Renegade Craft Fair with mefites!
posted December 9, 2011 4:19 PM   RSS | iCal | +googleCal

Sat December 17 at 11:00 AM, Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th St, San Francisco, CA, USA (Map & Directions)
Inspired by the MeFiMall posting about mefites at the Renegade Craft Fair, I'm proposing a meetup for wandering about looking at crafty things, followed by some drinking. Possibly also eating. Let's meet up at 11 am.
The fair is Concourse Exhibition Center at 8th and Brannan in San Francisco, a walk (right down 8th) or short bus ride (take the 19) from Civic Center BART.

The website says there are food and libations, so we can look at the crafty things and maybe do some holiday shopping, find our fellow mefites from Paper Jam Press, and have a drink there or adjourn to a nearby bar.

If you can't get there at 11, mefimail me or rtha for a cell number, if you don't have it already, and check this thread for updates.
posted by gingerbeer to Meetup (35 comments total)

Augh, I looked at the Paper Jam Press site and now I have like 90 different earworms all competing for supremacy in my brain! (I'm tempted to get one or more of their prints, but I'm afraid this would happen every time I saw it on my wall.)
posted by asterix at 6:02 PM on December 9, 2011


Ooh, this is a good idea! We missed the Renegade Craft Fair last time it was in SF. We'll try to make it!
posted by zsazsa at 8:48 PM on December 9, 2011


I would so be there except my parents will be visiting from out of town for some big family thingamabob. Stupid parents! I never asked to be born!!!
posted by aubilenon at 12:28 AM on December 10, 2011


Oh man, I hate your parents! I think you should bring them along, and everyone else in the family too, and we can all be together!
posted by rtha at 7:42 AM on December 10, 2011


Yes, bring aubilemom and aubiledad.
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 2:09 PM on December 10, 2011 [4 favorites]


Distinct possibility. There is also a delicious noodle place at 8th & Brysnt if people are hungry after.
posted by dame at 4:38 PM on December 10, 2011


Make that aubileNON an aubileYES!
posted by gingerbeer at 9:20 PM on December 10, 2011 [1 favorite]


Shouldn't that be aubileOUI?

But, in fact, it's just not possible. Next time!
posted by aubilenon at 1:41 AM on December 11, 2011


Why sure, free admission is just my speed. (Not in the market for any crafts, but it's always fun to look.)

I plan to be there a few minutes early and I hate my dumbphone. Can we arrange a rendezvous location before we go inside? Like right at the main doors, or something?
posted by Quietgal at 10:27 AM on December 11, 2011


A meeting place is a good idea. Last year when I went it was quite busy but inside the front doors was pretty clear.
posted by Swisstine at 4:39 PM on December 11, 2011


Why must this meetup be on my one and only biscotti baking day?! I have to make enough for three dozen people!
posted by chatongriffes at 4:29 PM on December 13, 2011 [1 favorite]


Shockingly, I have to work. I might swing by briefly at the beginning.
posted by mollymayhem at 5:41 PM on December 15, 2011


Maybe, if grading goes extraordinarily quickly tomorrow. (So, probably not.)
posted by madcaptenor at 8:40 PM on December 15, 2011


DoubleWhiskeyCokeNoIce turned up his manly man nose at the idea of crafts, but I will be there with orders to drag a great many of you back for a Christmas Double Feature. (Ice Harvest, In Bruge)
posted by politikitty at 9:44 AM on December 16, 2011 [1 favorite]


I have realized that I have something until 11, so won't get there until about 11:15 anyway. Should everyone meet inside the front doors shortly after 11? Wearing metafilter t-shirts or otherwise looking like we're from the internet? I can find you all when I get there, via rtha.
posted by gingerbeer at 5:10 PM on December 16, 2011


Sounds like a plan. If anyone wants my cell #, memail me.
posted by rtha at 5:47 PM on December 16, 2011


rtha's cell # is 43 (4th floor, two doors down from mine) in the white building (right being the noisy gray one where they keep all the unruly ones).
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 9:29 PM on December 16, 2011 [1 favorite]


oh that cell.
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 9:29 PM on December 16, 2011


ok fine. If you really must know, I got busted on an insider favoriting scandal.
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 9:34 PM on December 16, 2011 [2 favorites]


I just figured that rtha had one of the first cell phones.
posted by madcaptenor at 10:00 PM on December 16, 2011


I'm planning to come but will most likely be late. So don't wait around on my account! I'll find you internet freaks :)
posted by grapesaresour at 10:37 PM on December 16, 2011


I'm going to be very late... so I'll have to wait until the next meet up! Happy Craft Fair everyone!
posted by Swisstine at 9:57 AM on December 17, 2011


Quietgal just called to let me know that the entrance is the 7th and Brannan one, not 8th and Brannan. See y'all soon!
posted by rtha at 10:55 AM on December 17, 2011


We'll be there, but not 'til 1 this afternoon. We'll probably miss everyone, but we'll keep an eye out.
posted by zsazsa at 10:59 AM on December 17, 2011


Bummed not the be there (especially to miss the new additions to the zsazsa clan).

I should be free after 4ish so I will text one of you to see where the party is at.
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 11:37 AM on December 17, 2011


We are still wandering about so likely still here when you get here, zsazsa. Would love to meet the newest zsazsas.
posted by gingerbeer at 12:35 PM on December 17, 2011


babby speaks for me.
posted by asterix at 1:38 PM on December 17, 2011


We finally got here.
posted by zsazsa at 1:58 PM on December 17, 2011


Politikitty and rtha and I have retired to Mars Bar across the street and are on the back patio recovering from the crowds.
posted by gingerbeer at 2:00 PM on December 17, 2011


Actually it was me! And we've left.
posted by grapesaresour at 3:43 PM on December 17, 2011


Where you guys at now?
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 4:19 PM on December 17, 2011


D'oh! Of course it was!

babby, we're back home now. Sorry we missed you. We did get to see all of the zsazsas, big and little. And drank a manhattan, for which I will blame misidentifying grapesaresour.
posted by gingerbeer at 4:59 PM on December 17, 2011


Bummed I missed you guys too. The only way to fix this is to have another meetup. soon.
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 5:30 PM on December 17, 2011


Man are my dogs barking. Nice to meet you rtha and gingerbeer. Babby, did you come by the booth? OK I go to sleep now.
posted by milquetoast at 7:46 PM on December 17, 2011


Unfortunately I missed the whole event. Next time.
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 8:36 PM on December 17, 2011



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