Craft Mafia section of the Festival of the Arts, May 18, 2013 11am-6pm

Hello there! It's time again to come to the North Park Festival of the Arts, May 18, 2013 11am-6pm, and check out our hand picked Craft Mafia section of the event! Highlights for our section are: 29 hand made vendors, Craft Lounge-craft classes starting every hour, Fashion Show-items from our vendors will be in a fashion show on the Main Stage @1pm.

We will have a craft lounge, where you can learn to make this bracelet. Svea Komori of Belle Pepper Couture will be teaching this class for FREE. The kits to make this bracelet starts at $14.00 and up. There will also be tools & bracelet boards available for purchase. Supplies to make this bracelet can be purchased at Dancing Bear Indian Trader located in Escondido, CA.

Our members who will be there:

Attic802

Jewels of Friendship

R Priest Ellgy Co

These are the Craft Mafia approved vendors who were the chosen few....

Aunt Be Botanicals

Bleu Vintage

Collisionware

Crafty Cards

Frivolous Passion

i wish i had a penguin friend

Ivy League

J.M. Fusions LLC

KirstenBJeweled

Lil Chikadees

Marooned Crab Creations, LLC

Mi Bazaar Latino

Miss Finch's Finery

Mostly Monsters Chula Vista

My Lucky Dragon

Originals by Lu

Pursemafia

sir tellabeem presents

Small and Great Crochet

Studio M

The Adventurous Rabbit

The Sunny Bunny

Trulie Gifted

Upcycled Life

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Feeling like a little treat this St. Patrick's Day (Sunday)?

Try these Shamrock Pretzel Treats!!!

Here is what you'll need:

Pretzels- small twists

Irish Cream Hershey Kisses (or just regular chocolate ones)

Mint (or just green) M&M's

Green Candy Melts (or frosting)

Parchment Paper

Cookie Sheet

Here's the How-To:

1. Pre-heat your oven to 200˚.

2. Cover a cookie sheet with waxed paper. Cover with a single layer of pretzels and place a Hershey Kiss in the center of each pretzel.

3. Place the cookie sheet in the oven at 200˚ for about 8 minutes, until the Hershey Kisses are soft, but not melted.

4. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and immediately press 3 green M&M's on each Hershey Kiss, creating a Shamrock.

5. Melt a few green candy melts (or use green frosting) and add a stem to each shamrock.

6. Put them in the fridge until the chocolate sets back up.   Ready to serve!

My sister made these the other day and they were great!  You can find more pictures and details here: http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2012/03/st-patricks-shamrock-pretzel-treats.html







 

Superbowl Super Crafty!

If you are a little like me and have spent more time on Pinterest than on CBS, you may have neglected to do prep work for your Superbowl party.  But never fear!  With this simple no-sew craft you can have that table of pizza and potato chips looking "Super" in no time!

 

What you will need:

Green felt the length of your table, more or less

5/8" white satin ribbon (2 or more rolls)

scissors and/or rotary cutter

Glue

 

Basically you trim the felt the length and width that you want it.  Glue the ribbon to all 4 sides.  Add yard lines and 1/2 yard dashes (the example has the yard lines 3 inches apart and 5 inches for the end zones.)  And viola!  You have a "super" crafty table runner that makes it look like you like football.  (har har har)

 

To visit the original blog that Pinterest posted for this craft, please visit http://growingupgabel.com/no-sew-football-field-table-runner/



BTW- what's the score?

North Park Festival of Arts Featured Artist Contest

Hello Everybody,

We are gearing up for the 2013 North Park Festival of Arts and will be giving out details about how to apply for a spot soon.

But until then, may this whet the appetites of all you budding artists: the Festival of Arts is currently hosting a "featured artist contest."

What does that mean?  Each year the Festival searches for a new featured artist to represent the spirit of the Festival through one visual piece of original art. The chosen artist will receive a booth at the 2013 Festival of Arts. Art to be used in all marketing material from local San Diego publications, printed marketing material to web, social media and possible editorial features and media appearances (If comfortable), inclusion in all press and calendar releases. Artist profile featured on the North Park Festival of Arts website with a link to artist website or social media site of choice.

Exciting?  Heck yeah!

Requirements: Entries must be able to produce a digital format of the submitted piece & must be the original "artist's" and have all rights to submitted artwork.  Entries are due by February 14th at 11:59 pm.

Here is a link to their website: http://www.northparkfestivalofarts.com/index.html#!/

You can even view the submissions that have been received so far: http://www.northparkfestivalofarts.com/index.html#!/entries

Hope some of you give it a shot!!!

Happy New Year!

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's a new year and new times to think of new things, and start new.

So thinking about that...

Start thinking of the Festival of the Arts, we will have our application live online soon.
Be sure to add yourself to the vendor email list.

Happy New Year everyone! Till then, we will talk to you soon!

XOXO, the San Diego North Park Craft Mafia