Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Beading On A Sunny Day Want to know how we spent our sunny Saturday afternoon? It involved some good friends, white wine, and lots of beads. We wanted to craft and enjoy the summer weather we were having,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Inspired by our Local Magazines ReadyMade, who recently moved its headquarters from Oakland to Berkeley, has had a spot on our bookshelves long before we started seeing copies of it for sale in Urban Outfitters. In classic magazine
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork talks to Marie Kare of the Sampler We saw our first Sampler two years ago while interning at the ReadyMade offices in Oakland. We looked on eagerly as a big thick envelope arrived stuffed with handmade goodies that included buttons,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Soft It's been a productive year for us. Between knitting and cupcakes, we've been crafting up a storm. Our favorite new craft has absolutely no function other than looking cute. We're talking about softies,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Plays in the Kitchen In case you don't think there's anything crafty about baking a batch of cupcakes, we've got the pictures to prove you wrong. And we've had so much sugar today, we doubt you would
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Hunt: Stop Bitching and Start Stitching Of all the classes we skipped to play fossball in high school, we never though we'd regret cutting Home Ec. But truth be told, after spending yet another $15 on getting slacks hemmed
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork goes to TNNA Just to be clear, TNNA has absolutely nothing to do with the similar sounding t&a. Although, several times this weekend we did accidentally say TNA instead of TNNA. There's nothing sexy
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Places we like on the Interwebs. Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Talks to Lisa Congdon, Organizer of the Kim Family Auction. San Francisco wasn't the only place moved by the Kim family tragedy. People around the world followed the tragic story with bated breath as the events unfolded. For most of us it's hard
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Happy Kitschy Crafting. One of our personal favorites this year was Leah Kramer's 'The Craftsters Guide to Nifty, Thrifty and Kitschy Crafts'. Kramer, a craft maven by every definition of the word, is responsible for starting
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Use Those Hands We fully intended to make some snow globes and document the process here, but we got a little caught up in other activities this week. We even spent a good amount of money
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Still Avoiding the Mall Some of our favorites who we hope to run into at another event soon included, Yellow Cherry, who does some fine metal work and had with her some adorable plushy cats she made
Arts & Entertainment Craftster's Leah Kramer Leah Kramer is the mastermind behind the craftster forum. She’ll be in the Bay Area this week to promote her book, “The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts”, and SFist
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares: It's a Motherf***ing Walk-Off! Oh snap! Someone's already done it. The St. Vincent de Paul Society challenged fashion design students from SFSU and FIDM to do just that and the results are really incredible. Take that Santino!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Crafts So now we're just going to leave it to the experts, many of whom will be exhibiting their work at The Women's Building Celebration of Craftswomen at Fort Mason. You've already missed the
