We love making Valentines. A big table full of scraps. Some scissors and glue and away we go! What’s even more fun than making valentines is making valentines with a bunch of mamas! All the while talking about love and libido. (an ever present topic for mamas don’t you know)
This Valentines Day we’re teaming up [...]

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We were contacted a few weeks ago by a woman in Vancouver who is spearheading a community art project in Vancouver this coming February. She was searching the internet looking for inspiration around her idea for creating community generated prayer flags, or wish flags as it were, and she found Future Craft Collective!
Perhaps you remember [...]

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The Mama’s Collective Craft Night is a combination of a ladies’ night out with a (green) maker aspect. The idea is to offer women, mamas especially, the space and the time to come together in community and to create. Oftentimes mamas don’t have the luxury of time or space, in their homes or in their [...]

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Last one was pretty fun. A bunch of mamas crafting, talking, sharing, having a drink and a crafty night out. This time we’ll be making Appreciation  Banners to up the appreciation ante in your home. These simply sweet banners will help you and your family focus on what’s working in your house thereby raising the [...]

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Our good and incredibly poetic friend Liz Garton Scanlon has a new book out just a week ago. It’s one of the most beautiful picture books I’ve ever read. And as if her lyrical words aren’t enough, the illustrations by Marla Frazee offer just the perfect accompaniment. Perfect is not a word I use lightly.
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The 2nd annual Back to School Don’t Shop/Swap is now in the history books and was a HUGE success. A couple hundred people or more came through the doors to purge what they didn’t need and gain what they did. We had an amazing team of silk screeners with all manner of cool images including [...]

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Don’t forget, this Saturday at Zilker Elementary School at 1900 Bluebonnet Lane in Austin, TX, we’ll be holding our second annual Back to School Don’t Shop; Swap! We’ll have sewers, silk screeners and sorters on hand and lots and lots and lots of clothes to dig through. Clothes for EVERYONE in the family!!!
So bring your [...]

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We’ve been bouncing this idea around for a while now – the idea of a Mama’s collective craft night – combining a ladies’ night out with a maker aspect. Now, thanks to Austin Aamp’s new warehouse at 411 W. Monroe St., we’ve got a great space in which to do it, so we’re going to [...]

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Summer mode means a little less time in the studio, and a little more time finding swimming holes and added moments too dreaming up big plans for when days are cooler and family schedules are a little bit tighter. Kathie and I are scheming up some plans for fall but here’s a little [...]

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Okay, it’s been a few weeks since we posted last. Kathie went west. I went east. Both to our motherlands and to our mothers too. We each saw various friends and family. We visited old haunts and shared them with our kiddos. We played and hiked and camped and swam and ate and drank and [...]

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