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Free Tickets to Austin Mini Maker Faire!

Bernadette — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:06:04 +0000

Have you heard about Austin Mini Maker Faire? There are going to be lots of amazing makers. And it’s going to be in one of Austin’s really cool venues in downtown Austin. There will be fun things to make. Great accordian driven steam punk to listen to. And creative people to watch all day long. You can even volunteer if you want to!

It really is one of Austin’s don’t miss events. Is it on your calendar yet? May 12 10am-6pm

And I’m giving away 2 free adult tickets! Just leave me a comment answering the question, what have you made recently or what are you dying to make sometime soon? I’ll pick a winner on Friday May 4th and announce it here.

Mama Craft Night Giveaway!

Bernadette — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:07:49 +0000

Next Thursday is our first ever Mamas Craft Night Out for which we partnered with the Austin Children’s Museum. It’ll be a fun night of craft, appliques to be exact. A little cutting, ironing, stitching, talking, imbibing of the spirits if you’re so inclined and hanging out in the Children’s Museum all by ourselves! Just mamas having a night out and getting their craft on. It should be a total blast!

On Monday I’ll be giving away two tickets to the event which includes craft materials and free parking downtown. If you leave a comment here and/or like our Facebook page, you’ll be entered for a chance to win! Just to keep things interesting, the question I want you to answer in the comment is, “I think it would be fun to craft with other mamas downtown because…”

Simple as that. Okay? So go ahead, leave a comment and share this link with your mama friends if you would. Then hopefully we’ll see you downtown. Where you could make a cool applique like this one below…

Photo by Katherine O'Brien

Mamas Crafty Night Out

Bernadette — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:50:49 +0000

Join us at the Austin Children’s Museum for a fun night of creativity and making and talking and a Mamas Crafty Night Out! (no experience necessary to play!) Including FREE PARKING to all who register!

We’ll kick off this series with a fun appliqué project from our new book, Make Stuff Together. Bring your favorite beverage and a garment to embellish and we’ll have what you need to appliqué and hand-stitch your own crafty design – for your child, for you, or, bring a garment for each member of the family and create your own family insignia! Who doesn’t need a family logo???

While we craft and share a drink, we’ll discuss the highs, lows and how-tos of creative time with our children. We’ll explore when it’s best to step in and when it’s best to just back off and let them have their own experience. We’ll share with you our own lessons learned and hopefully hear some from you too! By evening’s end we’ll (hopefully) have figured out how to make your family’s creative and crafty time more satisfying for you, your child and your family as a whole.

Join us downtown! Come craft. Come meet other mamas. And come have some fun, creative time of your own.

DETAILS:

What: Mamas Crafty Night Out
When: Thursday, September 29^th7:30-10pm
Where:Austin Children’s Museum
Why: Because it’s super fun to make stuff and hang out with other mamas
Cost: $22.00 per person – REGISTER HERE!
Bring: your beverage of choice and a garment (or more) to embellish

Free Slow Family Living sticker for anyone who bikes, carpools or takes the bus!! Check out Cap Metro for a stop near you.

Win on Wiley!

Bernadette — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:47:16 +0000

In addition to publishing some very fine craft books, Wiley Publishers has a craft blog. This week they are featuring yours truly, Future Craft Collective. They have some interviews and sample projects and even a few giveaways including kits and books.

Leave a comment on the Wiley blog and maybe you’ll be the lucky winner of a kit to make your family your very own Appreciation Banner – one of our favorites!

More, more, more (free books and reviews that is)

Bernadette — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:22:02 +0000

The book giveaways continue and so do the lovely reviews, interviews and sample projects…

Check out Slow Family Online with their very sweet and thoughtful post about Make Stuff Together and about crafting with kids.

Then there’s the inimitable Sr. Diane over at Craftypod with smart review and a link to a sample project at Craftzine.

And today log onto Naughty Secretary Club’s blog for a review and yet another book giveaway. If you’re lucky you can get your copy while they’re still HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Check out our Book Tour page for more sites giving away free books and for info about real live in person events - possibly near you! And check out the last few blog posts for up to the minute details about free books and free projects.

Free books!

Bernadette — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:07:09 +0000

Now into day 3 of our Blog Tour and we are so excitedly receiving all the accolades. It’s funny when you put something out into the world that has been such a painstaking effort for so long. For nearly 2 years we pored over every aspect of each project, each paragraph, each sentiment and each photograph too. We wrote, then re-wrote. Sewed, then re-sewed. All for the creation of Make Stuff Together. Our view of the final product was warped and a little harsh I might add. But now that it’s in the hands of other mothers, writers, crafters, bloggers and authors, we’re getting their view and it’s really been quite lovely. Aaah. Breathe in. Receive. Thank you folks.

Yesterday our friends up in the north country at Mama Renew offered a nice review and a book giveaway. And the lovely Heidi at My Paper Crane has a copy to give away as well.

Today, our dear friend and CALDECOTT awardee, Liz Scanlon has a nice little Q and A with us on her blog about the whys and ways of Making Stuff Together as a family. You can see the cover of her Caldecott winning, All the World in the pages of our book. Her questions were so thoughtful and so real and we both appreciated the chance to sit down and ponder her points. And she’s giving away a book too so get over there and get yourself one!

And come back tomorrow for more news about our blog tour. Or get on over to our Facebook page where you can stay attuned to what’s happening around Make Stuff Together.

Our book/blog tour begins today!

Bernadette — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:06:58 +0000

And we are so excited! Today we kick off our virtual tour with both Craftzine and Rhythm of the Home. Read each one for sample projects and book reviews and for a chance to win your very own copy of our brand new book Make Stuff Together.

Then “like us” on our Facebook page for an amazing list of bloggers joining us for our 2 week virtual tour. You will not only have a chance to win a free copy of the book but you will get to tune into some really lovely and smart craft, family and lifestyle blogs. Like us! Join us! And come see us as we get this baby out into the world because we are so psyched.

You know you want it

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:41:09 +0000

Thanks for all your comments last week. Sorry if we seem delayed on this process that we said would be weekly. Truth be told, we don’t just seem delayed, we actually have been delayed. A case of chicken-pox, a school holiday and non-English speaking houseguests have spun our world a little out of its usual state of grace and order. Instead it was grace and chaos. But always grace in our homes. You should see it.

Our winner of last week’s fabric is Susan from right here in Austin, TX. Congrats Susan! We appreciate your visit and comment on our site. Susan is making baby hats for her dear daughter Asa and is needing some stash for a whole host of other crafty projects. She will no doubt be inspired but the contents of this particular envelope! And if you see her, ask her what her motto for the year is. It’s inspiring!

And, as promised, we’re doing it again. You have no idea how much amazing fabric Kathie has. Really and truly incredible stuff and LOTS of it. So, to make room for more cool patterns and fabrics we’re giving this stuff away. (I feel like Crazy Eddie. Any of you folks from the NY/NJ/CT area surely remember Crazy Eddie’s commercials…Prices so low we’re practically GIVING it all away!)

This week we want to know what you’re reading. And not just what you’re reading but how it’s affecting you. Is it mind-candy? Inspiration? Fodder for growth? We want to know.

And if you’re uncertain whether you want to take the time to leave a comment, here’s a little teaser of the envelopes chock full of fabric-y goodness. All ready to roll out our door and into your waiting craft space…

More free fabric!

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:06:25 +0000

Yes, it’s true. More free fabric coming your way. As Kathie and I work out the details of our upcoming book, and figure out the tone we’ll take and whether or not we’ll have a little bullshit icon for when we get too uppity in that parenting kind of way, we’ll be thinking of all of you. We’re doing our best to keep it real over here and to keep the tone real as well. To prove that we’ll be thinking of you, we’ll be selecting a new name each week to whom we can send a small yet delightful batch of super fine, Kathie selected fabrics from her lifelong stash. Some vintage, some new, some one-of-a-kind, some beyond belief, all super cool you can count on that.

Our winner this week is Heidi with random.org’s lucky number 21 and as soon as we get her mailing address, we’ll be sending a fine fabric stash her way. Thanks to all who left a comment. We love reading your words and knowing you’re out there. Keep coming back because we’re really enjoying the process.

So leave a comment for next week’s drawing. Our question this week is, what project are you working on that fills your proverbial cup?

Something along the lines of the fabric used for this project.

Pre-book signing fabric giveaway

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:17:04 +0000

We are hard at work over here in Ramonsterwear world headquarters putting our book together for Wiley Publishing. Yes that’s right, Our Book which will from here on in be called OUR BOOK!!!. Our book, under the working title Crafting To Connect, should be out sometime in Fall of 2011. Since we can’t invite you to a book signing just yet, we are inviting you to visit our blog where we’ll be hosting weekly fabric giveaways from Kathie’s years long accumulation of some rather amazing vintage and new fabrics.

Just to give you an idea of what might be in store for you if you are the lucky recipient of one of these luscious bundles of fabric here’s a little eye candy for you taken right here, right now as we sit working on…OUR BOOK!!!

So, if you want in on this action, leave us a comment. And let’s see, just to keep it fun, let’s have a question. How about this… Are you as excited about OUR BOOK as we are???