Urban Street Bazaar - git yer shoppin' shoes on!

Come out and get your handcrafted goods from Atom-In, Pulp Reality, and One Up Designs at the Urban Street Bazaar, held in the lovely Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff, on Saturday, May 10th. The show is organized by Julie from Make (also located in the Bishop Arts District) and is stocked with 100% handcrafted goods. Other great local artists featured in the show are PamelaMichelle, Tefi, B.Liscious, Tara to the T, and Harrilu (all fabulous members of the Etsy Dallas Street Team!), so come out and check us out!

Beantown?

I'm off to Boston tomorrow for the 2008 National Postdoctoral Association Annual Meeting -- fighting for the rights of hard working, underpaid, and under-appreciated postdoc fellows everywhere!

Busy, busy bee!

The latest batch of charms... I am still so enchanted by pulp art imagery -- so phantasmagorical!

Etsy Dallas Beer-B-Q

Featuring free food, beer and the fabulous Make & Take craft table! Get your craft on and make that pocket shrine to toast, Douglas Coupland, or particle physics, or whatever else takes your fancy. Catch the finest in local handmade goods from over 20 Etsy Dallas artists and chill out with a veggie burger and a beer ---- come on, have you really got anything better to do?
See you at the Etsy Dallas Beer-B-Q on Sunday, May 18th!

Sunny San Diego...land of experimental biologists?

After a long week at the 2008 Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, I am starting to get my life back on track. Work, family, crafting, and reading have all fallen behind while I was spending an inordinate amount of time standing in line for my daily double americano with 10,000 of my favorite scientists. San Diego was a nice respite from the flat brownishness that Dallas has embodied over the winter, and there was enough great science at the meeting to motivate me to keep my eyes on the prize (a permanent job, that is).

I had a bit of time to check out the city and fell in love with the Little Italy neighborhood. Not only did the neighborhood have some very well stocked groceries full of imported goods (Lavazza espresso, anyone?), but it has really started taking off as a design center. I picked up some gorgeous letterpress cards from Egg Press and Snow & Graham at India Ink. I may have a hard time parting with them...