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You're Invited: Weave App Breakfast Group This Friday May 27th in San Francisco

May 24th, 2011

Intuit is looking for a group of creative business owners to test drive the Weave App in person! They’re interested in getting your first impressions & learning about what you would need from Weave to make it the app for your creative life!

Some details:
– You DO NOT need to have the app currently on your phone to participate. We’ll bring it to you!
– Don’t own an iPhone? We can provide one for you to use while at the group
– We’ll only need about 30-45 minutes of your time

Participation will entitle you to a $25 Visa card, coffee and snacks!

We would like to meet with around 5-7 people some time between 9-1PM this Friday May 27th 2011 in San Francisco. Once we confirm some interested people and most popular time slot we’ll confirm an exact cafe location in San Francisco that works best for all those participating.

So if you’re interested in helping us out and giving feedback on this new application please RSVP via this

Doodle Link: http://www.doodle.com/7bkrkvccku3n49iu

Please make sure you leave your name and e-mail when you RSVP in the Doodle and select start times that work best for you! Thanks.

Time To Weave: iPhone App For The Crafty Business

May 23rd, 2011

Try A FREE App For Your Business & Get A BBSF Art Print

Looking for a way to stay on top of everything you have going on? San Francisco Bazaar and Intuit invite you to beta test a new FREE app, Weave.  Everything you need to do, everywhere you need to be, anything you need to know, this app was designed to keep you on track!

Weave was developed with the crafty business in mind and we want your feedback!

The first 50 beta users to sign up through San Francisco Bazaar SF get an awesome Limited Run 5×7″Art Print by Local Artist Cody Vrosh (value $10.00) sent to them as a thank you.*


Whatcha waiting for? Time to get your creative life organized, online and on the go! Sign up today, don’t forget to mention San Francisco Bazaar in the comments section… http://weave.intuit.com/weave/

*We’ll send you the free art print in 5-7 business days by USPS first class mail after your registration is complete.

Non-profit Looking To Share Sewing Studio

May 14th, 2011

Sweet Dreams Co-op Looking For a Renter To Share Studio Space

We are a nonprofit organization that provides sewing & fashion design classes to young women in San Francisco. Our studio is approximately 600 sq feet and is located in the Mission District at Hampshire and Mariposa St. in a secure, artist studio building. Sewers, crafters, and designers we are looking for you: monthly rental preferred but will consider hourly agreement. Dry media only.

Studio includes:

– Two large cutting tables and two tables for machinery

– Sewing machines available for use, including industrial

– Cutting mats, rulers, iron & ironing boards, dress form, etc.

– Kitchen with refrigerator, microwave & toaster oven, sink, utensils

– Wireless internet

– Small storage space

Availability: now. week-day/night and week-end time, when classes aren’t in session, goggle calendar upon request

Rates:

– Hourly: $15 or $25 with use of machines?

– Monthly: To be negotiated

– Security deposit

Please contact us if you are interested or have any questions!

415-552-5770 or e-mail: staff@keepturningheads.org

Sponsored Workshops by Hambly Studios!

November 13th, 2010

Our fabulous sponsors Hambly Studios will be offering a series of awesome Make & Takes at San Francisco Bazaar SF:

Notepads – Create a unique notepad using a selection of Hambly’s popular products and learn how to bind it together using a hair tie and bamboo skewer.

Paper Garland – Play with punching out a variety of papers, fold them and string it together to make garland you can hang anywhere.

Notecards – Learn how to line an envelope and use an overlays as card. Great to use for lining cards for the holidays, weddings or baby showers.

Overlay Pinwheels – Create a pinwheel using our hand silk-screened overlays. You can make it as a pin and wear it, or hang it as an ornament.

Rub-on Bracelets – These fun bracelets are fun to make and wear everywhere. You’ll get a blank wooden bracelet from DIY Bangles and we will cover it with an assortment of Hambly rub-ons.

Moustaches on a straw – Learn how to create these quirky Moustaches on a straw. These are perfect for you next party and use our popular moustache rub-ons.

Projects range in price from Free – $2 donation per project. All of them are guaranteed to be fun and full of potential for your gift-giving and decorating needs!

About Hambly: Hambly Screen Prints is a silk-screening studio, creating innovative products for the papercrafts & diy industry using fresh and funky designs. Stop by our booth and meet the designer Allison Kreft Abad as she teaches a wide variety of creative Make-N-Takes. Enjoy this coupon code for 10% off your online order at www.HamblyScreenPrints.comCoupon Code: Bazaar10

Creature Comforts – show at Lower Haters Gallery

November 12th, 2010


Come out and play this Friday, November 12
at Lower Haters gallery in Lower Haight from 7-10 pm!
Reception for Creature Comforts,
a show of the very talented Martin Hsu and Grant Gilliland

The show runs from November 12th to December 8th
597 Haight St @ Steiner
http://lowerhater.com/

Meet Our Sponsors: Meylah!

November 3rd, 2010

Today we want to introduce you to Meylah, an ecommerce solution specifically built for creative entrepreneurs.  Meylah is devoted to the creative community to provide the best solutions for individuals to learn, share and support each other’s business growth online and they have created an easy to use and integrated solution specifically built for creatives to launch and manage their online business through blog-powered storefronts.

While there are already millions of creative entrepreneurs online, there are still millions of others that are staying out of the online space because setting up, running, and managing current ecommerce solutions are difficult and intimidating.  Meylah’s blog-powered storefronts are easy to use and offer a unique solution for creative professionals to connect, grow and support their customers allowing novice users the ability to launch their business online quickly and build it for long-term success.

Meylah believes in the relationship between community and sales and many people are growing their own substantial communities (and customer bases) online using social media tools like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, but have limited means to sell to these same communities that they are building. Even the easiest-to-use plugins for these platforms are difficult to setup and manage, and none of them offer an experience that integrates community building and selling as its core purpose. With Meylah, you are building a community and selling to them in one integrated experience.

Meylah’s extensive market research has shown that across any online venue or platform, people with good design and media skills sold their products way more frequently than the competition while people with very poor skills sink to the bottom quickly.  Meylah feels that it shouldn’t be a strike against a great artist or crafter if they don’t have experience writing HTML or using Photoshop. Meylah’s templates are designed to enforce good design behavior, minimizing the competitive disadvantages and they make it easy to present everyone’s work in a beautiful, optimized format that puts the focus on their work, not on how well they can use software.

For more information about Meylah, please visit their blog, take their tour and check out some of sample storefronts of current members.  And, Meylah is celebrating their 1-year anniversary this month so they are giving away 1-Year Premium Memberships for FREE (a $240 value) so use this promotion code (MEY1YF ) when you sign up to build your storefront and hurry, it won’t last long!

10/17 – Co-op Designer Fair & Capsule Design Fair in Hayes Valley

October 16th, 2010

WHAT: RAG Co-op Designer Fair & Capsule Design Fair in Hayes Valley!

WHEN: This Sunday, October 17, 11 am-5 pm

WHERE: RAG Co-op — 541 Octavia St (between Hayes and Grove St. — San Francisco, CA 94102

WHO: 14 local designers on sidewalk in front (some new/some current hawking their wares- great deals, more merch- so stock up for the holidays!) and 80 designers in booths around the park in Hayes Valley for the Capsule Design Fair   www.capsulesf.com

Designers at RAG This Sunday:
Casa Murriguez  www.casamurriguez.com
Dark Heart  www.darkheartjewelry.com
Foat Design  www.foatdesign.com
Greenray   www.gogreenray.com
{LITTLE HUNTER} SAN FRANCISCO www.littlehuntersanfrancisco.com
Mad February
Maducca
Mahoohoo  see Mahoohoo on Etsy!
Maryann Milburn  www.maryannmilburn.com
The Brown Banana  www.thebrownbanana.com
Tidal Wear Jewelry   www.tidalwarejewelry.com
Vanessa Viray of Paragraph  see Paragraph on Yelp!
Velvet Otterhound   www.velvetotterhound.com
Yukako Ezoe/ Bahama Kangaroo  www.yukakoezoe.com

San Francisco Bazaar new ETSY street team

September 6th, 2010

San Francisco Bazaar has started a new ETSY street team in order to showcase the amazing products we make and sell and build some community.  Would you like to become a part of the team?  If you have participated in San Francisco Bazaar and want to become part of the ETSY team, email Kevin at Bugunderglass@mac.com with your ETSY shop name.

Kevin Clarke www.bugunderglass.com
A Green Certified Business

fiftyseven-thirtythree Grand Opening Party

April 27th, 2010

fiftyseven-thirtythree Grand Opening Party…

will be held on May 1st, 2010 (May Day) at very 1st store located on Piedmont Avenue between 41st & Linda.

We will be showcasing our line as well as Young Punks. First 50 guests to the party get free limited edition fiftyseven-thirtythree tees. Party starts at 7pm

Food & Drinks will be served. Beats by DJ Tibbs and Lankston

*** All in store purchases on Grand Opening Day will receive 25% off and Store will be open 12-6 and reopen at 7pm to late (510)547-5733

How to Find Responsible Manufacturers to do Your Craft Production

January 10th, 2010

Many professional crafters have thought about outsourcing their production at one time or another.  But if you’re a “solopreneur”, you probably don’t have the time or money to visit factories or cooperatives overseas.  So how can you tell which manufacturers are responsible companies, and not toxic sweatshops employing underpaid toddlers?  One way to start narrowing down the list is to look at international manufacturing certifications.  These certifications are awarded by independent, international, non-profit auditors, who inspect manufacturers’ operations so you don’t have to.

There are number of different international agencies that provide myriad certifications, but here are a few of the most relevant ones to get you started:

Though the ISO no longer publishes an annual list of certified companies (which blows, by the way–please fix this ISO!), many national and state governments/NGOs publish their own lists, which are easily Googled.  Here are some (not always current) lists for the U.S., Canada and Thailand.

The ICTI does have a database for factories that are CARE-compliant, but the search fields don’t seem to work very well.  I recommend clicking “Submit” without entering or choosing anything, and just browsing the list.

The FSC has a fully functioning, searchable database.  Hallelujah!

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