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This Saturday I volunteered at my first Etsy street team event, the Holiday Handmade Calvacade sponsored by The {NewNew} York Team. More than 30 vendors of the street team representing crafters and artists of the NY Metro region spread through the three floors of the Knitting Factory to set up shop for a day. It was exciting to be part of a truly handmade fair where team members made everything from scratch from impressive goody bags to cutout snowflake decorations, screen printed wrapping paper and floor plans printed out on individual ink jet printers in batches of fifty. Somehow everything came together to a very special, unique affair. Obviously I had to spend some money so here is a lineup of my purchases:
A signed copy of Kayte Terry’s Complete Embellishing for my crafty cousin, an eerily weird felted eyeball for my seven-year-old who likes weird stuff from knitknit, and a monster shirt from Karen’s Monsters for my other cousin.
During the event I took a batch of fliers to hand out to the many tourists on Canal Street. I was surprised to find that even though many of these people would have enjoyed a truly local event and adventure, they were too guarded to even accept a flier; a reaction I would have probably had myself. As my mother said when I told her about this:” Next time someone tries to hand me something, I’ll at least ask what it is about.”
