Emily August

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I'll be selling my handmade-from-vintage pillows, Feather Button Hair Combs, and vintage clothing & accessories from my Etsy shop. I'll also have copies of my CD and my old zine Ricemilk on hand. Admission is $5 which gets you admission to the museum exhibits, access to the holiday shopping event featuring the Jersey City Craft Mafia and _gaia Collective, and finally a LIVE performance by Mayor Jeremiah Healy who will be perfroming Holiday tunes. We are also joined by two local DJs, including one Rory Nugent who you may know and love!

Please visit the museum web site for directions and info about the current exhibits. jerseycitymuseum.org

Here is a link to the Facebook Event Page.

For art lovers, holiday shoppers, green-enthusiasts wanting to ‘buy local', and anyone interested in cool, unusual and hard-to-find gifts! Enjoy hot cocoa in the café and be the first to support this unique sale! Co-produced with The Jersey City Craft Mafia and _gaia, Designer Days is timed to give a jumpstart on holiday shopping. This year's sale will offer a wide variety of jewelry, home accessories, wearables, vegan bath and body creations, and one-of-kind gifts from regional artists. Mingle with your friends, grab a cup of coffee or tea from the museum's cafe, meet the artists, and find cool gifts!




Leave the malls behind and do your holiday shopping at Jersey City Museum! Join members of the Jersey City Craft Mafia and the Ladies of the _gaia collective.

$5 Admission fee gets you a day at the museum with two floors of unique holiday shopping, music, prizes, and fun.

Shop the handmade wares of the following artists:
:: Emily August ::
:: Howdy Sailor ::
:: Jason Gluskin ::
:: Cecile Raley Designs ::
:: Christina Alessi ::
:: Katrinbird Designs ::
:: Red Delicious Things ::
:: Lollibomb Beauty ::
:: Kiva Ford ::
:: Hello Again Vintage ::
:: Megan Gulick ::
:: Sweet Ruination ::
:: Metal Cloth + Wood ::
:: Wittdoc Creations ::
:: Pollie Barden ::
:: Doris Cacoilo ::
:: Melissa MacAlpin ::
:: Art Plus Crafts ::
:: Beth DiCara ::
:: Danielle Fotopoulos ::
:: Agnieszka Wszolkowski ::
:: The Stockinette ::
:: Cake + Torture ::
:: Damaged Tees ::
and more!

Make sure to be there around 3PM, because there will be a special performance by our very own Mayor Healy! You do not want to miss this.

With music by DJ Rory Stroganoff and DJ Motorfunker of WPRB

On the weekend of October 3rd, the Jersey City Craft Mafia manned a tent in the rain during the JC Village 4th Street Art & Music Festival in Downtown Jersey City. The day was almost completely rained out, but we stubbornly held our ground, hanging plastic sheeting and banding together to fjord the massive puddles in the parking lot. In spite of the rain, there were two stages of music, lots of vendors, and a lot of festival goers that came by in support once the rain let up. It was really terrible as far as sales go, but I made the best of it, and after the sun went down, I packed everything up and came back with friends to catch more music.




Johanna of Metal Cloth & Wood



Yvonne of Cynthia Raley Designs


Illustrator Katherine Ramos


Christina Alessi of Sparkletree


And of course, my stuff for sale from Emily August.
This is my lovely roommate, Allison of notenoughspoons.com, who sat with me through the rain and hung out most of the day at my table.  Rory also got up early, helped me haul my stuff to the venue, went and got me breakfast, and hung out for a bit as well.

The lovely green tablecloth on our table was embroidered by Johanna's grandmother.

I only had time to take a picture of one band before my batteries died, and I happened to catch Dancing Tony from Rock-it Docket in the act of video-graphing the scene!




Other items of note from the day:

• Thomas from Made with Love Bakery lent us his tent and helped us set it up.
  
• I met the lovely and kind and amazing Marc Frydman in person, finally.
  
• 8-bit music maker Natty Adams was amaaaaaazing. Chip tunes for all.
  
• I met one of the boys from Thomas Francis Takes His Chances who just moved to JC and seem to be loving it.
  
• Dancing to Desmond Dekker in the rain.

So, I painstakingly spent my Saturday afternoon getting high on epoxy fumes and losing track of time as I carefully placed guinea hen feathers and buttons on bridal hair combs. Though I also made a few headbands, my focus was held by the subtle differences between downy under-feathers and larger plumes, the way the light catches a small red button held against a giant black one. It was glorious.

Thankfully, I also had an amazing night out both Friday and Saturday to counter-balance all of this hardcore craft-nerd time.

I plan to bring these with me to the April 26th Art Attack in Jersey City, so if you are interested you are just going to have to pay me a visit! Check out the craft mafia web site for more info on the craft fair.

Preparing for the LITM craft show this weekend. I've made a few feathery hair things, stapled a pile of zines, and ordered lots of copies of my CD-r from Monotone Records, but I am proudest of these vintage linen pillows sewn from rescued flea market remnants in fantastic shape. They are luxurious and took a lot of pressing and detail work.



I'm also pretty stoked on my banner, even if I DID get epoxy on it this weekend. Argh.

Anyway, wishing I didn't have to do my real job for the rest of this week because I'm so excited for the craft fair! I can't wait to stamp out some tags for pricing, and figure out how I'm going to bag my wares! See you at the show (pretend I just sang that at you like I am the lead singer in a pop punk band)!