Bazaar Bizarre Cleveland East Show

Friday and Saturday from 10-8:00 p.m. inside Shaker Quality Auto Body (12916 Larchmere, Cleveland 44120)

Here’s a handy map link to find the building!

Here’s the Facebook event link — invite your friends!

Who is vending?

There’s lot of amazing stuff to choose from (not to mention the other Larchmere merchants who will be open for the Holiday Stroll!). For a guide to Larchmere merchants and special events during the Stroll, check out this link!

Drop me an email, and I’ll sew whatever cubed critter you desire.

Photo by Sean MacEntee

I should just stop updating this damn site. Every time I do, something goes wrong. So now the Shop isn’t working. If there’s something you’d like to buy, just email me and I will make it for you in the meantime. Until I figure out what stupid-ass thing I did wrong this time, make sure you attend the never-not-awesome Cleveland Summer Bazaar Bizarre on July 2nd at the Larchmere Festival. I will be there.

Okay, now, those of you who are checking out my shop and stammering at my shipping rates, I am sorry. The toys are lightweight but big, so I have to go with a bigger Priority Mail Box. If you’re in the  Cleveland area, drop me an email and let me know and I’ll see what I can do to save you on shipping. I’m looking at other options as we speak. And if you’re in the Cleveland area, chances are you are going to want to get it before Christmas, so we’ll have to arrange something outside the USPS.

Also! Your deadline for Christmas orders is now December 20! I am putting a rush on all orders, so get ‘em in!

I was thinking that I should make a coupon for those of you joining me at Bazaar Bizarre West. So I did. That’s right! Save $2.00 off your purchase of chile con yarne goodness at BazBiz West on December 11 and 12. Limit 1 coupon per person, don’t be makin’ copies and comin’ back every ten minutes. Aaaanyhoo, print out the coupon and come on out to the show to shop and shoot the shit. And support local crafters. That is also important.

Hi everybody that I saw at the Eastside Bazaar Bizarre! Yes, it was cold and the building had no heat, but we still had fun, right? Absolutely.

Yes, I know there isn’t much here in my web shop, but that just means you need to come to the Westside Show on December 11 and 12! As always, if you wanted to buy something in particular, drop me a line and let me know. If you contact me before the BazBiz West, I should be able to bring your order to the show and save you on shipping. Forget what I had? Click here, or tell me something completely different.

Time to split, I have entirely too much sewing to do.

So, sorry I haven’t posted pie. Feel free to come express your disappointment this Friday and Saturday at 13010 Larchmere Boulevard for the East Cleveland Bazaar Bizarre. That’s where I’ll be!

Bring me pie!

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Gather ’round, kiddies. It’s storytime!

Once upon a time, Miss Bex worked at a daycare in the preschool room. On this particular day, 4-year-old Polly* and her mother were hovering by the folders, the young girl distraught and crying.

You see, we used to have these hanging file folders by the door with each child’s name on them. The kids could put their artwork or writing attempts in them, the teachers put announcements in them, and parents could put birthday invitations in them on days like today.

Polly insisted that she had gotten an invitation. Her mother had gone through each and every file, looking for a little envelope with Polly’s name on it to no avail. Mom was beginning to think that Polly was mistaken and that she didn’t get an invitation at all.

I, meanwhile, knew different. I knew that the invitations were from Adam, a shy sweet 3-year-old. Adam’s dad had asked me for a list of a few kids that were friends with Adam, and Polly was at the top of that list. The pair were inseparable. I knew Polly had an invitation.

I hunkered down in front of the files to help in the hunt. I assured the blubbering Polly that she had an invitation, and if we couldn’t find it we’d ask Adam’s dad for a new one. When I got to troublemaker Eddie’s folder, I stopped.

Eddie had an envelope in his file. There was a large black pencil scribble across the middle, then under the mark in shaky 4-year-old writing was “E-D-D-I-E.”

I tilted the envelope in the light, and made out Polly’s name in pen underneath the pencil scribble. Unbelievable. 4-year-old Eddie had crossed out Polly’s name, written in his own, and dropped it in his own file!

It was ingenious. Nefarious, but brilliant. His cunning plan would have gone unnoticed if any other teacher had come over to investigate.

Clicking my tongue, I showed the envelope to Mom, who looked equally incredulous. I tore open the envelope to keep for Eddie’s mom, then handed the invitation to Polly. Tear-stained but triumphant, Polly headed for home with Mom while I turned to Eddie.

He denied everything. Until his mom showed up.

I showed her the envelope, barely hiding how impressed I was. She rolled her eyes and quizzed her son who finally confessed. He wanted to go to the party. Whose party, he had no idea, but he wanted to go. Mom doled out punishment (no Wii) and sent Eddie to get his coat.

Now able to grin, I looked at Mom and shook my head. “That’s genius,” I said to her quietly. “He’s like an evil little genius!” She just smiled and shook her head right back at me, “He’s smart, I know. He’s very clever. I just wish he wasn’t being clever about things like this!”

“I’m very impressed,” I said, laughing. I told her to hang onto the envelope, because it was awesome. She agreed, and took Eddie home. The next day, Mom walked Eddie over to Polly to apologize.

Eddie has since gone onto kindergarten, and I hope he has learned to harness his power for good and not evil.

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent and bad-ass.

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It seems that in the beginning of August, an old boycott site of mine, Free to Stitch – Free to Bitch, was slammed with bots out of nowhere. Now, the boycott ended years ago, and I simply changed the homepage to state that it ended, removing the links to the various parts of the site. Stupid me, I didn’t remove the other parts themselves, including the forum.

I don’t know what brought on the sudden spammer attack, but I am looking into it. Been banning IPs left and right, shutting off access to parts of my sites, and looking into what might have caused this. It’s the strangest thing. One day there’s next to zero traffic, and the next day (August 7th, it appears) I’m slammed.

Anyone with more knowledge about these kinds of things, please let me know.