Creating a New Craft Culture

I hate that it's been so long since I've posted anything - my only excuse being that work was going full-tilt all last month as the Creating a New Craft Culture conference (my main project since May) approached. I flew up to Minneapolis for 5 days of craft mania in mid October. Although it was exhausting, the experience as a whole was completely amazing. I met so many wonderful people, reconnected with old friends and colleagues, and generally felt incredibly proud to be a part of what really felt like one for the books. One attendee actually sent my boss Monica and me singing telegrams from India to thank us for all of our hard work in putting together such a positive and insightful conference! The song went like this:

Thank you for being you
Thank you for all you do
You turn the sky to blue
Thank you for being you!

Seriously. How hilarious is that?!

Last week at work, I started tackling the project of transforming our conference website to showcase overviews of each talk, photos, and audio podcasts. Four pages are live already - check them out!

I'm still digesting all of the intense dialogue from that week and trying to decipher the musings I scrawled in my Moleskine notebook in the cab on the way back from the airport. But once I have a bit more time to mull it over, I'll write about the conference and post it here.