{"id":142,"date":"2007-10-18T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T03:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2007-10-18T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T03:25:30","slug":"maker-faire-swap-a-rama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Maker Faire Swap-A-Rama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&rsquo;m going to go strut my stuff\/model for a &ldquo;recycled fashion show&rdquo; at Maker Faire. It should be fun to both participate and watch, so for whomever is interested in checking it out, voila the low-down:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaporamarama.org\">SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA<\/a>  @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerfaire.com\">Maker Faire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>What it is in a nutshell<\/strong>: a giant clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops to explore reuse and celebrate creativity through the recycling of used clothing<br \/>  <strong>Dates: <\/strong>Saturday October 20th 11am to 5pm &amp; Sunday October 20th 11 to 4pm<br \/><strong>Location<\/strong>: Travis County Expo Center, Austin TX<br \/> <strong>What you need to participate:<\/strong> A ticket to Maker Faire plus any size bag of your unwanted clothes required to enter<br \/><strong>What you get:<\/strong> all the clothes you can carry plus the ability to learn to modify and make new from old<br \/><strong>Cheaper Advance Tix  <\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yolpga\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yolpga<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>what I&#8217;m going to be in:<\/em><br \/><strong> the Recycled Fashion Show<\/strong>: Saturday Eve from 5pm to 6pm<\/p>\n<p>and more exciting details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make the move from consumer to creator<\/li>\n<li>a host of talent brought together to teach you how to transform your new\/used duds into works of your own<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gaiatreehouse.com\/makerfaireaustin.htm\">An extraordinary crew of artists and designers &amp; the workshops being offered<\/a>, and local groups: Craft O Rama, Craft Mafia, Sublime Stitching, Goodwill, First Samples and Studio 3 as well as artists Zimka, Mary Keene, Andee Knutson and Gretchen Elsner.<\/li>\n<li>T-shirt mods, conductive textiles workshops, silk screening, wool re-spinning and more! <\/li>\n<li>DIY Stations where you can learn many wonderful ways to create out of textile reuse<\/li>\n<li>Sewing Stations where local designers will teach you fresh clothing mod tricks<\/li>\n<li>On-site Silk Screeners with a host of original designs to refresh old duds and extraordinary local designers who&#8217;ll show off their work in the Swap-O-Rama-Rama<br \/>    reuse fashion show MC&#8217;d by Jennifer Nordstrum. <\/li>\n<li>Remainders go to Austin&#8217;s Goodwill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&rsquo;m going to go strut my stuff\/model for a &ldquo;recycled fashion show&rdquo; at Maker Faire. It should be fun to both participate and watch, so for whomever is interested in checking it out, voila the low-down: SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA @ Maker Faire What it is in a nutshell: a giant clothing swap and series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannou.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}