Unbeige had a big weekend. We also stopped by the Renegade Craft Fair, held in Williamsburg’s McCarren Park. This was the fair’s first year in New York; it was started two years ago by two major DIY’ers Sue Blatt and Kathleen Habbley. (The fair comes this year to Chicago’s Wicker Park September 24-25.) Craft fairs usually freak us out—all that weird ropy jewelry and batik wrap skirts—but these were crafts we could get behind. Some of the items were just a bit too preciously hipster—felt clutches silkscreened with square-rimmed glasses?—but there were lots of great DIY tees, lots of iPod cozies, lots of letterpressed stationery, and some adorable infant wear that made us want to steal a baby and dress it up.
We couldn’t resist buying two things from Scraps of Paper by Kristin Amico, an online purveyor of handmade books and stationery who played on two of our weaknesses—the Nancy...
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