Hey Atlanta people! Don’t forget to come out tonight for KRAFTWORK Handmade Market at Young Blood Gallery from 7-10pm!

Young Blood Gallery is located at 636 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA 30306

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Becky

The Indie Craft Experience is just two little days away, and I could not be more pumped! The show is Saturday and Sunday from 11a-7p in beautiful Centennial Olympic Park. Not only will there be amazing crafts for sale, ICE features great live music from DJ Zano and crafting workshops! Check the workshop info from the ICE website:

We’ll have workshops provided by Dana Ruth Designs (Booth 37) for Creative Metal Smithing and Jewelry Making Demos throughout the weekend and Peace Weaver (Booth 63) from Asheville, NC is offering fiber workshops:

Saturday, May 30th
2 pm – What Are You Wearing: a closer look at clothing, fibers, fabric & the environment
4 pm – Recycling Plastic Grocery Bags: into clothing, rugs & more

Sunday, May 31st
2 pm – Introduction to Weaving: learn how most of the world weaves on sticks and the unique production tablet weaving technique
4 pm – Tank Tops With Fun Edges: turn a t-shirt into a tank and learn fun ways to embellish the edges with embroidery, beadwork, crochet, cuffs, ruffles and more

I hope you locals can make it out! Keep your eye out on my blog tomorrow for second roundup of ICE vendors. SuperCute! is vending, of course! We’ll be in booth #34, which you can find on this handy map (click the image for a full-sized version):

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Becky

The General Assembly voted down Senate Bill 120, which would have allowed MARTA to tap into $65 million in capital reserve funds. Since the system receives absolutely no state funding, it relies heavily on sales tax revenue to stay afloat. It’s a state restriction that is tying up the much needed money: MARTA is required to spend 50% of its revenue on operating costs and 50% on capital expenses. The really infuriating part of this vote is that the bill failed for reasons that had nothing to do with Atlanta’s transit system.

Read the rest over at my post on Ecolocalizer!

Image Credit: Waiting for the Train. Creative Commons photo by Wesley Fryer

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Becky

Sustainable Living Roadshow – Sept 20-21
The Sustainable Living Roadshow is touring the country in biofuelled vehicles spreading the word about green living. They’re hitting Emory University on the 20th and 21st! I’m a little worried that I won’t be able to make this one, since the 20th is the Strut AND the Munny show at MINT Gallery. If I can move at all on Sunday, though, I want to go check it out!

Farmers Market Bike Rally – September 27
September is Local Food Month, and three Atlanta markets are teaming up for a bike rally to showcase the goodness of local food! The rally starts and ends at the Green Market in Piedmont Park and hits two other markets along the way. There’s even music and a picnic lunch afterward!

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Becky

Tonight, our pal Davis is playing a masquerade ball! Obviously, this meant we got together with some friends and made masks for the occasion!

To make the masks, we drew the shapes we wanted with marker onto two pieces of cardboard. You could really use just one piece, but gluing the two pieces together makes for a sturdier finished product. The one pictured above is made from a frozen dinner box. The feather is a single piece of cardboard that’s sandwiched between the two mask pieces. We used glue sticks to decoupage salvaged book pages on top, then added embellishments. I decided my mask would be the shiniest and did a layer of blue glitter glue (of course!) and a layer of glitter mod podge! Christy brought over a basket of ribbon and ric rac, and Lori had a tray of rhinestones and feathers and other sparkly things for us to use!

I took this picture because it makes me laugh a lot. This is me getting back to my crafty roots, after applying all that sparkliness to my mask!

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Becky

Woo! Part two of the Atlanta Indie City Guide is up! This part is all east side, baby!

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We’ve hinted over the last couple of weeks about a top secret project, and now we can spill! SuperCute! submitted an Atlanta Indie City Guide to Indie Fixx, and the first installment was posted today! Woo! this was so much fun to put together!

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Becky

Dave actually gets all the credit for the rain barrel awesomeness at our house. The barrels are sitting up high on concrete blocks, one on each side of the yard. He ran drip irrigation hose out of each one and snaked the hose through our flower beds. The bit of elevation creates enough water pressure that rainwater that the buckets collect trickles through the flowerbeds and keeps our pretty flowers happy! Our setup is pretty much perfect for our back yard’s needs.

I was out taking pictures around town today and stumbled on this awesome rain barrel on display at Donna Van Gogh’s! Maybe our perfect setup could use a little bit of color! Rain barrels seem to only come in black, white or green. Why shouldn’t reusing water be totally colorful and shiny? A plain rainbarrel from a hardware store seems to run between $80 and $100. The custom painted barrel goes for $149 – not bad for such a big piece of custom art!

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Becky

Hurrah! We just delivered a box of Mustache Glasses and Mustache Votive Holders to Youngblood Gallery! I was early picking up Liz on the way there, so I snapped a couple of pics of the ’staches on the move while she headed down to meet me! I promise these were taken while my car was fully stopped and not even running.

We were planning to just focus on pepping up thrifted glasses, but then our amazing friend Bonnie gave us a ton of votive holders left over from her wedding! How totally rad is that??? I love how they turned out!

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Becky