If it’s beer or bourbon, you’re awesome. Also, you’re drinking a ton of grains.
New art, available at Pot + Pantry, starting Friday! I couldn’t get a great shot of them all framed and pretty, but rest assured, they are all framed up and pretty. (black 11 x 14 frame, with white mat, if you’re curious.)
“Bourbon Pictogram” – 8.5 x 11 watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.
“Beer Pictogram” – 8.5 x 11 watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.
Hey hey! This Sunday I will (finally) be participating in the Cole Valley Fair. I’ll have the schlep my art and booth all of 1 block from my apartment, so I’m pretty excited about that.
Fun fact: the Cole Valley Fair was in full swing on day we went to the open house for our current apartment 5 years ago. We were so excited to be in such a cute neighborhood. Lots of cool vendors, live music, stuff for kiddos, and food to eat. (I’m kind of in the food section, towards the far side of the street fair, which is appropriate)
Cole Street, between Carl and Grattan (I’ll be between Grattan and Parnasssus).
Sunday September 23
10AM – 5 PM
Stop by and tell Steve the football scores.
For the last week here at Drywell HQ, our motto has been “Always Be Printing.” Why?
Yep. In one week, Drywell will be taking the show on the road, to the first out-of-California craft show – Renegade Chicago. It’s the 10th anniversary of the Renegade Chicago show (and where it all began) so we’re so pumped to be a part of it. (Plus we hear those Chicago folks are a meat-lovin’ bunch.)
Pumped, but also a little freaked out. Because we’re flying, this means we have to change our entire booth set-up and pack it all away in a few suitcases. Eek! Luckily, at the Los Angeles Renegade show, our booth neighbors were traveling craft show veterans Strawberry Luna and Girls Can Tell. They both gave us some great tips on traveling, and we’ll be stealing, ahem, adopting Strawberry Luna’s hanging poster set up for the Chicago show.
So if you’re in Chicago, or know anyone there, come on over and say hi. We’ll be on the south side of Division street, between Damaen and Winchester. Oh — and any food recs for while we’re in Chicago? I’d love to hear them!
September 8 + 9 , 2012
Wicker Park, Chicago
all down Division street.
Last night after returning from dinner, I inexplicably and suddenly began to wonder when my quit-aversary/”alyson’s independence day” was coming up. A few short minutes of searching emails later, and my answer was that very day! Severe spidey-tingling on my part. So Steve and I broke out the good stuff (a barrel-aged Manhattan for me, Pappy Van Winkle for Steve) and toasted to one of the best decisions I ever made. The life of the self-employed can be frustrating, but good god it feels so much better than being stuck in an office.
And a sincere thank you to anyone who has come out to a show, bought a print, or brainstormed meat puns with me. Onwards!!
Hello hello! After a slooooow start to the year, my hand is on the mend, and I’ve been working non stop on a pretty amazing illustration project for the last couple of weeks. There’s also a pretty cool show that I’ll be participating in on Saturday, so if you’re in the Bay Area, you should stop by and say hi!
You may have noticed that West Elm has partnered up with Etsy, featuring many Etsy artisans in their catalogs over the last few months. They recently have taken the partnership a step further, hosting Etsy shows within West Elm stores. Here in the Bay Area, West Elm partnered with Victoria of sfgirlbybay, to curate a show with 10 Etsy creators. I’m beyond thrilled to have been one of the chosen vendors!
This Saturday, from 1-6pm, stop by the West Elm showroom in Emeryville for the We Heart Handmade Event. There will be the 10 Etsy vendors, free refreshments and a DJ. (Gotta have a DJ, right?). Check out the full list of vendors here, and rsvp here. (not necessary, but just for them to you know, get the right number of cupcakes)
Happy New Year pic by Kimra
Happy New Year, meat lovers!
We took a much needed break from December 22 until January 2nd, involving much San Francisco-based festiveness, crabs, families, a trip to Dallas, and then New Year’s with friends in a house up in Cloverdale in Sonoma, CA.
And now that we’re back, I’m raring to go, but sadly my body is not cooperating. Too much computer time, poster rolling, and art making in the last few months has left me with washwoman’s wrist, aka, gamer’s thumb, aka tenosynovitis. Basically, big time pain in my wrist, thumb, and index finger of my money-maker hand. I’m on doctor’s orders to rest it (and also eat a lot of ginger, turmeric, and rosemary) so expect a blog lapse for a couple of weeks here. After that, I’ll hopefully be back in fighting form, ready to kick ass in 2012!
Apparently lots of people can’t get to any holiday shows, because Drywell HQ has been overwhelmed with online orders! Happily overwhelmed, I might add. It’s been absolutely vital to have Steve on board this holiday season, as it has been busier by oh, a factor of 3!
But for those of you who’d like to shop while wearing clothes, sipping cocktails and looking at live penguins, tonight is your night! For the second year, the California Academy of Sciences is holding a holiday gift show at their last Nightlife event of the year! Tonight, from 6-10, over 40 of the bay area’s most awesomesauce vendors will set up shop inside the museum for a really fun event. I loved this one last year. Drywell will be set up in the African Hall – that’s where you’ll find the aforementioned penguins and dioramas (which make a MOST excellent backdrop for photos… just sayin’)
Tickets are only $10 (available here) which is a STEAL since the whole museum is open, and tickets are usually $20+. Speaking of 20+, this event is 21+ so leave the little ones and high schoolers at home.
Oh, and did I forget to mention the live reindeer? because they will be there.
Thanks to everyone who came out to Bazaar Bizarre last weekend! It was a great way to kick off the holiday season, despite the one vegetarian heckler who visited our booth. We thankfully had some beers from nearby City Beer Store so the awkwardness quickly faded.
Would you rather have some delicious food and tasty beverages while you shop? Well, this is your weekend for sure.
On Friday, December 9th is the 3rd annual La Cocina Gift Bazaar, from 5pm to 9pm, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (Mission, at 25th). La Cocina is an awesome local food business incubator, which provides support to low-income food entrepreneurs as they formalize and grow their businesses.
If you love food, or are shopping for a food lover, you seriously don’t want to miss this. In addition to food vendors (both take-home and eat there, like Wise Sons Deli pastrami, mmmmm….), there’s going to be a “tamale alley”, featuring tamales from around the world (there’s no way that it won’t be delicious) and a pretty crazypants live auction. This should honestly be a ton of fun. There is also a silent auction going on RIGHT NOW online.
We’re talking things like:
And like, a WHOLE lot more. Insane, right? You should totally come. Check out more details, including information on the eBay aution, here.
After you’ve had your fill at La Cocina, you should also hop on over to the Holiday Market Market trunk show at Rare Device, from 6pm to 9pm, featuring work by my biz ladies pals, lemonade handmade, Kendra Renee, Sharon Z Jewelry, 1.by.liz, Casa Murriguez, Bird vs. Bird, and Noteify. There will also be a raffle and a paid gift wrapping station to benefit 826 Valencia. Rare Device will also be offering 15% off all of their regular merchandise (excluding the trunk show and art show). At 1845 Market Street @ Guerrero.
And Saturday afternoon is the final New Taste Marketplace of 2011, at St. Gregory’s Church, 500 De Haro, from 12 to 5 pm. This will be the normally awesome foodie grazing paradise, but now we’ve stepped up our game and have transformed this into another one-stop-shop for the food lover on your holiday shopping list. This market, there will be arty vendors, including Geraldine Adams Art (selling food related art prints of illustrated recipes, vegetables and wine map of France), The Heated (durable, non-toxic and good-looking flour sack towels and market totes), Faerie Goatmother (all natural organic goats’ milk soap and face masks), Flock Home ( hand-printed linen dinner napkin sets, cocktail napkins, coasters, pillow shams, pin cushions, and tea towels), Buttons & Pears (funky aprons and hot pads), and me! You can also meet Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, authors of Mission Street Food Cookbook, and pick up a signed copy.
There will also be over 30 food vendors, selling take home treats like bacon caramels from Nosh This, pickles, coffee and tea, as well as “eat it there” food, like pastrami from Jablow Meats, dumplings, cheese balls and more. Check out the full line up here. There is a sliding scale entry fee for $0-$10, with proceeds going to the Food Pantry at St. Gregorys.
Whew! I guess I better get back to work now! Hope to see you there.
So very excited to announce that I’ve partnered up with Thrillist Rewards to create a set of three, limited edition, and EXCLUSIVE prints. These are part of the “cheeky meat” series that I created back in May for the art show at Pot + Pantry. Thrillist contacted me a couple of months ago to create a new print for their new Thrillist Rewards Holiday Shop. I’m an overacheiver/insane as I immediately blurted out that I could do three new pieces.Oh, and I could complete them in 7 days.
So after days of meat pun brainstorming* and non-stop hip-hop, here are the new designs.
They are $20 each, which includes shipping. Each is signed and numbered and ready to rock. Get em here.
The original pieces are also available on Thrillist for $125. The originals are 6 x 6 watercolors, on watercolor paper, mounted on fiberboard. They are ready to hang and look pretty awesome.
*thanks to Steve, Donna, and Kimra!
Just wanted to pop in to let all the San Francisco people out there know that this weekend is the Bazaar Bizarre Holiday Craft Show, and I’m so psyched to be vending there! This is an even bigger event than last year and has moved to the Concourse Exhibition Center, East Hall, in SOMA. More details are here.
My mom is flying in tomorrow to help out with the show which is super exciting! We’ll be holding down the fort in booth 98, right down the middle aisle, next to Chronicle Books. Hope to see you there!
