Craft Parties Happening This Week!

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Jamie

It’s that time of year again.  The time when the annual Etsy Craft Parties begin to happen and there are a few “GREAT” events happening around town near the end of this week:

1) CRAFT Etsy Party: Creative Outlet Studios

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When: Thursday, June 20th

Time: 6pm to 10pm

Where: Creative Outlet Studios | 2035 Placentia Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA 92627

Creative Outlet Studios is a beautiful craft studio space that allows anyone to use professional-grade tools in fun environment with skilled crafters to help guide through the process when needed

Tickets: Are 10 dollars. 10% will be donated back to SOS (Share our Shelves.)

Crafts that night include:

 

  • Letterpress Gift Tags

  • Nail Bar (with fun ideas from Pinterest!)

  • Natural Fabric Dying: Trying Different Techniques on Sample Squares

  • Card Making: Make One for Charity & One for Yourself

  • Decorative Geometric Hairpins with Felt and Leather Scraps

  • Screen Printing: Commemorative Design by Hearts and Laserbeams

  • Community Zine Station: Contribute to Our Craft Community Zine!

 

2) CRAFTED Etsy Party

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Our dear friends at CRAFTED in San Pedro are in the works to put on their 2nd annual Etsy Craft Party.

When: Friday, June 21st

Time: 7 to 10pm

Visit with a variety of the CRAFTED vendors as they create awesome make and takes and have a variety of activities available for you including:

★ CRAFTS and Make & Takes

★ DIYs

★ Live Demonstrations

★ Giveaways

★ Raffles

★ Nail Bar with Cha Cha Covers: Nails by Design

★ Photobooth

★ Facepainting

★ Shucks Oyster Bar

★ Caricature Artist, Adrian Penaflor

★ Wine & Craft Beer with Off The Vine!

★ Pottery Wheel

★ Live Blues Music with The Silver Kings

★ Food Trucks

3) Craft Happy Creative Retreat at The Makery

An awesome new crafty community is building at The Makery in Anaheim.

This Sunday is their first craft happy creative retreat where you can purchase a variety of craft kits while there and partake in creating them there.  The day will include 8 different workshops.

When: Sunday, June 23rd

Where: The Makery:

Registration has already ended for this fun event, but keep an eye on The Makery as more fun events are in the works.


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WIN Tickets to Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circus! Ends 6/25/13!

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Jamie

Disclosure: I am being provided with 2 tickets to the circus.

The Circus is coming to town! The Circus is coming to town!  And one of my lucky readers has a chance to win TICKETS.  2 tickets that is to any weekday performance to the circus while they are in town from July 10th through August 4th.

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The Vouchers are valid for these performances:

Los Angeles:

Wednesday, July 10th: 7:30pm

Thursday, July 11th: 12pm and 7:30pm

Friday, July 12th: 12pm

Monday, July 15th: 7:30pm

Tuesday, July 16th: 12pm and 7:30pm

Ontario:

Monday, July 22nd: 7:30pm

Tuesday, July 23rd: 12pm and 7:30pm

Anaheim:

Wednesday, July 31st: 1pm and 7:30pm

Thursday, August 1st: 10:30am and 7:30pm

Friday, August 2nd: 1pm

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Enter to win by leaving a comment below answering this question: What is your favorite thing about the circus?

No purchase necessary, void where prohibited.  Must be 18 years or older and reside in California.  Winner will be notified by email, and picked through the use of random.org.  All other rules can be found here.  Giveaway ends at 9pm PST on 6/25/13.

Disclosure: I am being given 2 tickets to the circus.

 

 


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Visiting Home: Minnesota

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Jamie

This week I’ve been back home to Minnesota.  Two of my younger sisters just graduated high school so I made it back home for their graduations.

And then, of course, to see a bit of the town, and family.  Here’s a few of the pictures:

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Last Saturday my mom and I visited my grandpa, and he lives pretty close to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden so we took a walk over there and had a little bit of fun together.  It was my first photo walk with my mom.

On Monday I stopped by the Mall of America to check out the amusement park and to take pictures to see how the rides have changed over the years.  The amusement park use to be called Camp Snoopy, but has changed names to Nickelodeon University so a lot of the rides have changed since.

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And on Tuesday my mom and I explored around in my favorite Minnesota Town: Stillwater.

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And then on Wednesday I met my brother up in Minneapolis to take in a game of the Minnesota Twins at Target Field:

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I parked my car at the Mall of America then took the lightrail into Minneapolis.  It drops us off right next to Target Field.

Do you ever notice when you come back home after years of being away you’re on alert for the things that have changed around you?  Looking for new businesses coming to new buildings, etc?

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I was also kind of surprised to know that I was able to pick up the roads as if I’d never left.  One thing I truly appreciate about Minnesota more than anything now is all their greenery.  The Green grass, the trees, very beautiful.

And of course, driving on their roads.  It’s just not stressful like it is in Los Angeles 😉

Definitely felt good to be around family and to just be on vacation away from everything.  Very relaxing.

 

 

 

 


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