Our Sunny LadyDate at Maker Faire!

Last Saturday, Manda and had a girl date at Maker Faire.  We tried to plan wisely and both ride the train from our respective towns to meet in the middle in San Mateo. Parking and traffic can be a big, hour-long hurdle when Maker Faire is in town, but our efforts to ride the train went out the window when we both realized we would miss our trains!

We ended up parking at a nearby shopping mall and walking 20 minutes to the faire, which I think worked out just fine! Espesh cuz we grabbed Chocolate Creme Frapps at the mall for our walk!

Here’s a fun mosaic UFO that I think we should all have in our back yards.

Screen shot 2013-05-20 at 5.47.34 AMI didn’t really end up taking many photos that day, but there’s neat stuff all over the place, like a man riding a mechanical horse bicycle thing, a man driving a fur-covered articulated blinky luck dragon, stuff shooting out fire, kids building all sorts of stuff, a guy  dancing in a super happy robot costume, some dude banging on bucket drums, kids playing around in cardboard Minecraft outfits, and lots and lots of carnival food!

Screen shot 2013-05-20 at 5.47.19 AMGarlic fries were our #1 priority. GBFF! GARLIC BREATH FRIENDS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO, cheesy popcorn!!! CHEEEEZ FINGERZ!!!!!

Then we hit up the Bazaar Bizarre to check out all the crafty peeps. I ended up really loving the brooches by Bottle of Clouds. They are laser cut wood and then hand-painted. I wanted so many of them! I may re-visit her Etsy shop when it re-opens. She was also super duper sweet!

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I really just love being a relaxed shopper at craft fairs, instead of being a vendor. I always feel too guilty to break away from my booth for too long in order to have a look around, so I truly appreciate just having a stroll and appreciating everyone’s creativity!

If there is a wooden or cardboard cut-out of something, I really super have to take a photo with it.

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OH yeah, it was really super sunny that day, if you couldn’t tell, and Manda was really worried that her nose would fry. We are going to invent some kind of nose guard for sun glasses. Here’s the prototype.

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My Accessory-of-Note for the day were my super cute bunnycookie pins by TinyTangerines!

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Later that evening, we met up with our dudes and watched Star Trek: Into Darkness! Despite anything I might read on the internet about it, I enjoyed it! Two thumbs up! Two thumbs way up for the whole day!

 

9 Comments on “Our Sunny LadyDate at Maker Faire!”

  • Lee

    says:

    The cardboard something is a “yeti.”

  • Sami

    says:

    Can’t wait for her store to reopen, I need the sloth badge!! :O

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      I want something with a bunny on it!

  • Jami

    says:

    I love the UFO, growing up I would go to a Craft Fair on Signal Mountain in TN and the highlight,for me, this huge UFO shaped house that we had to pass.

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      Amazing! I would love to live in a funky house!

  • Fiona

    says:

    Sounds fun! I too always pose with cardboard cut outs 😛
    On a side note I love how you did the frosting on your singlet!

    • TwinkieChan

      says:

      It was made by imyourpresent on Etsy! 🙂

  • CC

    says:

    That looks like so much fun! I want that sausage sign haha 😛

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