Good Job Creative Reuse

We don't want a data center in our neighborhood (or anyone else's). So we had design these AMAZING yard signs for the community! We'll have them at the shop this Thursday if the shipping gods shine upon us. (Neighbor businesses - lmk if you want some and I'll bring a stack to you this week.)
Folks who are already fighting back:
Andy Nielsen, Indianapolis City-County Councilor, District 14 is advocating for his district (thank you!)
Mirror Indy doing some amazing reporting on this and the other in-progress data center projects
Irvington Community Council
Everyone who showed up at the last approval meeting, ily
Would love to know who else is pushing against this in a coordinated way!

Help! We have too much yarn!
Stop by any day this week for 25% off all yarn. We'll have allll of our backstock out and there's some nice stuff in there 🧶
And yes! You can stack discounts! Bring in a donation for an extra 15% off (just keep our policy of 1 bag/box per person per day in mind, please and thank you 😘)

Happy pride from your neighborhood good job g**s (say it back)

A craft supply roundup for this rainy Friday...
1 watercolor, mixed media, sketchbooks, and more (small sample pictured)
2-3 gorgeous nearly complete set of Prismacolor Nupastels
4 paper cutter! Last time I posted one of these y'all snatched it up FAST
5 digital microscope (connect this with your computer to see anything up close)
6 big ol pack of charcoal
7 calligraphy set
8 a whole bunch of art nouveau stickers for you water bottle, your laptop, your whatever...
9 Horse! Charms! Horse! Charms!
10 very cool vintage metal case
11 ink in every color imaginable
12 quite a bit (like a full sweater's worth) of this "soysilk" yarn (40% soysilk, 30% wool, 30% h**p) that feels delicious
13 awards and medals...heal your inner child and give yourself first place
14 help our bead drawer is overflowing!
15 A foot. Just. A foot.
16 lightbox!
17 oil paints! The good stuff!
18 A niiiiice pencil sharpener...so smooooooth

We're here til 8 tonight and 12-7 tomorrow!

This community has been so generous with us! We're incredibly grateful for everyone who has ever donated.

Because of our small space, we need to start limiting walk-in donations. When we get multiple big donations in one day, it makes it hard for customers to navigate the shop, and we want to make sure it remains a welcoming, safe, comfortable spot for everyone.

So here's the deal: walk-ins can only bring one grocery bag of donations per day. If you'd like to donate more than that, great! Just get in touch first so we can plan a drop-off time.

And please, please: don't donate trash! We are exactly as interested in your dried up pens, stained bed linens, and broken tools as you are. We want to minimize what goes into landfill, but when someone donates trash, there's nowhere else we can put it.

Thank you for understanding. We love, love, love y'all for making this business work.

Hi friends, new and old! We’ve gotten some extra attention lately after a Facebook post made the rounds yesterday. To everyone who found us through that post: we’re so glad you’re here!
That said, we want to clear up some confusion.

First of all: we’re not a warehouse. Our shop is a cozy 250-ish square feet, packed to the brim with art and craft supplies. We’d love to move into a giant space one day…but for now, we love our tiny spot in our sweet neighborhood.

Second: we don’t sell “scrap.” Because our space is small, we curate ~~heavily~~. When we get donations that don’t fit the space, we either give them away for free, or sell them at a steep discount during our periodic yard sales (another one coming soon!). What’s sold in the actual shop is all quality, never scrap.

Third: AI gives us the ick. We love artists. We love DIYers. We love anyone who creates something with love and care (and tears and frustration…) with their brain and their own two hands. That post that helped a bunch of y’all find us (and the accompanying article) were AI-generated slop with a headline that doesn’t even describe us accurately. We love attention (I’m a Leo if you’re curious) but we’d really rather get it from human beings, not robots. We didn’t know about this article until after it was live, and we would have asked the creators not to run it if they’d given us a say.

I’m not going to link directly to the post (because I don’t want to send them more traffic) but I’ll share some screenshots in my story if you want context. If you do run across the post: please like/engage with my comment, so it hopefully shows up at the top. I want to make sure folks who learn about us know what we really are – a cozy, curated secondhand craft supplies store – and aren’t disappointed when they come visit.

Okay! Now that’s all off my chest, I really hope all you folks who just learned about us will come and see us. But please don’t expect a warehouse! If it’s too packed when you stop by, go give our neighbors a visit: Irvington Vinyl & Books, Magpie Studio and Gallery, Snug, Strange Bird, Hampton & Co, Market Vintage, and so many more.

Come make the cutest sculpey keychains you've ever seen!
Learn from local artist .art about working with oven bake clay to create forms, shapes, and textures. You'll leave class with a one-of-a-kind keychain to keep or give away.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clay-keychains-and-charms-with-rina-nguyen-tickets-1988792483856?aff=oddtdtcreator

The shop is COLORFUL and packed to the brim with treasures as usual! Some highlights...
- Watercolor palette with a color theory map/overlay thing?? Idk it looks cool
- Faber Castell Pitt artist brush pen set
- Not one but TWO guillotine-style paper cutters, both sharp: a mini and a full size
- Barely used candle making kit with jars, dried flowers, wax dye, and scent oil
- These sick retro 90s looms
- A working Singer Tiny Tailor machine -- great for small spaces or someone just getting started!
- Teeny tiny cameo
- Art based CBT workbook
- Prismacolor pastel set in nearly new condition
- Colored foil (honestly...no clue what this is used for but it looks cool!)
- Iridescent window cling sets in two styles
- Long stitch embroidery kits with Persian wool yarn
- Paper workbooks/notebooks (with grids inside - I believe meant for practicing writing Chinese characters)
- Oil painting kit/travel case with brushes and tools (last 4 slides)

P.S... you can always DM me to buy anything I post! I'll send a link and reserve the item as soon as you've paid. Or just swing by today til 8 or tomorrow 12-7 💖

Some exciting news...we have new, expanded hours starting this week! We're now open:
Wednesdays 12-4
Thursdays and Fridays 12-8
Saturdays 12-7
Can't wait to spend more of our week with y'all 💖

All the girlies are joining sh*tty craft club, you in?
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Brooches on brooches on brooches
Gratuitous yarn close ups
*that* green oil paint
A working Singer sewing machine I'm shocked hasn't sold yet
Handmade natural watercolors that I'm DROOLING over
Natural dye sample kits!
Yarn baller 🧶
Restocked art markers!
Roman shade kit x 2
Our overflowing acrylic paint bin (not pictured...two more overflow bins, come help a girl out)
More watercolors!
Wax stamp kit, please come take it and send lots of romantic letters