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Craftinista Holiday Trunk Show

Get your Christmas lists ready!

Whether you’re looking to jump start your holiday shopping, or just wanting to support a good cause among good people, be sure to mark your calendar for the

Thursday, Nov. 19th · 5-7:30 p.m.
55 Tassajara Rd. (off Foothill).

Bring a new, unwrapped toy for a child age 2-12 and be entered to win a gift by a hot local designer. All toys donated to SLO Child Development Center.

Be prepared to engorge yourself with unique arts, crafts, clothing and jewelry handmade by local artists.

I’ll be there with my Starlight Necklaces and the kits will be available, too! Also, check out my latest craft project: Spork Pockets. They make awesome stocking stuffers and I’ll reveal some new designs at the show!

And as a special for my friends, I’ll give you a free spork, if you mention this newsletter to me at the trunk show! How cool is that?

Looking forward to see you there!

Imagine a joke so funny you can’t stop laughing for a month. Paper stronger than steel. An apple the size of a hotel. A jet engine quieter than a moth beating its wings. A home-cooked meal for 25,000 people.

Try exaggerating your idea. Think big: what is it were a thousand times bigger, louder, stronger, faster, or brighter? What if the number of people who could use it were increased a thousandfold?

Now think small: what if it were only one-thousandth as powerful, fast, costly, or complicated as before?

One of my most favorite items we have in our store, Bambu Batu, is the spork. Half spoon – half fork, this little hybrid is truly ingenious. I have one in each of my purses, so I don’t have to remember to move my spork when I use a different purse.

The only thing that bothered me, was that it was floating around between all the other stuff that is carried around in a purse (you don’t want to know…) and when it came time to use it, more often than not it needed to be cleaned thoroughly before use and I felt bad throwing it back into the purse after I was done with it. Some customers told us that they keep theirs in a plastic bag, but that’s like carrying a plastic fork around…

Something needed to be done. I noticed that the spork happens to be the same size as a standard business card. And I had a beautiful hand-made business card holder. But it only had one pocket. So I started looking around to find one with two pockets – but without success. So I set out to make my own. The first ones were made from fabric swatches of out-dated furniture fabric swatch books, but I’m working on a whole new set of designs with much prettier fabrics.

So, speaking of exaggerating – if I could convince 1000 people to use a spork every time they get take-out or for their lunchbox, that would be something! I can’t imagine making a thousand spork pockets at this point, but I’m up for the challenge! Who’s in?

Carry your spork in style and keep it clean