emiko-o reware

HO HO HO, it’s my only holiday sale event that I’m doing this month, so if you’re looking to get your hands on emiko-o reware LEGO® jewelry, you’d better come by Urban Interstice on Friday, Dec 9, 4-8pm. Lucky for me, it’s also the same night as the Mission Holiday Block Party, so an even better reason to make it out to the Mission! See updates on Urban Interstice on facebook; Shana Astrachan and Kelly Nedderman are running this holiday pop-up store, and have many events lined up for the month as well as super cool merch.

I’ve been busy making my NEW stillego pinwheel hoop earrings, which are so very rockstar and I can’t stop wearing them myself, they are so lightweight, fun, and has been getting lots of attention around town. And special for the holidays, I’ve whipped up some cutie LEGO® minifigure ornaments for the oh-so-affordable price of $15 ($20 for Star Wars); how could you possibly resist now? What’s that, you say; you can’t make it on Dec 9? No worries, the gallery has some of my work in the store for the whole month (ornaments are only available at the gallery), and of course you can buy gifts online on my etsy and my rewarestyle.com website 24/7.

have a hoop custom made like this "Smoke"

minifig ornaments!

On Saturday, Dec 10, from 12-4pm our Accessorize with Toys Workshop will be doing a drop-in Ornament Making afternoon for $15. Some of our primo reclaimed toy parts will be on hand to get crafty with! Extra fun with glue guns!

make your own ornament like this person did last year @ Workshop

Here are the details:
Friday, Dec 9, 4-8pm:
emiko oye Holiday Trunk show

Saturday, Dec 10 12-4pm:
Drop-in Ornament Making Workshop

Urban Interstice Gallery
3443 26th St @ Mission St  SF 94110 

Whirlwind upon whirlwind! Seems like just yesterday I was at the ACC Fort Mason show in my new “garden” store of LEGO® wonder! Well, this weekend you can find me for the first time at Artspan SF Open Studios for the Mission District Weekend 1. Ten members of the Metal Arts Guild SF (included yours truly) have banded together in a great shop/gallery space in the Valencia St/18 St corridor run by Jeff Burwell of Burwell Arts. All of us are metal artists/jewelers/sculptors living in the city and making really fresh work. No where else in Open Studios are you going to see so much in one stop in one room!

And even better, Daily Candy featured our group as the poster child for Open Studios in The Weekend Guide which came out yesterday. Check out the post. Couldn’t ask for better promo to peeps who live in the neighborhood!

Tonight, Friday, Sept 30 from 6-8pm is our Opening Reception, so this is a great chance to scope out our entire lines before we start selling like gangbusters this weekend! Everyone is welcome.

Artists are: Kelly Nedderman, Rebecca Deans, Jenny Reeves, Masami Kelly, Raissa Bump, me, Derek Duncan, Shana Astrachan, Jeff Burwell, Jenny Windler

Here are the details:
What: Open Studios with 10 Members of the Metal Arts Guild
Where:  724 Studios in the Mission
724 Valencia St @ 18th St (next to Mission Cheese), SF CA 94110  googlemap here
When:  Opening Reception Fri, Sept 30, 6-8pm
Sat, Oct 1, 12-7pm
Sun, Oct 2, 12-5pm

Also find our event on Facebook !

me and Rebecca Deans at Opening Reception

It’s been awhile, but I’ve been invited back (2 buyers later…) to show at the SFMOMA MuseumStore Jewelry Trunk Show and Sale! In conjunction with their Annual Member Appreciation Day, museum members will receive 20% off of purchases at this show and the MuseumStore. Come see my latest creations, classic favorites, and the ever elusive but oh-so-popular Windows Earrings in all lengths, in Iced and Bronze styles.

iced Window earrings

Would love to see your smiling faces this Saturday, April 16, from 10am-3pm

SFMOMA – Schwab Room in the museum atrium
151 Third St (@ Mission)  San Francisco

Other artists showing:
From the Bay Area: Rebecca Overman, Tina Frey, Marna Clark, Philippa Roberts
Southern CA: I. Ronni Kappos, Barbara de Jounge
International: Diana Schimmel, Dos Riberas, Tamara Lisenberg, Doris Vinas
Also: Tia Kramerr, Jenny Christiansen, Octavia Bloom, Victoria Bekerman

‘Twas the night before Maker Faire and all through the kitchen,
Every creature was crafting–and boy was it b_tchin’!
Shana and I getting ready for the Big Weekend of Recycled Jewelry Madness; going to Maker Day was just the medicine we needed to charge ourselves up for the crowds of eager burgeoning jewelers. Spent the afternoon taking inventory of the treasure tub of random collected pieces parts of toys, games, as well as investigating what each other has picked up in the last few weeks from Mission Thrift (5 Monoply games in one visit–pure gold!) and our favorite, inspirational supplier of recycled whatnot, SCRAP. Our goal: to make some new samples, namely, necklaces with the latest additions in jewelry findings from Rio Grande.

I am MOST EXCITED about this generous shipment of UGlu samples from my fellow Clevelander, Justin, over at MACtac, an adhesives company. This stuff is the greatest, non-toxic, STRONG (but not take-off-the-paint-on-your-walls strong), semi-permanent adhesive I’ve ever worked with (no small beans, as there are two tubs full of adhesives drying out in the back workroom as we speak). Shana and I met Justin a few months back at her friend Susan’s house for a focus group, where he had us brainstorm about tapes and glues. Most memorable was he stuck a full bottle of beer to the wall with this stuff and it stayed there all night. It was That Strong.

Anyhow, I really wanted to use it for our workshop at Maker, so now we have enough to hand out a package to each person–no more toxic goopy glues. Should be perfect for the kids!

Look at all the goodies (good thing you can’t see the rest of the room, it’s like a small monsoon hit)–here we are making samples, me taking way to long to make one necklace while Shana makes the cutest cat hairclip ever!

Cute in that Amy Sedaris kind of way, as Shana pointed out. Too bad we don’t have an entire bag of cat figurines….

You must see the whole picture to really appreciate its charm:

12 hours later, the suitcases are packed by the front door with care, knowing that Maker Faire day soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
Dang, I should be too, but I’m blogging instead….

Hope to see you fellow Makers in San Mateo!