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Ok folks! We are training like olympic athletes over here at Crafty Wonderland headquarters – getting ready for the BIG EVENT THIS WEEKEND and doing everything in our power to bring you the best show we can! And it’s finally that time…that chance you get only two times a year to shop from the largest selection of the most amazing and talented artists + crafters around! If you have been to our shows before you know what you will find – one of a kind handmade goods from cool and talented folks! If you haven’t been to our shows before…what are you thinking?! Get over to the Convention Center THIS WEEKEND to see what it’s about!

BUY LOCAL! BUY HANDMADE! MEET THE MAKER! WHAT COULD BE BETTER?

Thanks for always supporting Crafty Wonderland! It wouldn’t be what it is today without the amazing local support we have received in the last 6 years! PORTLAND, YOU ARE THE BEST!

And now for the details:

CRAFTY WONDERLAND SUPER COLOSSAL HOLIDAY SALE!
Saturday + Sunday, December 10th + 11th, 2011
11am – 6pm both days – TWO DAYS! TWICE THE FUN!
at the Oregon Convention Center – HALL C
777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd in Portland

OVER 250 VENDORS SELLING AMAZING HANDMADE GOODS!
FREE CRAFT ACTIVITIES (SEE SCHEDULE BELOW) AND MORE!

It’s more important than ever to SHOP LOCAL + BUY HANDMADE!

All Ages * Free Admission
Goodie Bags for the first 150 shoppers EACH DAY!

CHECK OUT THE FULL VENDOR LIST:
http://craftywonderland.com/vendors/

We are happy to welcome back our friends from COLLAGE who will be running scheduled activities in the DIY AREA all weekend! Check out the schedule below and don’t forget to give Collage a little love! They are a fantastic LOCALLY OWNED art + craft supply store with two Portland locations!

We are hard at work on all the crazy details that all come together to make the Super Colossal Holiday Sale happen and finally have a few updates to report! The official VENDOR LIST is live – check it out and make your shopping list early to make the day of a breeze!

We are also excited to present the brand new event posters and postcards with yet another amazing illustration by our lovely staff artist, RYAN BERKLEY! Anyone interested in having printed material to hand out can contact us or just stop by our downtown shop to get them. We also have web banners and a digital version of our postcard for you to grab on our DOWNLOADS PAGE. We are blanketing the town with thousands of flyers but our best publicity is through community support and word of mouth…so THANK YOU for anything and everything that you can do to help us spread the word about the event. We couldn’t do it without you!

It seems a little crazy to be thinking about the Holidays when we are entering a heat wave here in Portland…but it’s true! Applications for the 2011 Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale are OFFICIALLY OPEN! Don’t wait too long – the deadline to apply is September 23rd! Simply go to the APPLY PAGE, read though our FAQs then follow the link to the application at the bottom of the page. Good Luck and Stay Cool!

CRAFTY WONDERLAND SUPER COLOSSAL HOLIDAY SALE!
SATURDAY + SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10th + 11th
11am – 6pm both days
at the OREGON CONVENTION CENTER – EXHIBIT HALL C
777 NE MLK jr. Blvd.
PORTLAND, OR 97232
ALL AGES! FREE ADMISSION!

We are super excited to be joining forces with the Museum of Contemporary Craft to participate in their monthly pop-up shop series! As a way to reach out to Portland’s diverse community of makers, the museum has invited select local stores and organizations to create their own small temporary stores within the gallery space. For the month of August, we will fill the front corner of the museum sales gallery with an awe inspiring mix of work by a dozen artists and crafters that we have hand selected from our list of vendors.

We would like to cordially invite you to the opening reception this coming Thursday! If you can’t make it to the opening, we encourage you to drop by the museum before the show closes on August 27th to check out the awesome!

Featured artists include:
* AMIRA MEDNICK * ANNA JOYCE * APPETITE * BERKLEY ILLUSTRATION *
* BIRD’S EYE VIEW STUDIO * LISA JOHNSTON-SMITH * LORI SHIPPY *
* MOSS HANDMADE * NEEKA KNITS * OLBAPI! * SNAP * WOOLIE ORIGINALS * 

Hope to see you there!
xoxo cathy + torie

Yikes! Can you believe it’s already that time!? We’ve been working like crazy preparing for the big day and we are just about ready! Hopefully you grabbed a copy of our handy event program in last week’s edition of The Portland Mercury – it contains lots of details including a map with vendor booth assignments and schedules for both the DIY Area and the Book Signing Area (schedules are also listed in the blog post below).

You can find links to the vendor’s websites on our VENDOR PAGE so scope them out for a little pre-sale planning! We’ve also been collecting lots of fun stuff to add to our coveted Goodie Bags and trust us…they are worth getting in line early for! This show looks to be one of our best to date and we hope you will agree! See you on Saturday!

P.S. Don’t forget that Sunday is Mother’s Day and the sale is the perfect place to get the perfect gift for Mom!

CRAFTY WONDERLAND SUPER COLOSSAL SPRING SALE!
Saturday, May 7th from 11am – 6pm
ONE DAY ONLY!
at the Oregon Convention Center – HALL D
777 ne MLK jr. Blvd. in Portland
FREE ADMISSION! ALL AGES!
Goodie Bags to the First 200 Shoppers in Line!
FREE DIY Area with Scheduled Activities All Day!
Crafty Authors Signing Books!
BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

We are a mere 17 days away from the BIG EVENT and are SUPER EXCITED to announce the final details for our scheduled DIY Area activities and our talented crafty author book signings! Are you ready for all this crafy goodness?! Can you handle it?! You better get there early and plan to spend the WHOLE DAY because you don’t want to miss any of this!

It’s almost time for our annual Super Colossal Spring Sale and we need your help to spread the word! We’ve got postcards, posters and web banners for you to use – all featuring our favorite Sasquatch family in a brand new illustration by the amazingly talented Ryan Berkley.

Printed postcards and posters will be available to pick up at the Crafty Wonderland Shop at the end of the week and nifty web banners are available over on our downloads page. Feel free to use them on your website, blog, facebook page, etc. Help us spread the word and make this show our biggest and best event to date! Mark you calendars and be there or be square!

Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Spring Sale!
200+ Vendors selling their amazing handmade goods!

Saturday, May 7th from 11am – 6pm
ONE DAY ONLY!
at the Oregon Convention Center – Hall D
777 NE MLK jr. Blvd in Portland
All Ages! Free Admission!

Goodie bags to the first 200 shoppers through the doors!
Free craft activities, crafty authors signing books
and oh-so-much-more!

Hey there crafty peeps! We can’t believe that it’s already time to start planning another Crafty Wonderland show…but it is! We are excited to announce that applications for our Super Colossal Spring Sale are now open and will remain open until the end of the day (midnight) on March 1st. Have questions? Check out our FAQs page to find all the answers. You will find a link to the application at the bottom of the FAQs page.

Be sure to mark your calendars with these important dates:
March 1st – Applications due
March 15th – Applicants notified of acceptance
March 31st - Booth fees due for accepted applicants
May 7th – Super Colossal Spring Sale from 11am – 6pm!

Happy Applying!

We are pretty excited about this weekend’s Wacky Holiday Photo Booth at the Pop-Up Shop! We all have one in our family album…an awkward photo with the family in front of the Christmas Tree…Mom made you put on those pajamas she bought you…or maybe it was that puff paint sweatshirt that Aunt Bettie made for you. Either way it was AWKWARD!

Well, we are excited to have the opportunity to create our own classic portraits on our own terms. Break out those bad holiday sweaters! Grab that giant candy cane! Put on that Santa hat! And come down to the Crafty Wonderland Pop-Up Shop for our Wacky Holiday Photo Booth! We will provide a cool holiday back drop for you to pose in front of as well as some fun props to hold, wear and get wacky with. Feel free to bring your own props to personalize your photo.

Printed photos are $2 or you can download them later for FREE!
Photo Booth provided by Matto Photographic.

Wacky Holiday Photo Booth
Saturday, December 4th
from 12 – 4pm
at the Crafty Wonderland Pop-Up Shop
802 SW 10th Ave. in downtown Portland
(at the corner of SW 10th + Yamhill – across from the
Central Library and next to Finnegan’s Toys)

All of the above photos are from Awkward Family Photos. Check out their website for more awkwardness and loads of laughs!