I couldn’t wait to post my crappy video and photos from the craft fair :P. I don’t know why the video ended up so low in quality once uploaded to YouTube…I gotta try to figure that out for future posts. I created a new YouTube account for my Twinkie Chan videos: TwinkieChanTV. I had a plain old TwinkieChan account that I mostly used for Bibi videos (hehhe) but I will now post my people videos to the new account.

Anyway, here is a video snippet from the show. Sorry again it’s so fuzzy. Also sorry again for the shaky, nausea-inducing, Blair Witch camera work. I get self-conscious about shooting video of my own booth, and I do it as quickly as possible! 😛

We went with a food cart – theme. I put most of the scarves in a chaffing tray and a lemon slice scarf in a pitcher :). The table display itself could use some fine-tuning, but overall I think we did a great job considering this was all put together in like 4 days after work! Here is a funny sketch I made of the cart before we built it!

We shared our booth space with Elsie, Emma, and Red Velvet Art. They are cute as can be, and so super sweet. They are very special gals, and I was so excited to meet them even though I was cracked out on sleep deprivation and could not form language very well! You can see Elsie’s photos and thoughts on the fair here for DAY ONE and DAY TWO.

And now…. my photos!!

I made my banner out of felt and glue at 10am after an all-nighter. I’m shocked you can recognize the letters! Hehehe.

We made this little chalkboard sign out of two pieces of wood, some hinges, and chalkboard paint! I was kinda like, “Ugh, I don’t have the brainpower to deal with this little project!” but Hairy insisted and it turned out super cute.

Here’s a side view of the cart. As it turned out, the rear/tail-lights end of the cart was more visible in our final configuration. We had headlights in front! 😛

Here’s the other side. You can sorta see me and Elsie chatting inside!

The front! And Elysse’s BUTT:

Blurry pic of my cupcake tower of coffee cup cozies. As it turns out, the cupcake had angled surfaces and this was not a stable platform for the cozies, so they kept tumbling down…

I recently became obsessed with shopping for vintage lucite beads, and I made some stretchy bracelets on Friday before the show. A lot of my favorites were purchased at the fair, but there are some left overs I think I may keep for myself! Heheh.

I never made rings before, but I am kind of into it!!! Espesh if they look like jello!

CutieDynamite came by for a visit and gave me a little piece of hair candy. It put it on right away!!! So sweet!

Here’s a pic of me and Hairy that I stole from ZenCupcake whom I also met for the first time! She’s so energetic and so nice! Check out how my big my face is compared to Hairy’s!

Here’s Emma, Me, Elsie, and Vivianna!

Overall, I was so happy with how the booth physically turned out, and I really enjoyed meeting lots of new faces. It’s fun to see people from 6 year olds to 60 year olds feel delighted by your work. One little kid exclaimed “Everything is so yummy!” and another woman commented, “How can you not feel happy looking at all this?”

Thank you everyone for visiting!!!

To those who could not make it: I will be working hard to shoot photos of items leftover and getting them onto Etsy :).

Come visit me and Elsie at Renegade Craft Fair San Francisco this weekend at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion from 11am-7pm on Saturday and Sunday!

I’ll be debuting some fun new items and also a new booth design (which we’re still building and I have no idea how it will turn out!). I also just got a few copies of my book and will have one on display at my booth so you can check it out in person!

Also, in fun announcements: Delia’s asked me and Yummy You! to design two exclusive t-shirts for them, and the shirts are available now both online as well as in stores! Check out this pic that grrrfeisty took!

She is holding up the Cupcake Scarf tee, designed to look like you’re wearing a cupcake scarf without really wearing one! The other style is a giant frozen soda shirt with glitter, designed to turn you into a delicious frosty bev!!! Search “Yummy You” at Delia’s to check them out. (Don’t search for “Twinkie Chan” cuz nothing will show up!).

I also made a fun VLOG for Delia’s about who I am & what Yummy You is, that I believe Delia’s is supposed to post to their Facebook page at some point…..so when it posts, I’ll let you know! I was gonna wait for the video to post before making an announcement here, but since people are starting to msg me already about seeing the tees, I figured I’d let the rest of ya know! 😉

We had 108 entries, and I used random.org to generate our winners!

Congrats, Corinna & Star!!!!!!! I will send your goodies out on Tuesday, when I get back from Southern California!!

If you read this first, please EMAIL ME twinkiedink at gmail dot com with your mailing addresses, and also please let me know again the color and thickness of your hair, so Jules can determine which formula is right for you :). I haven’t even packed yet for my trip, hehehe, but I will find your emails in WordPress somewhere if I don’t hear from you :).

Have a great weekend everybody!! xoxooxo

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Just finished this last night! Phew!

I am hoping to debut a couple burger scarves for sale at Renegade, but we’ll see how much time I have! Eep! Workworkworkworkwork.

(p.s. if you haven’t seen the hair product giveaway yet…click back to this entry!)

EDIT!!!! THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED!!! THANK YOU!!!

OOOooh I have been waiting to announce this!!

My awesome hair stylist Jules Chan has just launched her first hair care product!

It’s the TEXTURE Powder Styler and you can get some at her website here where she also maintains a fun blog about hair.

Her focus is Asian hair, but her knowledge and hair product covers any kind of hair!

I have known Jules forever. When I finally wanted to chop off my life-long long hair in the late 90s, I had no idea where to get my hair cut. My mom used to cut it for me, or hair salons at the mall, and a few times, I even asked my little brother to do it just for fun! But when I wanted to go short, I knew I had to call in the experts!

I was watching E! channel one day and saw a local hair makeover that took place at Architects & Heroes salon in San Francisco (it no longer exists now). I thought the people who worked there looked really “cool” and could give me some “cool” hair (incidentally, the colorist on the show ended up being my colorist for many years until she moved to the UK!), so I called them up and asked for a stylist who knew a lot about Asian hair. And that’s how I met Jules! She was the first person to ever tell me that I had to use product to get the hair that I wanted. This is a blessing and a curse as now I am a hair product ADDICT!! I have followed her from salon to salon, and now she is the founder and co-owner of her own salon, Dekko, which happens to be walking distance from my house! (Altho we’re moving soon, so that is moot, hehehehe.) Here is a recent article in the SF Examiner about her and the salon!

Anyway, Jules is super awesome and has offered to giveaway TWO bottles of her new product to my blog readers, so we can have TWO winners! It comes in a light formula for light colored or fine hair, and a darker formula for darker hair.

To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment in my blog (don’t leave one at Livejournal or Facebook, or else it won’t count!) with your email address and the color and texture of your hair!

To earn an extra chance at winning, either Tweet or re-blog about the giveaway, and post that link in a separate comment here on my blog.

Easy peasy! I’ll select two winners in one week. So you have until Thursday, July 22nd, to enter and spread the word! We’re leaving to drive to San Diego Comic Con that night, so I’ll probably draw around 6pm California Time 🙂

I absolutely could not wait for this product to come out. Since I am rockin’ the bangs these days, my bangs are the first to get oily on my face, although the rest of my hair is not ready to wash (we brightly-colored hair gals shouldn’t be washing our hairz everyday), so now I just sprinkle some of the TEXTURE powder on my hands run it through my bangs, and I have instant de-clumping and de-oiling! Pretty rad!

Jules suggested I use the lighter colored formula since I have pink hair. There is a lot of black in my hair, but the lighter powder still works!