Love your moms, embroider away, and get ready for craft fair madness!

Celebrate spring, birth, and new beginnings! (and perty dresses, too ;)... ) card by los monitos We have the perfect last-minute cards, jewelry and gifts for mother's day, for moms and moms-to-be! So come on over before it's too late! mother's day is next sunday, dontcha know? last embroidery class at treehouse The last embroidery class was so overwhelmingly successful, that the lovely Cal Patch has agreed to offer another session....NEXT WEEK! : Wednesday May 6th Embroidery with Cal Patch of Hodgepodge The lovely Cal Patch is back in the trees with her fabulous embroidery skills and that loveable sidekick Gertie too. In this one session extravaganza, you'll learn 12 classic embroidery stitches and be off and running to custom-decorate everything you own! After making a basic stitch sampler, Cal will help you visualize planning your own personal project. All supplies included ...including tasty treats!...Stitch Away! Wednesday May 6th 6:30-8:30 $50 SIGN UP HERE p.s. all of our classes take place in the treehouse, sometimes during business hours. because of this, the classes are kept small so that everyone can participate (usually 4-6 people per class). once a class fills up, we'll start a waiting list for the next session. the flowers are blooming once again, and that can only mean one thing....it's craft fair season once again! and to kick off the season, can we recommend the HANDMADE CAVALCADE the weekend after this one at the bell house? many of our friend crafters of the New New team will be representin' with their handmade goods, such as betterthanjam and thisisloveforever. (we'll be sharing a table with thisisloveforever at both the BUST Spring Fling May 17th at Warsaw and the Renegade Craft Fair June 6&7th in McCarren Park, both in Williamsburg , Brooklyn...coming soon to a crafty summer near you...yay!) And last but not least, CLOTHES!!!! we've got lotsa new, bright, fun, playful stuff for spring....come on by and check it out! And weather depending, we've got a rack of vintage spring dresses outside for sale...all $20, $35 or $50....great deals abound! let's celebrate! kisses from the branches, and reaching for the stars, siri treehouse*

LAST MINUTE!!! Newly added embroidery class! Wed April 15th!

Because of overwhelming popularity, embroidery class quickly sold out, and its fabulous instructor, Cal Patch, made time in her busy craftin' schedule to add one more embroidery class the day before, on Wed April 15th! it was great, pics to come soon, and another embroidery class on the way!

class description:
The lovely Cal Patch is back in the trees with her fabulous embroidery skills and that loveable sidekick Gertie too. In this one session extravaganza, you'll learn 12 classic embroidery stitches and be off and running to custom-decorate everything you own! After making a basic stitch sampler, Cal will help you visualize planning your own personal project. All supplies included ...including tasty treats!...Stitch away!

Wednesday, April 15th 6:30-8:30 $50

Online fashion mag Sapphire Whisper piece on our fashion show...with video!

Erin of Sodafine found this flattering piece, with a more complete video of our Williamsburg Fashion Weekend fashion show with Tom Tom Magazine....the video still gives me the happiest chills! Go Chica Vas!

http://www.sapphirewhisper.com/treehouseandsodafine.htm

if you missed the show, i hope this helps you see how fantastic it was! i'm getting nostalgic for february! tear...

again, someday...

craft classes rock at treehouse!

here's a lil' photo montage of the joy that was junk to jewels class, last sunday. I was honored to have such talented and visionary pupils!!!

the glorious ladies of junk to jewels pre-junktojewels-ification (so fabulous already!)


the crafty soon-to-be-jeweled hands of the ladies....


the full, fabulous, blinged-out finale.....swoon.


such talent, and such individual styles. these ladies inspire me! thanx again my new crafty friends!!
kisses from the branches,
reaching for the stars,
siri treehouse

ps: all our classes for now are either sold out, over, or both, but we'll be putting some more up on the calendar asap....ya dig?

CRAFT CLASSES ARE BACK!!!!! YAY SPRING!!!!

it's spring! it's spring! tra-la-la! we survived to see blossoms a-bloomin' again! and some of you feared this day would never come, but never fear tree friends, craft classes are back Sun March 29 Applique Workshop with Kayte Terry Do you have a closet full of boring clothes that are begging for more personality? Then appliqué is the craft for you! Learn how to add beautiful reverse appliqué to a pair of jeans, a skirt, a jacket or anything else you can think of. You supply the clothes and we'll teach you everything you need to know to reverse appliqué. Kayte Terry is a stylist and author living in Brooklyn. Her first book, Complete Embellishing was published in 2008 and she has a new book Appliqué Your Way with Chronicle Books coming out next fall. Her popular design website is thisisloveforever.com. Sun. March 29 6:30-8:30 $40 Thursdays, April 2 & 9 Intro to Knitting with Erin Weckerle Knitting is knotty fun in Spring! for knitting newbies..! The Lovely Erin Weckerle of Sodafine and Purldrop fame, and our fabulous cohort in the fashion show finale at Williamsburg Fashion Weekend is a knitting and crocheting diva, and is gracing treehouse with her amazing knitting skills! Always wanted to learn to knit but didn't know where to begin? Then this 2-part class is the way to go! Come get armed with knitting knowledge in this super-intensive workshop. learn cast-on, cast-off, knit stitch , purl stitch and increasing and decreasing too!....don't despair, pretty soon you'll be knitting like a pro! (supplies can be purchased at treehouse, or you an bring your own...) Thurs. April 2 & 9, 6:30-9pm $125 Sunday, April 5th Junk to Jewels with Siri Wilson Ever wonder what to do with all those beads and baubles from Grandma's closet? Or do you need yet another reason to keep hoarding broken necklaces and single earrings? Well here's your answer! In just one two hour session you'll learn how to restring and clasp necklaces and bracelets on silk and nylon thread. You'll learn the basics of jump ring usage, as well as chain layering and clasping. All this will be done with cut apart treasures and loose bead findings. We'll provide the know how and lotsa junk, feel free to bring your own baubles as well. Treehouse's own Siri will show you how it's done! Sunday April 5th 6:30-8:30 $40 Thursday, April 16th Embroidery with Cal Patch of Hodgepodge The lovely Cal Patch is back in the trees with her fabulous embroidery skills and that loveable sidekick Gertie too. In this one session extravaganza, you'll learn 12 classic embroidery stitches and be off and running to custom-decorate everything you own! After making a basic stitch sampler, Cal will help you visualize planning your own personal project. All supplies included ...including tasty treats!...Stitch away! Thursday, April 16th 6:30-8:30 $50 p.s. all of our classes take place in the treehouse, sometimes during business hours. because of this, the classes are kept small so that everyone can participate (usually 4-6 people per class). once a class fills up, we'll start a waiting list for the next session. Chica Vas brought down the house at Williamsburg Fashion Week! pic from our fashion show with sodafine and tom tom magazine. many more pics on flickr) Can't believe it's been over a month since the fashion show. Still reeling from the amazement. An all-female percussion-based group was created for the event, and is living on, now named Chica Vas...go check 'em out! Thanx again to everyone involved, and there's lotsa great picks and video on the treehouse blog and the sodafine blog BTW, our clothing SALE is STILL going strong, and is 30% off vintage clothes, and now 25% off new designer.....and because we're crazy and crave more space for new goodies....wait for it....vintage winter clothes is now 50% OFF!!!! So get that piece you were coveting before it's gone forevers! And we've started putting out some spring wares... they're on sale too! Already a few beautiful spring frocks have found new happy homes...but there's more treasures in the trees with your name on them! kisses from the branches, and reaching for the stars, siri treehouse*

flickr link to fashion show group

many photos of our show can be found....thanx again to all!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/872051@N24/pool/

yay! i wanna do it again!! ;)

another video segment of the fashion show-thanx kelie!

a video segment of the show- thanx courtney!

urban gardening in the 'burg

A friend just forwarded this to me, and I just had to share with you all....will try to sneak outta the trees and see you there!! Wildflower seed balls! Awesome! Happy Spring!!!!

I'm now
heading up North Brooklyn's NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth)
Open Space Committee. We're working on a guerrilla gardening
initiative this spring to get the Williamsburg/Greenpoint community
active in maintaining and improving our open spaces. Our first
workshop is this Saturday, March 21st, to be followed by several more!
The invite is listed below..

Also if you have any open space/gardening/sustainability projects
you'd like us to host or rally volunteers for, I would LOVE to hear
about them.
Spread your seed, everybody!
Best,
Emily Gallagher

Host:
NAG Open Space Group
Date:
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Time:
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
NAG Office
Street:
101 Kent Street at North 8th

Email:
openspace@nag-brooklyn.org

On Saturday NAG Open Space working group will hold a workshop to
create seed balls, a land reclamation strategy for derelict, neglected
and abandoned land. The strategy of combining Terra cotta clay and
hardy annual seeds into dried pellets has been used by groups for
hundreds of years, including the famous London guerrilla gardening
groups lead by Richard Reynolds, as well as natural farmer Masanobu
Fukuoka, and originated as a Native American farming strategy.

NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) will be constructing the seed
balls (containing wildflower seeds) on Saturday, March 21st, and
distributing them on Saturday, March 28th to be cast into abandoned
lots and neglected patches of land all over North Brooklyn at the
participants discretion.

Williamsburg Fashion Weekend Show Feb. 21st at glasslands

more pics on flickr here
I'm still putting it all together....gathering photos and videos from everyone who so kindly recorded this spectacular moment. And truly, I'm still in shock. Our fashion show was honestly above and beyond my crazy dreams! On Saturday, February 21st treehouse yet again joined forces with our sister shoppe Sodafine, and also with our dear friend Mindy of the up-n-coming Tom Tom Magazine(all about female drummers! rad!) and an amazing assortment of brooklyn female musicians, mainly drummers. One by one they casually climbed up the stage, stuck a pose, and then found their drum or instrument of choice and started playing. First, a simple funky but pure bass line from Bell of the band Taigaa!!!, dresses in a marching band inspired outfit by erin weckerle of sodafine, then Christina of Boyskout got on the drumkit, still keeping the beat simple and building suspense (outfit by erin weckerle of sodafine). Then Elizabeth Sun of Gogol Bordello sauntered onto the stage wearing Sirius for treehouse and a gorgeous felt flower hat by Ellen of eecouture rocking a triangle. The musical ladies kept filing out one after another, and the sound kept building until 9 ladies were hard-core rocking onstage, Katie Eastburn of Katie Eastburn and Young People in Sodafine and ruling the tambourine, Jee of Tiaggaa in Sodafine, Dreiky of Crash Worship and 88Boredoms (and 5 months pregnant! Congrats!) in Sirius, Fonlin of Dragons of Zynth in Sirius, Shannon of !!! and many other musical ventures ruling it in Sirius, Mindy of Tiagaa! and Tom Tom Magazine in Sirius and rocking the toms and the whistle.....and the crowd was a-hollering and dancing along with the beat. Just when no one thought it could get any more powerful, Suzanne of Lone Wolf and Cub jumped up on a trapeze, performed many a feat while keeping the beat, and then hung from her knees and grabbed some sticks and threw down some major beats on a big drum. The crowd went nuts, and we couldn't stop glowing. Or celebrating until the wee hours of the night. Oh, and then following the show, two of our fav bands performed.... Tall Firs, and.....Celebration. It was beyond divine.We wish you coulda bee there, and there's so much more to explain, so many people to thank....we hope you enjoy the pics and we'll also be trying to upload some videos.....kisses from the branches, reaching for the stars, siri treehouse

treehouse and sodafine take part in Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, this Sat Feb 21st, 9ish. at glasslands!

We can't believe it's already this weekend! Aaaack! treehouse has again been invited to team up with the amazing shop sodafine to take part in Williamsburg Fashion Weekend (Feb. 20&21st...we're scheduled to be a part of Sat Feb.21st...this time at glasslands!....around 9ish) we're cooking up a show of rhythm and magic not to be missed...(a little hint... our models are all fierce female brooklyn musicians,that we've borrowed from some of our absolutely favorite bands!) and after our show, two absolutely mind-blowingly great bands, Tall Firs and Celebration are rockin' the house. Soooooo excited! Seriously. Hope you'll come and share this amazing experience with us!

BTW, our winter SALE is still going strong, and is 30% off vintage clothes, and now 25% off new designer.....and because we're crazy and crave more space for new goodies....wait for it....vintage winter clothes is now 50% OFF!!!! So get that piece you were coveting before it's gone forevers! And we've started putting out some spring wares... they're on sale too! Already a few beautiful spring frocks have found new happy homes...but there's more treasures in the trees with your name on them!


kisses from the branches, and reaching for the stars,
siri treehouse*

V for Victory! ;)

Last night's valentines day party was such fun! Was so great to see so many treehouse friends old and new! And our dear friend Liz blogged about us as well....gee whiz thanks!!

And, today is the grand opening of the PIE SHOP across the street from treehouse. Sweet! So grab a treat at "The Blue Stove" and come visit our branches! Last minute Vday gifts and cards abound.....

kisses from the branches, reaching for the stars, siri treehouse

we heart cocktails, sales, and you!

We're back from hibernating and to show our love for you, we've decided to have a vday party! delish cocktails, treats, sales and lotsa great last-minute gifts for you and yours! Please come join us in the trees this coming Thurs, Feb. 12th, 6-9pm!

Our winter sale is going strong, and is now 30% off vintage clothes, and 20% off new designer! So get that piece you were coveting before it's gone forevers! And we've stared putting out some spring wares... they're on sale too! We so crazy! And we have lotsa great valentine cards, pretty jewels, gift certs..... we want to help you give someone special something special...

And! we're so stoked! treehouse has again been invited to team up with the amazing shop to take part in Williamsburg Fashion Weekend (Feb. 20&21st...we're scheduled to be a part of Sat Feb.21st...this time at glasslands!....around 9ish) we're cooking up a show of rhythm and magic not to be missed...we'll keep you in the loop...

Also, we're (still) figuring out the craft classes and will let you know SOON....it looks like they'll be starting end of Feb...

Btw, can you feel it? The days are getting longer and the hope for brighter days is blooming....

treehouse gets blogged by the city girl!

treehouse was privileged enough to have the lovely ashley come and interview us for her blog citygirlshops. She wrote the nicest review of treehouse...we're still blushing...check it out!

100 reasons to buy handmade

a cute piece on the many many reasons to buy handmade....

zzzzzz....fyi treehouse in (partial) hibernation this january....zzzz

THIS weekend sales and next THURS 18th treehouse HOLIDAZE PARTAY!!

THIS WEEKEND, treehouse is honored to be a part of not one but TWO Holiday Craft Shows, back to back. Saturday you can find us in Williamsburg at the Secret Santa Project Holiday Sale:
And Sunday you can find us in Manhattan at the Bust Craftacular:
Boy! are we gonna be loving our snooze button come monday morn! So please stop by, say hi, get a little holiday shopping done, and support local designers!


Oh, and last but definitely not least, it's official! TREEHOUSE* HOLIDAY HOLIDAZE SOIREE FIESTA PARTY!!!
is NEXT THURSDAY, Dec. 18th, 6-9pm. As always, there will be sales, delish cocktails, treats, and too many good times to count! And surprises! And you're cordially invited! Oh my!



btw, we've always got new and exciting goodies in treehouse for you, yours, and always that last minute holiday/birthday/baby shower/housewarming/first date gift. For example:

* "earrings for spontaneous seeding" by leafcutter designs (aren't you curious?)
* handknit and crocheted scarves collars and S-collars by Sirius*
* handmade holiday cards by los monitos (go solar for polar is our new fav)
* cashmere and swavorski crystal SOFT BLING fingerless gloves by Elyse Allen
* beeswax xmas tree, twig, and NY buildings candles from Ironweed (upstate ny)
* gift certificates, handmade for gifting in every denomination (such a better stocking stuffer than one of those plastic gift cards from staples or the like)
* gorgeous new recycled sterling silver and 18k gold plated jewels from species by the thousands
* so much, much more!

So please don't forget especially in these challenging times to support local! and dream global....

kisses from the trees,
treehouse* brooklyn
430 graham ave
btw withers and frost
brooklyn 11211

Embroider Me Crazy!

This Sunday Dec. 7th, treehouse was honored to host another great embroidery class taught by the lovely Cal Patch. The students snacked on cookies and green tea, while learning the many stitches one can use in the wondrous world of embroidery. Can't wait to see what kind of embroidered treats they'll come up with now that the knowledge is theirs....





btw, we still have room in the CROCHET BOOTCAMP course this Thur Dec 11th, 6-9pm $60 which is also w/ the amazing Cal Patch of hodgepodge
* crochet is the way!!!....sign up now to get your hook into this deliciously addicting craft!


btw, KNITTING BOOTCAMP with Keep It Moving Kim was also a blast, so much so I forgot to take pictures!!! Sorry about that guys.... but was a joy to watch you master the caste on caste off!

headdress party fun

Last thursday, treehouse hosted headdress party #3. It was beyond a blast, and we hope to be hosting more soon. We'd tell you more, but the first rule of HEADDRESS CLUB is you don't talk about HEADDRESS CLUB... ;).

class-y crafty holidaze at treehouse, and gift ideas and party too!

treehouse* here reminding you that our new longer holidaze hours have begun, to help you check those special gifts off the list....from now to xmas eve, treehouse* will be open Tuesday-Sunday 12:30 to 8pm. So come by with a cup of joe and check out all our new giftable treasures for ladies, gents, tots, and you too!

Also, there's STILL room in all three craft classes coming up SOON in December.
In fact, knitting bootcamp is THIS friday! Wow! sign up now!....
THIS Fri Dec 5th 6-9pm $60 knitting bootcamp w/ keep it moving kim

Knitting is knotty fun in December for knitting newbies..knitting bootcamp instructions

The lovely Kim Hamlin of Keep It Moving fame, she of the knit trees, is bringing her knitting know-how back to the trees to teach Knitting Bootcamp! Always wanted to learn to knit but didn't know where to begin? Well, now's the perfect time because it's getting chilly out there, and wouldn't you like to stay warm this winter in cozy wares knit by your own two hands? and then there's also those friends and family that'd love a hand-knit holiday present or two...So come get armed with knitting knowledge in this super-intensive workshop. learn cast-on, cast-off, knit stitch AND if you're lucky and a fast learn, purl stitch too!....don't despair, pretty soon you'll be knitting like a pro!
(supplies can be purchased at treehouse, or you an bring your own...)

CLICK HERE to reserve a spot by paypal, (or you can always call or stop in...)

ALSO COMING UP SOON!!!:
Sun Dec 7th 5-7pm $50 Embroidery w/ the amazing Cal Patch of hodgepodge (includes materials)
* embroidery is almost full! So if you want to get your stitch on, don't delay!

Thur Dec 11th 6-9pm $60 crochet bootcamp w/ the amazing Cal Patch of hodgepodge
* crochet is the way....sign up now to get your hook into this deliciously addicting craft!

check out the classes page on our website, with more detailed class descriptions... and you can now sign up by paypal! Don't kick yourself for wasting another winter season where you could be crafting the doldrums away!!

And remember, you can give a gift of craft this giving season! (not only do handmade crafts make great, personal gifts, but giving the gift of a class is also a wonderful present... why don't you sign you and your best friend up for a class? what better present is there than sharing time AND knowledge?