Craft Fair at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden!
This Saturday April 4th is the first day of the year that the Bohemian Beer Hall in Astoria will open their outdoor area! And what would make a more perfect Saturday than a cold beer, some delicious goulash, and an awesome craft fair! I’ll be selling my wares with other local artists from 1 to 4:00 inside the Beer Hall. Come check it out!
A mention in Time Out New York!! Hooray!
Pictures of my work are featured in this week’s Time Out New York Magazine, and on their website! Yay! Here’s the text from the online article:
For the DIYers who never leave Williamsburg
There’s more to the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden than booze this opening weekend. Splurge on indie goods at its inaugural Spring Flea Market (29-19 24th Ave at 29th St, Astoria, Queens; 718-274-4925; 1–4pm, free), benefiting DA Sokol, a space that offers low-cost gymnastics to Queens kids. Organizer Jessica Bardy has assembled a diverse collection of artists for it, including Anne Messley, who makes stuff out of felt, and jewelry designer Felicity Stiverson (work pictured).
My Vintage Beaded Nile Necklace is featured in the print magazine, and my Marseille Necklace is featured online!
Marseille Necklace
Check out the whole article here:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/73006/the-best-events-on-saturday-april-4-2009
Thanks Time Out New York! Woo hoo!
New Etsy banner – woot!
My fantastic and crafty husband just designed me a new banner for my Etsy shop – I think it’s a big upgrade from my old one, and captures the colors and vintage beads that I use so much in my designs! Here’s a little piece of it:
The Brooklyn Flea – Dumbo Edition!
This Saturday, March 14, I’ll be selling with fellow {New New} York Etsy Street Team members at the Brooklyn Flea in Dumbo. It’ll be my third time selling there in the past month or so, and if you’re in the neighborhood, you should stop by and check out all the cool antique sellers and other handmade vendors – and especially the awesome food vendors, like the famous Papusa guy! And I’ve heard a rumor that the equally famous Red Hood Taco Guys will be there this weekend!! Tacos, papusas, and cool handmade stuff – sounds like a good Saturday to me! 
The Dumbo Brooklyn Flea
Vintage bead-mania
So I’ve been on a tear creating new necklaces from the amazing vintage beads I’ve been amassing lately. Here are a few of my newest designs – I already sold the South Beach necklace over the weekend at the Valentine’s craft fair (which was kind of a bust, but at least it was abnormally warm out, since we ended up vending OUTSIDE! It’s February in NYC!! Geez!) I’m going to be crafting up many more designs this week, since I’ll be vending at the indoor Brooklyn Flea this Saturday in DUMBO! Yee haw!
Smoke and Mirrors Necklace
South Beach Necklace
Urban Artifact Necklace
Getting into the swing of things . . .
After a well-deserved month off after the holiday rush, I’ll be doing my first sale in 2009 this Saturday the 7th at the Secondary School for Research’s Valentine’s Craft Fair in Park Slope. There will be craft and flea market vendors (including several of my fellow New New York Etsy Street Team peeps!) and a bake sale – and hey, it’s supposed to get up to 50 degrees outside this weekend, so if you’re in the NYC area, come on by!
Workin workin workin’ . . .
Been busy adding lots of new items to my Etsy site, and I just got some more amazing vintage beads that I’ve been madly crafting into new creations! Here’s the latest addition to my shop:
My new Sea at Twilight Earrings!
A new year, a new post!
Okay, okay, time to get back on the horse and post something to this blog already! Having made it through the holiday craziness, I’m finally reordering supplies like a madwoman today and trying to get my Etsy shop back in order. And I designed a new pair of earrings, and made two pairs, one of which I gave myself as a birthday present and wore out on the town New Year’s Eve! I like to call them my Cold as Ice earrings, in tribute to this icy month of January:
Cold as Ice Earrings
Finally recovered!
It’s taken a few days to recover from the wonderful madness that was the Holiday Handmade Cavalcade this past Saturday! The {New} New York Etsy Street Team can throw quite an event, as evidenced by the massive crowds and amazingly festive atmosphere at the Knitting Factory!! I sold waayyyy more than I have at any other fair, and I think that the event was a huge success for all! Now my only problem is trying to replace all of the merchandise that I sold, and updating my Etsy store with new items during the last few days of the Christmas shopping season! A good problem to have, I must say
Some pics from the event:
During the last few moments of set-up before the crowds descended!
Part of my display - slightly decimated at the end of the day!
The goody bags, which I helped stuff - they were amazing, and boy, did they go fast!
Stumbling out of a turkey induced fog . . .
So I’ve finally returned to NYC after an excellent week-long Thanksgiving vacation to visit my family, and am frantically getting ready for the upcoming (this Saturday!!!) Holiday Handmade Cavalcade! I’m pretty sure I’m going to be creating jewelry right up to the last minute, since I’m hoping for a fantasticly huge crowd at the show this weekend! Did I mention the fabulous raffle prizes that’ll be given out as well? Five awesome and immense gifty baskets will be raffled off at the Cavalcade – each time you make a purchase, you get a raffle ticket!! These aren’t super-lame raffle baskets we’re talking about either – this necklace is similar to the one I donated for the raffle baskets:
Earthy Delights Necklace
