Surely you’ve heard of paper roses. Paper dolls. How about a paper wallet? A couple weekends ago we participated in the Austin Art Alliance’s Art City Austin along Town Lake in downtown Austin. It was perfect weather for the event: blue skies, low 80s and mellow breezes too. Future Craft Collective was set up in [...]

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We were in Kiwi Magazine this past week. Have you seen it? Neither have I! But I have heard tell from a few sources that we were in there. I would love to find out more about it so if you happen to have seen it and could forward it, or happen to know how [...]

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The traditional Tibetan prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangle of thin cloth in many colors and strung together. Traditionally they are woodblock printed with prayers in the form of text and images. They are often found strung along mountain ridges in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside. The thought is that the [...]

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It’s class day today and we’re thinking with daylight savings and all, our Future Crafters might be a bit more slow and tired than usual. With that possibility in mind, we will hold the idea of a steady 2 hour class lightly. Our intentions will be to meet the kids where they are in all [...]

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Kiera G. from right here in Austin, TX is the winner of this week’s Future Craft Collective giveaway. Congratulations Kiera. We know where to find you and we’ll be getting your wee babe outfitted in this awesome get-up just in time for South By Southwest – the most get-up time of year here in Austin.

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Number 51 was the number randomly selected from our virtual hat worn by our good friends at Random.org. Here I was all ready to write out all the numbers and put them in a hat or a pot and lo and behold, Kathie tells me about this amazing site that does it for you virtually. [...]

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we’re so excited to be launching our new future craft collective downloadable workbooks that we’ve decided to do our very first giveaway.  This stands to be the first of many, friends, so we’re really hoping you’ll check back on us often, or even better, sign up for our newsletter (right over there in the right [...]

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…of our upcoming subscription series coming in February, we have opened up our Flickr photo group. Come see what we’ve got up there this far from our own Future Craft studios and from Future Craft buddies near and far. Then post some photos of your own upcycled, recrafted projects. The fun has just begun! http://www.flickr.com/groups/futurecraftcollective/

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Almost ready to go, go, GO!!! We’re cooking up a whole new season over here at the Future Craft Collective with a new class schedule and some brand new offerings as well. We are getting close to ready and here’s a little glimpse of what’s in store… We will be starting our Monday classes on [...]

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At this time of year it might be a good idea to reflect on our past year’s projects or ponder what next year will look like or something along those lines but instead December has been rather rife with busyness and business. With that said, we are taking January – not off exactly as we [...]

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