my calendar is filling up!
Mar 26th 2010 06:09:35 pm
Whew! I have been adding things to my calendar left and right and I am so excited about all of the upcoming events. I wanted to share some of the major things that I will be attending in the next couple of months, just in case you will be there. I would love to meet up!
Next week, I am going to Stitch Fest – an event hosted by Martha Stewart (well, her company) in honor of the release of her new book, Encyclopedia Of Sewing and Fabric Crafts. I am really pumped about the event because we are meeting at the MSLO building and each attendee gets a copy of the book included in the price of the ticket! We also get to mingle with Martha Stewart staff crafters, which sounds thrilling! ha! I am disproportionally star struck when it comes to anything Martha Stewart… I am lame.
Also coming up in a little over a week is Cocktails & Creatives: A New York screening of Handmade Nation hosted by The Maximalists. I am really looking forward to finally viewing Handmade Nation. It is a documentary all about the contemporary handmade movement and it has been making the rounds for over a year. I do not know how I have missed it for so long!
This is exciting: I am really happy to announce that Swap-bot is an official sponsor of the Spring Handmade Cavalcade craft fair happening at the end of April, here, in Brooklyn. That means we will have a table at the event where we will be handing out lots of Swap-bot swag and spreading the good word about the ‘bot! The Handmade Cavalcade events are hosted by The New New Etsy Team and they always showcase an amazing variety of local crafters. I can’t wait! Hope to see you there!
I will be attending BlogHer 2010 in August. I am actually not entirely sure how I feel about this conference – I am not all that into things that are explicitly and specifically for women – but I have always been intrigued. Since the conference is taking place in NYC this year, I thought it was the right time to try it out. I am sure I will learn a lot of helpful stuff and find out about more fun blogs than I could ever hope to keep up with! I am looking forward to the networking!
Last, but certainly not least, I will be attending CraftyCon in October and I think you should, too! CraftyCon is a conference for people who are working to make a career within some area of the craft world. It will be held in Chicago and I can’t wait to meet all of the crafty peeps who will be attending! (I am pretty enamored with this event because I have been helping the CraftyCon organizers with all of their web graphics – look at that sweet website! ooh la la!)
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2 Comments » Categories: Crafts, Feeling Happy, New York, Swap-bot, Work
ariana on 27 Mar 2010 at 9:52 pm #
a Martha Stewart encyclopedia is a dream come true! hope I can buy it online pretty soon! Have fun!! hope you can meet her! don’t forget to take a picture of you too!
rachel on 28 Mar 2010 at 12:09 pm #
Yes! I can’t wait to get the new book! I will be sure to take photos and report back about the event.