Time for Camp

by Noella Noelophile®

Remember summer camp?   Where you made knotted bracelets that you and your best friend swore to wear forever?  And roasted s’mores around the campfire?

Now you can experience it again–minus the campfire and mosquitoes.

This Saturday, June 18th,  CRAFTED at the Port of Los Angeles invites you to “summer camp” as they host their “Summer Camp Etsy Craft Party”!  From 11:00 Saturday morning, they’ll have all kinds of workshops on the grown-up version of popular camp crafts.Once again, you’ll get to tie-dye.  (CRAFTED says you can either bring something you’d like to dye, or buy a shirt onsite). There’ll be a charm bracelet workshop, as well as one in which you can make a metal fortune-cookie charm.  Printmaking will be happening–and there’s even the opportunity to make your own nail polish.   And here’s a craft you probably never created at summer camp–“tie-dye cookies” you can paint and eat!

2016 marks CRAFTED’s fourth year of hosting the largest ETSY Craft Party on the West Coast, according to their Facebook page.  They’ll be doing the “summer camp” theme right, with hot dogs, photo booths, live music and indoor and outdoor games.  And of course, you will be able to get s’mores–the grown-up version, with sea salt, will be on sale at their Red Car Market!CRAFTED, which is San Pedro’s year-round all-handmade marketplace, has free admission and free parking.  The “summer camp” crafts workshops range in price from $4 to $10, and there’s a special candle-pouring workshop for $25.  (This is a limited-space one, happening at 2 pm, and you’re requested to RSVP at hello@banterandbliss if you’d like to go.)And of course, you’ll get to see talented local artisans exhibit their work, perhaps find some new summer treasures, and admire the work of tomorrow’s artists, in the “San Pedro Art Association Harbor Wide All Grades Student Art Competition Exhibition”, on display at CRAFTED from now till September.There’s also a free workshop, on creating the woven-yarn “Ojo de Dios” ornaments (remember those?), grown-up version, in CRAFTED’s demonstration area.

Here’s the link for session information.  But hurry–the bus is leaving soon!

CRAFTED at the Port of Los Angeles is located at 112 East 22nd Street, near Miner, Warehouse 10, in San Pedro.  Their “Summer Camp Etsy Craft Party” happens Saturday, June 18th, from 11 am to 7 pm, with workshops in CRAFTED’s courtyard, at their Creation Station and at a number of the shops throughout the marketplace; here’s the list.  Admission and parking at CRAFTED are free, while there’s a nominal charge for most of the “summer camp” craft workshops.