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Swap-O-Rama-Rama
Get rid of your tired clothes. Swap it or refashion old into new! A Maker Faire ticket plus any size bag of unwanted (but clean) clothes admits you to this textile paradise.
| Location: Cypress |
Bazaar Bizarre
Jamie Chan & Blas Herrera
Dissatisfied with stencils of country ducks and painted wooden slices of watermelon, a hodge-podge of friends started the Bazaar Bizarre craft fair in Boston in 2001. Seven years later this community based event is still growing in popularity and has now spread to Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Francisco, San Mateo and Austin! Bazaar Bizarre Maker Faire will feature over 90 indie crafters and designers from across the country. Approximately half of their vendors are new and emerging talent in the indie craft community. Expect to find a smorgasbord of handmade items, many cleverly made with recycled materials. Something for everyone - jewelry, toys, lotions, art, glass, fiber arts, ceramics, handbags, baby items, even crafting supplies.
| Location: Cypress |
miss velvet cream
miss velvet cream :for tomorrow's urban nomads:
San Francisco. miss velvet cream is the neo-archiac, styles that combine structure and silhouette from the past with modern forms, fabrics, and exceptional craftsmanship. miss velvet cream creates one-of-a-kind items, by hand in the SOMA atelier in San Francisco. Using sustainable, luxury and ethically-manufactured fabrics with recycled and reconstructed vintage piece, handwork, and silk-screening, each piece is a work of wearable art, each one completely unique. miss velvet cream will be presenting a "JEANS + T-SHIRT" mash-up fashion show on Saturday May 30 next to the Swap-O-Rama-Rama project.
| Location: Cypress |
Chikabird/randL
Chika Eustace & Jean Lee
All our products are designed and handmade in small batches in our Seattle home/studio. We aim to offer you casual yet distinctive everyday necessities and wear!
| Location: Cypress |
Urban Fauna Studio
Urban Fauna Studio is the brick and mortar of online fiber store Mary Jane's Attic. They sell indie made and eco-friendly fiber craft supplies and tools. The focus is on ecologically and socially considerate manufacturing practices (i.e. no-petrochemicals used, sustainable raw fibers and woods, biodegradable products, and recycled materials), products made in the US and one-of-a-kind items. Explore the world of knitting, spinning, crochet and felting with Urban Fauna Studio!
| Location: Cypress |
My Imaginary Boyfriend
My Imaginary Boyfriend is equal parts felt, cotton, and embroidery with a few dashes of silly, vintage, and sophistication thrown in for good measure. All items are made by Erika Kern with a focus on hand embroidery, painting, and applique.
| Location: Cypress |
HONEYLUX LETTERPRESS + PIE BIRD PRESS
HONEYLUX (www.honeylux.com) is an Oakland-based letterpress company, specializing in fine art prints and unusual stationery. PIE BIRD PRESS (www.wetfootpublications.com) is an Alabany-based letterpress company, specializing in colorful, vibrant greeting cards.
| Location: Cypress |
Sweet & Sour Goodies
A plush world of ninjas, gnomes, punk dolls and much more. Sweet & Sour Goodies is a small, independent business that specializes in "sour faced" plushies and other whimsical creations. Based in San Diego, Ca. plush artist Kristine Domingo spends her time creating patterns and working on the Sweet & Sour brand which ultimately represents "a sweet design with a sour disposition."
| Location: Cypress |
Kelso Doesnt Dance - Upcycled Wallets
Kelso Doesnt Dance is focusing on a line of wallets upcycled from old papers. They are made from actual newspapers, road maps, atlases, dictionaries and old birdwatching and gardening book pages. They come in 3 sizes, 6 styles and of course, each one is unique!
| Location: Cypress |
Roxycraft
Seller of amigurumi dolls, patterns and kits.
| Location: Cypress |
PIPEROID paper robots
PIPEROID is a paper craft robot that is made from paper pipes
with pre-drilled holes. All you need is a pair of scissors to cut, connect, and fold the pipes to form a cute unique robot without a need of tape or glue.
| Location: Cypress |
Wool Candy
Wool Candy offers sweet yarny treats!
Each skein of yarn is uniquely dyed, using a technique that layers many colors, one over another, to achieve the perfect, luminous and dimensional shade.
| Location: Cypress |
Vintage Inspiration
Vintage Inspiration offers delightful vintage button jewelry, vintage fabric supplies, antique and vintage framed memo boards and handmade sewing/craft buttons and embellishments from fabulous found fabrics. Visit Vintage Inspiration's space # 20.
| Location: Cypress |
ARCHICRAFT
As the sole designer and fabricator for Archicraft, Cindy Liu blends skills acquired during her 3 year stint in architecture school with her lifelong obsession with arts and crafts to produce a wide range of items that are a hybrid of modern design and handmade detailing with a touch of humor.
| Location: Cypress |
Lizard Press Hand Printed Letterpress
By combining vintage wood and lead typefaces with digital designs made into polymer plates, each limited edition combination is printed on an old-fashion vandercook proof press, each one pulled by hand, from a single run on the press to as many as eight. Lizard Press projects vary from rocking CD sleeves, inspiring broadsides, typographic greeting cards and intuitive artists books.
| Location: Cypress |
2Dy4...Revamped Vintage Jewelry Designs
Designer Dyanne Bolt creates unique and one of a kind, affordable jewelry from lovingly sought after pieces of the past.
| Location: Cypress |
Decades of Style Pattern Company
Providing beautiful vintage sewing pattern reproductions in many sizes. Sewing patterns from the teens up through the 1950s are offered.
| Location: Cypress |
Tactile: A Fiber Arts Studio
We make and sell naturally dyed yarns and fibers. We use sustainably sourced plant and bug based dyes. We also carry hand made drop spindles, orifice hooks, and shawl pins.
| Location: Cypress |
Mani Designs
The seedpods, flowers, buds and twigs in my botanical series are collected from my walks in the woods near my home. They are lost wax cast silver and gold originals of the actual flowers and branches that I gathered. This commitment to "live casting" insures that I must continually forage for or grow in my garden new material to be cast.
| Location: Cypress |
Sweet Meats
Sweet Meats are handmade plush objects that look like various cuts of meat. They are made out of super cuddly polar fleece (made from recycled plastic containers!), cotton quilting thread and poly fiberfill stuffing. All of the meats come in individual (toy) size and some also come in family (pillow) size. Sweet Meats also makes various other meat-themed items, such as shirts, aprons, buttons, cards and jewelry.
| Location: Cypress |
Planet Tokki
Planet Tokki is bizarre world where poos come to life, tofu men hide away in purses, and carrots have bunny faces. It is home to quirky creatures with their own stories and adventures. Planet Tokki is the brainchild of Hae Eun Park, an artist living in Los Angeles.
| Location: Cypress |
Jim Dandy's
Jim Dandy's consists of vintage and old school starlet inspired handmade feather fascinators.
Each item is uniquely personalized and comes fully equipped to fascinate the audiences of those who so choose to adorn their heads.
| Location: Cypress |
Ezme Designs
Ezme Designs is based in Oakland, CA and focuses on making small runs of handmade ceramic items for yourself and your home. Chanda Beck is the Owner/Designer and has a special interest in abstract depictions of nature with a retro feel. All of our dinnerware items are microwave and dishwasher safe. We will be a part of the Bazaar Bizarre!
| Location: Cypress |
Seattle Show Posters
We screen print gig posters and art. We like glow in the dark ink, happy sadness, and rabbits. Sometimes we print awesome shirts for awesome kids.
| Location: Cypress |
Absolutely Small
Absolutely Small is devoted to making truly odd, yet approachable plush creatures and art. We abhor straight lines.
Viva Chickenpants! (that'll make sense when you visit us- table 67, Bazaar Bizarre building!)
| Location: Cypress |
Martin Hsu Illustrations
Martin Hsu started his self-titled business in 2006 to create a channel for his silly ideas. He enjoys making t-shirts, illustrations, self-published sketchbooks, and original paintings. When Martin is not modeling for his own t-shirts, he works in animation as a character designer. Please visit his website for more of his artwork.
| Location: Cypress |
Jill K. in LA
Jill Kleinhans makes handmade greeting cards from her garage in Silver Lake, California. She employs the age-old technique of block printing. Starting with original designs, Jill then carves an individual block for each color. Every card is a lovingly crafted piece of art. Each card is hand-torn from large sheets of 100% cotton paper. All cards are paired with a bonus print on an eco-friendly envelope. Some cards are even embellished with a scratch-n-sniff scent!
| Location: Cypress |
my windup bird tshirts
my windup bird tshirts is an SF-based indie tshirt company specializing in creative designs based on the whimsy found in everyday life: bacteria, abandoned shopping carts, bikes, stencils street art and everyday urban fun. my windup bird is proud to participate for the third year of Bazaar Bizarre Maker Faire.
| Location: Cypress |
Leighelena jewelry
Leighelena jewelry is handcrafted in an ages-old process fusing metal and glass to create striking, color-infused accessories. Post-consumer and recovered materials are used in all levels of finished pieces.
| Location: Cypress |
Project TransAction
Project TransAction is a one-man San Francisco based independently owned screenprinting and leatherworking shop featuring limited edition tees, hand screened accessories, and high quality, handmade leather cuffs and belts. Eco-friendly, fresh, and indie.
| Location: Cypress |
Bug Under Glass
As a conservation biologist and artist, my mission is to protect, teach and display the beauty of insects. I spread, prepare and display insects into colorful and artful poses. In certain displays, insects are artistically displayed with stamps, maps, or currency of their country of origin. All of these displays are made with archival materials and built to last a lifetime and also include detailed natural history information about the specimen.
| Location: Cypress |
Matthew Porter Art
Matthew Porter will be showcasing his paintings, prints and products all featuring his infamous monkey world illustrations. Matthew is a children's book illustator and writer. He currently has three books published with Vancouver, BC publishing house Simply Read Books. An aditional two books are in the works for release in 2009 and 2010. In addition his children's books Matthew co owns Bluebottle Art Gallery and Store in Seattle with his wife, Andrea.
| Location: Cypress |
PenguinBot.com
PenguinBot is the creator of funky knit and sewn purses, tote bags, and housewares. Our unique designs are well-crafted, bright, bold, and 100% handmade.
| Location: Cypress |
Mediums to Masses
Sarah combines her love of the material glass with that of textiles to create her unique line of fused glass jewelry and table-wares. Vintage textile patterns are hand silk-screened onto each glass piece using ground up glass enamel. The multiple step process is one developed by Sarah. The resulting works give the patterns a second life while creating a juxtaposition of vintage with modern. Due to the variations in the pattern and the hand-made aspect, each piece will have a unique appearance.
| Location: Cypress |
TIME WELL WAISTED
At MOZANIACS we are CRAZY about Mosaics, so much so that we won't leave home without one! It is the inspiration behind our "Wickedwhipz" Belt Buckles. We love what we do and our passion shines through. Wearable Art - Why not! A Mosaic Art Show ON-THE-GO. At Mozaniacs, our logo is "we don't waste anything, we waist everything"!
| Location: Cypress |
MsCraftypants
Purveyor of quality baby gear for modern families. New DIY Kits for Maker Faire: make your own blankets, robots and mobiles, oh my! And for the baby on the go, you can get changing pads that hold your diapers and wipes inside. Bright colors make them easy to find anywhere.
| Location: Cypress |
Schmancy
Kristen Rask
Handmade baby bibs, pouches, pins and button rings. All made by Kristen Rask, owner of a small store in Seattle called Schmancy.
| Location: Cypress |
Hambone and Jennicakes
Aprons, eye masks, pincushions, and all matter of quilty pleasures!
| Location: Cypress |
Beyond Wonderland
I make quirky bags and accessories using Japanese and hand screened fabrics. Every item is carefully designed and made by hand.
| Location: Cypress |
Rx Designs & Pretty Fun
Well designed jewelry made from stones - and items made using cool images on paper that are applied to wood, most items are double-sized, the are super fun and versatile.
jewelry, toys and more.
| Location: Cypress |
PenguinBot.com
PenguinBot is the creator of funky knit and sewn purses, tote bags, and housewares. Our unique designs are well-crafted, bright, bold, and 100% handmade.
| Location: Cypress |
doubleparlour
We will be bringing our prints and handmade polymer clay sculptures. We are a husband and wife team of local artists from San Francisco, CA. We make art and crafts items influenced by natural science, human emotions and architecture. DIY rocks!
| Location: Cypress |
Foxy Monster
Fully Reversible Fuzzy Bear Hoods. Instantly spreads smiles, love, and goofiness, while keeping heads and necks warm.
| Location: Cypress |
miss velvet cream :for tomorrow's urban nomads:
miss velvet cream clothing is one-of-a-kind items, made by hand in the SOMA atelier in San Francisco. Combined with the vision of the past and the present, manifesting here and now, is an exceptional commitment to quality fabrics, construction and workmanship. Each piece is a work of wearable art.
| Location: Cypress |
Pollyannacowgirl Designs
Vintage plastic, Czech glass, buttons, and toys become unique wearables with that special Pollyannacowgirl touch.
| Location: Cypress |
Chicks & Frogs
We lovingly hatched a whimsical line of clothing for haute chicks & future princes. Celebrate the joy and humor of raising kids.
| Location: Cypress |
Bread and Badger, LLC
We create home accessories for people who want crisp, bold designs with a nod toward current pop cultural trends. Our glassware is sandblasted using stencils based on our original digital and hand-drawn artwork. Our high quality new and recycled materials offer affordable, usable artwork for everyone.
| Location: Cypress |
The Weekend Store
Adjowah Brodie
At The Weekend Store, we take great pride in creating something out of nothing. From discarded typewriters, broken watches and long forgotten books, we make simple & clever jewelry.
| Location: Cypress |
Passion flower
A lovely jewelry line made completely out of shrinky dink plastic. Using color, stones, strings, wire, some imagination and an oven, this plastic is transformed into magical pieces of wearable art.
| Location: Cypress |
Muffin Castle
What is Muffin Castle? Right now, we just make sexy tees and maybe a little art here and there. Our tee shirts are printed in Mike's garage after work and on the weekends. We exclusively use American Apparel tees and hoodies. They're soft, easy to print on, and have great colors. What more can you ask for?
Our goal with Muffin Castle is to make shirts that we want to wear ourselves. The clothes we make reflect our style from the shirts we print on to the colors we use and everything in between. We take pride in our shirts and our designs because they reflect who we are.
| Location: Cypress |
Burning At The Seams! - Cool Finishing Technique
I will teach a finishing technique that hems via flame.
| Location: Cypress |
The Crafty Scientist
Dayna Mankowski is The Crafty Scientist. The Crafty Scientist is a maker of things that infuse science with craft--'Failed Experiment Earrings', one inch buttons with geeky laboratory themes, beaker candles, and laboratory yarns and batts are some the the fiber experiments she does in the Experimental Design Lab.
| Location: Cypress |
Recover Your Thoughts
Journals made from discarded library books.
| Location: Cypress |
party dress!
using a tube and a circle from any old thing we will use the fabric to turn things gone by into a conversation piece.
easiest using 2-3 t-shirts or sweaters or stretch pants.
we will make a skirt that can also be a dress!
a piece that wears three different ways
with a minimum 2 seams and some finishing magick can happen!
a circle skirt/ dress with slouchy tube waist, booty cover or tube top dress is the final result.
can be embellished or finished in many ways.
inspiration and direction provided.
| Location: Cypress |
Bossa Nova Baby
Cathy Pitters
Cathy Pitters runs Bossa Nova Baby out of her flamingo pink craft bunker in Portland, OR. She creates one of a kind clothing and accessories using a Japanese Gocco printer, her trusty sewing machine and a little vintage inspiration.
| Location: Cypress |
AC Clothing and Bags
Amy Cools
*lovingly designed, meticulously crafted clothing and bags for women who love comfort & beauty, artistry & quality, style & fun
*timeless and edgy, flattering and playful, easy to wear and artistic pieces that are set apart by exciting details, specialty and vintage fabrics, and fresh & unexpected conjunction of elements
*meticulously crafted of contemporary and original vintage yardage, buttons, & trims
*all pieces are produced in limited runs; each item is a rare piece to add to your unique & adventurous style
*all-original designs are designed in Oakland, California & produced in-house or locally: they're sweatshop-free!
| Location: Cypress |
Sasha Bell Jewelry
Sasha Bell
Sasha Bell is a Canadian born silver smith and jewelry designer having most recently returned to this passion full time since moving to Los Angeles this past year. Her desire to create jewelry and work with precious metals was first piqued at the Kootenay School of the Arts in B.C. Canada where she completed a 2 year program of small object and jewelry design. She is a designer on the well known Etsy website and also sells her jewelry at many stores throughout the US. Her style is both modern and edgy with an organic feel presented in soft brushed finishes and deep patinas. Through her jewelry design process, she intends to create completely handmade miniature wearable works of art to be treasured by women of all ages.
| Location: Cypress |
NifNaks
Nifer Fahrion
NifNaks makes hand-crafted wearable art, adorable critters, and other curiosities. From custom case mods of USB drives & Desk Pets™, to funky scarves & prosthetic mustaches, all of our cute, fuzzy creatures and accessories are made from 100% merino wool. NifNaks makes everything using wet felting and needle felting techniques.
| Location: Cypress |
Like Minded People.
Like Minded People. is an independently run shirt company whose aim is to provide folks out in the world with conscious messages and imagery as an alternative to much of the emptiness being produced today. "You are what you wear" and "Body as Billboard" are all along the lines of belief of Like Minded People. and that is why we strive to come with life inspired conscious ideas.
We believe clothing should be about the clothing, how it makes you feel inside and out, not the status one might feel it brings. We let the clothes speak for themselves.
| Location: Cypress |
Xylocopa Design
Andrew & Michele Waser
Andrew & Michele are Xylocopa Design, a husband-wife team dedicated to the creation of wondrously fun things from wood and other natural materials. Best known for our award-winning Mad Science Alphabet Blocks, we use everything from lasers to hand carving tools to build our unique collection of jewelry, toys, home decor, musical instruments, and much more. All our creations are designed, illustrated, and produced by us in sunny Tucson, Arizona.
| Location: Cypress |
Trashlings: Toys from Trash
After helping folks sew from swappables at Swap-O-Rama-Rama in 2006, Homeygrown discovered piles of scraps from many projects. What's better to do than re:use!?!? Dig through swappables for your body, sew and stuff with scraps, and give your Trashling a personality with buttons and bottle caps. Fill out a birth certificate to officially adopt your Trashling!
| Location: Cypress |
Go Robot!
Go Robot! is the creation of Oregon-based techno producer-turned designer, Stuart Breidenstein. He uses combinations of materials, from the precious to the discarded, to create one-off jewelry and odd objects. With help from his robot pals, he churns out funky stuff until the wee hours in his backyard laboratory.
| Location: Cypress |
Nous Savons
Jocelyn Nguyen
Nous Savons has alternately been described as "the opus of a 114-year-old grizzled sailor back from the heart of darkness," and "If Anthropologie set up a flagship store at Grey Gardens." We always feature reconstructed clothing and jewelry, but our interests often veer off into unrelated tangents that are, somehow, quite relevant. Come delight in the latest indulgence: heirloom seedlings and all the supplies you need for an urban fire-escape garden.
| Location: Cypress |
eleen :: good stuff * hand made
Eleen Hsu
eleen.com offers a smart, fresh and playful collection of carefully constructed, limited run handbags, pouches and home accessories made of high quality designer cottons, felts and vinyls. Our products will add a skip to your step and give you a stylish way to stash -- and strut -- your stuff!
| Location: Cypress |
Pearson-Maron
Adam Maron and Quincy Pearson are full time artists and kitsch peddlers. They make work individually and together under the name Pearson-Maron.
| Location: Cypress |
DIY Sewing Station Star / Mechanical Genius.
Sea Pony Clothing, Fati Beloved
I have taught basic sewing for years and have come to realize that sewing is NOT about practice makes perfect its about troubleshooting.. knowing what NOT to do and what to look and listen for . I am here to guide and direct in the world of stitches.
I will also be participating in the fashion show.
| Location: Cypress |
Milkbomb Kids Clothing
Milkbomb is a kids clothing line featuring quirky and fun slogans and designs.
| Location: Cypress |
rethreaded
Open-source website that allows people to share d.i.y. projects and skills to help counteract the effects of fast fashion.
| Location: Cypress |
Dutch Door Press
Dutch Door Press is a letterpress & design studio in San Francisco that specializes in eye-catching, bright and colorful wedding invitations, birth announcements, personal stationery, greeting cards and limited edition prints. Dutch Door Press designs blend modern design with patterns and icons inspired by the traditional folk art of northern Europe.
| Location: Cypress |
DIY Basic Troubleshooting & Problem-Solving Station
I will have finished pieces/garments on hand ranging in style and purpose.
As questions arise about "how to..." or, "what do I do when..." ,
I am ready to demonstrate and provide a better understanding of construction and technique.
| Location: Cypress |
Polly Danger
Polly Danger is committed to bringing cuteness to the world of utility. Her utility aprons, project totes, handbags, kits, bias tapes and luxuriously adorable stationary are just some of the cuteness to be found at Booth 34 near the Sewing Stations in Bazaar Bizarre!
| Location: Cypress |
prismPOP
prismPOP focuses on good design while remaining kind to the environment. All prismPOP products are guaranteed to be printed on recycled paper and printed with soy inks - yet attention never strays from a clean and sharp aesthetic.
| Location: Cypress |
Thank You For Not Being Perky
Laura Henry, of Thank You For Not Being Perky, has been sewing since the dot com bust of 2000. She lives in Oakland with her husband, two cats and son and sews fantastic spats in all sorts of styles, from short and casual to tall and glamorous!
| Location: Cypress |
The Donut Lounge
The Donut Lounge: plushies, pins, paper goodies, and more! Everything yummy, cheesy, and cute from a hungry closet otaku.
| Location: Cypress Baz Biz 91 |
Tara to the T
Tara to the T is the result of designer Tara Tonini combining her passion for accessories, vintage fashion and unique personal sense of style into a vintage inspired line of clothing and accessories.
| Location: Cypress Baz Biz 92 |
L.V.I.S.B.F.
Livermore Valley Illegal Soapbox Federation.
In early 2008 a group of four friends decided to take the inspiration we found in the San Fernando Valley Illegal Soapbox Federation and start our own group up north. A year later, and after a couple months of racing our group has expanded to include about 10 racers.
| Location: Cypress Outside 715 |
Pandora's Trunk Storytime Runway Show
This group of local artists and designers presents a twisted re-construction of a traditional runway show. Each group of models become thematic characters in a narrative whole. This story will include live string accompaniment, reconstructed and recycled clothes from ten different designers, as well as a pair of audio dresses that each comprise either a speaker or a microphone, and create feedback and music as they move about.
| Location: Cypress Outside Stage |
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