This coming weekend, dorklandia will be at the new Treasure Island Flea Market! If you live in the Bay Area and haven’t been to Treasure Island, you are missing out. It’s a spooky weird place, and I’m excited to spend a couple of days hanging out there.
Next, on June 4th, I will be parading my ice cream cart on Market Street as part of the Cries of San Francisco. This is going to be pretty funny, there will be approximately 70 artists wandering around Market between 3rd and 5th, selling their own wares and other oddities. I’m particularly excited to see the insect antenna vendor and the Psychic Plumbing Network.
I am getting ready for the Maker Faire, which will happen this weekend. I’ll have the ice cream cart again this year, but there is a new twist: I bought a real ice cream cart! Of course, it needed some work. Here is a before shot:
The new cart, before I got peeling.
Of course, that’s not what it looks like anymore. 😉  It is presently being outfitted and will make its debut on Saturday. I’ll have kits and cones and popsicles and barrettes. I hope to see you there!
I’m happy to say that I will be at Portland’s Crafty Wonderland this year! I had a great time during their spring sale last year, and am very excited to be able to go back and visit such a nifty city.
I’ll be at table 45, and will have octopi, cat sticks, and rotten apples in tow. See you there?
I am so excited to announce that dorklandia will be exhibiting at WonderCon this year! This is happening this weekend, April 1 – 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I’ll have new things to show, and you can take a chance at winning a tiny octopus from my capsule machine!
Rotten apples
Cat Sticks!
Tiny capsule octopi
We will be at table D-7. Hope to see you there!
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.
Here are the things I’ve made for Thing A Day, days 1 and 2:
Come join us for the 11th annual Valentine’s Day show at Sunbrothers Studio! I will be there with some *new things*!! Here is a link to the show flyer with all the useful bits. It will be Saturday February 12th from 6-10 pm. There will be a raffle! It will be, and always is, awesome.
February 12th, 6-10 pm (rain or shine)
At Sunbrothers Studio: 1345 S. 50th St,  Richmond 94804
Please join us for a step into my second decade of Solar Powered Roses. This year’s show will include a new 2011 batch of roses, sweet peas, a giant carrot, a sunflower, and a disintegrating sphere. Yes, you’ll just have to see it to know what I’m talking about.
Also on display we’ll have a large showing of new Fire Sculpture by David Andres, Zachary Wetzel, and Therm, as well as works from:
The ever fabulous Joe Rut – joerut.com –
Zak Timan – sculpture and hand blown glass jewelry
Jim Austin – Alchemy Metalworks – custom forged axes
dorklandia – where are you from?
And of course don’t miss the RAFFLE at 9:30 and a chance to win a Sunbrothers Long Stem Rose!
I’ve just registered for Thing-A-Day for the month of February! I’ll be posting my little projects as the month progresses. It’s a great way to fight winter.
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!
Here’s a little video explaining how to say “more than one octopus” with just one word!
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/04/great-moments-in-ped.html
To those who’ve heard me mispronounce “octopodes” zillions of times, mea culpa.
Happy New Year!
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