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happy turkey day!

Written on November 25, 2010 by alyson in holiday, my artsy stuff

hand turkey butchery original illustration

Just wanted to stop in and wish everyone a happy thanksgiving!

I’m busy busy busy prepping for the holidays, and am reflecting on how unbelievably thankful I am to be able to do be creative every day. Thanks to everyone who has supported me by brainstorming, saying kind words, or buying my art and bringing it to your home. It means a lot. A lot of awesome.

To express this gratitude (and because I was raised to have an acute appreciate of a sale) I decided to have a little Black Friday to Cyber Monday sale in my shop.

Just enter the code “SEASONSMEATINGS” to get 20% everything in the shop. Nice, right?

AND, I just spent some serious time getting a newsletter set up. Check out my winter newsletter here to get up to date on all the new goodies I’m making for the holidays, and details on my four (!!!!) holiday shows). If you’d like to receive these newsletters in the future, just sign up in the nifty little widget on the right sidebar of this page.

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the whole world loves meat

Written on November 19, 2010 by alyson in my artsy stuff

Just wanted to pop in to announce that now I’m shipping all of my art in the shop to US, Canada, and the EU. Spreading the love. I can ship to other locales as well, so just contact me if you’re in Fiji and just can’ t live without a Blocky print.

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Indie Craft Fundraiser

Written on November 5, 2010 by alyson in Uncategorized

Whoa. WHOA. You are not hallucinating. There are TWO blog posts today.

Just wanted to pass along the flier for the first of my holiday shows. This is for the December 2nd show, Indie Craft Fundraiser at Hotel Rex. I’m SO psyched about this event. It’s the first one, and we’ll be helping raise money for 826 Valencia, an absolutely awesome organization in SF, started by the talented Dave Eggers. A team of volunteeers and teachers tutor kids in writing and help get them excited abou thte literary arts. A select group of kids from this group edit the annual Best American Non-fiction anthologies. Oh, and they have a crazy pirate store in SF. Check it out.

Anywho, this show is going to be great, with great gifts from my talented indie craft friends, Hendrick’s Gin cocktails, food, music, and maybe some surprise celebrities.

Check out their blog for updates about raffle prizes and more!

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i was so afraid of the beard that i forgot to blog

Written on November 5, 2010 by alyson in craft show, my artsy stuff

Insanity over here folks! October was an epic-ly awesome month of travel, fun and socializing (East Coast wedding, reunion with high school pals in TX, Oktoberfest, an amazing beach wedding weekend involving s’mores, masks, and beer drinking in the ocean, and yeah, some World Series celebrating). Which means there wasn’t quite as much work being done as I’d like. So November has been dubbed “Nofunvember” in out house. At least no non-arty fun!!

Why the lock down? Well, Drywell Art will be in FOUR, yes FOUR craft shows this December.* And holy crap, they are going to be awesome. So I’m a busy bee right now, developing new arty goodness, taking over every available space in our tiny one bedroom apartment, and avoiding being buried under a sea of supplies.

The goal is to have some festive holiday cards, a full line of “Meat My City” posters (like the “San Francisco is for Carnivores” one), some fab originals, and some new tshirts. Another goal is to be posting some little glimpses into the insanity that is a holiday season for art folks on the craft circuit. I’m getting pretty excited!

*Want to know the line up?? Well, they are all in San Francisco

Thursday, December 2nd :: Handcrafted Holidays at Hotel Rex (late afternoon to evening)
Thursday, December 8th :: IndieMart at the California Academy of Sciences (evening)
Saturday and Sunday, December 10th and 11th :: Bazaar Bizarre at Fort Mason. (all day)
Saturday and Sunday, December 18th and 19th :: Renegade Holiday at the Concourse in Golden Gate Park. (all day)

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