renegade craft fair

Over the weekend, Carly, Joyce, and I stopped by the Renegade Holiday Craft Fair for some gift buying.  I couldn't purchase anything on Sunday, but I picked up some well-designed business cards for when my pockets are a little fuller and a few ideas for our upcoming craft/zine faire tables.

One of our favorite vendors was Son of A Sailor, who sells adorable painted jewelry & prints.  Carly bought a leather bracelet, and I was mighty tempted to purchase a necklace for myself.  

We also loved Yellow Grey, from Indiana based Kristina Kostur, who makes jewelry out of materials like sea urchin spines, stones, and various metals.

Overall, I'd describe it as a sometimes vanilla, real-life Etsy since the cost of tabling ($300) keeps a lot of the scrappier, more eccentric vendors from participating whereas selling online requires little overhead.   However, I definitely enjoyed discovering shops I wasn't familiar with (such as the two I mentioned here) and meeting people I had previously only corresponded with online. Arts & crafts talk forever, please.

for warmth

There are a lot of things I'm notably terrible at, but dressing for the weather happens to be what I fail at most frequently. Even when I take the time to check the temperature and look out my window for signs of rain or snow, I seem to get it completely wrong. Today, that meant waiting for a train with my teeth chattering, wiping a cold drizzle from my glasses every few seconds.

When I finally got home and sat down at my computer with a cup of tea, I saw that our friend Morgan from Crowns Clothing finally has her gorgeous capes up for sale and re-imagined my entire day as if I had one keeping me cozy while public transportation took its sweet time. It was much better the second, imaginary time around, let me tell you!