help!

summer.

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this past week flew by with a very full house of guests in town for gallery night. monica canilao, mike brodie, soup and tod seelie all stayed with us for the opening of brodie & monica's show at my gallery.

opening night was a huge success and you can view pictures on the paper boat flickr account.

realizing i can't do everything, i had to cancel some important out of town dates, like the detroit urban craft fair. i am getting burned out and need to make sure i don't spread myself too extra thin.

the goal for the next few weeks is to get organized, plow through some editing of the film and get ready for fall (which means holiday stuff for the shop).

p.s. this photo is of our backyard where betsy played cello after the gallery opening. it was perfect.

p.p.s this morning i made pesto with the basil from my garden. it was super easy, my first time doing it. i was suprised to see how little pesto you get from sooo much basil.

I took the weekend off!

My weekend.
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And it was sooooo nice!

Art vs. Craft recap!

All the photos of the event are HERE. If YOU have pictures of the event and plan to post them on flickr will you please add them to the Art vs. Craft photo pool? It is---------> HERE

Thank you for volunteering, shopping, vending and spreading the word everyone. This event was a total sucess and we are begining planing for the falll/winter show soon, very very soon.....


This is what went down:
Over 2300 shoppers came to round 6 of Art vs. Craft held in Milwaukee, WI July7th & 8th.

200 swag bags were gone in less than 20 minutes and people started lining up outside an hour before the doors on Saturday!

Saturday night was the first time we hosted music at the event in the Todd Wehr Auditorium on the MSOE campus where the event was held. Calvin Johnson (K Records) headlined the show with local support The Goodnight Loving and The Trusty Knife kicked off the evening.

We also had a few new additions to the show including the very sucessful popsicle cart (all proceeds when to Handmade Nation, a documentary about the DIY art & craft community) as well as a & Make & Take& section of the show sponsored by Duncan/Tulip craft suppliers and ran by Fasten Clothing Collective. Kids and adults came and revamped shirts and decorated them with supplies donated by the sponsors.

Thanks to everyone who made this event possible including all the volunteers who worked the door and did behind the sceans stuff and our sponsors:
WMSE (91.7)
Beans & Barley
Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery
Fasten Clothing Collective
ETSY.com
Adorn Magazine
Craft Zine
Venus Zine
ReadyMade Magazine
Tulip/Duncan

Los Angeles Bound!!

Los Angeles Bound!!
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Saturday I am packing up all the promo for Handmade Nation and heading west for Felt Club--- Jenny Ryan puts on one mean show, so if you are in the greater Los Angeles area, you better go.

More updates on Art vs. Craft later today, it was our best show yet!

Cover Girl?

In lieu of this weekends events (ART vs CRAFT) and the other stuff I do, I made it to the cover of MKE, read the article HERE and please come to the event this weekend!!