After a month and a half...

Whoops. How quickly a month and a half go by! Especially when you're busy doing stuff. Karen and I have been bouncing all over DC, MD, and VA doing super scrap-related things. Here's a quick update:

• 10/9 River Front Fest-We made bracelets out in the sun all day, watched kids and adults patiently and very artfully string beads, listened to a bunch of bands (quite the variety), decided a pop-up tent is a good idea for outdoor festivals, premiered the SCRAP banner that our intern Melissa made
  
• 10/16 ReCREATE-Attended the opening of the Center for Green Urbanism that celebrated with a fantastic display of recycled art. The kind of art that really wows me. I'm tapping Karen on the should every two seconds saying "LOOK!".
• 10/24 GreenFest-Well, we weren't officially on the docket, but we both scoped it out! Karen bought cool stuff. I enjoyed the free samples.
  
• 11/7 BIG donation day-We racked in 585 pounds of stuff in just one day. Let's call it the big Virginia drop. Way to represent VA.
  
• 11/9 SCRAP-to-go Kits-Karen and I played with all the donations and made the colorful kits that contain bits of fabric, paint samples, colored pencils, buttons, lace, yarn, pipe cleaners, thread, puffy paint, whatever! Very, very fun to make.
• 11/11 Artists Boutique Opening at the Mind + Spirit Center-A great place that has made space for artists to show and sell their work. Want a crocheted handbag made from plastic bags? Repurposed jewelry? Screen printed bags? Check out the boutique!
  
• 11/13 Trash to Treasure Green Craft Fair-Headed out Watkins Nature Center in PG County for a super day of making stuff. SCRAPpy bracelets were accompanied by SCRAPpy stationary. Creativity was bouncing off the walls. And we got 61 pounds of donated materials that day (some REALLY cool stuff like homespun yarn and colorful synthetic fur material!).
  
• Other: Conference calls, graphic designing, space investigation (the trail is hot!), more supply pick-ups, compiling email lists, meeting up with other creative reuse enthusiasts, going to cool events around DC

Next up? DC Craft Mafia's Holiday Heist at the Soundry in Vienna, VA. Get shoppin'!