WinterFest at the Brooklyn Museum!

Happy Black Friday! The holiday shopping season has officially begun! Brooklyn has a new mega winter village and holiday market called WinterFest! It’s near the Brooklyn Museum, and in addition to a cute maker’s village where you can buy gifts, they have wine & chocolate tasting, “The Enchanted Tree Maze,” a huge slide, movies, performances, Santa of course, and a special “Vinopolis” tent where other workshops and activities will take place. It really is an extravaganza - families & couples could spend the whole day there.

I’ll be in the Vinopolis tent EVERY SUNDAY from 11a-6p doing sketches and selling my new line of Christmas cards based on carols. WinterFest starts today and goes on every Tues-Sun until New Year’s Eve.

You can get chances to win tickets to the attractions and tastings by following WinterFest on social media and/or using my special code https://wn.nr/h54NPL

Really just take a look at everything on the WinterFest site https://winterfestbrooklynmuseum.com/ … I can’t believe how many cool things are going on there! Oh yes and I heard the tents are heated :) I hope that you can check it out and join the fun!

Winterfest This Weekend!

If you're in the Brooklyn area, bring the whole family to the Brooklyn Friends’ annual holiday market and kids fair!  A great place to get holiday gifts and just have a great time - there's so much going on at the fair!  I'll be tabling with Nadia Burgess of ToughSpirit Creations in the Holiday Market section, and they also have tons of fun stuff for kids like a bouncy house, face painting, and craft-making.  Fun for all includes live music and karaoke.  They have a bake sale, book sale, and plant sale too (like poinsettias).

It's totally FREE to attend!  Saturday, December 2, 2017 from 11am to 4pm at 375 Pearl Street in downtown Brooklyn.  Closest subway stations are Jay St. Metrotech (A,C,F, N,R,W) and Borough Hall (2,3,4,5).

More info here:  http://brooklynfriends.org/winterfest/

Brooklyn Friends WinterFest This Saturday!

My friend Nadia of Tough Spirit Creations and I will be sharing a table at the Brooklyn Friends WinterFest craft show this Saturday, Dec 10th, from 11A-5P!  We're part of the Holiday Market in the Lower Gym, but look at all the other amazing stuff they have going on:  Log cutting?!  Make your own snowglobe?!  Terrarium workshop?!  This is awesome!  Admission is FREE.  It's a family-friendly event, but fun for all ages to find creative gifts!

Brooklyn Friends School is located at 375 Pearl Street – one block from Borough Hall, between Willoughby Street & The Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel Plaza.  It's also near Jay St.-Metrotech via subway.

For more info, visit http://brooklynfriends.org/winterfest/.  They put a pic of our table from a few years ago as the top pic!  Very honored!  Hope to see you there!

I'm table 42 with ToughSpirit

I love using "A Christmas Story" quotes whenever possible.

POP2 (squared) Holiday Pop-Up Market THIS FRI & SAT!

I'm in another holiday market this Friday Dec 12 and Saturday Dec 13th!  POP Squared is in downtown Brooklyn and is partially run by my friends at the Gowanus Nite Market!  They always put on great shows!  Diverse vendors, food, DJs, alcohol, and a cool artsy atmosphere!

"After the success of our Grove Alley events, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership in partnership with the Gowanus Night Market (GNM) and Jamestown Properties introduces Pop² Brooklyn, a unique indoor holiday market experience. 

In keeping with the artsy-meets-urban-style of our Grove Alley Makers Nite and Paint Nite and GNM’s past night market events, Pop² Brooklyn’s 2-day event will take place at 200 Livingston Street, a 5500-square-foot vacant commercial space in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn. The market will offer a mix of both DIY gift making stations for makers at heart wanting to personalize their shopping experience as well as other Brooklyn based vendors selling one of kind items.

As always, there will be an eclectic venue, Brooklyn Brewery beer, food trucks, our resident DJ Chela and special guest DJs on the 1s and 2s.

See you there!"

You can RSVP on Eventbrite - the market is FREE but it helps keep track of #s:  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop2-brooklyn-tickets-13800412405?aff=es2&rank=1

The holidays are fast approaching - Hanukkah starts next Tuesday and Christmas is only 2 weeks away!  Better run to POP Squared to get all the goodies for the people on your list! 

As always, I'll be sketching on the spot and selling mini comics.  I'll be near this cool bear mural!  It's at 200 Livingston St, near trains A,C,F,G,N,R,2,3 at Jay St.-Metrotech, Hoyt-Schermerhorn.  Friday hours are 4p-10p (come right after work!) and Saturday goes from NOON to 8p. 

For the first time in like 8 years, I have a little Christmas tree in my apartment.  It's actually a decent size - put it up yesterday.  Be careful with those ornaments though! 

Winter Fest This Weekend!

Get some holiday shopping done early at Winter Fest at the Brooklyn Friends School this Saturday Dec 6th!  10:30A-5P at 375 Pearl St. in Brooklyn.  They'll have local artisan venders, a bouncy castle, plant sale, book fair and karaoke.  Plus food vendors like Hill Country BBQ, One Girl Cookie, and many others will keep you coming back for more! 

It's fun to exhibit at and go to craft shows like this because there's so much variety!  Get a custom sketch or mini comic from me, character prints (FROZEN!) and cupcakes from Nadia Burgess ("ToughSpirit Creations"), and prepare to get cozy with one-of-a-kind quilts, hats, and tights.  You can even buy poinsettias there!  I'm sure there will be lots of interesting tchotchkes too.  Check out the facebook event and see you there!

As always, I'm late at seeing movies by at least a year.  But this Thanksgiving my room mate and I finally watched FROZEN!  It was pretty good!  I like how it emphasized sisterly love over the love of a man.  It was structured very differently than other Disney movies because there was no clear villain until the end.  Most of the time the "villain" was their situation.  Stylistically, it's cool how the snow was rainbow colored reflecting the light and not just white. 

But my favorite Disney movie is STILL "The Little Mermaid."  Frozen is great, but you can't compare it to the pizazz of the "Under the Sea" animation and song (God, how many animators DID THAT TAKE?).