Mad about MAD

Grand Opening this weekend with free admission!! Booya
Formerly the American Crafts Museum, this is the country’s leading repository of contemporary crafts in clay, cloth, glass, metal and wood. It changed its name to emphasize the correspondences among art, design and craft. In 2007, the museum will move to a new locale in Columbus Circle. Browse the gift shop for unexpectedly stylish jewelry and ceramics.

Eco Colour: botanical dyes for beautiful textiles

This book by India Flint is an amazing way to dye things using eco friendly materials.

For now, go have a look at India Flint's other work here and here are a few pages from the book bigger here.

suagr and i are best friends

robot cupcakes.. i've died and gone to sugar heaven..

Naomi lives in Australia, is a post graduate uni student who programs robots to play soccer by day and a 'cupcake ninja' by night. These are the best things i have seen all day. oh how i wish i could sink my teeth into you.

robot thumbtacks

oh my, robot thumbtacks i must have these.. this was a sweet etsy find!!
I think i might be venturing into the outer limits of my robot obsession.

fireworks

fireworks, originally uploaded by batixa.

awesome origami

show pony

This was an awesome find on etsy. I really dig the tea towel that says "do the dish".. i think i need this in my life, especially because that has always been my chore growing up and even now with my boyfriend that is my chore as his is taking out the trash.

this weekend

silkscreening on paper

Silk screening on paper is fantastically fun.
I've experimented with making business cards out of the papers I've screened.
They usually come out to be unique sizes which can be good and bad i suppose.
Just a few example.

the brooklyn flea market

Went to the first day of the new brooklyn flea market. It was a bit small but what can one expect for a borough with little space. I wouldn't call myself a serious flea market shopper but i was a bit disappointed by the LACK of junk that was present..
It was however the first day and vendors are likely to change when the weather gets better. It just seemed like the same old crap you could get on any street on a Sunday in williamsburg or the lower east side. I am not sure what i was hoping for, maybe a section of 80's t-shirts that said "lifes a beach" in neon or jimmy z brand jams. In any case i will have to check it out again when the sun is shining and the wind is not freezing my fingers and toes off.
http://www.brownstoner.com/brooklynflea/about/



I did however buy one thing. This pretty little necklace by Erica Weiner.
http://www.ericaweiner.com/
I have been eyeballing this sucker online for months and since i felt like i
needed to buy something to justify my bike ride in the cold there i got it.