Summer Craftacular – Vendor Feature – August 15th – Volume IX.

Sunday August 15th @ the East Side Club

The Glitter Workshop is pleased to announce that there will be a Sixth Annual Summer Craftacular! The Summer Craftacular will be held Sunday, August 15th from 10 am to 5 pm at the East Side Club at 3735 Monona Drive. We will be utilizing both banquet rooms as well as the outdoor lawn / Tiki patio area. These spaces combined will allow for approximately 80 booths.

WHERE?

East Side Club
3735 Monona Drive
Madison, WI 53714

When?

10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday August 15th

Who?

Booth 1.

Set of Six Gnome and Hedgehog Postcards from Glitterworkshop

more about Glitterworkshop can be found HERE!

Booth 2.

Yoyo Headband in Deep Purple from DaintyDaisies

more about DaintyDaisies: All items are handmade by me, all are unique as well as some are one of a kind! I specialize in handmade skirts, handbags & accessories. My inventory changes daily. All fabrics are prewashed and dried as well as all seams are straight stitched and serged. Quality made and ready to wear!

Booth 3.

Ring – Vintage Remington Typewriter Key – Adjustable from theApple

more about theApple (aka KimsCraftyApple):

I love to create jewelry of all sorts. Using various supplies that catch my eye I create a wide variety of bright, colorful, fun and eclectic items.
When I’m not creating accessories, I enjoy time with my family, sewing, dyeing and working in our apple orchard!

Booth 4.

French Text Revamped Pocket Mirror from SpaceOddities

more about SpaceOddities:

gifts and greeting cards featuring images salvaged from discarded books, comics and more. Also featuring screen printed apparel, totes and notecards with original artwork by Chad Thorson
Space Oddities is a husband and wife team. Andrea creates one-of-a-kind cards, pins, magnets and more made from recycled images and busts out the gocco to print Chad’s fun designs on our totes, shirts and screen printed notecards. Chad also provides creative inspiration and validation in the middle of the night when Andrea is too tired to know what is awesome and what is ridiculous.
I (Andrea) primarily craft and create late into the night when my kids are asleep or on the rare occasion when then are both napping at the same time. I love ripping up old magazines, books, comics, etc. to upcycle into fun one of a kind gifts and greeting cards. I have soft spot for pretty gift wrap and interesting craft papers which you will see in my work as well.

Booth 7.

Orangy Porangy is clothing for modern ladies who love classic style. It’s also for ladies who like to look good without trying too hard.

Booth 62.

Old Bare Tree print on Super Soft Tri-blend Evergreen Womens Medium American Apparel T-shirt from Bare Tree Apparel

More about Bare Tree Apparel:

Hello! My name is saul! I enjoy making things, and I take a lot of pride in my work! I will never sell an item I wouldn’t wear myself. I believe in shipping quickly, happy customers and over using exclamation points!
I literally do everything you see here, I draw the images, I print them, and then I take the photos! I also am writing this! woah!
I studied art at Syracuse University, UW Madison, and The School at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Booth 71.

Purple Starry Night from JulieBsJewels

more about JulieBsJewels: I love to make jewelery!!! Who would have thunk it. I worked on helicopters at one point in time and I am still twisting wires…LOL. I have the best husband in the whole world. He is very supportive of my craft.

Booth 25.

FunctionArt Handspun Art Yarn Maison from KittyGrrlz

more about KittyGrrlz: I’m a full-time spinner and knitter! I make hand knit items with luxurious, fun & funky yarns, and also spin my own. I learned how to knit at the DIY Trunk Show in Chicago in 2004 . . . it changed my life! 🙂 I love to knit as it is calms me and focuses my attention. I prefer to knit with the funkier yarns, and tend to stay away from your basic yarns. I have a cat named Bug Juice.

If you missed out on the first artist features make sure you head back to Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI, Volume VII and Volume VIII.

Booth layout:

Welcome to my blog – This is my story!

Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog!

I’m creating this to document my journey as a struggling crafter/artist trying to make it with this crazy economy! We’ll see how things go!

I’ve been making things for as long as I remember. My Grandma still tells the story of the “quilt” I made my brother for his 10th birthday (I was 5)…I sewed together the fabric from my mom’s rag box – including the furry toilet seat cover! My brother…being the nice guy that he is, was really nice and told me he just loved it!

I never really stopped making things…I was always saving things and creating random things. Luckily, my parents were very supportive of me. When I was in middle school I cut out all the cool ads from teen magazines and created this crazy collage that coverd my cieling…it drove my mom nuts but she still let me do it 🙂 I had an art teacher in middle school that told my parents at teacher conferences to buy me any supplies I asked for because I would use them…my parents listened. If it weren’t for them I would never be making the things I am making today!

I went to college in 2000 for civil engineering. Unfortunately, it was difficult to mix art classes into my curriculum and still graduate in a reasonable time frame. I managed to take one drawing class and a pottery class…but that was about it.

When I met my husband’s family I instantly knew that I would get along well with my mother-in-law. She was a crafter too! I found out that she used to teach crafting classes and was an amazing quilter. After I had been dating my husband for a year they let me display my jewelry in their apple store. It was a huge success and has continued to grow for the last five years.

Also, about eight months into my relationship with my husband I decided that I wanted to learn the real way to quilt. We went to my in-laws every Tuesday night for months and I would work on my first ‘real’ quilting project (I didn’t own my own sewing machine at the time) and we would get a free, delicious dinner. I fell in love with quilting and have been making them ever since.

I can go on and on about all the different things I do, but I need to get busy working on things. I’ll tell more of my stories later! I hope you enjoy my blog!

To see some examples of my stuff check out my website: http://www.kimscraftyapple.etsy.com/