The Craft Racket

Tue, Jun 19 2007 — Comments (0) | Cinnamon

Sorry for the short warning, but the Chicago Craft Mafia is organizing another Craft Racket to take place at Uncommon Ground at 3800 N. Clark St. (at the corner of Grace and Clark) from 6-9pm on Wednesday June 20th.

The Craft Racket is a quarterly craft and small business focused mingling event for people with one or both of those interests to get together and share information. It is free, unfocused, and fun. There are also $5 whiskey drinks available, as well as a host of other beverages and foods.

If you've got time to come by, please do. And I'll be eagerly looking forward to hearing your suggestions and comments for this year's show, too.

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DIY Trunk Show 5

Thu, Jun 14 2007 — Comments (4) | Cinnamon

Yes, it is going to happen. Mark your calendar for November 17th.

But this year's is going to be a little different. Amy Carlton, the finest partner a show organizer could hope for, has shed a few tears but admitted that she has to back out of organizing this year's show. She regrets that she has to make this decision, but her new job (where she gets to use all the knowledge she's learned during her last several years of grad school), and beautiful new home (that still needs some painting and some curtain making and some shelf installing), and her revitalized social life are all going to be taking up a lot of her time this year. She'll still attend the show, and maybe even volunteer, but she has passed her organizing baton (and wealth of highly organized files) on to me.

And as I sat over the past several days thinking of all the things that had to happen before we could even start taking applications, I began to be overwhelmed. And if I'm overwhelmed before I begin planning a show, then I have to admit that I'm not able to handle it all on my own. So I turned to the wonderful women of the Chicago Craft Mafia and told them about Amy's need to focus on other areas of her life. And I'm delighted to say that all of them asked "What can I do?" at the same time.

So there will be changes, little things, many of which are changes the previous year's vendor's suggested to make this show better than ever. And I'll be sharing what all of those changes are over the next few weeks. There will be some site updates, there will be some tweaks, there will be some expansions. But mostly, things will stay the same. Because what we have works so well, it doesn't make sense to start over just because there will be 9 people organizing the show instead of 2.

The application will be live on July 1. So stay tuned.

And if you're a local college student who is looking for a fall internship, send an email to diytrunkshow@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out how to have you join us.

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