Spring Bash, this SATURDAY~ MAY 16!!

Celebrate the spring season with the 1st Annual Etsy Dallas Spring Bash, a festive arts & crafts extravaganza in the heart of The Cedars neighborhood just south of Downtown at South Side on Lamar.

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time: 11am-5pm
Location: 1409 South Lamar, Dallas 75215

Located at the historic South Side lofts, site of the old Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Catalog Merchandise Center, the Spring Bash will feature:
~ Over 50 artists, designers, and crafters selling their handmade wares. Full vendor list here: http://www.bashvendors.blogspot.com/
~ Music by local DJ John Durbin
~ Free crafts at the now-famous Etsy Dallas Make & Take booth with help from Irving Girl Scout Troop #1637~ The Vanity Stand where shoppers can dress up in an array of crazy costumes, get their photo taken and go home with a snapshot of the fun time~ Free raffle featuring handmade items donated by Etsy Dallas members~ Special guest: La Reunion, a non-profit arts program located in Oak Cliff~ Cash donations accepted benefitting Family Place, a local non-profit domestic violence shelter serving women and children in Dallas.The show will also offer free Goody Bags for the first 50 shoppers - so get there early!

There is no cost for admission or entertainment, but please bring plenty of CASH as most vendors cannot accept credit cards. There is an ATM near the main South Side entrance.

This event will be family-friendly with a hip vibe of handmade love and good times. Think of this not just as an arts & crafts show, but as a party! For more info visit http://www.etsydallas.com/.

NEXT SHOW! Etsy Dallas Spring Bash! MAY 16

SO excited about my next show...I will be one of many many awesome crafters, artists and designers participating in the Spring Bash on Saturday, MAY 16, at Southside on Lamar. Which is a very cool place in its own right. Check out all the details HERE.

Very many thanks and much appreciation goes to the leadership team of Etsy Dallas for all of their hard work putting this big event together.

There will be GOODY BAGS for the first 50 shoppers, raffle items (TERRIFIC pieces of many artists' work) and a Make N Take booth to get your crafty on!

Knitting Again, Silk Bamboo yarn LOVE IT

Hope these do well in the shop! This yarn is killer soft.

I'll have more in other colors and styles soon. I'm "hooked" on the yarn...

Lovin' Statement Necklaces! (and repurposed vintage jewelry)

My latest creative endeavor (jewelry-wise) is using old blingy jewelry pieces, vintage earrings, brooches and the like, and recycling them into gorgeous NEW pieces, esp. statement necklaces, and statement cocktail rings. And I am especially fond of pieces with rhinestones!

I used one of a pair of old earrings to make this piece.








THEN, I came across this piece in a magazine, which was apparently in an episode of the TV show Lipstick Jungle!

I swear I never saw it before I made my piece. Not bad I think! Go to my shop and check it out, and more like this.

Viva la Handmade! Online Fashion Mag

I stumbled upon this online zine chock full of Handmade Trendy Fashions...including many, many Etsy artists and their shops! Check it out... VivaLaModa

Fiona Paxton, LOVE her designs. Drew Barrymore, Isla Fisher do too!

Really I do. I cannot remember how I stumbled upon her pieces, but I covet them!

Drew Barrymore loves them too.

If I could figure out how to duplicate one, I would!

Check out her website for more gorgeousness.

Next Show! Funky Finds Spring Fling

Woo Hoo!!! It's almost spring! And with spring, comes spring shows! Hopefully, all of you local Dallas and Ft. Worth residents (and beyond) will come to the Funky Finds Spring Fling. LOTS of local artists and hand crafted gifts for Mother's Day, graduations, Father's Day, or just for yourself! I will have some new pieces... beautiful statement necklaces! Made with vintage, re-purposed earrings and brooches.

It's kid and pet-friendly too!! Come to downtown Ft. Worth, the Will Rogers Memorial Center, Saturday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.