Events
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Start: 11:00 am
Join us for this fun hour of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 2:00 pm
With the success of Etsy.com, the entrepreneurial crafter's online, one-stop shopping and selling source, wasn't Regretsy, which Salon has called, 'the hall of fame for artistic impulses gone oddly awry,' inevitable? The gold-embossed Cheerio on a chain, the pink leopard goat coat, and the soap that makes you smell like bacon, might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it takes real guts to try to sell all of these things online. It also takes a sense of humor to have your work featured on April Winchell's blog and in her book, Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF (Villard). Come and share your own regretsys. For more, see www.regretsy.com.
Start: 5:30 pm
This weekend, organizers of the popular Urban Craft Uprising and PlushYou! Show join forces with other veteran crafters for a Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs, a three-day, special event for those wanting to start or expand a creative business. As part of the conference (find more about it below), ten presenters will also participate in a free meet-and-greet, and booksigning here at Elliott Bay. Expected to participate in this convivial signing occasion are: Felting maven Moxie; Samantha Fisher of Sock Monkey & Friends Kit (Chronicle) fame; Schmancy's Kristin Rask, author of Button and Stitch (NorthLight Books); Faythe Levine with Handmade Nation (Princeton Architectural Review); Grace Dobush, author of Crafty Superstar (NorthLight Books); Garth Johnson, author of 1000 Ideas for Creative ReUse (Quarry); Jenny Hart, author of Embroidered Effects (Chronicle); Susan Beal, Bead Simple (Taunton); and Diane Gilleland, Kanzashi in Bloom. For more about the August 13 – 15 Conference of Creative Entrepreneus, held at Richard Hugo House and the Century Ballroom, please see creativeconferencewest.eventbrite.com. The booksigning at Elliott Bay is free (attendance), open and welcome to all.
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