How-To's Day: Fabulous Fabric BOWS

This past Saturday afternoon I had the pleasure of hosting our first annual Christmas Craft Party. Personally, I think it was a huge success! For the layout of my apartment it felt huge, but we had a small group of crafters over and amongst the evening's projects were these simple fabric bows that can be uses as embellishments to necklaces, hair clips, pins, and many more ideas.

I will illustrate the project, then include some pictures taken Saturday at the party.

Weekend Wrap-Up TEASER

 Thanks for everyone who came out to UNIQUE LA this weekend!!! 

We had the most wonderful weekend and really enjoyed this year's show. I am going to post my first "haul video" of items I purchased so stay tuned for videos and more details.

I have been uploading pictures Kevin took with the slr onto our Flickr Page and I have to dump my point and shoot/ cell phone tomorrow. I had an exhausting day of regrouping, moving and organizing today and I still have some things hidden from myself :/  I can't hardly keep my eyes open which isn't helpful when I so badly want to add all kinds of updates. Things are swimming today! But if I walk downstairs one more time I don't think I am coming back up. So sleepy!

I have had a ton of inquires about the PBR Reinbeers so it looks like I need to make another batch of those suckers before its too late to ship for Christmas, but that is honestly the tip of the iceberg...

I must go to bed before I work myself up-

XOXO, KC

On Location- UNIQUE LA Day 1

December  3 + 4   //   11am – 6pm both days

Where: The California Market Center (110 East Ninth Street, LA, CA 90079)

Cost: $10 at the door or in advance online (Kids 12 and under are free), 10% of ticket sales go to the  non-profit partner 826LA.

We are all set-up and the show has begun :) ABC World News with Diane Sawyer are right now walking through the show filming and we are all getting pumped!

We are at Booth # 146 and will be updating and tweeting as much as possible updates for the day.

Hope to see y'all here :)

Best,
KC and Kevin

Location has CHANGED for west elm tonight

PLEASE NOTE:

The Handmade Holiday Workshop & Mini-Market  from 6-9PM @ West Elm Tonight has CHANGED TO the location in Santa Monica: 1433 4th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Due to Weather related power outages.  Please be advised of this change.

We hope to still see you there!

Best,
KC & Kevin and the Team

Coming Up this Week Nov. 28th- Dec. 4th

Happy Cyber Monday! Did you use our Cyber Monday Deal today in Our Etsy Shop? 

There is just a few hours left to get 30% off your entire purchase-

Use code CYBERMONDAY2011 at check out.

Tomorrow is a full day of travel back to the West Coast and I am anxious to get back to all the work we have this super busy week. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and packed your online cart full of Cyber Monday deals.

Thursday is the west elm + Etsy workshop & mini-market which members of SCAD+ Etsy = LOVE Team as well as the Team EcoEtsy members in the LA area will be demonstrating a demo on how to make a paper ornament. (free for all to attend and make a take away project) More details here.

Friday, we have set-up for UNIQUE LA at the California Market Center Downtown.

All day Saturday and Sunday we will be vending in booth #146  at UNIQUE LA's Holiday Show!!! The first 10 people to drop "Make Shop Live" at the door gets *FREE Admission to both days of the show.  Also, let us know that you are a fan of the blog for a free gift :)

Best of luck wrapping up November to y'all and Hopefully we'll be seeing you in December.

XOXO, KC & Kevin

Handmade Holiday Workshop & Mini-Market

west elm + Etsy invite you to the 1st ever Handmade Holiday Workshop & 

Mini-Market inside a brand new west elm on Beverly Blvd. next Thursday Dec. 1st!!! 

Come see me and tons of my fellow teammates as we demo a 

Super sweet ornament to make, take, then celebrate :)

6-9PM

@ West Elm

8366 Beverly Blvd

Los Angeles, CA. 90048

Hope to see you there!!!  

XOXO, KC & Kevin

Graffiti Beach Holiday Pop-Up Shop

The Graffiti Beach Holiday Pop-Up Shop opens TODAY! Yay!!!

Graffiti Beach 

Holiday Boutique

@ 1221 Abbot Kinney Blvd- Venice Beach

STORE HOURS
Sunday - Tuesday: 12 noon - 6pm
Wednesday - Thursday: 11am - 6pm
Friday - Saturday: 11am - 7pm  

We have 3 Record Accessory Stands displaying merchandise as well as for sale in this Pop-Up Shop, which is super exciting! I saw a sneak peak of the space and I can't wait to check it out fully displayed and merchandised.
BTW- The Featured Fashion Designers are pretty amazing making this a must for you fashionistas out there ;)

Abbot Kinney is an amazing shopping destination for independent designers, awesome boutiques, galleries, great food and furniture. Every genre is pretty much covered all in one street and easily navigated. Too good to pass up- Add it to your Shop Local Holiday.

* The Graffiti Beach Holiday Pop-Up Shop is inside the Altered Space Gallery FYI.


They have one of those super awesome cork chairs I re-pinned to my Made with Corks board on Pinterest and all kinds of cool re purposed art so make sure to give yourself time to shop in both- super inspiring!

Shop and Enjoy! XOXO, KC

Weekend Wrap-Up: Patchwork Culver City

We were able to take our time setting up Saturday  AND our booth was in a location where we could paint the wall- double bonus. :) 

Patchwork Culver City was rad yesterday! When we applied we certainly thought it would be cool, but I had no idea they were going to crank it to 11 the first time at the Helms Bakery.  Not only was this the 1st time the show came to Culver City, but it was also the first time indoors. Usually Patchwork is held outdoors under tents and thankfully with the possibility of bad weather Delilah & Nicole the co-creators/producers of the Patchwork Show were able to secure us indoors!

Here are some pictures of our booth set-up:

Even thought the space was a bit tighter than a 10'x 10' the set up was quite easy to walk around this time. I actually kinda like the indoor without walls vibe--nice and airy. We were located in the building closest to Venice Blvd. and there was three, count'em 3 buildings worth of shopping and indie vendors and fabulous finds!!!

These little hand made pillow boxes were last weeks tutorial. Wanna make them? Go here.

Note on the Fashion/ What I Wore: Kristin is wearing one of her own creations & my outfit is a vintage find.

I like to check out the other vendors and One of my all time favorites is Enchanted Leaves. I love husband and wife teams and Nedda and Aaron are an inspiring duo. They are  one of my favorite places to get presents from at the shows! I really like their concept and all of their products really make me feel like I am transported to my fantasy spot in nature where all my favorite animals and creatures come and then are displayed using fun accessories. I wanted to share a picture of their booth/ website info because their range of products could fit just about anyone on your holiday list and keep your budget intact too. 

A must to check out: The line of wooden butterflies and moths pretty, graphic and inspired by vintage entomology illustrations- they are in the bottom right bellow:

Our friends Annette and Zach stopped by which was perfect. Annette could fill in at the booth with me so that Kevin and Zach could sneak off to Father's Office for a minute. Man I wish I could have gone and gotten a Maudite at the bar since its hard to find it is totally my favorite beer. Thank goodness we live close, I'll get one another time...  

 annette

 kevin

 me (kc)

We had such a fun time at the show! Best day ever filled with decorating our booth, meeting wonderful customers, seeing  friends, great shopping, topped off with some silly portraits--Yay!

Thanks again for everyone who came out and said hi! 

Best Wishes,

KC & Kevin

Patchwork Indie Arts and Crafts- Culver City

Patchwork Indie Arts and Crafts just cranked it up to 11 for this weeks Festival! It is going to be the first time it's not only in our neighborhood Culver City, but it is the 1st time it is indoors too. This is so major!!! We are giddy with excitement. :)

This weekend you should come out and enjoy the indoor shopping and all the amazing presents to be found at this one-stop shopping destination. For more details check it out here.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

XOXO,KC & Kevin

UNIQUE LA Holiday Show & State of Unique Website

We are super excited for UNIQUE LA's 4th Annual Holiday Show! 

December  3 + 4   //   11am – 6pm both days

Where: The California Market Center (110 East Ninth Street, Downtown LA)

Cost: $10 at the door or in advance online (Kids 12 and under are free), 10% of ticket sales will go to our non-profit partner (TBD). 
More details about our booth # and any promotions (tbd)

How lucky are we to be amongst the talented independent designers included at this must see Holiday Show! We are so honored to celebrate all the Local Love <3

Their new website launched today- Yay! for modern, curated, Made in America design :) There is new content daily which means it is going to be the first page I look at everyday.  I am pretty freakin' excited about all of this!!

Check it out  State of Unique.Com here or their Facebook page here.

Please save the date and see us in person at the UNIQUE LA Holiday Show! 

XOXO, KC & Kevin

Patchwork Indie Art & Craft Festival Holiday '11

We are super excited to be vending at this year's Patchwork show in 
Long Beach & Culver City!!! Nov. 6th and Nov. 13th

For more details check out the Facebook page here.

XOXO, KC