Busy times for me means lag in posts. Last week I taught 8 classes in two days so I was wiped out because of all the planning that went into it. Then, this weekend I was away visiting relatives and attending a wedding.
Right, anyway,Etsy labs, in Brooklyn, yeah. This is an interesting story. I took the F train to York Street and went the wrong way because of the bad directions I got. I ended up on the sketchy side of York St. When I realized I was totally not at Washington St., I turned around and (if you can believe it) asked a real live person for directions!
When I finally arrived at 55 Washington St. where the Etsy headquarters is. It was an unassuming loft building. When I got to the seventh floor there was a chalk board sign pointing the way.
The front door featured a handmade sign.
Inside were tables and chairs, shelves filled with art supplies, books, and board games. This particular session was for painting glass hearts, in a set of three, using paint markers. There was great music, and all different types of people, which among other things meant that no two sets of hearts were the same.
These are all three of mine together (the middle one says love in Hebrew and is upside down):
This is my favorite out of the three that I painted and it sort of happened by accident:
The paint pens were rather difficult to use so this happened after I could not get any paint out, and then got way too much. Instead of cleaning it off and starting over when I had and overflow of paint I used the pen to just scribble. It is much prettier in person.
One more really awesome thing about this experience was the name tag. Not only was it helpful for having conversation with the people at the table, they are really cute! (Note: I changed what I originally had to Hebrew because I am doing a project about Esty for my Hebrew class):
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