It’s Craft Fair season here in Austin folks. Come visit our Future Craft kids at the Bouldin Creek Studio Tour on Saturday December 6th. They’ve been working hard and they’re excited to show off and sell their upcycled handmade gifts. Saturday from 11-5 at Ramonster World Headquarters. Check out the tour map on the website. [...]

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Since we work with kids, we often see the small plastic “kid” marketed machines when really, they’d be better off with a hefty old Singer or Kenmore. The kid ones are cute but don’t really withstand the rugged tests presented to them by their users. There is often a little more force used by a [...]

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Headed out the East Austin Studio Tour this past weekend. So many amazing artists displaying their wares of all ilks. Painting, screen printing, sculpture, crafts, furniture, metalwork, murals, glassworks. The chilly weather was perfectly matched to a tour of the streets and the studios. And it all made me realize that craft season is definitely [...]

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So, it’s not actually a competition of course. And each one really does have its attributes beyond what we could ever count. But there is no doubt teaching 8 kids ages 8-12, 2 days a week for 2 hours after school is a totally different experience than teaching 7 moms on a Saturday afternoon all [...]

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Jennifer Nakatsu Arntson of JNA Designs was asked that very same question in an interview she did on Dabbled. She’s cool and does amazing work. Dabbled is cool and promotes some amazing work.  What is it they say about the company you keep?  

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The Maker Faire is over and 2 days later we are finally recovering. It was fantastic and tiring and creative and inspiring and confusing and amazing and conjured up all kinds of ideas and feelings. We saw hundreds of people come through the Faire and through the Swap-o-rama-rama tent. There was an incredible array of [...]

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So we took a few old sheets, (carefully selected from the thrift store of course) some old worn out pants, some tossed off burnt orange University of Texas Theater curtains, various scraps and cut-offs from Kathie’s myriad Ramonsterwear projects, and even a few old upholstery sample books and look at what these girls whipped up in [...]

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So, the Maker Faire is coming back to Austin this coming weekend. Anyone who attended last year’s big event will surely be back there again this year. It was a spectacular display of makers and crafters and all things creative, innovative and handmade. There was a giant mousetrap. I mean giant. That shipped all the [...]

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This is another collaborative project of Kathie’s – a children’s book with our dear friend Shannon – about two little girls who have to move away from each other.  They create a cloth doll to send back and forth that each one embellishes a little with buttons and embroidery and other found crafty obthen sends to [...]

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I’ve been thinking lately about all our Future Craft Materials and about keeping an eye on the prize of upcycling and recrafting materials for our Craft classes.  Here’s a partial list of just a few of the materials we’ve used in the past few weeks for our Lunch Kit and a few other projects… -coffee [...]

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