What I Did for Earth Day

Where have I been lately? Oh ...here, there, and everywhere . Etsy, I love you, but you published my sake face all over your internets. I have been working on all this right under your noses, or while standing on them. Or maybe I've never even seen your nose...

There is no need to wax poetic any further, but Blogity demands the inside story. So, the night after giving my presentation on the environmental impact of crafting, Leslie, EJ and I were hanging with Rachel at her loft. She was tying up some lose ends in the office and yells at me to get in there, but I'm more fascinated that Leslie and I brought the same pair of pants. Finally, Rachel strong-arms me into her desk chair with an open e-mail on the screen in front of me.

It was from the editor-in-chief of Craft:
... they want me to speak at Maker Faire.
We jumped around and drank a lot of port wine.

The next morning, I get an e-mail from my editor at Crafting a Green World offering me the position of head writer! I couldn't stomach more port, but walked a couple blocks to get good coffee. Mind you, I am in the middle of downtown San Francisco this whole time, not far from Haight-Ashbury. Upon returning, Etsy asked me to write that article for The Storque, and I'm slated to publish another in the November issue of Craft. This was an odd conflict to address. I actually left a lot from my talk out of the Etsy article, so it's definitely not the whole story!

So, in about a week, I hop on a plane to California once again. If you will be at Maker Faire, I know that I'm speaking to the makers on Thursday, to everyone else over the weekend(not sure yet on my time slot), and performing a craft demo called "Geurilla Pattern Making" on Sunday at 3. Come throw fruit at me.

It's ironic that we had an earthquake in Illinois between my trips. What was I doing? Thinking that since I had to work at the coffee shop the next day, I would hear a lot of people talking about what they were doing at 4:30 in the morning. I wish I'd been doing something cool, like meditating in a meadow or having sex.

If you want to do something cool besides those two things, you could contribute to The Eco-Crafters List of Demands on Crafting a Green World, or make tire sandals. The rest of my day will be spent designing a backpack with Boober on it. I might even make it with stuffed legs that hang down to show off his adorable Fraggle Toes.