City Sampler - SFO!

City Sampler: SFO features items exclusively from crafters, DIYers and awesome businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area! We've put together about 100 SFO City Samplers, each one featuring a selection of at least 10 of the items below, plus extras and information about the Bay Area. Each City Sampler: SFO box will also be decoupaged by hand by Team Sampler!

City Sampler: SFO is available now in the shop!

Each City Sampler: SFO will include one of these awesome notebooks from Chronicle Books! In addition to travel, pop culture and children's titles, Chronicle puts out some extremely fine crafting titles! Check them out here!

Every City Sampler: SFO will include an issue of ReadyMade Magazine -- a bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff! If you aren't crafty yourself or just need some fresh ideas, ReadyMade is a fantastic resource for jump-starting your creative impulses!

8mm Ideas sent in enough awesome greeting cards for every single City Sampler: SFO! 8mm Ideas is a product of vintage materials and a slightly twisted sense of humor. All cards are printed on heavy white cardstock and are blank inside for you to fill with your own thoughts!

Hoku Designs will be including her Late Night Foodie guide to late-night dining in San Francisco! Pauline says: "My passion is in package design, but I also love doing print, identity, environment, typography and web design."

Craft Gym sent in samples of the fabulous soap you just might learn to make in one of their classes! Craft Gym is studio space where instead of a physical workout, you get a creative one. Craft Gym currently offers workshops and open studio time in sewing, knitting, ceramics, metals, paper, wood and textiles.

Rachel of Medium Reality and Pandora's Trunk is including studio scraps & recycled promo literature to announce the opening of her new brick and mortar store! Everything in each pack is recycled or salvaged, except for the staples!

Freelance Romance created adorable miniature wallets or "Wallettes" featuring current works from various artists! The Freelance Romance site is coming soon, for now, check out their Shop!

Katy Kristin created 50 of these Poppy Girl Brooches for City Sampler: SFO! The face of each Poppy Girl Brooch is hand-drawn onto wood and all felt pieces are handcut. Katy's inspiration is a little Art Nouveau, a little 1920s and a little Japanese Kawaii! Everything Katy Kristin makes is inspired by everything she loves, so she loves what she does!

Lizard Press creates amazing hand-printed letter-pressed greeting cards featuring images from the Berkeley Marina! Elizabeth says: I individually design and hand print on a letterpress with vintage wood type, lead type and contemporary polymer plates on recycled and cotton paper. I love playing with different tones and textures on the press and always print in small editions, so you know that you've always purchased a limited design.

Girl on the Rocks is sending you her Western-Style Moustache Buttons! Girl on the rocks is actually Karrie Weaver. During the day, Karrie is a geologist. At night she's a crafter. She started as a knitter, and then became a spinner too.

25 lucky people will be receiving one of these handmade pouches by Deborah of Chic Cosas! Chic Cosas has a bilingual message for you: Chic Cosas: "Somos un negocio independiente striving to bring you one of a kind, handmade to perfection pieces. We pride ourselves on originality, quality and availability! Que Caliente!"

Holiday parties coming up? Green Chair Press has letterpressed coasters for you! Green Chair Press undertakes both commercial letterpress projects and fine press books, using an 1890s Chandler and Price platen press and printing from handset type and photopolymer plates.

3P-3 will be including an assortment of 5" by 7" screen-prints including the "Neat Freak Collection" -- all designed and gocco-printed by Giselle and Pablo! 3P-3 is a studio focused on screen printing on paper and fabric. All 3P-3 designs are done in house. Products are handmade and delivered with care!

Motormouth Press sent in 10 "Birdie Santa" and 10 "Sled & Cider" ornament cards! Their holiday cards recyle into beautiful paper ornaments -- they even come with their own hook! Motormouth Press specializes in food themes and greeting cards that double as a memento from the sender. These mementos take on many shapes and forms such as a poster, ornament, or other assorted keepsakes and gift tokens.

Planet Tokki is amazing! 10 lucky peeps will receive one of these awesome egg wrist rests! Hae Eun Park began Planet Tokki in 1999 when she made a very sad little squirrel from a dusty old 1970s craft book. This little nondescript animal would later spawn a whole collection of other quirky creatures that would make up Hinky Fluff, and later, the Planet in which Hinky Fluff is found -- Planet Tokki.

Helena Tiainen is a Berkeley artist who contributed 10 of her original blank greeting cards to the City Sampler! Helena says: My paintings are about wholeness. They are about the experience and desire for wholeness and about the lack of it. I paint to remind myself and others of the possibility of wholeness. I paint to heal.

Saints and Sinners is including hand-cast resin & vintage bobby pins! Sometimes naughty, sometimes nice, Saints and Sinners is always fun and unique, featuring one of a kind handspun art yarns, jewelry and wearables, and mixed media assemblage by Barbe Saint John.

Fiber-enthusiast extraordinaire, Jamie Chan of Mary Jane's Attic sent in 20-yard mini skeins of her handspun yarn! Mary Jane's Attic was named after Maryjane who is a friendly Amazon parrot that loves all things fibery and sparkly! Mary Jane's Attic specializes in goods and supplies of the fiber persuasion!

Petals created fantastic mini birdie stuffies! Petals makes purses, pins, wallets, friendly stuffed animals and other fun wares for you to enjoy. All items are one of a kind and created from vintage or recycled fabrics and trim. With a vintage feel and fresh new style Petals is bound to make you smile and bring on the warm fuzzy feelings.

My Windup Bird sent in "Fierce Fawn" 2-color, hand-screened unisex t-shirts! My Windup Bird is a line of t-shirts that are hand-screend and produced in small batches, like limited edition works of art. A portion of all sales are donated to humanitarian relief agencies.

Queen Puff Puff created a dozen makeup bags for all your on-the-go needs! Nicole Vasbinder created Queen Puff Puff out of her love of stylish handbags and vintage fabric. Each Queen Puff Puff style is a beautifully made limited edition and is handmade in her Bay Area studio.

Sprout Studio provided a sampling of her works including vintage bobby pins, ittie bitty vintage earrings and vintage jumble flower collage necklaces. Jenifer of Sprout Studio is a small business owner as well as being a k-8 art teacher during the workaday week. She dabbles in all sorts of art endeavors, and always has loved doing so.

Future Momo is sending you a little something to dress up with -- crystal lariats, lampwork and crystal earrings! When Jessica Neaves started Future Momo in 2003, she started it with a plan - to create and sell jewelry that was fun, elegant and contemporary. Future Momo grew out of the encouragement of friends and family, who all knew there was a market out there for Neaves's beautiful and classic jewelry designs.

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