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Ok, so for those of you who have emailed wondering when there will be new Joey and/or Kitty Bags in the shop, here ya go! This isn't all of them but it's a start. I will try to post again when they are all in there. I'm also planning on making some new bags with some of the awesome vintage fabrics I've been hoardin-err, saving so I'll let you know when I get those listed as well.
And not to get you too excited but rumor has it there might be a guest posting coming soon...stay tuned kids...
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Is that line getting old? You'd tell me, right? Like if I had a poppy seed in my teeth or toilet paper on my shoe? I hope so. Anyway, phew, Renegade Austin was FUN. I could go on for hours so I'll try to spare you and just stick to the highlights. And obviously the biggest highlight was the stuff! The crafts were so stinkin' cool. These are some of the goodies I bought (minus the super awesome prints that are still en route in their safe, flat packaging):
Another highlight was Austin's Minor Mishap Marching Band marching up and down the aisles. I love marching bands and this one was awesome. They even had a little hula hooper! But the aisles were too narrow so she was just marching and bouncing her hoop. Sadly the photos all came out blurry so you'll have to use your imagination. Here's a picture of a screaming guitar kid instead:
Speaking of guitar kids, my favorite customer was an adorable little 2 yr-old boy named Shane. His super cool parents let him pick out one of my kid's guitar straps for his guitar which they said he actually plays. I can only imagine how cute that must be... He picked the green guitar. My favorite.
The last-but-not-least highlight was meeting Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching (she's the embroidery guru for those of you who don't know). AND having her ask to photograph my embroidered sign! I tried to be cool and not get all fan girl on her but I doubt it worked. It did help that I didn't recognize her when she actually asked about the sign and didn't find out it was her until I stopped by her booth to introduce myself and she assured me that we had, in fact, met the day before...way to go, huh? Back to my rookie moves again.
Anyway, there was so much more...amazing tattoos, adorable babies, adorable dogs, bands, dj's, crafting booths, raffles...it was a fun, fun weekend. Thank you to everyone who came by the booth to say hi and to all of my new customers! And a super-huge extra-special thank you to my awesome friend, Heather, who made the trip with me and was indispensable. And quite the two-stepper although she likes to be coy about it.
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Ok, that's the news kids! I will be a vendor at the first ever Renegade Austin and I am beyond excited about it. First, I'm excited because it's Renegade and I get to participate again. And second, it's in Austin! I love Austin! I want to move to Austin! Even though I've never been there...but I really think I will love it.
Since this fair is going to involve air travel I had to come up with new ways to display my wares that are lightweight, collapsible, portable, etc. I like to use what I have so I looked all around my studio to see what materials I already had on hand and I happened to have a lot of second hand paper, gently-used posterboard and foam core board. I started playing around with it all and what I ended up with were foldable, slipcovered foam core shelves and Cone People...
This is the felt slipcover for one of the shelves before I stitched it up.
These are the cone people bodies getting a coat of spray paint.
And here are some of the faces and hands...
All together they look like this:
Cute! So this little lady is a medium sized Cone Person but the larger ones are big enough to model the Joey Bags. Unfortunately they are already packed up in their box ready to head to Austin so again, you'll have to take my word for it. But don't worry, I promise to take photos of the entire display once I get it all up. I'm trying to keep the rookie moves to a minimum this time...
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