Category — celebration

Thank you to everyone who contributed projects to the Obama Craft Project, to everyone who donated funds to the Obama campaign via our fundraising efforts here at OCP, to everyoen who read this blog and commented. This site has probably been the most personally meaningful project of which I’ve every been involved. With that said, I think I’m going to just let the site be as it is for awile. It’s serving as a wonderful archive of the efforts of you dedicated crafters, and I hope it will be something which inspires folks for years to come. We’ll be back as the 2012 election nears, and if there are bits of news or can’t miss projects that we’ve just got to share with you. For now, thank you, and please visit the OCP site often, as this slideshow will continue to pull new items from the Obama Craft Project flickr pool.

We’re shoe people. Seriously, the husband and I have a ridiculously overstocked closet of shoes. And, living in Portland, Ore. (home of the two biggest athletic footwear companies in the world), that means that a huge amount of those shoes are snazzy sneakers. Oh, yeah, we love us some fancy kicks here in Stumptown. So, of course, these “Hope & Change” sneakers from flickr user out of the boudoir caught my eye immediately.

These white Nikes are painted with “Hope,” “Change,” “Yes We Can” and a variety of quotations and musings.

You can check out a color version over here.

Rachel gave us the heads up about these sweet Chucks that are for sale on Etsy right now. (We don’t normally feature for-sale items, but these are totally fresh.)

You must, right this minute, check out Maira Kalman’s sketches of the inauguration experience in the New York Times. Seriously, click over there right now. Words cannot even describe how much I love this series.

(Shout-out to Modern Craft for spotting this one.)

One of my favorite crafting blogs is Peacock Chic, so imagine my delight yesterday when this post popped up in my RSS reader. She made this necklace for her niece, using PhotoShop, some shrinky dink and spraypaint. Lucky niece. Apparently, it was a big hit at school.

Click on the picture above for Peacock Chic’s 365 Days of Photos post about Inauguration Day.

Iri5‘s beautiful portrait of President Obama is comprised of photographs documenting Barack Obama’s journey to the presidency. I love the way the photos blends together to create a really joyous expression in the face.