Holiday Heap: A Not-to-miss Craft Show & Raffle!

The Charm City Craft Mafia's 5th Annual Holiday Heap Craft Show will take place Saturday, December 3rd at St. John's Church (2640 St. Paul Street) from 10am-5pm. This year's fair will have 65 of the best local and national crafters, as well as a yarn-spinning demonstration by Three Ravens. This year the Charm City Craft Mafia's raffle will support Arts Every Day, a Baltimore non-profit whose mission is to strengthen learning by making arts education and cultural experiences an integral part of the education of all City Schools students. The raffle will feature two baskets heaped full of goodies plus a third raffle to win illegible ink's "The Animal Alphabet" print (a 24x36" linocut with watercolor detail) perfect for an alphabet lover of any age or your favorite K-8 teacher!

Can't wait to see you there!

Only 14 hours, 56 minutes and 31 seconds left...

I don't think you can live within a 60-mile radius of Baltimore and not know about the huge deal that is coming to our city this weekend: The Inaugural 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix. And while I see on the website that many of the hospitality packages are sold out, I'm pretty sure the majority of us know about the race not because we're huge racing fans but because we can't get from Point A to Point B downtown.

While I think our favorite ink spot is too young to enjoy the race (even though he does look super adorable in his noise canceling headphones) and Mr. ink will clearly be too exhausted from driving throughout the countryside trying to get home to enjoy the race, I am trying to have a positive attitude. And these Knob Creek Metal Arts Welcome Signs for $16.99 each surely put me in a festive mood!

So grab a bushel of crabs, some drawn butter, a tin of Old Bay and a Natty Bo' and let's hope the Baltimore Grand Prix is such a huge success that we forget all about the hours spent in traffic gridlock! After all, we just survived the 2011 Quakicane!

It's COMING!

I know summer is on it's way usually in June because of two things:

1. Cucumbers are almost ready to be harvested for cucumber margaritas, cucumber salad and cucumber soup; and 

2. A giant "pile of craft" is staring at me from the living room.

Be sure to come visit the illegible ink family this Saturday, June 25th from 10am-5pm at St. John's Church (2640 St. Paul Street). There's sure to be a new fox print!