You've got your craft in my rock n roll!

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to bring craft and rock together for a day of furious fun. Should you or your colleague be captured by a lucha libre wrestler or lost in the pit, the Craft Mafia will disavow any knowledge of your actions...

Come join me & Deanna as we represent RCM at RVA Magazine's Fist City Fury Music Festival!


Music inside Toad's Place runs from 1pm to 1am.

Outdoor market on the Canal Walk runs until 6pm.

It's totally free to enjoy the outdoor performances and craft market on the Canal Walk. Tickets for the music inside Toad's Place are 10 bucks.

Come rock with us.

WhooHoo!

Bizarre Market

The Bizarre Market

The Punk Rock Craft Market

If you want to vend at the Bizarre Market:

- bring a card table & your handmade stuff

-arrive at 11 to set up

-find a spot to squeeze in

-sell your stuff

-turn in your 10% commission at the end of the day
(to benefit the Art 180 Jonny Z Memorial Fund)

Saturday, Oct 13th from 12 - 4 pm

Chop Suey Books by VCU (Randolph and Cary)

If you make stuff and it's legal then show up at 11am to set up!

Free to vend, but please donate 10% of your sales at the end of the day.
All proceeds go to the Art 180 Jonny Z Memorial Fund.

Click here to get to the Etsy Forum Thread about the Bizarre Market

flickr badge link!

If you are a blogger and you would love to have a flickr bagde you might be like me and have a LOT of trouble finding the how to information on the Flickr sight well look no further.

Flickr has not learned that NO ONE can find how to make a damn flickr badge. You can search forever and never find this gem of a tool. This includes me every-time I want to update it I can't find the bleeding thing!

So, here is the link for making a flickr badge so the next time you need to update it you can find it right here on the RCM blog, with out wasting 3o minutes or more.

etsy luv

Check it out the Richmond Etsy Street Team just got a major shout out on the new Etsy e-zine The Storque promoting our Crafters anonymous craft swap!

We are not only can you get rid of those scrapbook supplies that you KNOW that you will never ever in a million years use! (yes that is what I will bring) Not only can you get a bunch of fun stuff you can make stuff. We will have a make and take tables.... earrings, cards, and doesn't that sound fun.

So come already, you don't want to make the mafia mad!

A Day in the Life.

Last weekend Kate and I had a booth at the Irvington Farmer's Market, which is on the Northern Neck of Virginia. This is a fairly rural area but it's on the river and a lot of people vacation there. The shopping is slim, so when the market rolls around every month it's usually a nice and eager crowd. I (finally) remembered to bring a camera to document the day:

5:00am: wake up, glance at the clock, moan like a wounded kitten.
5:15am: get the hell up, shower, dress, continue to moan.
6:00am: drive to pick up Kate who overslept and has that sleepy-panic thing going on.
6:15am: load up the tent into my already packed car.
6:20am: COFFEE SHOP
6:30am: hit the road for the 75 mile trip. Luckily we're pretty much the only car on the road.
7:15am: drive past the paper mill in West Point and wonder who farted. (Won't you take me to...Stinky town?)
7:45am: arrive at the commons where the show is held.
9:00am-1pm: Show time. Sell, chat, run over to the farmer's booth to buy produce, chat, sell, pet cute dogs.
1:15pm-1:45pm: break down, pack of the car, think happy thoughts about lunch.
2:00pm: stop for dubious lunch at a roadside joint. Eat fast and hit the road.
3:30pm: arrive home, collapse.

It was a pretty day:



Our booth:



This was our view from the booth. Can you see the dog wearing a birthday hat?



Never enough signage:



Dubious lunch of champions:


This sign on the drive home always cracks me up: