I have been so overwhelmingly busy the past couple weeks with freelance work and
Greenjeans work, I feel that I've totally neglected blogging (not to mention drinking enough water and working out). I have a million ideas of things to blog about, but haven't had enough time!
For example, I am becoming more and more disgusted with attempts to commodify the green movement by selling crappy "reusable" goods. I received the latest issue of
Vanity Fair yesterday, their third "green issue," to find a red plasticy shopping bag from Target inside, presented in a recycled paper envelope (shown here). Great, I thought. Something else to feel so guilty about throwing away that I'll stick it in the closet along with the 50o other reusable bags I have, even though I'll probably never use it. What a waste! And what's up with marketing synthetic products made in China as "green?" How does that add up exactly? (And please don't tell me I should use it to like knit a belt or something. I love that some people are great at making things out of unwanted fabrics. But why should I spend my time to come up with arbitrary uses for stuff I didn't want in the first place?! Like I'm not already strapped enough for time.)
Something else I haven't blogged about but meant to: I've noticed that some of the major art fairs have stopped using their opening night galas as benefit parties for deserving non-profit arts institutions.
SOFA is no longer benefiting the
Museum of Arts and Design, and the recent
Armory Show threw it's big opening, but not to raise money for its usual beneficiary,
MoMA. So they're charging huge fees to attend the opening night previews, but then pocketing the funds? It's like breaking some sort of unwritten code. What gives?
I've also been dying to respond to the
craft debate that I mentioned here a while back. I started writing my own response but haven't been able to finish it, and so haven't said a thing about it. I still intend to. One of these days...
Ditto for the fantastic new issues of
American Craft Magazine which completely inspired me, but that I've not been able to respond to here. Yet.
All this is not to mention the wonderful new things that have arrived at Greenjeans recently, including some killer new jewelry by Connie Verrusio and Melle Finelli, and FINALLY
wooden blocks by Frank Ridley, none of which I've blogged about.
So, there's a little taste of what's been on my mind, if not on the blog! Hopefully now that the freelance project is over (as of literally a half hour ago), I'll be able to spend more time here.
Meanwhile, hope you have an excellent weekend, and maybe we'll see you at the
Brooklyn Flea on Sunday!
We also brought back Frank Ridley's wooden toys and Whit McLeod's Wine Barrel Folding Chair, which continue to be popular items with Flea shoppers. As you can see here, kids loved testing out the rocking horse!
Today Whit McLeod Furniture sent over pictures of their brand new Side Kick Table to go with their ever-popular Wine Barrel Folding Chairs! We are thrilled to be the first retailers to offer them, which means YOU are getting the very first chance to purchase one of your own!
(Thanks, Kristy & Whit!)
At the end of the day, we kinda felt like this table...
... and I slept like a rock, but we're still excited to do it again next weekend!
Recovered now from the first Brooklyn Flea and our subsequent blitz trip to NH, I have finally looked at the pictures I took on Sunday. I think I was too overwhelmed to take many good ones, but luckily others did, including Kathy Malone of fofolle who sneaked up behind me to take this shot in my fuzzy pink Chia Hat, and the one of Lumin and I in the booth, below. The blog Dumbo NYC posted great ones, too, especially of the crowd.
Lumin and I womanning our booth. Jae made the sign. It is actually blue masking tape on board. He was going to paint in the letters, but ran out of time. So we hung it anyway. We may paint it yet, but it looks kinda good just the way it is... (Thank you, Kathy!)
Lumin tells a customer about the wooden toys by Greenjeans fave Frank Ridley. Flea shoppers snapped them up all day.
Other vendors included Re/Dress with their fantastic vintage dresses.
Our booth neighbors Daniel and Sylvana Rossi of Organic Light Sculptures showed amazing bamboo and LED light creations Daniel makes in his Brooklyn studio. They captured a lot of attention.
Bamboo flower lights that plug into your computer's USB port, by Organic Light Sculptures.
Flea co-founder (and Mr. Brownstoner) Jonathan Butler, left, looks through a bin of beautiful photography presented by the Fort Greene Photography Organization. Greenjeans' friend and member Marcia Lloyd is there at the right.
I loved the incredible collection of fabulously chic/ugly 
Every week, Greenjeans will offer work by different artisans and artists at our booth at the Brooklyn Flea. This weekend we're in booth B-11.
Now we just have to make our sign, finalize our selections to bring, and pray our new postcards are finished in time.
Greenjeans' new "studio/workshop."
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