Last Friday night we hosted our first ever Etsy Craft Party here in Almonte.
In a nutshell, it was awesome.
Crafting + Friends + Strangers = My kinda Friday night.
I'm not even going to feel bad about that.
When I first posted the invitation on Facebook I knew I'd get a few folks interested (put the word Etsy in front of anything in the kind of circles I run in and you're going to get some hits), but I never anticipated the response I actually got.
In only 2 days I had 75 people registered for a craft I hadn't quite yet figured out.
The theme of the Etsy Craft Party (an event that took place simultaneously around the world) was Recapture: Bring new meaning to your photographs.
Perfect.
I quickly rented a space at our local United Church (the workshop at Hello Yellow maxes out at about 12 people) and called my mother - the multimedia artist.
Mom would be just the girl to help me out.
We put together a plan to create simple multimedia artworks using black and white photocopies of old (and some new) photographs.
With a generous donation from Etsy themselves (a gift certificate and some spending money to purchase supplies) I happily hopped online and selected some essentials.
Materials required for this project:
- Paint
- Stamps
- Acrylic Medium
- Glue
- Tissue Paper
- Newsprint
- Delightful savoury treats courtesy of Janie & Pamalamala
- The musical stylings of Kathleen Edwards (& friends)
