Rachel Hospodar
About: Rachel Hospodar is hard at work mastering every possible process of how to make stuff; her skills range from welding, wiring, and carpentry to sewing, embroidery, and the fiber arts. She is an accomplished painter in acrylic mixed media, and has a web store for her paintings and fiber arts at http://mediumreality.com. Rachel also throws a popular San Francisco arts/fashion event series that you can read more about at http://pandorastrunk.com. Pandora's Trunk combines the best of an art party, fashion sample sale, designer showcase, and musical event all under one roof.
Make Your Own Wet Felted Wool Beads and Patches
Learn to wet felt durable textile shapes of your own creation. Make a necklace or a patch to sew onto your clothes.
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Blog Posts
Back to Schoolish
--This time of year is always for fresh beginnings, i think. Time to really buckle down and start a new year at ... well, what are you up to? Tell ...
Article about the iceberg
--I just found this awesome little article about the construction of the iceberg. I was really shocked at how much putting it together was like garm...
Wired Blog!
--I don't really think of myself as a 'burning man fashion designer' although there is a way in which that does describe me. This wired blog mention...
Portrait & Landscape - Aug 2nd opening
--I am really proud of the show that Alfonso and I hung last week at Cafe International. It was touch and go for a while but our disparate work is h...
promo shots for christmas wholesaling
--it's funny but so crucial to think about christmas right now.these shots came out great, massive thanks due to the awesome photographer (chuck reve...
Pandora Opening 7/11/08
--Medium Reality - handmade accessories and mixed media paintings Pandora's Trunk - San Francisco fashion/arts party featuring indie artists and free...
Paintorama mama
--Lately I have been focusing on finding ways to have other people help me produce the clothes so that I have time to paint. It's been working, alth...
Re-Cover-Ry
--Whew. Craft Con was a blast. We are slowly posting wrap-ups and ongoing information on the website, still working out what happens next. Upcomin...
Here Goes Nothin
--We're over budget (hellloooo, credit cards), I've been sleeping 4 hours a night, it's too late for me to get my dry cleaning done, and I think I've...
Craft Con: one week
--I said the phrase out loud two different times today before I believed it "The conference is in one week". The second time, when I let myself real...
Craft Con o Rama
--Craft Con is less than two weeks away now and the hours are just evaporating out from under me! I feel like a juggler, and if I only drop every th...
Swept Away
--We're two weeks out now, wow that was fast! Tons of interest in Craft Con, the business development conference for the craft community that I am h...
March with a Vengeance!
--Spring has come upon Mediumrealityland full force! Craft Con is less than a month away but in between now and then I'll be putting on a runway sho...
Defense of something
--A rare political post here... I was walking the dog today and came to demonstrations outside of the state building. Today was a hearing on the ga...
It's Aliiiiive!
--Craft Con is a business development conference for the craft community. That's our tagline. i say it a lot. i write a lot of emails and make a lo...
February Report
--This had been a head down, ploughing through sort of month. Pandora's Trunk is standing up; it's been really amazing to watch the group of artists...
Sampler Interview
--Belatedly, oh dear reader. This interview happened to me as I was on my way out of town and I am now shocked to notice I never properly linked it....
Art, Business, and Marketing (the place where they meet)
--I have been working a lot lately, hunkering down and shoveling out old messes, while also trying to strike a balance in my life between work and, w...
Viajando
--Our grand opening was a smashing success! I got interviewed and photographed for the guardian, and although none of that material made it in there...
Doors Wide Open
--Holy whew. The list of things still to be done never does shrink. The store has been standing on its own for a little over a week now. Stress le...
Here Goes Nothing
--this morning i woke up slowly to a silent house. Today was different than what has become usual - the last week is a fog of hauling myself weary o...
Medium Reality in the Chronicle
--I met this guy at Balazo Gallery at a show I was doing a month or three ago. Yesterday his photo was on the front page of the Chronicle Datebook w...
Got them Under the Overpass Blues
--It's a truism of the blogging world that whenever someone's posting activity falls off, they are up to the most fevered activity. Lots has been go...
Burned
--Whew. My older brother dragged me to Burning Man last week for the umpteenth time (his first) but, like every time, it was new all over again. I ...
Burned
--Whew. My older brother dragged me to Burning Man last week for the umpteenth time (his first) but, like every time, it was new all over again. I ...
Why I don't bother trying to make it perfect
--I always find myself trying to explain my philosophy on this to people at shows while hubbub murmurs and drinks slosh around us. I spoke with Jami...
Old Boot Dress
--This is my new favorite (and so far only) use for old shoes - this is the third piece like this i've done. They are always lent so much character ...
Rincon Hill Tower
--I have been digging through some strange flickr photos since last I posted. It's undeniable that the tower has fantastic views. I think this view...
I do indeed love you, San Francisco
--Here is an industry-meets-sky image from a recent sailing trip around the bay. I have been trying to capture the edges and transitions from civili...
They like us, they really like us!
--A friend told me recently that Pandora's Trunk was mentioned in Readymade Magazine; I called them up and they sent me a lovely copy super fast. Th...
Sense of Place
--Sense of Place is the new working title of my book. The .pdfs below are the first two chunks; they aren't polished perfect but the meat is all the...
Inverse Proportionate
--It's a funny feature of this style of publication that the deepest silences often indicate the most frenzied activity. I have been trying desperat...
Maybe They're Not So Bad
--Etsy.com is a sprawling crafts-selling site, web 2.0's handmade answer to ebay. Their rapid growth, actual funding, and general slickness are a li...
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Comments
Hi there! Thanks for your note - I'm looking forward to checking out your felting!
Tracey