Creative Reuse Workshop | Picture Frame to Dry Erase Board at Peridot

ime	Saturday, January 22 · 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Location	Peridot 3155 Cherokee Saint Louis, MO
More Info	Just $35 and all the materials are provided Only 7 spots available! Call or stop by Peridot to sign up today: 314.771.3571 Spend some time with Jenny on Saturday afternoon as she takes you through the process of transforming a salvaged picture frame into a beautiful and unique dry-erase board. Transform your picture frame into a perennial calendar, a place for notes, or a spot to keep track of all your to-do lists and stay organized in 2011! You will explore the exciting process of design and creative repurposing while learning the basics of eco-friendly wood refinishing and upcycling. Don't forget: all the proceeds benefit Perennial and help us reach our goal of opening a community workshop in St. Louis where YOU can continue to discover ways to transform discarded goods into objects of worth.

Grand Opening Celebration-St. Louis Curio Shoppe

Time	Saturday, October 9 · 10:00am - 10:00pm
Location	St. Louis Curio Shoppe 2301 Cherokee St
More Info	Come celebrate with us! We're having a Grand Opening party! The St. Louis Curio Shoppe sells and consigns goods from local businesses, authors, crafters, musicians and artists. Celebrating St. Louis by supporting the community, promoting local businesses and sharing unique St. Louis history. Now that we've been open long enough for the dust to settle, it's time to kick up our heels. The merriment will continue from morning till night. Stop in anytime!

- Medusa's Craft Menagerie -

Time	Saturday, October 23 · 10:00am - 10:00pm
Location	UPPER WEST CHEROKEE ST. LOUIS, MO (Fort Gondo, The Archive, Peridot, STL Style House, Snowflake Gallery, Cherokee peach, etc...) Upper-West Cherokee Saint Louis, MO
More Info	- MEDUSA'S CRAFT MENAGERIE - THIS UNIQUE BLEND OF CREATIVE ARTISTS WILL THRILL YOU WITH THEIR AMAZING TALENTS! COME PERUSE THE MENAGERIE OF EXCEPTIONALLY UNIQUE CRAFT ITEMS AND STOCK UP FOR THE WINTER GIFT GIVING SEASON SOON TO COME... ARCHIVE - STYLE HOUSE - PERIDOT - FORT GONDO- SN0WFLAKE - CHEROKEE PEACH CRAFT YOUR HEAD OFF!!! - THIS IS A HEADS UP! - LOOKING FOR MORE ROCK STAR CRAFTERS FOR OUR KICK ASS CRAFT SHOW! For booth availability and information, contact Mia at Peridot - email events(at)peridot-stl(dot)com THANK YOU...

Where to find all things St. Louis on Cherokee Street

Have you been to St. Louis Curio Shoppe yet?  Don't make the same mistake I did by taking my sweet time in getting over there.  The doors have been open to the public for several weeks, although the official grand-opening event isn't until Saturday, October 9, 2010.   

Run by pals Kristin and Kristin, the store carries a wide variety of St. Louis-made and -related goods, but this is anything other than a typical souvenir store.  From locally made peanut butter to replica Coral Courts keychains there's something for everyone.

St. Louis Curio Shoppe is supportive of arts and crafts and has adorable offbeat potholders and beautifully made cutting boards and earrings and books on all things St. Louis.  There are greeting cards and coasters and t-shirts.  All made locally -- several by people and businesses along Cherokee.  (full disclosure:  I have several photos for sale there but this has nothing to do with why I'm encouraging you to head to the store.)

By the way, are you a local musician?  If you've got a CD you'd like to bring by, Kristin and Kristin would be happy to give you a listen.  They're actively seeking to carry local music.  Why not see if yours would be a good fit for the store?

I wish I'd stopped in sooner but I'm glad I've stopped in now.  So many birthday and Christmas presents are going to come from this place!

St. Louis Curio Shoppe is just a fantastic idea.  Great work, Kristins!  


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Peridot grand opening

Time	Saturday, October 2 · 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location	Peridot 3159 Cherokee Saint Louis, MO
More Info	Peridot is OPEN for business!! Join us for a grand opening celebration, Saturday October 2nd from 12-6pm. Food, music, fun and friends... plus shopping... what more could you ask for?? Peridot is a work space and retail shop dedicated to supporting local artists and crafters. Everything in our shop is handmade by local artisans. Show your support for these amazingly talented people - lots of wonderful wares to kick start your holiday shopping! Check back as the date gets closer for details regarding what we will have going on at our grand opening!

Upcoming Events at MADE

• Friday, June 18, 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.:  Let's celebrate! Etsy, along with ReadyMade and Meetups Everywhere (and MADE Studios), You can participate in the Etsy Craft Party, a global initiative to energize your local community, make art together, and throw a party. We want to celebrate crafting together on June 18, 2010 (which just happens to be Etsy's birthday) with as many celebrations across the globe as possible. Join us at MADE Studios where we will have craft projects & supplies as well as plenty of space to work on your own projects.
  
  Come hang out and work on your own projects - you can also buy a project wristband for a small fee that allows to make and take as many of our funky & creative make-and-take projects as you like.
  
  The studio will be open all day, from 10 am on, so feel free to stop by early and check us out!
  
  http://www.meetup.com/Etsy-Craft-Party/2720/ -
  
  that's where you sign up!

• Saturday, June 26, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.  Make your own Appliques!  Learn how to make your own iron-on patches using your favourite printed cotton fabrics! Bring fabric and clothing you want appliqued to MADE, and Beqi from Beqi Clothing will teach you! Class fee includes supplies needed. $10.
  
  
• Saturday, June 26, 8:00 p.m. - midnight.  MADE in the Eighties: A Dance Party.  21+ event. Dance your ass off at MADE! $5 cover. Best costume gets a prize basket of MADE artists' goodies! Complimentary drink tickets included with cover charge. Don't be shy, shake what yo' mamma gave ya!
  
  
• Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.  Live Yudu Screenprinting demonstration! Demonstration cost is $5. Beqi from Beqi Clothing will demonstrate how to make a Yudu Screen for printing. Will show how to apply emulsion, dry emulsion, expose artwork onto screen, rinse screen, print screen onto clothing, and aftercare of screen and printed materials. During drying of screen, anyone who wants to practice screenprinting with MADE's available pre-done screens may do so for an extra $5 to cover material costs. Bring whatever you'd like to have screened. Class limit of 20. RSVP necessary for admission. 

For more information on any of these events (RSVP required for most) visit MADE on Facebook.


Made is at:

	Street: 3159 Cherokee City/Town: Saint Louis, MO View Map

19th-century ladies craft exhibit

The Chatillon-DeMenil House Foundation will hold its second annual 19th-century ladies craft exhibit at the house on June 13, 2010. This isn’t your everyday craft show. The event will host exhibits and demonstrations of both common and strange crafts from the Victorian era, such as silhouette cutting, crochet, tatting, spinning, theorem painting, taxidermy, and hair-work.

Special exhibit: Did you know that Victorian ladies practiced taxidermy as a hobby? One period craft book instructs her to “take out the entrails and remove the skin with the greatest possible care”. Come see examples of these strange and disturbing masterpieces.

Special exhibit: Hair-work is the art of creating images out of human hair. This somewhat odd hobby was extensively practiced by ladies in the 19th century to preserve a physical piece of the people that they cared about. Our exhibit will feature period examples of hair-work as well as live demonstrations of the different techniques ladies used to create hair flowers and jewelry.

There will be a live performance of period parlor music by the Parlor Maids at 1:00 p.m.

Admission is $5 per guest
Children’s activities for the day include a card-making workshop.

Date:	Sunday, June 13, 2010
Time:	11:00am - 4:00pm
Location:	Chatillon DeMenil Mansion
Street:	3352 DeMenil Place (at Cherokee)
City/Town:	Saint Louis, MO
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Open House Crafternoon @ MADE - Saturday!

Meet one of the newest artsy-crafty neighbors on Cherokee Street, MADE Community Workspace & Studio, which is opening up for business on May 8 during Cinco de Mayo on Cherokee!

Please come down and see us - we're open from 1 pm to 8 pm and there's nothing more fun than Cinco de Mayo on Cherokee - great food, lots of cool things to do and see.  Plus, you can hangout with friendly crafters as we make and talk. 

 

It's an Open House craft day, just stop by and make something!

 

We'd love for you all to come down and hang on our opening day - it's an open-house, free admission Crafternoon! 

 

 

Hope to see you there,

The STL Craft Mafia & MADE

 

 

MADE

Location:

3159 Cherokee St.

Saint Louis, MO

 

 

BRICALEUR-ing: All Lady Art Show & Public Art Lab @ Fort Gondo

via Cherokee Street News:

BRICALEUR-ing: An inquiry into the profundity & resourcefulness of Female Transformateurs

During this March all-lady art show, curated by Sarah Paulsen and Lyndsey Scott, the Fort Gondo gallery space will also serve as a creative laboratory– hosting a sound portal, movie night, womens’ circle, and workshop for a Cherokee Street public art installation …. All powered by community connection and female ingenuity.

A bricaleur “describes the style of approach exemplified by a tinkerer or a jack of all trades…comfortable in unfamiliar realms of learning and experience because they learn best by using indirect connections to known information…They try things out until they figure out how to do something.”  We celebrate the way women gather, nurture, and shape space!

When: MARCH 13-28, 2010
Where: Fort Gondo, Cherokee Street, STL, USA
Who:
Gina Alvarez, Catherine Cathers, Katherine Gastler, Sarah Brunjes Hall, Emily Hemeyer, Kara Clark Holland, Jamie Kreher, Christy LeMaster, Jenny Murphy,  Lisa Payne, Sarah Paulsen, Lyndsey Scott, Amy Thompson, Amy VonDonsel, Autumn Wiggins, Ann-Maree Walker

Calendar of public events:
** denotes an event exclusively “For women!”
* denotes an event for all genders, so long as your feminine side’s leading

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 13 / 5pm-9pm/ Meet the artists and make your mark on the WonderJardin!   Feel free to bring fabrics or fabric paint for the quilt
**NEW MOON CIRCLE & Potluck: Monday, March 15 / 7:30pm – 10pm /  Share food, dreams, and intentions with other women, facilitated by Cayree Dobsch
*MAKE NIGHT: Monday, March 22 / 6pm – 10pm / Powerhouse community quilting bee –women and girls of all ages welcome!
*SOUND PORTAL : Thursday, March 25 / 8pm/ Ghosts I Have Been, Larva, and Annah of Bangerang each play short sets, and then play hostesses-with-the-mostesses to an interactive jam that traipses thru found city sound recordings, wields noisey ‘lekky toys, pulses refreshlingly ambient, or cackles funky folky. All ya’lls inner banshees welcome!
“Broad Shoulders” FILM SCREENING : Friday, March 26 / 8pm/ Christy LeMaster of Nightengale Microcinema presents a curated line-up of Chicago-bred eclectic shorts all with “a prettiness built out of utility.”
WONDERJARDIN INSTALLATION : Sunday, March 28 /  Meet @ 11am / Show up at the gallery with your picnic basket to find out the locale and let’s head out to inaugurate the World-St. Louis’ Biggest Picnic Blanket ever!
For more information, please email Lyndsey Scott -- seehere AT seehere dot info -- or  Sarah Paulsen -- pintorasp AT hotmail dot com.

Holiday craft sale this weekend

Join six local craft artists at 3211 Cherokee Street for holiday shopping Friday December 11 from 5-9 pm and Saturday December 12 from 10-5.

• Handcrafted jewelry by Lisa Colby, Jennifer Walker and Peg Fetter
• Ceramics by Renee Heyer-Starrett
• Mixed media jewelry by Anna Anghileri
• Hand stitched leather bags by Sleeth Mitchell