craft night at king's books on thursday!

hosted by my friend jen tomorrow night at 6:30!

mirka hokkanen will be teaching plastic plate lithography.
her blog explains everything you need to know about the craft.

go to the king's books website to pre-register!
it's only $20 and it's going to be awesome!

on a side note-
the first TIFL and ITAC craft fair will be SEPTEMBER 19th!
get excited.

we will be starting to look for artists to participate starting next week-ish.
if you are or know anyone who is an artist/crafter you can get in touch with me at
megan.irving@gmail.com.

thank you tacoma weekly

thank you to the tacoma weekly for the love and support.

dawn quinn from the weekly recently interviewed my friend, operator of TIFL, and partner in crime,
jen adams.

it is an amazingly kind and supportive piece
which you can read HERE.

jen's 2x yearly craft and artist show is not only amazing,
but also a fundraiser for causes she's behind.

i count myself very, very lucky that her and i have teamed up to put on our bi-monthly craft fair
starting in SEPTEMBER!!!
it's coming up fast!

we have so many great ideas that we're bursting at the seams.
and thanks to king's books all our dreams will be coming true.

no looking back now.
we're onto something great.

xo,meggers

iTAC love

i am one tired gal.

i decided that today was the day to get some serious work done on my indieTACOMA website.
i'm still learning what the heck all this html stuff is,
but i have to pat myself on the back for how much i actually accomplished
without a web genius supervising.

it's nowhere near done.
but it is a lot farther along than i thought it would be.

wanna see?

okay, go here:
www.indietacoma.com

what do ya think?
still needs a lot of work, i know.

i found a website with a ton of vintage wallpaper samples
and fell in love.

i knew i had to have them in my life
and the website seemed like the perfect spot.

i also made a few buttons to link from the website to facebook and twitter
{when i actually get those set up}

i think these are my overall favorites and the ones i will use.

favorite things today

even though i've made some big purchases lately

and given myself some pretty hefty goals
i'm still really enjoying some of the little things in life.

today spending time with these little ones made me soooo happy.
coming back home to tacoma always takes my breath away.
i see the beauty in this misunderstood place every time i make the drive.
i've been drooling over this poster for months now.
i'm pretty sad they're all sold out.
MAKE MORE!

i'm so excited to be starting my very own charm bracelet.
i think i want it to be mostly about crafting and art.
i got these at one of the vendors at the sanford and son saturday flea market!
{p.s. i'm hoping indieTACOMA will be able to be on the first saturday of each month along with the flea market! that would be awesome!}

tea!
i can't go a night without it.
the next thing on my wish list is a grown up tea set!
this one is to die for,
but all her other sets are amazing as well.
i could go on all night like this,
but today this is the stuff that made me smile.

i hope you're smiling too!

xo,meggers

slacking in the name of art..

i was supposed to clean out our junk closet today to make room for all my art supplies....

yikes!
{intentionally blurry to save your eyes}

but....

instead i got distracted by all my pretty fabric paints
and decided to do more screen prints :)

first layer down
all of these are at various points of completion
i also started my owl screen!
i was procrastinating on this one because it's going to take many layers of mod podge to make this baby print clean lines
normally i wouldn't encourage such fine lines with homemade screens unless you have a lot of patience
{which i don't}
but i really like this design so i'm sticking with my goal

this is how it looks after the first layer

you can see a lot of areas where i will have to go back with my teeny tiny paint brush and the glue to thin the print lines.

it will look pretty neat on some tea stained pillows and towels when it's done, though.

and.....

if all goes well i should be breaking ground on my indieTACOMA website this week.
if it weren't for a couple brilliant friends i would have been lost in internet la-la land with no website to be found.

i know some really amazing people.

xo,meggers

oops!

i guess i took a little blog vacation.

not intentional, of course.

my mind has been twisted and wrapped around so many 'to-do's' i can't remember what i'm supposed to be doing.

i've found it very meditative to start drawing everyday.
i used to do it all the time, but sometimes life can get in the way.
i think i'll use some of these to get back into watercolor painting.
i found some really awesome paintings floating around the internet and i got inspired.
i haven't used this medium in a very, very long time.
and even then it was for various art classes and not because i wanted to be using them.
they're difficult!
{not unlike me}

i'm just going to dive in.
what's the worst that could happen, right?

my indieTACOMA project is moving along!
it's all happening so fast and with relative ease,
but i'm not as scared or frantic about it as i thought i would be.

wait until i set the date of the first show and have to go through all the vendor applications.
i'll probably be singing a different tune. :)

i took a couple shots of the venue where the craft show will be.
quality is low because of the silly iphone camera, but you get the picture.

looking toward the back of the speakeasy

from the stairs to the front of the venue.
this space is great.
open and airy with tons of natural light.
if all goes well we'll probably be using half of the upper section for vendors as well.
my initial goal was 25 artist, but it may be possible to fit more than 30.
that would be pretty neat.

actually, this is all pretty neat.

xo,meggers