Don’t miss Hello Craft’s holiday party tonight in Adams Morgan.  Bring your holiday cheer, a small appetite and a handmade gift to play in the holiday gift exchange.

Head to the Black Squirrel’s upstairs lounge tonight, Dec. 15th from 7 to 10 pm.  Hello Craft will provide supplies to make holiday cards, gift tags and buttons and will conduct a Handmade White Elephant gift exchange.

The White Elephant will begin around 8:30 pm. To participate, bring a handmade gift worth no more than $15. It can be something you made or by someone else, just as long as it is handmade. Not sure what the White Elephant thing is all about.  No worries.  Hello Craft will explain the rules of the game before the exchange starts.  If you attended the Summit of Awesome last spring you know how much fun this is!  I totally scored at that one and went home with an awesome Jaime Zollars pirate hedgehog pencil sketch.  Looking forward to another awesome surprise tonight!

The Black Squirrel is located at 2427 18th St. NW in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

Happy Holidays!

Hello Craft is excited to be partnering with the One of a Kind Show & Sale and will have a booth at OOAK’s holiday show at Pier 94 in New York from December 11th-13th.  We’ll host a Make Something Awesome area with hands on craft projects and conduct shopper interviews along with a workshop or two.  More details will be announced in the coming months.

If you are interested in exhibiting, space is still available,  but hurry!  Artist criteria and application info is available here.  Contact Libby Hanna at 312.527.7757 or lhanna@mmart.com, or Courtney Walsh at 646.778.3236 or cwalsh@mmart.com to find out what is needed to qualify for the show.

Here’s some more info about the OOAK NYC show from their site:

Launching December 11-13, 2009 at Pier 94, the One of a Kind Show and Sale NYC will be an extraordinary holiday shopping show featuring the best in fine art and fine craft from hundreds of unique artists, artisans and designers from across North America.  Each item for sale at the show will be made by hand, one piece at a time, and every artist represented will be in attendance—offering shoppers the wonderful opportunity to buy pieces directly from the artist who created it and support the independent artist community.

And, if you haven’t had a chance to listen to the latest episode of the Hello Craft podcast, check it out.  This special episode is sponsored by our friends at One of a Kind Show and features an awesome story about how Tina Seamonster learns to embroider and relax.

Hello Craft is putting together a holiday episode of their podcast and would love to hear from you! This is easy and fun!

The theme of the episode is getting and giving handmade for the holidays. Maybe grandma made you something really weird one year, maybe you gave someone the most amazing handmade treasure and they didn’t appreciate it. Maybe you are making all of your handmade gifts this year and it is changing your view of the holidays completely. Call their toll free voice line at 1-888-317-3785 and tell them your story in 5 minutes or less. Start your call out like this, “Hello Craft! My name is…” and then tell your story.

Calls for this very special episode are due on 12/21, so call right now!

>>Image is from The Decorated House.