The First Annual Astoria Craft Party Inspires Creativity

The first annual Astoria Craft Party was held Friday August 24th in the Fort George Lovell Building.  A steady stream of party participants hammered, glued, painted and assembled, crafting new treasures from salvaged housing materials, recovered pallets, and myriad other raw materials recycled and ready for reuse.

Astoria inspired repurposed stenciled pallet art, from Maison de Stencils, was a huge hit among party goers.
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Olivia Meik, of Olivia's Rag Dolls and a member of the Astoria Sunday Market Biz Kidz, shares her passion for creating rag dolls with a fellow youngster.  Be sure to stop by Olivia's booth at the Astoria Sunday Market.
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The many youngsters and young-at-heartsters constructed one-of-a-kind repurposed cabinet door chalkboards, stamped personalized silverware, and stenciled handbags and pallet pieces. They also adorned picture frames with "broken glass", assembled fabric dolls, and learned methods for dying fabric accessories. Vintage maps, old magazines, and decorative paper goods were recycled into envelopes, tags and pinback buttons. Party-goers ventured into the parking lot between the Lovell Room and Brewpub to help a local blacksmith forge iron wall hooks and participate in woodburning, around the block to blow glass ornaments at Fernhill Glass, and toured the surrounding city on a photo walk. 

Vintage Hardware taught attendees how to use salvaged goods to create beautiful items for the home like these repurposed cabinet door chalkboards.
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Attendees mingle and enjoy the atmosphere at The Astoria Craft Party, held in the Fort George Lovell Building.
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Kamichia Kinzie, of Glass Float Junkie and a vendor at the Astoria Sunday Market, helps party goers create one of a kind stamped silverware.
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A big thanks to all those that helped organize this amazing event - Fort George Brewery, Vintage Hardware, BurlapandHollyhocks, Christy Chaloux Photography, Fiber Arts Academy, Hammered Forge, Kamichia Kinzie, Maison de Stencils, Olivia's Rag Dolls, RaggedRedFiber and Revamp Homegoods.


Interested in planning the 2013 Astoria Craft Party?  Shoot us an email at astoriacraftparty@gmail.com or message us on Facebook Page.