Etsy Halloween Party

What's a fetus to do the Saturday before Halloween? Why fly to New York for the Etsy Halloween party, of course! So, Fort and I hopped on an airplane and headed to the Big Apple to hang out with all our super cool crafty friends.
In true Etsy fashion there was a ghost pinata handmade by the girls at the Labs! It was pretty awesome, and a lot of fun to take a swing at!
And a ton of gift bags to be handed out. I took a peek and saw that they even contained samples from Lollibomb Beauty! She definitely has some of the best lotion ever.There were a lot of really great costumes too! Anda from stopsandstarts was a pregnant skeleton, Jen from sweetestpea came as a Hug Robot, Sarah the Lawyer donned an awesomely snarky Hello Kitty costume, and Lollibomb and Fort were Etsy cheerleaders! I also spotted a unicorn, a Mexican wrestler, Laura Bush, Tammy Faye, and a couple of bunnies.
Since the Portland Street Team was in town for the trunk show they had the previous night, Urbana decided to set up shop again, offering Jager shots with the purchase of her cute small bowls. I wish Jager treated me a little better, because I would have loved to join in on the fun. Ruffeo Hearts Lil Snotty also had a couple racks out. They have some really awesome stuff! Going on the wish list for sure.
The Majestica Collective has been hanging out at the Etsy Labs for the past week offering workshops and performance art. The piece in the above photo involved a wooden frame, a large plastic bag, a shop vac, and a women. I would describe it past that, but I just don't know what to say. It was amazing, and I'm sure a bit windy :)Overall, it was an awesome party as all Etsy parties are. Definitely worth the hellish airport conditions it took to get there! Tomorrow is our last day in New York so we'll definitely have to squeeze out another awesome adventure before heading back out west for I Heart Rummage in Seattle.

Checkin' out the EGCG Trunk Show

This past weekend I made a little trip back up to the Etsy Labs for the Etsy Green and Clean Guild's (EGCG) Trunk Show. Man, can I just tell you, those ladies rock! Such great sellers on hand selling their environmentally friendly bath and body products. Representing the group there was:

Coffin Color
Lollibomb
Magickal Realism
Martinsville Emporium
Soap
and Xiane

As always it was an awesome party!

Xiane did an awesome job DJing all night, and she even let me help out for a bit! I was so excited! We rocked out to an awesome mix containing a great amount of 80s tunes!Like at the majority of the trunk shows the workshop was heavily occupied. I had a blast talking to all those great crafters. At one point Haim hopped on to talk to the ladies whom he was quite popular with. I think the running tally ended up with about 5 marriage proposals. I wish I was that popular with the lady folk!
It was a really, really great night! If you ever get the chance to make it to an Etsy Trunk Show I highly recommend that you make it out!

More Etsy Labs Adventures

Wowie! What a weekend. Sorry its taken me a while to blog again, still recovering from all the adventures. This past weekend Fort Cloudy, Ugly Kitty, Supa Fly Monkey, and I headed up to New Jersey and New York for an exciting encounter with the great folks up at Etsylabs for the CREST (Capital Region Etsy Street Team) Trunk Show.
Our first stop was New Jersey on Thursday night. UglyKitty has family there and they offered to let us stay the night and bake treats in the morning for the show. Little did I know, however, how dangerous these treats would be! I thought I was going to eat them and wound up being attacked by them! Crab cakes.... you gotta watch out for crab cakes...

To be honest, the Kitty and the Cloud did most of the work.. Supa Fly flew me around the house on his back for the majority of the time we were there. He's a really great guy! I hope we have a lot more adventures together! Plus, who doesn't want a friend that can fly?!?

The Trunk Show was really great! I heard there we about 80 people that came out to party with us. The food was incredibly, the items for sale were awesome, and the company couldn't have been better. They even set up the workshop on Etsy so people could join the party online! Cloudy and I really like going to the Labs. I strongly encourage you to visit if you haven't! The people that work there are amazingly nice and they have just about every crafting tool you could ever dream to use. I got to hang out with Sarah the Etsy attorney for a bit, she told me about her article in Bead and Button magazine, and was kind enough to take a picture with me!

I think we all had a great, great time! Saturday we headed up to the Brooklyn Indie Market (which seems really awesome!) and then rode around of the subway all day. I love going to New York and will hopefully have a lot more adventures there over the next couple months! If you have any suggestions on what I should do while I'm up there definitely let me know! I just got an email so if you ever feel inclined, drop me a line! ninja@fortcloudy.com Till next time!

New York City Adventures!

This past weekend my super awesome puppet making friend, StaceyRebecca, came up from Phoenix, AZ to teach a class at the ever fantastic Etsy Labs. Unfortunately I was unable to attend since I had a public appearance scheduled with Fort Cloudy for Saturday and Sunday. Luckily though, Sarah really wanted to go meet Stacey too. So we arranged a whirlwind bus trip to New York for the evening.
Our bus ended up being an hour and a half late to the Baltimore station, so we didn't end up getting to the Big Apple until 8pm that night and had to be back on the bus home at 3:45am. It kinda made me feel like a manly-fetus version of Cinderella.
Stacey is really great! But if you've ever talked to her, you already knew that. She suggested that we go to an improv show in Manhattan. She knew one of the groups preforming, Comic Book, pretty rock! So we hung out at the Labs for a bit, waited for Anda, and hopped the F train.
The show was totally rad. I'm not sure I've ever laughed that hard. The guys from Comic Book took all of us to an improv hang out bar called Triple Crown. Some food, drinks, and good conversation later they took Stacey and I up to Times Square since neither of us had seen it before. Even though the trip was really short it was totally worth it. I'm really glad we got to go. Check out the pictures: