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| GIVEAWAY: WIn SPAlicious-mi-Hair box & Red Dahlia earrings! | [01 Jun 2009|03:33pm] |
Mimie Wong of mi SPA and I have teamed up for a fun giveaway! One lucky winner will get a pair of my laser-cut Red Dahlia Earrings as well as a fab SPAlicious-mi-Hair gift box!
(1) Pair of Red Dahlia earrings
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(1) Surprise mi! JUNE 09 Special SPAlicious-mi-Hair gift box
Each June Box will include:
+one random-picked shampoo bar (shampoo-mi bar or beer shampoo bar)
+one 4oz bottle of our newly reformulated, 90% organic everyday conditioner
+one surprise roll-on perfume
+one surprise 4oz perfume candle
+additional surprise samples
+ more exciting gifts from our friends & sponsors of the month: feterie, mark beauty and inklore.
*Total retail value over $70, now for only $22.50
Here’s how to play:
GO visit both of our sites (mi SPA & Feisty Elle), find one favorite item from each and comment on Mi Spa's blog: (one comment for person, please!) Mimie and I will randomly pick one comment as the winner after contest closed on 11:59pm PST June 5 2009. It’s that easy! Winner will be announce on Monday June 6. Hurry and Have FUN!!
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| Thank you bloggers! | [13 May 2009|04:08pm] |
Lately, there have been a bunch of great posts about my latest laser-cut dahlia and emi earrings and brooches, so thanks so much to all of you for saying such great things!
Cuteable.com
Design Milk
Mighty Goods
Miss Malaprop
Mixed Plate
Modish
Rare Bird Finds
Scoutie Girl
SF Indie Fashion
Sweet Figments
If I've forgotten anyone, forgive me and let me know. Thanks!
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| Tomorrow's the last day to enter HHG | [12 May 2009|04:36pm] |
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Hey folks, this is your friendly reminder that May 13th is the last day to enter the Happily Handmade Giveaway. Make sure to enter and include your FULL NAME. No full name, no entry. Start from Feisty Elle and check out the other sponsors! Good luck!
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| Lotta Jansdotter is coming to SF! (MOCFA to be exact) | [11 May 2009|12:23pm] |
Book Signing + Sewing Activity with Lotta Jansdotter
Saturday, May 16,
12-4pm
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art is excited to announce a workshop by world-famous linens, stationary, and ceramics designer Lotta Jansdotter to introduce the publication of her new book, Simple Sewing for Baby. Follow along with Lotta as she demonstrates how to create a children’s plush toy. Event will be held from 12-4 in Yerba Buena Lane in front of the Museum. This event is co-sponsored by Chronicle Books, and is free and open to the public, ages 8 and up. For information call 415.227.4888 Ext. 13.
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| Out of town for the weekend | [17 Apr 2009|01:31pm] |
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I'm out of town starting from today till Sunday evening. All orders made today till then will go out Tuesday. Thanks and have a great weekend!
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| Want a SusyJack 2009 Calendar? | [09 Mar 2009|12:15pm] |
I have two extra SusyJack 2009 calendars! I love mine. Email me (leslie@feistyelle dot com) if you want one for $30 including s/h. They retail for $34.
http://susyjack.bigcartel.com/product/the-2009-deluxe-calendar
Thanks!
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| Crafternoon 1.0 was a success! | [16 Feb 2009|10:56pm] |
 I had a crafternoon at my house last weekend. I invited a bunch of my dearest chick friends to either learn how to stencil or bring their own crafty work to do. Eleven lovely ladies came and we had a blast!
More pics are in my Crafternoon set
Here's what I was working, a set of ginkgo napkins. I serged the edges a couple of days later.
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| 3/11: Handmade Nation screening in SF | [10 Feb 2009|10:47pm] |
Just found out that Handmade Nation will be screening at Mezzanine on March 11th. Tix go on sale next Tuesday February 17th. The screening is presented by the San Francisco Film Society.
http://www.sffs.org/events/films/film_handmade_nation.html
Handmade Nation
Faythe Levine (USA, 2009)
Lisa Congdon, owner of retailer Rare Device and Tina Barseghian, editor-in-chief of Craft magazine are expected to attend.
The downward path the U.S. economy is currently taking is inspiring many people to rethink their buying habits. As more of us learn to think small, the advocates of buying local and buying handmade will no doubt find new adherents. Buying local for many means buying handmade objects that are designed and fabricated with ingenuity, grit and love. Handmade Nation documents a movement of artists, crafters and designers that imbue traditional handiwork techniques with a punky do-it-yourself ethos informed by modern aesthetics, politics, feminism and art. The film explores the burgeoning art community of indie crafters that is fueled by creativity, determination and networking. First-time director Faythe Levine traveled the U.S. to capture the tight-knit community, conducting interviews in the studios and homes of noted and independent artists. Levine also details how Web sites, blogs and online stores have spurred a once underground movement and how crafts have expanded to connect with the greater public through boutiques, galleries and fairs.
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| WhizBang Fabrics is closing | [05 Feb 2009|09:23pm] |
Just got word:
WhizBang Fabrics is LIQUIDATING its inventory
STARTING SATURDAY 2/7
and closing doors in the beginning of March
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all fabric normally $7.50 - $13.50/yard
will be just $5./YARD
all fabric $14 and up/yard
will be just $10/yard
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plus save on all books, patterns, notions, trim, etc.
we will also be bringing in remnant bags, vintage fabric, belt buckles, other sewing fixtures/notions during the sale so be sure to check in every once in a while for new/random goodies
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sale begins this saturday at 10 am
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store hours during the sale:
tues - fri: 12 - 7
sat: 10 - 6
sun: 12 - 5
- we are closed on mondays.
we will also be closed on sunday feb 15th
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please tell your friends, family, coworkers, strangers on the street!
hope to see you here real soon. And remember.....
the early bird gets the ribbon
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| DECEMINATE! Crafts Fair hosted by Langton Labs | [12 Dec 2008|02:18pm] |
I'll be selling my feisty wares at DECEMINATE! Crafts Fair, hosted by Langton Labs this Sunday. Drop by if you can!
Sunday 12/14/08 Noon-4PM
9 Langton Street (near 7th and Howard)
Featured sellers include:
A.O. Monterosso - Handblown Glass
Booty Boutiqe - Belt Buckles
Callibug Designs - Clothing - Callibugdesigns.com
Dina Pinza - Jewelry - Dinapinza.etsy.com
Feisty Elle - Accessories - FeistyElle.com
Interplanetary Craft - Earrings & Critters
Orange - Hoola-hoops
Riv - Robot Hearts & Jewelry
Sarakali - Headresses & Hair Clips
Sasen - Truffles - Laboratory for Chocolate Science
SeamstressErin - Sewn Stuff
Sudhu Tewari - Objects d'Art - sudhutewari.com
Wunderkammer - Curiosities - jpolka.etsy.com
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| The Oh-what-the-hell-let's-have-a-big-holiday-sale Sale @ Feisty Elle | [01 Dec 2008|10:52pm] |
Get 30% off your order of $35 or more, plus Code: FE_HOLIDAY08
I've NEVER had a sale this big, so enjoy it, recessionistas! Hit me up for custom orders too. If there's a color you want but don't see on the website, ask me and I can most likely accommodate your color request. I'm out of town right now, NYC to be exact, so I'll begin processing orders starting 12/9/08. Happy shopping!
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| Felt Club! | [16 Nov 2008|12:04am] |
Felt Club, just do it! I'll be there, with mad discounts on my feisty wares.
FELT CLUB: HOLIDAY 2008
Sunday, NOVEMBER 16, 11am-7pm
@ Shrine Auditorium Expo Center
700 W. 32nd St., LA CA 90007
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| Vote NO on Prop 8! | [30 Oct 2008|09:15pm] |
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I don't usually post about politics, but this one transcends policy and politics, it affects the civil rights of millions of people in California. Make sure to vote early, vote often, and vote NO on Proposition 8. Don't add discriminating policies to the California state constitution.
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| SF folks: Chronicle Books First Ever Warehouse Sale This Friday and Saturday | [23 Oct 2008|09:57am] |
Dang 65% off their titles, that's better than Amazon any day...
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| 10/10: (First) Sustainable Fabric Trade Show | [06 Oct 2008|10:11pm] |
peopleWearSF is sponsoring a sustainable fabric trade show (the first in the nation) in SF this Friday! This I've got to see.:
Via Ecofabulous
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| Feisty wedding services (unplanned) | [14 Sep 2008|11:01pm] |
It's been completely unintentional but somehow I've been involved in wedding-related matters for friends twice in the past few months.
I officiated my friends' wedding in Santa Cruz in August (my second wedding as an officiant!):
And now I've made my friend's bridal hair piece for her wedding later this month. (Edit:Here's my gorgeous friend wearing the flower piece in her hair.)
At this rate, I'm on my way to becoming a one-stop wedding shop. ;-) Seriously though, I love making wedding hair pieces and officiating friends' weddings; it's an honor through and through.
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| 10/13-10/14: Semi-annual Britex sale | [05 Sep 2008|03:13pm] |
My weak point is collecting great fabric and notions so I'm excited that Britex Fabrics in San Francisco will have their big semi-annual sale October 13-14. They'll be offering 30% off all fabrics, notions, and remnants, including designer fabrics from fashion houses such Pucci, Christian Dior, Roberto Cavalli, and more. Their collection of vintage millinery, silk flowers, vintage glass and bakelite buttons is amazing! (Sale is limited to stock on the floor and doesn't include imported laces and velvets, special orders, mail orders, or phone orders.)
Britex Fabrics
146 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: 415.392.2910
Fax: 415.392.3906
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| Have any unloved jewelry and baubles? Donate them! | [03 Sep 2008|01:14pm] |
Just found this via ecofabulous. I'll go dig around for some stuff to donate:
As a result of gold mining that took place more than a century ago, the San Francisco Bay is lined by several feet of sediment from hydraulic mining and its waters are contaminated with dangerous levels of mercury. Today, mining is this nation's most toxic industry according to the EPA. And Earthworks reports that an estimated 80% of the gold mined each year is used for jewelry, and a single gold ring leaves 20 tons of mine waste. Ethical Metalsmiths, an artist run non-profit organization seeks to galvanize mining reform efforts by staging an "alternative supply chain" and is bringing their successful project, Radical Jewelry Makeover to the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall.
This is your chance to dig through those old, tangled chains, gifts from old flings, and unmatched earrings and donate them to Radical Jewelry Makeover, a project of Ethical Metalsmiths. During September and October, jewelry artists from the Bay Area will transform your generous donations into new jewelry. Donors receive a discount coupon available and redeemable at the final exhibition for a new piece of "madeover" jewelry.
We are accepting donations for the San Francisco edition of Radical Jewelry Makeover RIGHT NOW through September 11th. There are several drop off sites throughout the Bay Area as well as one mail in site (please see details below).
The exhibition of finished work will take place at Velvet da Vinici gallery from October 22-November 9.
Please donate! No other jewelry can be tracked to its origin as transparently as items from your own collection. Help us create a responsible jewelry movement.
Donation details:
Academy of Art University
410 Bush St. San Francisco, CA 94108
Contact: Charlene Modena - 415-618-3631
California College of Art, Oakland campus
5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618-1426
Contact: Curtis Arima - 510-205-5694
City College
Drop off: Art Office in the Visual Arts Building at City College of San Francisco, in between Batmale Hall and the Creative Arts Building on the loop.
Contact: Art Department, Box V-28, 50 Phelan
Avenue, San Francisco CA 94112
Contact: Suzanne Pugh - 415-452-5782
The Crucible
1260 7th St. Oakland, CA 94607
Contacts: Aimee Golant and Rob Nehring - 510-444-0919
Revere Academy
760 Market St. Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94102
Contact: Christine Dhein - 415-391-4179
Richmond Art Center
Address: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Ph: 510.620.6772 email: admin@therac.org www.therac.org
Contacts: Alison Antleman - 510-704-1905
Kato Jaworski - 510-620-6773
Ed Lay – 510-367-3406
Scintillant Studio
1258 Valencia St. 2nd Fl. San Francisco, CA 94110
Contact: Adam Clark - 415-505-1623
Scintillant Studio Phone: 415-206-1359
Metal Arts Guild
Contact: Alison Antleman - 510-704-1905
http://www.metalartsguildsf.org/
Velvet da Vinci Gallery
2015 Polk Street, San Francisco CA 94109
Contact: Mike Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt - 415-441-0109
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| Tokyo fabric stores: a quickie reference guide | [27 Jul 2008|03:55pm] |
When I went to Japan this past spring, I scribbled down some notes about all the great fabric shops in Tokyo with some gorgeous pipe dream of showing off my heavy fabric stash and offering a plethora of advice. Alas, it's many months later, I've put my stash away or begun using various fabrics, but I still want to offer some information and let you know about those must go-to shops. If you're heading to Tokyo or even thinking about it, this quick list as well the links, which go more in-depth, will be super helpful.
Marunan (Shibuya, near JR station exit)
It's close to the subway and you'll think it's a small 1-floor shop but it's really about 4 floors of fabrics and notions. (Note: fabric is sold at 1 meter in all fabric shops).
Nippori Textile Town (Tokyo's garment district)
This isn't a shop, it's 5 block radius of fabric heaven. =) Essentially, this is Tokyo's garment district. While in the district, definitely go to these shops:
Tomato (3 shops)
Tomato is really three shops along the same block. Tomato is a multistory wonderland of fabric and notions. If you're low on time, Tomato is a great one-stop shop. There's also Tomato + Arch which has clothing, wigs, socks, and fabric for sale. The third shop is the Tomato outlet of discounted fabrics.
Life! (just past crosslight on the same side as Tomato)
Has great notions and vintage American clothing.
Kumugai (right across from Tomato)
Awesome notions!
For more information on fabric stores in Tokyo, check out these links:
http://floatingworld.typepad.com/floating_world_views/2007/05/fabric_shopping.html
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3007.html (fabric and craft-related shopping in Shibuya)
http://retromummy.blogspot.com/2007/07/shops.html
http://tuttifruiti.blogspot.com/2007/10/shops.html
http://www.askingfortrouble.org/crafts/tokyo-shopping-guide/
http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~nippori/map/map.pdf (Map of Nippori)
http://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+33685
http://www.yuzawaya.co.jp/company/brochure3.html (Yuzawaya stores in Tokyo)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/movinghands/sets/72157594533543062/ (great Flickr set of crafty shopping!)
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=nippori+fabric&m=text (A simple search for "nippori" and "fabric" yielded a bunch of great pics)
Edit: Looks like there's a blog that's got you all covered:
http://www.japancraftjournal.blogspot.com/ (via CRAFT blog)
Edit #2: A blogger and Etsy seller living in Japan is working on a Fabric Lovers Guide to Tokyo, and taking suggestions on what to include: http://kimonoreincarnate.blogspot.com/2008/08/not-secret-anymore-squirell-business.html
Edit #3: Here's a Tokyo design guide from Design*Sponge guest blogger, Johnny (He even includes a Google map):
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/tokyo-design-guide.html
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| PingMag MAKE and crafty musings | [22 Jul 2008|10:01pm] |
I've been reading PingMag, a bilingual Japanese English website on art, design, fashion and more, off and on for a few years. Recently, I was stoked to discover that they've begun publishing fantastic interviews with Japanese craftsmen (where the ladies at?) across Japan entitled PingMag MAKE. These include artisans and makers of fine umbrellas, balloons, soap, textiles, ships, and pretty much any handcraft that requires a near lifetime of dedication to skill development and training. It's wonderful that PingMag is making a record as well as shining a spotlight on these folks, many of whom are near retirement and some of whom will not be passing on their skills to their children or protégés.
When I was in Japan in late April, my American life of being inundated daily with internationally mass produced items was in strong juxtapose to witnessing the care, attention to detail, and developed skill required for the design and production of regular Japanese toys and handicrafts. This persisting level of detail and skill is the legacy of these aging and sometimes younger, up-and-coming craftspeople. It's a lovely thought.
When I turn to think of American makers and crafters today, I can see that we're still swinging back and forth between business and hobby, and I wonder if we'll ever become lifelong artisans of a specific practice or art form, or will we just jump from one skill to another, like knitting to felting to gocco to textile design. Do we have ADD or are we just into fads and can afford to not be dedicated to one thing or another? (Most of us have another full-time or part-time gig.) OR, is it because it's 2008 and we can learn, do, and be so many different things so who cares? As my bf says, the truth is likely somewhere in between.
At any rate, I highly recommend checking out PingMag MAKE.
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