Austin Renegade Craft Fair - More cool business cards!

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I like how some cards have a front and a back.  Including a QR code!  And a sample of their work.

Austin Renegade Craft Fair - Cool Business Cards!

What creative and unusual business cards I picked up along the booths at the Austin Renegade Craft Fair!  (and post cards!)  (and stickers, too!)

Just goes to show you never know how, when or where an interesting business card (and advertising item) will end up.  For several years afterwards, I was still receiving calls and emails from a couple years of craft shows I participated in.

Honestly, I got all excited about this concept -- there's a cute keepsake bird inside the soap, not unlike those soaps we had as kids.  And the card "coaster" for the coast - clever!   

www.birdproject.org and www.matternola.com

Every Day!

I found this from ello lovey at the Austin Renegade Craft Fair

More Cool Finds From Austin Renegade Craft Fair

"P" for Pretty Cool!

Another Find from the Austin Renegade Craft Fair

LOL!  Darth Hello Kitty button - $1 from Hello Wars
(Also see their cool business card design to be posted later on today, it has a QR code!)

Cool Finds at Austin Renegade Craft Fair - Little Minnow Designs

Two cool screen printed Infinity scarves from Little Minnow Designs
20" wide sewn into a 60" long circle.  In a soft rayon/spandex knit fabric which looks great doubled up or worn long.  Perfect weight and look for hot weather!  (I am coveting this cream/gray one)

Third Annual Austin Renegade Craft Fair

Bought the buttons, bought the patch at the Austin edition of the Renegade Craft Fair May 19/20 -- Amongst other things, which I will be blogging about.
This is not your mother's craft show.  I call it "Etsy Brought to Life," as many have etsy shops, too.  I will definitely be attending next time.   Lucky you if you live in or near Brooklyn, London, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles.  Austin kicked off the 2012 summer tour - check the website and see when and where it will be held in these cities.

Today's Favorite iPod Workout Song

Pitbull - "Back in Time" - 3:26
From "Men in Black 3"

Thursday Tea Time

This week - Tea Forte' Herbal Retreat "Cherry Cosmo" organic relaxation tea
Cost: $5.99 at Central Market
Number of teabags: 15
Caffeine:  No
Type of tea:  Herbal
Steeping time: 5 minutes
















Add ins:  As is (awful), a bit of Stevia (astringent and sour), a teaspoonful of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's fat free/sugar free vanilla powder (yuck!)
Teabag fragrance:   Disconcertingly odd
Ingredients:  Organic rose hips, hibiscus, apple pieces, natural cherry flavor, raspberries and other natural flavors.
Opinion:  For starters, a pretty tin box and hence the .5 on the rating. The silky teabags were filled with bits of fruit and looked promising, but the scent was...oddly musty?  Hard to describe.  Like the house of a crazy old great aunt you didn't like to visit?  If she were to offer you tea, this would be it. Blech!  It held such promise, I liked all the ingredients.  It brewed to a pretty deep pink.  Maybe it might be better iced, with lots and lots of sugar, which eliminates it from my running.  "The deliciously relaxing taste of sweet plump cherries with a fragrant delighting of hibiscus blossoms and faint whispers of raspberry."  The pretty tin box lied.
Rating: 0.5

Happy Birthday to my Sweetie!

"Owl Always Love You!"

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Print from 3 Bears Studio

Today's Favorite iPod Workout Song

Cowboy Troy - "I Play Chicken With The Train" - 3:18
I loved the freestyle dance that Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd did to this song on "Dancing With the Stars"

Honor

Thank you in advance. . .!

Friday Flowers

A bouquet of my "Pink Promise" roses!  Not only long-lasting and fragrant as cut, but I love the different variations of pink.  Pink roses are my favorite, red is too predictable.  But pink, they are just happy.

All that is missing is the moon. . .

The sun, no moon, and the stars

Sunflowers and stargazers.  Wish my moonflowers were blooming!

S'more Peeps Please

The "secret" ingredient!

Alas, this was my last package, but what a send off to the Peeping season.  These bunny Peeps lent themselves quite nicely and pinkly.    All you need is a package of Peeps, a package of graham crackers, Ghirardelli brownie mix, and a touch of sprinkles.

Step 1 - Line a square baker with graham crackers.  The non-stick rubber ones work great for this recipe.

Step 2 - Prepare brownie mix according to directions, spread half over graham crackers and place Peeps on top

Step 3 - Spread remaining brownie mix on top of Peeps

Step 4 - Crush/crumb extra graham crackers and sprinkle on top (colored sprinkles optional),  and bake according to brownie mix directions

Thursday Tea Time

Cool tea bag presentation

This week - HEB My Cup of...Serenity Spearmint Lavender
















Cost: $4.99 at HEB and Central Market
Number of teabags: 15
Caffeine:  No
Type of tea:  Herbal
Steeping time: 5-7 minutes*
Add ins:  As is (good), half a packet of Stevia (better), a teaspoonful of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's fat free/sugar free vanilla powder (best!)
Teabag fragrance:  Wrigley's Spearmint gum with a touch of lavender potpourri
Ingredients:  Spearmint, lavender petals
Opinion:  A nice minty change of pace from peppermint tea.  You can notice the lavender just a little bit, and the flavor of both sticks around in your mouth afterwards.  That's the most accurate but probably not the best way to describe it.  Colgate or Crest should add lavender to one of their toothpastes.  Seriously.  Brush your teeth and pleasant dreams!   Bonus it is an herbal tea, and *I can leave the teabag in the mug like all the cool tea drinkers do.  Truthfully, I was a bit leary of the lavender, but it stays in the background and makes for an interesting combination.   And a pretty box.  I would definitely buy this again.
Rating: 4.5

Today's Favorite iPod Workout Song

O.A.R. - "Heaven" - 3:31

Wednesday Work in Progress

"in progress," yep.    At least you can see the cute scarf I bought last weekend at the Austin Renegade Craft Fair from Little Minnow.  And the totebag of other goodies I found which I will blog about later.

What you make of it. . .