The developers of the Intuit mobile application Weave are looking for creative small business owners to participate in a five week long user study. If you are running a creative small business, even if you currently consider yourself a hobbyist/crafter (not supporting yourself on your income) we would love to talk to you!

All you have to do is download our latest version of Weave and actively use it for your business. Each week, developers will be calling or meeting in person to check in with you and gather feedback about how you use Weave to help manage your business. We’ll also be asking you about ideas new additions and modifications to the application.

What is Weave?
Whatever you want to manage – your art, your hobby, your business, your life – Weave helps you tie it all together. A clean and beautiful design helps you easily track todos, income, expenses, projects, and even time spent. Read more about this FREE App at: itunes.apple.com/us/app/weave/id444522442?mt=8

Requirements:
- Active use of the Weave app (current and new users welcome!)
- Own a creative product-based business
- Be willing to participate in a one-hour discussion with Weave approximately once a week. This can be a combination of in person meetings and phone calls depending on your locality.
- Own and use an iPhone or iPod touch which runs on 4.0 or later
- Be a current US resident, local to the SF Bay Area preferred but not required.

Compensation:
$500 in a Visa Gift card will be paid to you after you have completed all 5 weeks of the study. No partial payments or compensation for individuals who drop the study before the end date or miss meetings.

For more information and to apply please e-mail: Jamie_Chan@intuit.com

My creative process? It typically starts with about 5 cups of tea. After I’ve inhaled copious amounts of caffeine I either begin to scribble something that eventually turns into a monster, or squeeze various colorful clays in my hands until a shape begins to form. These monsters pretty much shape themselves!

I love the fact that there is no limit with what you can design. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time, and the clay that gets stuck in the carpet will be staying there for years to come. As someone with a lot of energy and self-diagnosed ADD, it’s hard to concentrate on the projects and finally get them done, but I’m always thinking of what I’d like to illustrate or create next…so I couldn’t stop making squishy monsters even if I wanted to.

website-http://Squishymonsters.com

Intuit is looking for a group of creative business owners to test drive the Weave App in person! They’re interested in getting your first impressions & learning about what you would need from Weave to make it the app for your creative life!

Some details:
- You DO NOT need to have the app currently on your phone to participate. We’ll bring it to you!
- Don’t own an iPhone? We can provide one for you to use while at the group
- We’ll only need about 30-45 minutes of your time

Participation will entitle you to a $25 Visa card, coffee and snacks!

We would like to meet with around 5-7 people some time between 9-1PM this Friday May 27th 2011 in San Francisco. Once we confirm some interested people and most popular time slot we’ll confirm an exact cafe location in San Francisco that works best for all those participating.

So if you’re interested in helping us out and giving feedback on this new application please RSVP via this

Doodle Link: http://www.doodle.com/7bkrkvccku3n49iu

Please make sure you leave your name and e-mail when you RSVP in the Doodle and select start times that work best for you! Thanks.

Looking for a way to stay on top of everything you have going on? Bazaar Bizarre and Intuit invite you to beta test a new FREE app, Weave.  Everything you need to do, everywhere you need to be, anything you need to know, this app was designed to keep you on track!

Weave was developed with the crafty business in mind and we want your feedback!

The first 50 beta users to sign up through Bazaar Bizarre SF get an awesome Limited Run 5×7″Art Print by Local Artist Cody Vrosh (value $10.00) sent to them as a thank you.*

Whatcha waiting for? Time to get your creative life organized, online and on the go! Sign up today, don’t forget to mention Bazaar Bizarre in the comments section… http://weave.intuit.com/weave/

*We’ll send you the free art print in 5-7 business days by USPS first class mail after your registration is complete.

We are a nonprofit organization that provides sewing & fashion design classes to young women in San Francisco. Our studio is approximately 600 sq feet and is located in the Mission District at Hampshire and Mariposa St. in a secure, artist studio building. Sewers, crafters, and designers we are looking for you: monthly rental preferred but will consider hourly agreement. Dry media only.

Studio includes:

- Two large cutting tables and two tables for machinery

- Sewing machines available for use, including industrial

- Cutting mats, rulers, iron & ironing boards, dress form, etc.

- Kitchen with refrigerator, microwave & toaster oven, sink, utensils

- Wireless internet

- Small storage space

Availability: now. week-day/night and week-end time, when classes aren’t in session, goggle calendar upon request

Rates:

- Hourly: $15 or $25 with use of machines?

- Monthly: To be negotiated

- Security deposit

Please contact us if you are interested or have any questions!

415-552-5770 or e-mail: staff@keepturningheads.org

Notepads – Create a unique notepad using a selection of Hambly’s popular products and learn how to bind it together using a hair tie and bamboo skewer.

Paper Garland – Play with punching out a variety of papers, fold them and string it together to make garland you can hang anywhere.

Notecards – Learn how to line an envelope and use an overlays as card. Great to use for lining cards for the holidays, weddings or baby showers.

Overlay Pinwheels – Create a pinwheel using our hand silk-screened overlays. You can make it as a pin and wear it, or hang it as an ornament.

Rub-on Bracelets – These fun bracelets are fun to make and wear everywhere. You’ll get a blank wooden bracelet from DIY Bangles and we will cover it with an assortment of Hambly rub-ons.

Moustaches on a straw – Learn how to create these quirky Moustaches on a straw. These are perfect for you next party and use our popular moustache rub-ons.

Projects range in price from Free – $2 donation per project. All of them are guaranteed to be fun and full of potential for your gift-giving and decorating needs!

About Hambly: Hambly Screen Prints is a silk-screening studio, creating innovative products for the papercrafts & diy industry using fresh and funky designs. Stop by our booth and meet the designer Allison Kreft Abad as she teaches a wide variety of creative Make-N-Takes. Enjoy this coupon code for 10% off your online order at www.HamblyScreenPrints.com.  Coupon Code: Bazaar10

The show runs from November 12th to December 8th
597 Haight St @ Steiner
http://lowerhater.com/

Today we want to introduce you to Meylah, an ecommerce solution specifically built for creative entrepreneurs.  Meylah is devoted to the creative community to provide the best solutions for individuals to learn, share and support each other’s business growth online and they have created an easy to use and integrated solution specifically built for creatives to launch and manage their online business through blog-powered storefronts.

While there are already millions of creative entrepreneurs online, there are still millions of others that are staying out of the online space because setting up, running, and managing current ecommerce solutions are difficult and intimidating.  Meylah’s blog-powered storefronts are easy to use and offer a unique solution for creative professionals to connect, grow and support their customers allowing novice users the ability to launch their business online quickly and build it for long-term success.

Meylah believes in the relationship between community and sales and many people are growing their own substantial communities (and customer bases) online using social media tools like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, but have limited means to sell to these same communities that they are building. Even the easiest-to-use plugins for these platforms are difficult to setup and manage, and none of them offer an experience that integrates community building and selling as its core purpose. With Meylah, you are building a community and selling to them in one integrated experience.

Meylah’s extensive market research has shown that across any online venue or platform, people with good design and media skills sold their products way more frequently than the competition while people with very poor skills sink to the bottom quickly.  Meylah feels that it shouldn’t be a strike against a great artist or crafter if they don’t have experience writing HTML or using Photoshop. Meylah’s templates are designed to enforce good design behavior, minimizing the competitive disadvantages and they make it easy to present everyone’s work in a beautiful, optimized format that puts the focus on their work, not on how well they can use software.

For more information about Meylah, please visit their blog, take their tour and check out some of sample storefronts of current members.  And, Meylah is celebrating their 1-year anniversary this month so they are giving away 1-Year Premium Memberships for FREE (a $240 value) so use this promotion code (MEY1YF ) when you sign up to build your storefront and hurry, it won’t last long!

WHAT:

WHEN: This Sunday, October 17, 11 am-5 pm

WHERE: RAG Co-op — 541 Octavia St (between Hayes and Grove St. — San Francisco, CA 94102

WHO: 14 local designers on sidewalk in front (some new/some current hawking their wares- great deals, more merch- so stock up for the holidays!) and 80 designers in booths around the park in Hayes Valley for the Capsule Design Fair   www.capsulesf.com

Designers at RAG This Sunday:
Casa Murriguez  www.casamurriguez.com
Dark Heart  www.darkheartjewelry.com
Foat Design  www.foatdesign.com
Greenray   www.gogreenray.com
{LITTLE HUNTER} SAN FRANCISCO www.littlehuntersanfrancisco.com
Mad February
Maducca
Mahoohoo  see Mahoohoo on Etsy!
Maryann Milburn  www.maryannmilburn.com
The Brown Banana  www.thebrownbanana.com
Tidal Wear Jewelry   www.tidalwarejewelry.com
Vanessa Viray of Paragraph  see Paragraph on Yelp!
Velvet Otterhound   www.velvetotterhound.com
Yukako Ezoe/ Bahama Kangaroo  www.yukakoezoe.com

Bazaar Bizarre has started a new ETSY street team in order to showcase the amazing products we make and sell and build some community.  Would you like to become a part of the team?  If you have participated in Bazaar Bizarre and want to become part of the ETSY team, email Kevin at Bugunderglass@mac.com with your ETSY shop name.

Kevin Clarke www.bugunderglass.com
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