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Opening Saturday: BE MERRY! 🎋🎁
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Get ready for Be Merry, our annual ornament show featuring dozens of handmade hangable art for your walls, trees, fireplace, and other fixtures!
The opening reception is THIS SATURDAY, November 15th, from 6-9pm! These pieces will be available for immediate take-home, so come see them (and claim them) before they find homes elsewhere! 🎋
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Did your vote count? Check!
Thousands of ballots are missing signatures and won't be counted unless they're verified before November 24th. We've got a super CLOSE RACE for Mayor and your vote could make the difference???
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We're participating in Ballard's Harvest Food Drive again this year! Things have been extra rough for many of our neighbours lately, and every little thing helps!
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FREE Teen Art After School
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ICYMI: We've pushed back the starting time for our Teen Art After School classes to 3:30 PM to hopefully better accommodate after school travel times!
Our FINAL 5-class series for teens is The Art of Illustration, and it starts November 19!
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25% off Tri-Art acrylics & Gamblin 1980 oils
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Due to tariffs, we're unfortunately not going to be restocking Tri-Art for the time being. :(
For Gamblin, we'll be replacing the 1980 line (student grade) with the full line of pro grade artist colors.
In-store only!
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TONIGHT, November 11, 5:00 PM: Tis the season for crazy cat people to cozy up indoors, so there are just THREE SPOTS LEFT for this month's Acrylic Painting Cats! Paint a pretty kitty while exploring the basics of acrylics and cat-specific techniques. Your resulting painting can make a fantastic gift too, which is a nice bonus! 😽
Wednesday, November 12, 6:00 PM: Watercolor for Everyone has a new instructor! Rotating monthly topics will be filled in very soon, but you can still sign up now! This introductory watercolor class is great for beginners and intermediate painters alike! 💧
Thursday, November 13, 5:00 PM: It's Intermediate Procreate! Join us to spend time painting, coloring, and creating brushes in Procreate and explore related techniques! 📱
Friday, November 14, 5:30 PM: You don't need to draw to make things with your hands! Pop Up Bouquet Cards are a great way to make a personal, impactful card for a loved one in your life, and a great way to show yourself that you can be creative and artistic! 🪷
Saturday, November 15, 10:00 PM: Brush up and broaden your inking techniques at Inking: Brush, Washes, and White Space! Conquer your fear of committing to the permanancy of the page and learn to love it! 🪥
Saturday, November 15, 2:00 PM: Maxx has been using and making gouache for years, so gather all your burning questions about the medium and get them answered at All About Gouache! See how it's different from watercolor and test it out with dozens of our store-made and brand-fav gouaches! 🎨
Saturday, November 15, 6:00 PM: It's the Opening Reception for Be Merry, our annual ornament show featuring dozens of handmade hangable art for your walls, trees, fireplace, and other fixtures! These pieces are available for immediate take-home, so come see them (and claim them) before they find homes elsewhere! 🎋
Sunday, November 16, NOON: Why are so many artists in love with alcohol-based markers? Why are they so dang expensive? Are they really worth it? Intro to Alcohol Markers will demystify the medium for you! A set of 12 markers and paper pad ($75 value!) are included with the class! 🍊
Sunday, November 16, 7:15 PM: Get involved with your local community! Brainstorm and act on new ways to support the causes you care about at Riff Raff League! ✊FREE MEETUP.
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Book Spotlight: The Sylvan Hotel
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Welcome to The Sylvan, a small Seattle luxury hotel where polished mahogany walls keep secrets, rock stars slip by in low-lit spaces, and the switchboard crackles with drama...
Witty, nostalgic, and filled with the electric hum of youth, The Sylvan Hotel by Frannie James is a love letter to Seattle's most storied chapter and honors the tender truth that some places-and some people-never really let us go. |
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Restocked! SO MANY CARD & ENVELOPE SETS are in!!! Make some cards! Get 'em done and in the mail early! 💌📮Or get all the supplies and sit on them for a few more weeks until the panic sets in. Y'know. 😽 You do you!
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New & restocked! Morgan's got some more stickers in! Don't forget to check out all their SWORD DANCE series of Risograph prints! The show is coming off the walls this week, but you can still grab a print!
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Restocked! Both sets and individual caps for our Vaporwave dayglo, glow-in-the-dark, blacklight-reactive watercolors are back!
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Restocked! We've also brought back a bunch of other random older store-made watercolors, including Treasure (shown), Peachy Keen, and Meteor!
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Tuesday, November 18, 6:00 PM: Shrinky dinks are still a thing, and they're more versatile than you might think! Draw some stuff, watch it shrink, then turn the shrunken goods into pins, brooches, jewelry, and more, at Shrink n' Drink! We'll bring the shrinks; you bring the drinks. ;) 🍸
Tuesday, November 18, 6:00 PM: Join us at Hattie's Hat as always for our twice monthly Ballard Sketch Team, a casual meetup for artists! Bring your sketchbook and settle in for a chill evening of doodling and good times! 🍔 FREE MEETUP.
Wednesday, November 19, 3:30 PM: The final 5-class series of the fall Teen Art After School program kicks off! Explore the Art of Illustration and bring to life stories, poems, nature journals, or whatever text and images your imagination can come up with. 🧙 FREE/PWYW
Wednesday, November 19, 6:00 PM: This month's Drawing Techniques will cover drawing from imagination. Practice drawing from your mind’s eye. We will utilize fun and creative prompts to spur your imagination as we put pencil to paper during a 2-hour workshop! 🐉
Thursday, November 20, 6:00 PM: Make time to spend time with your poetry, whether that's writing new work, editing older work, asking for feedback, practicing reading, or just spending time with other poets and being inspired by their work! Art isn't created in a vacuum, and it can be informative and inspiring to see what others are up to at Part-Time Poets' Club! 🪶FREE MEETUP.
Friday, November 21, 8:00 PM: Our monthly Figure Drawing session is here! No matter how many times you revisit it, the human body is beautiful, weird, and complicated. Whether you're brushing up your foundations or seeking deeper understanding of how the body moves, twists, bends, and settles, a live model helps, and company doesn't hurt! 📝
Saturday, November 22, 11:00 AM: Show and tell your fav photos of your fav animals, then learn how to capture their essence in Watercolor Pet Portraits! 🐶
Saturday, November 22, 3:00 PM: Go all out and create your own totally over-the-top Maxx-imalist Charm Necklace with Maxx! A great beginner jewelry class or friend hangout session. All materials are provided for one delightfully cluttered necklace. 📿NEW CLASS.
Sunday, November 23, NOON: This month's Gouache Critters will cover sea stars! Do you know how weird and diverse sea stars can be? Learn about some different kinds and also about gouache, watercolor's opaque relative! Whether you're a nature nerd or just want some more practice in painting, this class is for you! ⭐
Sunday, November 23, 4:00 PM: What makes up a fountain pen ink? Why are certain colors so hard to achieve, and why do our inks sometimes smell like cloves? These questions and more answered at Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make, where you'll make up to four of your own inks! ✒️
Sunday, November 23, 7:15 PM: Find and build community at Riff Raff League! Give yourself space to process politics on both a local and national level, and figure out what you can do to resist without overburdening yourself. 🔥FREE MEETUP.
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Opening Saturday: BE MERRY! 🎋🎁 was sent to you on 2025-11-11 22:03:26 UTC by Push/Pull
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