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Drywell is famous.

Written on January 24, 2011 by alyson in compliments

OMG My art is in the newspaper!

Mildly anyways.

Yesterday, I had the surreal honor of being featured in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle newspaper! (Under the appropriately named “Hot Stuff” column in the Home & Garden section)

A freelance writer contacted me out of the blue a couple weeks ago and interviewed me for about 40 minutes. She was super nice and even wrote the article so I didn’t sound like a doofus. And that was awesome. Also, I’m forever indebted to her for including this quote of mine in the article: “I’m just kind of riding this meat train for a while.” My law professors would be so proud…

Check out the whole article here on sfgate.com.

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I’m a renegade. No wait, I’m AT Renegade

Written on December 18, 2010 by alyson in craft show

Or will be tomorrow. And Sunday.

I kind of can’t believe it. Last week was a banner week here at Drywell headquarters, with three days of incredibly exciting and successful shows. Too much for words to describe, so I’ll show some pics of the Indie Mart at Academy of Sciences and Bazaar Bizarre SF holiday show.

drywell booth @ Indie Mart Academy of Sciences

my mom and I at Bazaar Bizarre SF Holiday

It was so amazing to see people have a double take with my “Meat My City” posters, laugh at my weird art, and tell me that they were buying prints to give as gifts! And I met SO many people who said that they already owned some of my art! That was crazy. crazy awesome, right?

Anyways, I’m busy gearing up for Renegade tomorrow and Sunday, but took a little time off to make 2 dozen meat ornaments. Maybe not the most productive use of my time, but totally worth it.

If you’re in San Francisco, I really hope to see you this weekend at Renegade. The line up is awesome, and you can get your holiday shopping done in one fell swoop. And maybe you can snag a print of my newest little blocky piece!

Renegade Holiday Fair: 11am to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday, at the Concourse East hall, 7th & Brannan

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Tonight TONIGHT!

Written on December 2, 2010 by alyson in craft show

Busy busy here, scurrying to get ready for the Indie Craft Fundraiser, TONIGHT at Hotel Rex in San Francisco. It should be tons of fun and I’m excited to reveal a lot of new items, including holiday cards! (woo!) I’ll post some pics later today if I get a second.

If you’re local, I’d love to see you there!

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happy turkey day!

Written on November 25, 2010 by alyson in holiday, my artsy stuff

hand turkey butchery original illustration

Just wanted to stop in and wish everyone a happy thanksgiving!

I’m busy busy busy prepping for the holidays, and am reflecting on how unbelievably thankful I am to be able to do be creative every day. Thanks to everyone who has supported me by brainstorming, saying kind words, or buying my art and bringing it to your home. It means a lot. A lot of awesome.

To express this gratitude (and because I was raised to have an acute appreciate of a sale) I decided to have a little Black Friday to Cyber Monday sale in my shop.

Just enter the code “SEASONSMEATINGS” to get 20% everything in the shop. Nice, right?

AND, I just spent some serious time getting a newsletter set up. Check out my winter newsletter here to get up to date on all the new goodies I’m making for the holidays, and details on my four (!!!!) holiday shows). If you’d like to receive these newsletters in the future, just sign up in the nifty little widget on the right sidebar of this page.

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the whole world loves meat

Written on November 19, 2010 by alyson in my artsy stuff

Just wanted to pop in to announce that now I’m shipping all of my art in the shop to US, Canada, and the EU. Spreading the love. I can ship to other locales as well, so just contact me if you’re in Fiji and just can’ t live without a Blocky print.

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Indie Craft Fundraiser

Written on November 5, 2010 by alyson in Uncategorized

Whoa. WHOA. You are not hallucinating. There are TWO blog posts today.

Just wanted to pass along the flier for the first of my holiday shows. This is for the December 2nd show, Indie Craft Fundraiser at Hotel Rex. I’m SO psyched about this event. It’s the first one, and we’ll be helping raise money for 826 Valencia, an absolutely awesome organization in SF, started by the talented Dave Eggers. A team of volunteeers and teachers tutor kids in writing and help get them excited abou thte literary arts. A select group of kids from this group edit the annual Best American Non-fiction anthologies. Oh, and they have a crazy pirate store in SF. Check it out.

Anywho, this show is going to be great, with great gifts from my talented indie craft friends, Hendrick’s Gin cocktails, food, music, and maybe some surprise celebrities.

Check out their blog for updates about raffle prizes and more!

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i was so afraid of the beard that i forgot to blog

Written on November 5, 2010 by alyson in craft show, my artsy stuff

Insanity over here folks! October was an epic-ly awesome month of travel, fun and socializing (East Coast wedding, reunion with high school pals in TX, Oktoberfest, an amazing beach wedding weekend involving s’mores, masks, and beer drinking in the ocean, and yeah, some World Series celebrating). Which means there wasn’t quite as much work being done as I’d like. So November has been dubbed “Nofunvember” in out house. At least no non-arty fun!!

Why the lock down? Well, Drywell Art will be in FOUR, yes FOUR craft shows this December.* And holy crap, they are going to be awesome. So I’m a busy bee right now, developing new arty goodness, taking over every available space in our tiny one bedroom apartment, and avoiding being buried under a sea of supplies.

The goal is to have some festive holiday cards, a full line of “Meat My City” posters (like the “San Francisco is for Carnivores” one), some fab originals, and some new tshirts. Another goal is to be posting some little glimpses into the insanity that is a holiday season for art folks on the craft circuit. I’m getting pretty excited!

*Want to know the line up?? Well, they are all in San Francisco

Thursday, December 2nd :: Handcrafted Holidays at Hotel Rex (late afternoon to evening)
Thursday, December 8th :: IndieMart at the California Academy of Sciences (evening)
Saturday and Sunday, December 10th and 11th :: Bazaar Bizarre at Fort Mason. (all day)
Saturday and Sunday, December 18th and 19th :: Renegade Holiday at the Concourse in Golden Gate Park. (all day)

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oktoberfest!

Written on October 20, 2010 by alyson in city life, food

October has proved to be insanely busy, with lots of food, drink, friends, and vacations. All good, but man, do I need to get some arty work done!

Wanted to share some shots from an Oktoberfest progressive dinner that we had a couple of weeks ago. This was our third progressive dinner and they are pretty awesome. Each course is hosted at a different house, which allows for a fairly easy way to host a dinner party for 8 to 10 friends, since everyone shares the cooking and drink duty. The host houses are all within walking (or a short Muni ride) from each other, so things progress pretty quickly.

And it helps that we have some crazy good cooks in the group — the spread included homemade soft pretzels, beery cheese sauce, an insanely delicious 8 hour roast pork shoulder, spatzel gratin, homebrewed oktoberfest beer, and german chocolate beer floats, and mini apple struedels.

Oh yeah, and I can’t pass up an opportunity for costuming….

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new website!!!

Written on September 27, 2010 by alyson in Uncategorized

Before I embark on a little vacation to Dallas and Philadelphia, I thought I’d launch a new website!

Drywell Art is now my one-stop shop for, well, my shop, my blogs, flickr, twitter, press, etc. I’m applying to some holiday craft shows, and wanted one place for everything, so I’m not listing like 10 websites.

The site was made with iweb, which was remarkably, amazingly easy, even customized with my little hand-drawn touches.

Now I suppose I should get business cards, where I’ll now only need to list ONE website! whew!

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San Francisco… we have T-shirts!

Written on September 17, 2010 by alyson in my artsy stuff

So I had a night of fussy unsuccessful sleeping, worried about my hair-brained scheme to screen print 40 t shirts 36 hours before selling them.

So at 7 this morning, I got up, got my act together, and by 8am, I had this.

Success!! I tested a few shirts that I got at Goodwill and they came out amazing! A quick heat set with an iron, then a wash and dry, and they were awesome! I’m super psyched. And ready to print 40 of them tomorrow. 🙂 I just need to figure out how to register the shirts correctly, so I print in the same place on each shirt. But I think I can figure that out easily enough.

They will be available at Indie Mart on Sunday, with any leftovers going up in the shop.

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