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Club Rider DIY Workshop #1: Screenprinting

RIDERS: Amy, Anne, Belle, Cassandra, Diana, Fatima, Leena, Sabah, Vittoria, Zey and Me

PROJECT: Screen-printed Canvas Tote Bags with our Club Rider DIY logo (aka our official crew bag that we take to all our meetings and events! ha)

LOCATION: Workshop
SUPPLIES: Your own tote bag if preferred, records or an ipod playlist to jam out to, BYOB(or wine), and ANYTHING else you would like to screenprint! (ie. vintage, bags, moleskin journals, tees, undies, etc)  Workshop was stocked the place with rad papers, so we can even make stationary, cards, art and wood cut panels as well.

The location? The fabulous Workshop, SF's first DIY Workshop! My inspiration to start Club Rider DIY actually came from Workshop, this new DIY creative haven in the NOPA headhaunched by DIY Master Malone. Master Malone better known as the lovely Kelly, is the founder of Indie Mart aka this rock star craft party that usually happens about 6 times a year where local designers sell their cool shit.

Anyways, the girls have been recently taking classes at Workshop [like my first sewing class EVER and Heavy Metal Aerobics aka yes I'd MUCH rather do amazing workout moves to Judas Priest than weird house music at a gym anyday!], and when I hit up Kelly to tell her about our new club we thought it be perfect to host a few of the first ones at her spot. 

And so, fresh off the inspiration flea market t(r)ip took place our first DIY Project: creative mediation otherwise known as Screenprinting. We were all screenprint newbies but once we got into it the ideas and hours just passed and passed.

Amy's about to be a new aunty so she brought in a bunch of onesies and bibs

"Anne Hands" made about 50 beautifully perfect things not including like 20 valentines cards (of course)

Please note these were 2 seperate prints she put together on a really cute dress

Here are some of the gems i made: rider diy tote bag. my "cant leave home without it" moleskine. and some chonies. jus sayin....

The options in Screenprinting are endless. I think I enjoy screenprinting little things like journals and rad stationary. Speaking of rad stationary I found this screenprint designer from Buenos Aires: Morris & Essex (Click on the photo for her Etsy Shop)

And if you live in SF and want to take a newbie Screenprinting class check out the next one at Workshop!

the flea's knees

Field Trip to the Alameda Flea Market
Not Pictured: Hot Mess Game Time After Party otherwise known as the Superbowl

We decided to kick off the club off right by caravaning to the Alameda Flea Market that takes place the first Sunday of every month at the former Alameda Point Naval Air Station, for inspiration and supplies! For the majority of us this was our first Sunday Funday in Alameda and it was overwhelmingly beautiful. With over 800 outdoor dealers the possible gem findings were endless. 

The deal with this flea market is you either get their super early (6am steez) where admission (yes its that serious that there's an admission) is $15 and you have your first hand pick with antique sellers and buyers alike. Or you can get there later, pay less admission, some things may be picked through, but you can also baragin for deals. We decided to get there somewhere in between and although riding 12 crew deep meant a lot of "what aisle you in" texts we all were able to walk home with something special.

This guy was selling beautiful corkboards made out of vintage frames and potato sack burlap. But they were also $250 aka this is now on my possible soon to be new room DIY project:

 We found 70s hippie GEMS like this:

Or if your Mama Anne then you find DIY fix me ups like this (stay tuned for the before and after):

Prom Dresses:

Recycled old tires turn pot planters:

Vintage Bunnies (side note did you know every Playboy Magazine has a hidden bunny icon?):

I also found the Vintage Eye Glass Booth!! But ended up getting some Dr.Dean Edell (ha!) shades

 

Fran found the Fresh Corn

Rachel added another sick braclet to her collection

Not sure if Zey purchased this one:

 

Or if Sabah took her home

But I wish Moni took this guy home

And when we found funnel cakes and it was all over

 Jill also found an amazing bedside trunk. The weather was beautiful. None of us wanted to leave and we are all anticipating our next trip. Thank you alameda we'll be back. real soon.