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Come visit the Sticker Sisters booth at the Los Angeles Bust Craftacular on December 12th.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2009
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, $2
The Echo & The Echoplex
1822 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles

There'll be over 50 vendors, food (the grilled cheese truck!), raffle prizes, DJs and more! Make sure to bring a can or two for the L.A. Regional Food Bank too. And the first 250 attendees get a super cool goodie bag with a Sticker Sisters treat inside!

The first day of the 2009 Unique Los Angeles holiday show was a great success! It was a blast spreading Sticker Sisters goodies, running into people and being inspired by talented designers, artists and indie businesses.

If you're anywhere near downtown Los Angeles, come on down tomorrow (Sunday, December 6th) for day two. We'll be there from 11am-6pm over by the photo booth. Check out all the details about the event at the Unique Los Angeles site.

So a lot of people give LA a bad rap, but it continues to amaze me.

Come visit Sticker Sisters at Unique Los Angeles! Awesome indie goodies. Great food. Free beer. Amazing views of downtown LA. It's a blast!

Here's a picture from last winter's Unique Los Angeles:
 
Unique Los Angeles
Saturday, December 5, 11 am - 6 pm
Sunday, December 6, 11 am - 6 pm

I just found out PBS Engage is hosting a live chat with Rachel Simmons--author of the New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.

If you're in the LA area, come do your holiday shopping at Unique LA. It's going to have over 150 indie designers, artists and merchants. Not only is buying directly from local creators way better than picking up something at the mall, but no middle man means saving $$$.

The Love Your Body Day event I went to was lots of fun again this year. Actress-comedian Kim Coles was the host and she stopped by the Sticker Sisters table to buy a Girls Rock shirt. Cool!

There were performances, speakers and a fashion show of REAL women. Plus there were massages, but I can never get away from the Sticker Sisters table long enough to get one! Maybe next year...

I'm all about being happy with your body everyday, but it's still fun to have one day a year to focus on it.

I'll have a Sticker Sisters table at the annual Love Your Body Day celebration in West Hollywood tomorrow. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by! It's free and there'll be music, comedy, and a "real women" fashion show. And the icing on the cake is free massages and self-defense lessons. Nice!

Love Your Body Day
Sunday, October 12, 2008
12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
West Hollywood Park Auditorium
647 N. San Vicente Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Check out my recap of last year's event.

Also here are 10 Ways to Celebrate Your Body Sticker Sisters Style. More about the Love Your Body Day campaign.

Next week I'll be heading to DC for my annual family reunion at the NOW Conference. For the past few years my mom and grandma have met up with me at the conference to help run the Sticker Sisters booth. This year it'll be an even bigger reunion since I'm from DC. My aunt, cousins, and even my dad have promised to come by and lend a hand. If you're at the conference stop by the booth and say hi!

Blast from the past (with pictures!):

NOW Conference 2007 Report
 
Overheard and Seen at the NOW Conference 2006

Greetings from the NOW conference in Albany NY

Lots of great stuff going on today to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion.

Check out all the bloggers taking part in NARAL's Blog for Choice Day.

Also take a look at Planned Parenthood's Wall of Protest where you can "express your outrage over the Federal Abortion Ban." Beware it loads pretty slow. But I guess that means lots of people have contributed images, so slow is a good thing. The one thing I don't really understand is the images of people's pets up there. I mean I've never asked my cat if she's pro-choice, but maybe I should get on that!

I know there's a lot of talk about how Roe v. Wade is being eroded and reproductive choice is in jeopardy, but I've never felt like young people were really behind that. I mean we've grown up our whole lives with Roe v. Wade. I try not to pay too much attention to polls, but I was kind of freaked out to read that teens and young adults seem less pro-choice than older generations.

I read this today in the LA Times:

"Looking specifically at teens, a Gallup survey in 2003 found that 72% called abortion morally wrong, and 32% believed it should be illegal in all circumstances. Among adults surveyed that year, only 17% backed a total ban."

The article talks about antiabortion clubs and summer camps for middle and high school students. Really? Antiabortion summer camp?! I had no idea.

Well we better keep fighting. Here's to many more choice filled years!

So last week I went to my first sticker art show called Peel Here 07. The stickers ranged from fancy stickers printed on shiny origami style paper displayed in frames to sharpie doodles on those priority mail stickers you can get from the post office.

A lot of the stuff wasn't really my style. Maybe it was just me, but I couldn't get into the scary clown and one-eyed bunny illustrations. But it was amazing to see the range of stickers and how much they can mean to their creators and the people who see them.

One of the best features of the show was outside where they had set up a bus bench and newspaper boxes for people to sticker. Not that those kept people contained to only stickering the dedicated areas. For blocks around the show you could see small groups of kids lifting each other up to slap stickers up on street signs and light posts.

It was all very inspiring and made me want to make more stickers. And not that this show is representative of the sticker world, but in any case we need more feminist stickers!

Some pictures from the show...