We are super excited to be at the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall this weekend. (May 14th & 15th 2016). The market features vintage and upcycled products. They also have long term vendors in vintage trailers!
Hours:
Saturday: noon-7pm
Sunday: 11-4pm
Location:
5805 Airport Way South,
Seattle Wash. 98108
http://www.georgetowntrailerpark.com/
I’m super excited that I will have a booth for Paper Butterfly Forge at the Pioneer Square artwalk on May 5th, 2016. Urban Craft Uprising is coordinating the crafters and artists for the booths in Occidential Park in downtown Seattle.
Link to the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1580357975626422/
There will be about 40 booths with jewelry, art, photography, journals, bath products and more for the craft fair. It only runs from 5 pm to 9 pm, make sure you don’t miss out!
Edit: I had a great time and met lots of fantastic people. I’ve added a picture of my booth!
Yesterday, I was at the Fremont Sunday Market as a Vendor. Pretty cool! Well, it was raining and cold, so it was literally cold. 🙂
I showed up just after 7:30 am just after the Market office opened. Just under the Red Door were two cheery women organizing the market for the day. There was a clipboard for the signup and an second clipboard for the rules and regulations. Later during the orientations, I would be told to acknowledge all the rules, just not the ones we felt like following that day.
I wandered a bit before the orientation at 8:27 for new vendors. The street was a bustle from cars being towed, merchants unloading trucks, assembling canopy tents and getting their displays ready. I got a cup of coffee to off set the chill from a nearby coffee shop.
About 8:20 am I headed back and found a small semicircle of new vendors waiting. A bit of a chuckle as she chastised us that we didn’t need to back before 8:27 am. It was then it started to drizzle a bit. I wasn’t worried, I was planning on being on inside the parking garage. My book journals can’t stand having their feet wet, so it was a good fit.
We were asked to come inside so that we would be a bit drier. There was short orientation, description of fees, and more banter. Then one by one we were called up to the register where we issued our booth number and parking permit. After learning the traffic method, I retrieved my car and unloaded it near the mouth of the parking garage.
Once inside, I realized that many lights had been rigged to light up the garage. I’m too new to know if this is the Fremont Market or if the long term vendor have an astonishing array of bright lights.
I got to setting up and before I had finished customers were already coming into the garage. The rain was pretty thick at that point, and I was a bit soaked. I went off to put my car in the official parking. I ran back and got my feet soaked. (Next time, I’ll bring some thicker soled shoes to help with the puddles and to easy my feet during the long day.)
I settled in for the day. Lovely people came to my tabled and looked at the book journals. Kind things were said. The rain eased on and off. When the rain was the hardest, we had the most people inside the garage. When I went to a food vendor for a snack, I could see the street was a bit empty. Later, when it was sunny the market street was full of shoppers. Never say that Seattle shoppers don’t mind the rain. They were there, they were just hiding between the rain drops.
In an old social studies book, I found a photocopy of 1972 Newspaper article about banks switching to ACH Clearinghouse payments.
ACH payments are still used today between banks. They bundle up a large number of transactions and then send the net amount to the other bank. They also email/transmit a list of transactions for that amount.
It’s not quite the same thing as debit and credit transactions flying around via merchant services. However, there is a pretty good chance your payroll is transmitted to your bank account via ACH.
A reading or book journal can be a great way to record your thoughts and progress on reading books. Book clubs and other get togethers can be a fantastic way to interact with people about the same books, as well. Here are a few tips:
Is there anything else that you would add to this list? Your reading journal is about you and the books that you read, make sure that is included in your entries.
Feel free to add suggestions in the comments!
Sometimes we all need a little help getting started writing a journal entry. Here are twenty five writing prompts for journals:
I find all sorts of interesting thing while reworking books into book journals.
This mysterious stock quote was found in a Hardy Boys Mystery. Frozen in time, it appears to be from the 1980’s judging by the Holiday Inn stationary it was written on. I like to think a Eastern Washington business person was watching a stock quote show while reading his/her trusty Hardy Boy’s mystery from the 1960s. Hopefully they remembered to buy the stock!
This extensive note was found in a copy of The House at Pooh Corner. I love that it talks about philosophy and why studying it can lead to understanding your fellow man. Safely tucked in a children’s book that is also about philosophy and how to be a better person. 🙂
What will I find next? I don’t know! I’m looking forward to sharing more notes, notes from the past and funny bits on the blog.
Have a great day!
Why should you have a personal writing journal? The reasons can be complex and simple at the same time. A journal can help solidify a thought, call others into question, or be the new step in your life. A journal doesn’t have to be about writing, it could be doodling or drawing your thoughts and perceptions. Today’s art journals are also a stepping tool into the soul of the creator. They can be hand drawn, stencils, or collages. Each one is unique and reflects the heart of the artist or writer that created it. Starting off with a non-mass produced or altered book is a great way to kick off the creative process.
If you are going to create art on a book page, it might be helpful to add gesso or white background page to a book page to create a good background and to stabilize the page. Other’s prep by gluing pages together to create a stable surface.
Part of altering a book means letting go of any mistakes. In real life, I’ve rarely seen an altered book without what the creator would call flaws. On the internet, everything looks perfect and no mistakes are ever made. Letting go of the perfection ideals and creating a unique and flawed altered book is part and parcel of the creative process. Journaling is about acknowledging and giving acceptance to all parts of yourself, just not the perfect ones.
Pinterest and Tumblr are full of perfect journals. They are perfect for those other people. Are you creating a journal for Pinterest or yourself?
I enjoy creating blank canvas’s to launch other people’s creativity. Never mind recreating what I want, explore the process on your own terms and create your own unique journal.
I’ve been busy at working creating blank journals from books lately. It’s an extremely relaxing and engaging task. Find a cool book cover or VHS tape.
Find some cool paper that I would like to see in blank book.
Assemble the book and add a sturdy wire binding.
Paper Butterfly Forge is excited to add recycled books and VHS tape covers to it’s product line up! Keep an eye out for some of our new products on the website! As always we welcome wholesale and bulk orders. Custom Orders are just fine!
I’m pretty excited. I received all the tools today in the mail! Figuring out the whats its and how does this work anyway? It seems to be working really well though! Happy!
20% off regularly priced game tokens! Good through November 30th! Must purchase at least $25.00!
Hi,
Here is a sample from our R&D project to add images to the game tokens. The kickstarter funds should be released on Monday of next week!
Getting excited!
Laura
Paper Butterfly Forge is please to announce their first writing contest. Table top, role playing games, and traditional board games are an important social bonding experiences between family, friends, or that strange person at the con, who told the best jokes. This contest is about your positive experiences while playing board games with others. Did you discover something new about your friend? Impressive strategy? Perhaps you learned something new about yourself. In a 1,000 words let the world know about your pivotal moment that happened when you flipped that card, rolled a 1, or learned to lose gracefully.
Writing should be in up to a thousand words, should be about:
There will be one first place winner, $20.00.
How to enter: This contest ends at 11:50 P.M. PT on October 24, 2015. To enter online, send your entry to (1,000 words maximum), to zuffyrobot@gmail.com. If you cannot send in a word doc format, please send a text file. If entries are unreadable, they will not be eligible. To enter via snail mail, mail your entry to Writing Contest, Paper Butterfly Forge LLC, 9792 Edmonds Way PMB 126, Edmonds WA, 98020. Entries must be postmarked no later than October 24, 2015, and received no later than November 10, 2015. Limit three entries per person or e-mail account. Entries should be sent separately and cannot relate to one another. Paper Butterfly Forge, LLC is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, or incomplete entries, postage-due mail, or entries not received for any reason.
Void where prohibited.
The second Lore Bits Kickstarter is funded! We still have 24 hours to go! Order some shiny Game Tokens!
We are getting towards the end of the current Kickstarter campaign. Thank you to everyone who has pledged. It’s not quite funded yet.
I’m really looking forward to sending out two color Game Tokens.
Remember that the game tokens will also be slightly larger as well. 🙂
Have a shiny weekend!
Laura Dodson
(I have my fingers crossed that the project will fund!)
Kickstarter thoughtfully sent me an an email that I shouldn’t worry that the project has gone quiet. It’s the middle part and usually projects get most of their funding at the beginning and the end of the project.
I bought some glow in the dark paint yesterday, that I hope will work out. While the project has gone dark for now, I’m still busy doing R&D, looking for that perfect color of red, and busy making a holiday campaign for facebook.
For a project that I started in January of this year, I’ve been happy to ship out thousands of Lore Bits. The road is bumpy from time to time and sometimes you have to hold your breath. Especially when you have to order thousands of glass domes that will arrive months into the future.
I just got back from mailing some more packages out. The mail box person, just waved, took the package, and told me that she could see me coming.
I think that these shiny game tokens have legs and I will be shipping them out for a long time. I can see that coming.
Best,
Laura Dodson
This week Paper Butterfly Forge launched a second kickstarter to support resource tokens. We learned a lot during the first kickstarter project.
Product size: People like packages of ten. We will be adding that option to this website.
People were not that fond of the color pink. Not sure why, it’s a perfectly fine color. Maybe not for dnd, though.
Shipping payment issues. More people were willing to pay more for the tokens if I lowered the shipping prices. Okay……. I can do that!
We spent some R&D time on how to accurately add images to glass tokens. It’s not as easy as it sounds. I have to repeat the same image at least 1,000 times each year. It took some fiddling, but I have it figured out now.
The token size is also increasing. It makes it easier to make the image on the glass.
We added Peralikatuma to the free game boards here at Paper Butterfly Forge. It’s similar to checkers and is fun to play.
It’s free to download and you may use your own markers, if you like. Consider buying some Shiny Lore Bits, though!
http://paperbutterflyforge.com/shop/free-game-boards/peralikatuma-game-board/
It’s been a long road to get to this step. I’ve just started working on the final batch for the Lore Bits Kickstarter. It’s about a month late and there have been a lot of late nights. Unfinished Lore Bits even melted in a hot car! I hadn’t finished putting on the backing, but I wanted to get more finished during a long planned trip. Put them in a plastic box drove across town and when I checked on the, the paint was melting off the glass. I guess I should have paid more attention in high school chemestry. Turns out, if you heat uncured paint, it can reliquify.
But the end is in sight!
Free Solitaire Game!
Download http://paperbutterflyforge.com/shop/free-game-boards/solitaire-plus-game-board/
We will be adding new free downloads shortly!
Laura
The Lore Bits Kickstarter rewards are now shipping out!
I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now.
In the Kickstarter I allowed that people might choose which colors they like. There were a few winners:
It was interesting how many people wanted assortments instead of just a few colors. I will be adding assortments in few days to this website!
Best,
Laura
Making Silver Lore Bits today. I think the last of the kickstarter orders have come in and it’s time to make a dent in the to do list!
It’s a nice sunny day here in Seattle.
Have a great day!
Laura
