Icky in Brooklyn

The Clever Crafter's Fair will be happening this Saturday December 5th from 12pm-7pm!

It will be held Lenny and Me at 1459 N. Milwaukee location featuring local artists selling everything from knits to jewelry to fine art. There will be live music, treats, refreshments and a varied group of artists!





Come out and say hi! I'd love to meet you :)

I'll be at the Salt Rose Creations table, filled with one of a kind magnetic hair ornaments, fighting the battle against bad hair days.

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Those of us born to a black parent and a white parent have the spotlight in Barack Obama's America. Our president has openly discussed his biracialism in books and speeches, leading to a rich public discourse on what it means to be of mixed race in America. Popular culture is examining our struggles and rejections, our attempts to hopscotch the racial landscape, our unique take on loneliness.

But don't get too excited, people. The tragic mulatto still has a pulse.
Being biracial in a mixed-up world -- chicagotribune.com

She should write a book.

And a couple of holiday items. :)

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For the next few weeks, my shop is having a sale -- everything ships free in the US, and if it already shipped free, the price is cut. I am not taking commissions until January, but there are plenty of ready-made things available!

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Hope everyone is doing well this season and thanks for looking!

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[[ All the Copper Pennies In My Pocket. ]]

Pennies made before '82 (and the ones from early '82) were all copper. The ones from late '82 onward are zinc with copper plates. I handled so many, I can tell the difference. This book is made from 8 all copper pennies from my pocket, the week after I made the previous penny book.

These date from 1972 to 1982.


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This rhinestone necklace was inspired by luscious cotton candy colors! <3 Hope you like it! Check it out!

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Please do check it out!

Show someone you think they are the "fairest of them all" with our Snow white fairytale collection of necklaces, lockets and rings.

All our jewellery comes gift wrapped in either a beautiful organza bag or a gift box, up to you which :).




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I just finished making this reversible play mat turned toy bag out of these awesome 70's vintage sheets I picked up at a thrift store. Just pull on the drawstring to turn the whole thing into a bag that holds your toys until next time! Last year I made a million of these and gave them out as gift bags for birthdays and holidays with fun toy sets inside. At first mom likes them more than the kiddos, but the little ones come around pretty quick.

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Vickinator's High Quality Pinback Buttons and More!
A variety of 1 1/4" (1.25 inch) pinback buttons related to all forms of geekery :]

At her group therapy sessions for women despairing of low sexual desire, Lori Brotto likes to pass around a plastic tub of raisins. The women, usually six to a group, sit around two pushed-together beige tables in a fluorescently lighted conference room at the British Columbia Center for Sexual Medicine in Vancouver. A little potted tree is jammed randomly in one corner. Ragged holes scar one wall where a painting used to hang. The décor doesn’t speak of sensuality. That is the job of the raisin.
Women Who Want to Want - NYTimes.com

Daniel Bergner of the NY Times continues his saga of female sexuality ... what is it that women want?

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What would you send to your niece who really, really loves D. Gray Man? (I've never read it).

I've been looking at the manga gift-giving guides from this weekend and while there are plenty of recommendations for shoujo for girls and shounen for boys, the only crossover I've seen recommended is Otomen and since I didn't like that much I'm not sure she will either.

Basara? I dislike the art, though. Fairy Tail? The art is fab but the plot? Not so much.

She's not-quite 14 and my sister's daughter so I'd like to avoid anything too ecchi or ero. My sister is much more conservative than I am.

My mom already gave her a subscription to Shonen Jump so I think the shonen mainstream is already covered (iow, she's up tp date on Naruto and Bleach ...)

I really want to reach 300 sales before the New Year, so please tell your hot fat friends to check out my items! I also make bags and guy items:
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I am offering 16% off this weekend [Till Monday!] when you put "16%" in the Notes to Seller. So, if you've ever wanted anything, please get it now. :D thanks!

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On the drive home from Ossining and Thanksgiving with family (mine & Berit's) some kind of illness started in my throat. As it was a sudden inability to swallow, accompanied by fever and sweating, I was worried for a while that I had developed a sudden allergy to something I'd eaten and was having a reaction (this happened to Berit's dad a few years back -- developing an allergy to crab in his mid-50s, and discovering this while driving a car and passing out). Nope, just some nasty viral thing that is annoying, hanging on, lessened to a vaguely tolerable level by DayQuil and NyQuil, and which I've given (as everything like this passes) to Ms. Johnson.

I'd complain that this always seems to happen while we're in the middle of a show, but as we're almost always in the middle of a show, this should not be surprising.

In any case, the medicine got me through the ante-penultimate performance of Kitsch last night, which had a combined good/bad audience -- good, in that there was a larger number of people who got and enjoyed the humor of the show exactly as we intended; bad, in that there was a smaller group of people who were massively rude and noisy -- quite a few came quite late, stomped around, and then (some of the same people) talked throughout the show amongst themselves and kept (loudly, from the back row) going in and out of the theatre in pairs in the middle of scenes. One older gentleman was annoying for a bit in constantly getting up and leaving the theatre and coming back, but it became apparent that he was having coughing fits and was trying not to disturb other people -- he also had the foresight to sit where he could get in and out of the place without stomping in front of everyone. Alexis Sottile nicely chewed one couple behind her out at intermission for their incessant talking (I think I heard the words "this is not your living room" and/or "this is not television" in there), but they just seemed affronted that she had the nerve to say something to them. {sigh}.

In any case, between Thanksgiving, illness, the show, and Berit wanting control of the one computer in the house with internet access yesterday (it IS hers, after all), the weekly stuff's a day late. Whatever. I'm too sick to care.

Kitsch, Or: Two for the Price of One, as mentioned, has just two performances left, tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 3, and it's been going better and better, for the most part. I would say I'll be glad to move on and have some time off, but B & I don't get much time off immediately -- The Brick's Fight Fest starts up immediately after. Berit will be leaving the performance immediately after tomorrow to go over to The Brick to run the tech for Ten Directions' Deck the Hallmans, which she'll also be running board for on the run. Monday, I'm scheduled for an 11-hour shift supervising techs -- which will probably go longer, as things will go overtime, I'm sure, and I'm also the lighting designer on the last tech of the day, The Ninja Cherry Orchard. I'm also designing lights for Piper McKenzie's Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, which I probably agreed to offhandedly at some point and then forgot about until I saw my name in the publicity. It happens.

Between Hallmans, Craven Monkey, and Ninja Cherry Orchard, we'll be working with practically the entire extended "Brick Family" in the Fight Fest (except those who are saving themselves for Richard Lovejoy's January show), which will be nice. Almost wish I had a show in the Fest myself, but that would have been impossible this year. Have to work on the ideas and script for the show that came to me in a dream as a possible Fight Fest show in case the Fest comes back as planned -- Fat Guy Fall Down. A nasty little thing, that. Painful, unfunny slapstick. We'll see how this year's Fest goes . . .

And, on this late day, here's a weekly Random Ten from the 25,055 tracks in the iPod (with associated links, where available):

1. "The Joker Is Wild" - Jan & Dean - The Jan & Dean Batman Album
2. "Season Comes" - The Feebeez - Girls In The Garage Vol. 4
3. "Put You In The Picture" - Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers
4. "Remorse" - Gerald Fried - Star Trek - "Amok Time"
5. "Six Dreams" - The Seeds - Future
6. "Beeswing (live 1994)" - Richard Thompson - Two Letter Words
7. "Baby Wachadoin To Me" - Walter Davis - The First Days of Funk - volume 1
8. "P.A.S." - Scritti Politti - Early
9. "Dr. Strangelove" - WFMU - Station Promos
10. "And I'm Glad" - The Interns - Tyme Won't Change: USA Garage Greats 1965-1967

And no pictures, as the camera was stolen and the cats won't hold still for the iMac camera. So, back to being sick and resting up for tonight's show (and closing party, the day BEFORE we actually close).

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