In my flurry of travel I never got to share my Renegade weekend with you all!  It’s hard to sum up such an explosion of awesome craftiness, but for the sake of time I’ll give it a shot.

Because I like to hit all my bases I decided to turn my Renegade Brooklyn weekend into a two-week, multi-city tour of craft and family!  First stop- Storrs, Connecticut.  I got to relax with family and enjoy some quality time with my badass, rapping niece, known to rap aficionados as Half-Dollar Hannah.  Not only does Hannah spit some mad rhymes, but she also plays piano, softball, and has some mad skillz at a colonial game called, “graces”, played with something that looks like an embroidery hoop and gigantic knitting needles.  Oh yeah and she SEWS!!!  Love me some niece Hannah!!

It was my very first Renegade and admitedly, I was a little nervous about flying across the country for any craft show.  But I’m so glad that my booth partner, Margaret of  Paper Pastries talked me into it because not only have I discovered that I LOVE Brooklyn, but I got to participate in an explosion of craft and creativity and make a little cash to boot!

I thought I was so fancy when I first packed up my suitcase . . . but then we discovered that it was obscenely heavy and I had to destroy my perfect packing job.  So basically I went from this:

To this:

Don’t ask me- I have no idea how i did it.

Next time around I’ll share a few tidbits about my the Boston and Chicago bits of my journey!