**  Underground Bazaar  **

UNDERGROUND BAZAAR*

Sunday, Dec. 14, 12 until 5
6th & Irving, Inner Sunset in S.F
26 Indoor & Outdoor {under canopy} Spots
*NO* Entry Fee { $40 refundable deposit required to assure clean up }
D.I.Y. : Do It Yourself Vendors Only. Advertising has already begun.
This is a community-building event in the large yard & basement of a grand, old home that occupies the entire NW corner.
Complimentary refreshments for both customers & vendors.
To apply, contact Sonia at sun4life@free.fr
We’ll send you our FAQ –Frequently Asked Questions
You are welcome if you don’t want to participate but wish to visit us and buy your Christmas and/or Hanukkah gifts.

*This show is not associated with Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco.

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Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.
Two Turnips is a cross-country collaboration between my mother and I.
Sewing has been a big part of both of our lives, and when I was
pregnant with my son we realized that sewing children’s clothes would
be a fun way to collaborate.

What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?
Sewing, of course! I remember very fondly the sewing lessons I took
with a friend at her grandmother’s house when we were seven years old.
I made a pillow in the shape of an ‘S’ for my name. It wasn’t pretty,
but I was proud of it.

What do you like best, coming up with ideas or executing them?
Executing them - it’s wonderful to see tangible results of your vision.

Are you super organized or messy?What does your workspace look like?
I think I tend toward the organized size of things, but only because
my house is so small! My workspace used to be in what is now my son’s
bedroom, so now everything is neatly tucked into drawers and only
comes out when I am using my sewing machine, which hides in my son’s
closet when not in use.

Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?
I’m looking forward to creating a new website, a blog, and introducing
new lines. We’ll see how long this all takes!

My website is: twoturnips.etsy.com

Tags: children's clothing, s children's apparel, two turnip

Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.
I went back to school for a second bachelor’s degree after the pain of working 6 years, Monday through Friday 8-5 in jobs that lacked creativity and were emotionally draining. In 2004, I got my BFA in Ceramics and started the “having five jobs and attempting to sculpt in the studio in my free time deal”. In 2006, I had slowly been shedding my jobs and learning more about functional ceramics (as opposed to sculpture) since it is an easier way to make a living. When my second to the last job laid me off in 2007, I figured it was a sign to dive into actually running my business. My first “real” show was May, 2007 at the Maker’s Faire Bazaar Bizarre! Thanks Bazaar Bizarre!!!

What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?
Well since I am a ceramicist, I should say that is my favorite! I started arts and crafts as soon as I could crawl since my Mom is a trained painter. I took art classes in high school and in college, I studied Photography until I recognized that I was horribly allergic to photo chemicals. After college, during my stint as an 8-5 zombie, I always took adult school classes in metal working, woodworking, jewelry making, mosaicking, drawing, etc. When I started taking pottery classes I was hooked and took classes for several years before returning to school — the California College of Arts (and Crafts). At CCA(c), I was originally a Sculpture major but clay kept calling me back so I switched my major to Ceramics. During my last semester, I took a textiles class and if I had taken that class at the beginning of my return to college, I probably would have been a Textiles major. I adore textile work and wish I had time to do any of it! I do feel like my ceramic work is very much inspired by textiles though…

What do you like best, coming up with ideas or executing them?
Hands down — coming up with ideas… I wish I had a little factory of people making my stuff but would want to do it completely fair trade! I would love to make housewares in many more mediums and if I had other people making my work I could go crazy!

Are you super organized or messy?What does your workspace look like?
I like to be organized but it all ends up messy. It is impossible to be too clean with clay mud all over your hands and clothes! Safety is a big concern for me since clay dust is so toxic (contains silica which can cause lots of lung problems) so I do try to clean with a wet sponge. I do my glazing at home and my clay work at my studio so I have two spaces to keep clean and spend a lot of time boxing up stuff and moving it back and forth. My home studio is part of our office and is more sunny so I like to glaze there. My clay studio is in a live work space where my studio mate and her three other roomies live. We have a business called Campfire Gals Kiln Co. (http://www.campfiregals.com) where we fire other people’s work who don’t have their own kilns. We have FOUR kilns and lots of equipment so we are really lucky. My only complaint is there are no windows so it is like working in a dusty cave.

Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?
Keep on keeping on. In fact, I am only thinking about December 15th when all my holiday shows are finished and I can sleep for a week or two!!!

http://www.ezmedesigns.com

> Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.
We design and sell a whole new idea of paper craft robots called PIPEROIDs. Each of the robots (or set of 2 for PIPEROID characters) are made just from six paper pipes. The pipes are pre-drilled with holes, and all you need is a pair of scissors to cut the pipes according to the instructions. No need for a glue nor tape! It’s exciting and cute little robot gaining popularity amongst not only kids but also adults as an interior decoration item. People like to put them on kitchen counters, desk at home or office, and mantels for display.

> What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?
Coming from Japan, I’ve been introduced to origami from when I was 3 years old and have loved paper crafts ever since.

> Are you super organized or messy?What does your workspace look like?
I try to be super organized but generally they end up being messy…

> Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?
Piperoid, our paper pipe robot, is gaining popularity and spreading fast. Look out for new models coming in the next few months!

http://www.magnote.com

Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.

I started Anemone Letterpress after working as a fashion designer. I got to the point where I wasn’t happy doing fashion design anymore and needed a change. I have always been in love with graphic and surface design (both vintage and new) and after taking a few letterpress classes, I was hooked! We now have two presses and couldn’t be happier!

What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?

Other than printing, I’m a bit of a jack-of-all-trades; I knit, I sew, I do a wee bit of embroidery and crochet. I started really early with the sewing thing. My grandmother, Meme taught me how to read patterns and sew. I still have her White sewing machine from the 30’s and it still works great!

What do you like best, coming up with ideas or executing them?

50/50. I have always, always loved seeing an idea through to fruition. When I design a card that I think is a winner, I can’t wait to get working on it and see what the final product looks like.

Are you super organized or messy?What does your workspace look like?

Um, organized chaos? No, I’m pretty organized, but my workspace isn’t like alot of other letterpress studios you see in the blogosphere; my print shop is shared with my husband’s woodworking space and his recording studio.

Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?

Yes! A new website is coming soon and in the new year, we’ll be branching out to include weddings.

www.anemoneletterpress.etsy.com

Tags: bay area, letterpress, weddings

Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.
I’m a graphic designer by trade and I started CUT+PASTE back in 2002 when the online craft community was just beginning. I started the website and a consignment program when I noticed a lack of outlets for crafters to sell their goods on the internet. Through our popular consignment program, Partner in Craft, we are able to feature and promote new artists and makers who might not otherwise have a retail voice online. We’ve hosted over 300 artists and designers and promote their work in press and new business opportunities.

What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?
I love all crafts, but have a particular soft spot for unique handmade clothing and jewelry. I first got involved with crafting by sewing and reconstructing clothing and selling it on ebay (before I started my site). I started my site originally to sell some of my own goods, but started to meet lots of other crafters online who aside from ebay, didn’t have a “home” for the crafts. So I started to sell goods made by other lovely creative people and the site just grew from there!

What do you like best, coming up with ideas or executing them?
I love coming up with ideas. I don’t always have the best patience or skills to execute them all, but I’m a problem-solver by nature and I love finding ways to make things happen…either by myself or with the help and collaboration of others.

Are you super organized or messy?What does your workspace look like?
I’m super organized…you kind of have to be when you run a store, especially when you are dealing with lots of different vendors and their goods. My workspace has a spot for the creative brainstorming, but for the most part, I tend to file, organize and try to keep everything orderly. Even when things get messy, there is nothing like a good deep cleaning for me to get my ideas and thoughts in order.

Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?
Lots I hope! We’d love to update the site with lots of new functionalities and actually have been looking for a new way for people to be able to shop online. Now with the increase in popularity in crafts and the handmade we still strive to carry and offer truly unique and well-made items by crafters everywhere in the world. We’ve done a bit of traveling in the past few years and are keenly interested in bringing an international flavor to the site…especially the relation of handmade culture being tied to a specific culture and livelihood.

Link to our website: www.cutxpaste.com

Get ready folks because we’ve got a bigger and better show for you this year! This year Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco  will feature 115 + indie craft vendors, live music from the popular local band StitchCraft, DJ stylin’ from DJ Nick and Mark Johns of Slide and Spin Studios, hand crafted vegan cupcakes from Sugar Beat Sweets, friendly UPS volunteers serving up hot coffee, tea, snacks and yummy food to benefit Self-Help for the Elderlyand a fun line up of affordable craft workshops all day long!

50% of this years door fees will be donated to the Out of Site Center For Arts Education.  They offer FREE after school, weekend and summer programs in visual and performing arts. ALL the funds donated to Out Of Site will go directly to hiring art instructors and paying for art supplies!

Take one or ALL of our affordable craft workshops including a lecture and discussion with the world famous mother of the Hand Spun Revolution Lexi Boeger of Pluckyfluff, DIY Holiday Pop Up Cards with Sugene of All This Is Mine, Wool Felt Birds with Fabric Fun of SF and Make a Wee Felt Penguin Ornament with Nancy Flynn of Get Crafty! Space is LIMITED for ALL classes! Send us an e-mail and register today!

Listen for an on air plug for Bazaar Bizarre tonight! It will run in the second half of the broadcast of Cross Currents, which starts at 5 pm. Cross Currents is a local show that airs on KALW 91.7 FM, M-Th at 5 pm. Cross Currents radio is looking for people like you to contribute and start conversations — whether it’s about a cool DIY project or an issue that you feel needs addressing. Feel free to contact them for any show ideas and topics you have!

Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.
We are a letterpress printing and design studio– fine press publishers and stationers. Lettre Sauvage consists of 3 conspirators out to undermine the texturally flattening influences of the digital age. We like to print real, print loud, and print hard.

What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?
Lucky for us the craft of letterpress is introduced at Scripps College! We took our formal training and ran with it, breaking all the rules and establishing our own studio ethic of collaboration that’s almost like psychotherapy.

What do you like best, coming up with ideas or executing them?

When you’re a tiny press like we are you have to get a lot of satisfaction out of finishing a task because there’s not much financial motivation or outside approval. We have a small community of others who value the entire creative process. Sometimes we work hard on developing new concepts and sometimes we find them smiling up from the stacks of out-takes, emanating opportunity from limitation, straining out swan like from a rat’s nest. Accidents happen, and then you try to make the more pleasant ones repeat. That is the beauty of all real craft.

Are you super organized or messy? What does your workspace look like?

If someone’s coming over for a workshop, we’re immaculate! What day is it? We clean up after every job. We use two garages, Model A and modern 2-car, for our studio. So, the weed-wacker, extra house paint and crates of records create a nice border of reality around the mystic machines. The environment is a product of the work at hand. We tend to need a lot of paper, tape, and rulers so we try to make sure they’re nearby.

Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?

Submissions to our first poetry contest are being prepared to be judged by poet, Mark Irwin. The winners will have a chapbook and broadside published next year. We’ll be printing two limited edition journals, the Forest Drive, a review of image and word, and Apis an “erotic annual.” We’re accepting submissions to Apis of erotic art and literature. We’ve been very excited about working on custom printing projects lately and are hoping to attract more designers and artists to fine edition printing.

http://www.lettresauvage.com

1. Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your business.
I am an entomologist (ant lover) who spreads, preserves and often animates beautiful farm raised insects displayed in wood shadowboxes. The insect world has always mesmerized me with its countless shapes, colors, bizarre behaviors and environmental importance and I just finished a Masters in conservation biology.
Bug Under Glass started about 8 years ago when I was making various bug shadowboxes for friend’s weddings and an old roommate invited me to share a table with her at a holiday craft show. I sold everything and this launched my craft business. This moment also changed my life because I knew from that point on that I could work with my passion (insects) and be crafty for the rest of my life, no matter what job I took.

2. What are your favorite crafts and how did you first get involved with crafting?
My main hobbies when I was younger were stamp collecting, bug collecting and building models for my model train set. I was a total dork and still am. I still love anything miniature and trying to fit insects into that world.

3. What do you like best, coming up with ideas or executing them?
I am always coming up with wonderful new ideas and usually motivate to make it right away when the idea is small. However, I do have a problem with bigger ideas as I have a lot of half-finished scenes sitting in my room waiting to be finished. There is one poor beetle who has been sitting in an empty miniature bathtub waiting for some props and furniture for his shadowbox for over a year.

4. Are you super organized or messy? What does your workspace look like?
My workspace is what I like to call ‘organized chaos’. I am a very organized person myself but since I work with a lot of very small things my workspace has lots of cabinets with tiny drawers filled with stamps, old currency, dollhouse miniatures and lots and lots of insects. Most of my drawers are labeled correctly but there are still lots of surprises.

5. Any exciting future plans or developments in the works for your business?
Every year I try to add more bugs and update my business plan. By the end of next year, I want to have a DIY section where you can pick from a stock of butterflies/beetles and create your own display. You can do that now, but you have to come over to my house for that instead of the comfort of your own home.

You can find more of Kevin;s work at http://bugunderglass.com/

Tags: bug under glass, butterflies, entomology