Spring Handmade Cavalcade Coming Soon!

Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 5th, for the much anticipated Spring Handmade Cavalcade! Nearly thirty of the best New York City artisans will be selling jewelry, clothing, toys, paper goods, housewares, and more.

In the next couple of weeks, look out for blog posts from our wonderful sponsors! A special thanks to our overall sponsors, Etsy, Outright.com, Square, and Lion Brand Yarn Company. Each of these companies contribute to the work of handmade artisans in very special ways, and we look forward to highlighting them.

In the meantime, please take note of the event details:

Location: Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street, Brooklyn (between 3rd and 4th Avenue)
Date: Saturday, May 5th
Time: 11am - 5pm


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Karina
Windows of Agate

Where to Find The {NewNew} on Oct 4 + 5

Drop by the Brooklyn Indie Market this Saturday for decoupaged jewelry by WabisabiBrooklyn, and - or skirt from our very own skirt fairy Fofolle .

Also on Saurday is the PLG Arts 3rd annual ArtMart where you can find handmade soaps by Dirty Loves Clean, paper goods from CollectiveElements, jewelry from Yaniamor and Silkscreened clothing from BetterThanJam.

SUNDAY:
Drop by our booth at the Brooklyn Flea for original artwork by AlleneLaSpina, illustrated cards by MShoelace, and beautiful antique inspired jewelry by AdornmentsNYC.

G to Clinton/Washington. More directions here.




And also on Sunday - come out and check out our Team presence at the Atantic Antic. we'll be lining Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and handing out these handy maps so you can find US ALL!! Here is our vendor list:
KimmChi, YoursTrulyxoxo, LoveForever, Cakehouse, MayLuk, Fubabee, Yaniamor, NordeaSoaperie, Waisze, BeadScarf, vyphuisdesigns, DewOnAPetal, BeaconBookmarks, BlueStitchBooks, Jantar, KnitKnit, BetterThanJam, KarensMonsters, MetalSugar, WabisabiBrooklyn, Fofolle and TheHandOfFatima.




-Kimm
KimmChi.etsy.com

The {NewNew} September wrap up!

Handmade Cavalcade
We hosted our first event! This one up in Beacon NY - The Handmade Cavalcade. It was a resounding success! Customers coming up from NYC and the town stopping in to say hi and shop. Search Handmade Cavalcade on flickr for our photos. So now we have a website set up and mailing list for our future Handmade Cavalcade's so tell your friend's and join our mailing list to stay current with news.

Contest:
We've started a Monday giveaway! And it's been great. We've had prizes donated by LoveForever, KimmChi, LittleLoveBlue, BlueStitchBooks and ThirdFloor so far this month. All you have to do is blog about the item to be entered to win the item! Check back on Mondays for new contest and last week's winner's.

Blog:
September was all about display and home in a promotion we like to call Nesting. we got tons of posts this month (really increasing our site traffic as well) with great How-To's from cakehouse, RedBridge, SaltAndpaper, lapistolera, Fubabee, LoveForever, KnitKnit, KarensMonsters and WabisabiBrooklyn. The posts ranged from how to display jewelry, mementos and object arrangements to how to make a bath mat out of an old towel and how to organize, cook and even buy your own home!

Press:
Sept 25, 2008 - Pulp Sushi is the Featured Meme at Sweet Figments.
Sept 18, 2008 - WhipUp.Net loves Cakehouse's tutorial.
Sept 17, 2008 - SimplyKnitting reposts a link to MayLuk's tutorial.
Sept 15 2008 - EastOfNYC blogs about SarahKathleenWarner and AdornmentsNYC .
Sept 12 2008 - ThreadBanger reposts a link to WabisabiBrooklyn's post about green cleaning products.
September 8, 2008 - Pulp Sushi is featured at Glamasaurus
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Stay tuned in October as we take over Atlantic Avenue at the Atlantic Antic (Oct 5) and for a FREE sock Monkey Making workshop at the Etsy abs with all monkeys being donated to FreshArts.Org. (Oct 25)

-Kimm
KimmChi.etsy.com

The {NewNew} E-mail Event Newsletter

The {NewNew} York Etsy Street Team Now has a nifty e-mail newsletter for you locals to keep track of our upcoming events.

Our next event being on Saturday, Sept 13, 1 - 8pm, The Handmade Cavalcade
Main Street + N. Cedar in Beacon, NY
Look for further event announcements for our Team hosting a Holiday show...

Fill out your e-mail address to receive our newsletter!

July Team wrap up

Though it was HOT and this summer is 3/4 over we still remained busy as every - being active in the New York markets and looking ahead to fall.

All of July our blog promotion fit a loose theme of Indie*Pendence which members interpreted in different ways. Posts by KimmChi, BeadScarf and WabisabiBrooklyn gave recommendations to shop indie - supplies, coffee AND designers. PulpSushi reviewed a recent Indie craft book she enjoyed. Fubabee gave us some great marketing tips for your independent business and KarensMonsters stressed why it's important to support Indie designers. LoveForever reported on surviving being a freelancer while MayLuk interviewed Indie Designer Mommies. And CollectiveElements was inspired to conduct a whole series of interviews with several popular Indie design blogs who all gave us some insight into their businesses and tips on getting noticed.

Team Member Press
July 2 - MetalSugar on Cupcakes Take the Cake!
July, 2008 - ThirdFloor on Handbag Designer 101.
July 9 -MetalSugar on WHAT!, reviewed for her great puzzle piece necklace.

July Meeting
Our July meeting was hosted by the lovely Cakehouse where we started our fall event planning for a Team Event in Beacon NY as well as discussed opportunities at the South Street Seaport and got updates on our presence at the Brooklyn Flea and printing of our Team catalog. Dates to put in your calendars - SEPT 13 - Handmade Cavalcade in Beacon - DEC 13 - {NewNew} holiday Event!

Live! And in Person
We continued our rotation at the Brooklyn Flea, including AlmaStoller, SpinachNPeace, RedBridge, and Peppersprouts into our regular vendor rotation.

And we also look to expand our presence in other NY venues and perhaps plan some markets of our very own.

Published!
Our very own LoveForever published Complete Embellishing! You can take a look at her recent crafty projects in her flickr pool.
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In the coming months look for The {NewNew} to take it on the Road! organizing trips to Philadelphia, DC and hosting our very own event up in Beacon - The Handmade Cavalcade comes to you September 13. Email handmadecavalcade@gmail.com to be kept up tp date with event information.

Also you can look for us on August 24 to be selling supplies in an extra space at the Brooklyn Flea thanks to the driven Karen of KarensMonsters who is organizing the one day sale of fabric, paint, beads, yarn and other crafting supplies.

Fall is right around the corner!

-Kimm
KimmChi.etsy.com

June Team wrap up!

June's blog promotion saw a week of father's day and grad posts by WabisabiBrooklyn, KimmChi, LuxSugar and YoursTrulyxoxo, with stories of crafty dad's and crafty gifts for dad. The rest of the month, we focused on crafting on the go and travel inspired crafting from KimmChi, WaiSze, WabisabiBrooklyn, Collective Elements, Luckx4 and KartDesign. Also with a great Gocco tutorial from FadingFlowers.

The Team, Live and in Person
We continue our rotation at the Brooklyn Flea in June, with new tents and happy hearts. We have added new members into the rotation including PresenceOfColor, KMStitchery, LuxSugar, Beadscarf, HelenFitz, Kopah, KreatedbyKarina, BeaconBookmarks and FadingFlowers.

Cakehouse, Metalsugar and BetterThanJam all participated in the Renegade Craft Fair on June 14 and 15 in the Williamsburg handing out some team promos for us and selling their wares in the hot hot sun and intensely crazy rain.

KimmChi, Fubabee, Beadscarf, KMSitchery,NordeaSoaperie, Yaniamor, KarensMonsters, WaiSze, Fofolle, and wabisabiBrooklyn all participated in The Seventh Heaven Market down 7th Avenue in Park Slope where they were in a series of blocks designated "Handmade".

Team Member Press

On June 27 and 28 Meredith of Fashiontary blogged about KimmChi at the Brooklyn Flea.

On June 16, Craftzine featured MetalSugar in their wrap up of the Renegade Craft Fair.

Mayluk was featured on Shine on June 1 on in Junior Society on June 10.

On June 3, staff writer, Marilyn Perez of VenusZine picked The {NewNew} as her staff pick of the week.

The {NewNew} cares!
Team members KimmChi, Cakehouse, BShorr, ArtByIris, Fubabee, Honorata, Jantar, Loveforever, and MiraArtz all got together to create and donate a charity gift basket full of productions from their shops to the Third Annual Juice Box Auction Fundraiser.
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Coming up - look for the {NewNew} on the road - going out to Philadelphia to The Philadelphia Independent Craft Market and possibly planning our own event up in Beacon.

-Kimm
KimmChi.etsy.com

The {NewNew} Team Events

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Nov 13 - Teams Around the World Trunk Show in The Etsy Virtual Labs. 7PM SHARP!
Nov 16 - {NewNew} Day at the Brooklyn Indie Market from 11 to 7
Dec 6 - Holiday Handmade Cavalcade, at the Knitting Factory 10am to 5pm - 74 Leonard Street

Each SATURDAY two of our members, Fofolle and WabisabiBrooklyn bring you the Brooklyn Indie Market at Smith and Union Street, Carroll Gardens. The Indie Market is open from 11am to 7pm.

Each SUNDAY our members can be seen rotating participation at our space at the Brownstoner Brooklyn Flea at Lafayette between Clermont and Vanderbilt. A/C to Lafayette Ave, G to Clinton/Washington Ave. The Flea is open from 10am to 5pm.

Coming up this week....

Thursday the 20th is the first day of spring!!!!

(the spring flowered pouch pictured is from oktak)

--If you're looking for activities to do with kids, on Saturday the 22nd there will be a spring-themed make-your-own-bookcover workshop run by the NYC Parks Department. It's free and takes place in Central Park.

--Macy's flower show is going on this week. If you've never been, the main floor of the 34th Street Macy's is fully decorated with flowers... no need to shop, it's just fun to get a taste of spring.

--Make Workshop on the Lower East Side is holding a class on Saturday where you'll learn to make a leather clutch, including the basics of working with leather using a regular sewing machine. On Tuesday the 25th you can learn to sew a pillow.

--On Saturday evening March 22nd 3rd Ward in Brooklyn is holding a discussion panel on women in art photography, focusing on what it's like to be an emerging NYC photographer and the influence of gender on art photography.

--The Art Director's Club Paper Expo is taking place Wednesday the 26th at the ADC Gallery on West 29th Street. Receive paper samples and learn more about printing.

--Joanne-----