dorklandia

The second half of the year is already tearing by. This weekend, I will be participating in a group show at the Actual Cafe in Oakland. Here is the Facebook invite, if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s a show with a few other fiber artists, called Fuzzy Logic. They will be showing the Muppet Movie, so you know I’m both in my element and totally excited! You should come and see it! I am still a bit awkward with the whole “artist” label, so please come and see me and tell me everything is ok, and outsider art is still acceptable. 😀

Let’s see… I am also running my monthly contest on my Facebook page. This time, I am going to give away an entire big blue squid! This is because I’m so geeked about my new squid pattern, and want to send them out into your hands and arms.

So, enter! And, come and see me! APE and Geek Girl Con are both coming up super-quickly, so stay tuned!

I’m running a little contest right now on the dorklandia Facebook page. Help me name my new capsule machine and you could win a tiny capsule-sized octopus! Entries close at 3pm Pacific time on this Saturday, March 19.

This weekend, I got to go to one of FabMo‘s distribution events! FabMo is a nifty group of folks who collect upholstery samples, mostly, from places that would ordinarily discard them. They then have monthly open houses where you can go and browse through and take home pretty much as much fabric as suits your fancy. Here’s what I wound up with:

I then spent a bunch of time working with sewing upholstery fabric. I have learned two things so far:

1. Use bigger seam allowances!

2. Turning it inside out is… challenging!

Still, it’s been pretty fun, and I hope to have some new things to show quite soon!

Today is Etsy Update Day in dorklandia! Come by and check it out!

Here’s the latest ridiculous one:

Stop by and say hi at booth 129! Have some Halloween candy so I don’t eat all of it!

http://www.comic-con.org/ape/

I’ll have some scarves and some tiny scary guys and one great big one. Boo!

http://www.renegadecraft.com/san-francisco

Tomorrow and Sunday! Stop by and say hi, I have a whole pod of octopi…

I had the largest doughnut of my life at Voodoo Doughnut, while in Portland a month ago.

It haunts my dreams. It had eyes. It was as big as my (truly enormous) hand. Oh, doughnut:

http://voodoodoughnut.com/menu.php

So today was a little unexpected. I made about half of a seamonster-octopus using crazy sparkly green-black-blue-yellow yarn (pix soon as I’m done with him), but I didn’t get to finish him. But! I did get to spend a lot of the evening geeking out with a former roommate of mine, and that is always good.

I also made a network diagram at work, but I’m not convinced that that counts. So! Half an octopus and three new maybe-friends, not too shabby for a Wednesday. And now a moderately boring book and some sleep.

For tomorrow, I get to talk to people in Japan! Cooooooool!

Oh, the Maker Faire was great this year!

The rocketship was there, and a gazillion people got to see it.

I’ll have pictures once I find time to slurk them out of my real camera. But for now…

They gave me a blue ribbon for the ice cream cart. Pretty nifty, eh? I was stunned at first, then I thought it was a joke, and then I realized, hey, cool!

Coming up next Saturday, Craft Happy!

I’m planning on having a new table set-up, but it depends on how much time I have this week.

Come see!

http://www.getcrafthappy.com/start-happy

Also, someone blogged about dorklandia!