always make them without fail so that you may wow your house guests, friends, relatives, whatever, with a handmade holiday decoration made especially by you. Just think about it: Your HAND can be TRACED and turned into a TURKEY. It’s good to be alive!

Once you perform that small task, there is nothing to stop you from augmenting and decorating your hand turkey to suit your personal expression. You can put boots on your turkey, make it a french maid turkey, a hand turkey talking on the phone with a foot turkey, a bearded turkey, musclebound turkey, extreme turkey, vulcan turkey, however you want to make it, it will never be replicated, because it’s your hand, and it’s unique, just like you!

But you know what? I’m going to up the ante this year, since Thanksgiving is about many things, but whether you’re vegetarian, vegan or not, it’s all about EATING. I’m going to bring some clear contac paper, and you can turn your hand turkey portrait into a PLACEMAT. This option is purely at your discretion, not mandatory in any way, but it IS an exciting way to make dinner look even weirder  and more festive than previous Thanksgiving meals. Heck, make one for each guest at the table!

The next week, for November 21st, in lieu of CraftNight, it will be Akbar’s Celebrated “PIE” featuring delicious grooves and delicious people to dance with before the “Gobblepocalypse” hits us with capital Triptophan on Thanksgiving Day! There’s no cover, and the Brite Spot will be serving up some actual PIE for you to sample, so lace up your dancing shoes, it’s time to shimmy!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com

www.akbarsilverlake.com

 

Posted by on November 11, 2012 in Uncategorized

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