We’ve spent the past couple of days brainstorming our button setup, and the countdown is fast approaching for our first UNIQUE LA attendance! We will be having a table right across the food stalls, and are terribly excited to meet all of you! We’re getting ready with a brand spankin’ new button display setup, which I’ve been sanding and painting the past few days. Hopefully I don’t mess up since I think it’ll be the coolest thing since sliced bread!

Stay tuned for more updates as December 5 and 6 draw near, we will be announcing a few event giveaways for those in attendance that weekend!

Skip the mall, go handmade! The Renegade Craft Fair is just around the corner, and Paul and I are really excited, not just because we get to take part of the action, but also because we get to check out the other artists/crafters and shop a bit as well. There seems to be a good bunch of them for this event!

Here are a couple of items that we liked from some of the participating artists’ pages, just click on them to get to their sites:

…and there’s SO MUCH more! Los Angeles friends, it’s something you wouldn’t want to miss this weekend!

We attended last Sunday’s festivities in San Mateo, and got totally flabbergasted by our first (and definitely not the last) Maker Faire festival. Special thanks to Audrey of the PR team for Maker Faire and Daily Candy for throwing that awesome contest!

It’s literally a Disneyland for adults (AND for kids), without the sappy characters and blatant capitalism (with apologies to Disneyland season pass holders, just exercising my first amendment rights). Most of the day we were gawking at all the stuff people created – from kinetic doo-dads, giant metal crab robots, and other randomness like watching ourselves in 3D being broadcast on a projector. I had to catch myself from squeezing Kat’s arm too hard and pulling it off in excitement.

By and far, my favorite parts were the Camera Obscura installation, and metal sculptures of polyhedra from Vladimir Bulatov. I’ve seen different iterations of a camera obscura before (of the pinhole variety), but this one totally blew my mind. I have never, in my life, seen an image reproduced in super high def, better than your 1080p HD that’s supposedly 21st century, and I will even say, better than what real life looks like. An image reproduced on a round piece of wood painted white, mind you. Very exciting.

I’ve always had a fascination with polyhedra (hello dodecahedrons), and squealed loudly like a schoolgirl when I saw the Bulatov sculptures.

So much awesomeness in one festival, my brain almost exploded!! See you guys again next year