Lavender festival at last.

Urban craft uprising radness

Last Sunday, we went to the Urban Craft Uprising. It was a bit small, but each booth had something really unique and creative. As much as I love the holiday market, and all sorts of Saturday markets, it was really nice to see something different. I know a lot of artists are wary of photographers, so I was sparing with my photos. But, I collected a lot of business cards, and have links to some of the cooler things we saw:

The Chalkboard Tee: www.thechalkboardtee.com (it works, and cleans off well. I love the apple!)
Becky Stern, general radness & LED's : sternlab.org (I especially like the white collar squids)
Figs & Ginger : figsandginger.com (pretty metal necklaces - checkout the sprouts & trees!)
Dave Sheely : www.davesheelydesigns.com (limpet rings - plastic is the new gold!)
Dotted Line Jewels : dottedlinejewels.com (Impecable)
Passion Flower : passionflower.etsy.com (shinky dink earrings. I got some of these! I want to try making them myself, too.)
Cake Spy : cupcakespy.com (cupcakes living on the edge)
Breidenstein Design : breidensteindesign.com (a fellow shopper used the word "epic", and I think that covers it. He did the goggles below.)
Made by Moxie : www.madebymoxie.com (brilliant felted monsters)

And best of all:
Ladies and gentleman home : ladiesandgentlemen.etsy.com. Jean Lee's etsy shop. She's a friend from high school and it was really good to see her! She's one of a few people I've been terrible about gettign in touch with since moving to Seattle. And, I highly recommend browsing her stuff. She's just... cool. Very very cool. But also super sweet :)







On our way to the UCU, we walked through belltown. I love the name of this cupcake shop!


Flowers at the Seattle Center. Normally, I'm not wild about most of these species, but I was won over by the overwhelming cheer of the entrance.


On of my clearest memories of visiting Seattle as a little girl is the Seattle Center fountain. It's Shoots huge jets of water up in the air randomly....


Then shots off. People run in cloes to the fountain...

Until it randomly starts up again, catching you in the spray. It's a genius design - makes the fountain more exciting, engaging, and sabves a little water to boot. The girl in the black dress was adorable - she was dying to play in the fountain, and finally even started edging towards it until her mom saw her, and made her come back & sit on the rail.



We arrive.


If Erik doesn't change this to his new facebook picture, I might have to hack in and do it myself...

Tiny monster in a tiny cage

Jar o'monster.

Apathy-face cutepins.


Afterwards, we took the monorail downtown. I wish it was a longer route, because it's full of windows, and a really lovely way to see the city.


My loot.... A flapper gnome hat. Electric blue is the new black, don't you know? (This idea still baffles me, but appears to be true....)


Some of those shrinky-dink earrings. lovely!

The new saturday market

Last weekend, We finally went to the UW area Saturday market. It's smaller than Eugene's market, but it's year round. They had a lot of northwest fruits and veggies, interesting plants, more flowers than you can shake a stick at, and some fabulous stuff in the food court. The food court literally kind of had it's own circluar court yard, and right next to it was a community garden. Next week, I want to get there before they run out of margarita pizza.