This Sunday be in Portland!

I will be in Portland this weekend for Crafty Wonderland. It's a one day event full of tons of awesomeness. I will be doing a demo from 11:00 to 12:30 and then the lovely Susan Beal will be doing a demo on button hair clips! I can't wait to be there, see some old friends, meet some new folks and get some more holiday gifts! Here is the full demo schedule if you can make it.

11:00am-12:30pm Personalized Fortune Cookies
with Kristen Rask of Schmancy and author of Plush You!

1:00pm-2:30pm Button It Up Hairclips
with Susan Beal of West Coast Crafty and author of Button It Up and Bead Simple

3:00pm-4:30pm Vintage-Themed Glass Tile Ornaments
with Maria Raleigh of Collage

5:00pm-6:30pm Embroidered Holiday Cards
with Diane Gilleland of CraftyPod and author of Kanzashi In Bloom

UCU Author Signings

I am getting the author signing schedule together for this summer's first Urban Craft Uprising show. Our lineup of authors is rockin'. Check it out!

Saturday:
12:00-1:00: Tonia Davenport will be signing her book, Plexi Class: Cutting-Edge Projects In Plastic



1:00-2:00: Susan Beal will be signing her books, Bead Simple: Essential Techniques for Making Jewelry Just the Way You Want It and Button It Up: 80 Amazing Vintage Button Projects for Necklaces, Bracelets, Embellishments, Housewares & More



2:00-3:00: Diane Gilleland will be signing her new book, Kanzashi in Bloom: 20 Simple Fold-and-Sew Projects to Wear and Give. Check out her new ebook Weaving Un-loomed. It looks amazing.



3:00-4:00: Jenny Hart will be signing her books, Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To and Stitch-It Kit

Sunday we have:



12:00-1:00: Jenny Hart will be signing her books, Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To and Stitch-It Kit



1:00-2:00: Brookelynn Morris and Nikola Davidson will be signing their new book, Feltique: Techniques and Projects for Wet Felting, Needle Felting, Fulling, and Working with Commercial Felt



2:00-3:00: Jennifer Worwick will be signing her new book, Backcountry Betty Crafting With Style: 50 Nature-Inspired Projects



3:00-4:00: Tonia Davenport will be signing her book, Plexi Class: Cutting-Edge Projects In Plastic

You don't want to miss this! As soon as I get the demo schedule finalized I'll put that up too.

Urban Craft Uprising is still taking applications

Don't forget to get those applications in soon for this summer's UCU show! Application can be found here.

We are so happy to confirm some amazing authors to this show! Jenny Hart has just let us know that she will be attending and we are thrilled! She will have a booth selling all of her amazing patterns and will be signing her books both days at our author signing booth.

Susan Beal will be up on Saturday for a book signing and will then do a workshop for a button project as she just came out with her book, Button it Up. Coming up with Susan is the lovely, Diane Gilleland signing her new book, Kanzashi in Bloom. After her signing she too will be doing a workshop from her new book.

One of the lovely ladies that started UCU, Nikola Davidson will be signing her new book with co-author Brookelynn Morris for their book, Feltique. They will also be doing a workshop both days!

Stay tuned for more!

Urban Craft Uprising- Summer Show

We are so excited to announce our first summer show for Urban Craft Uprising show. I am so excited to say we also have got some amazing authors coming for this summers show. Including Susan Beal, Diane Gilleland! This alone is so exciting and wait until you hear about all the other awesome stuff happening for this show. Stay tuned!