House tagged! 7/23/12

Pictures of the house tagging project in the New Bohemia neighborhood. Find it at the corner of 11th Ave and 3rd St. SE in Cedar Rapids Iowa! (Thanks to The Foundrix for making the slideshow.)

Our 2x2xU Board

Here's the board we created for 2x2xU, an annual public art exhibition hosted by the New Bohemia Group  -- it's on display in the window of the house we tagged:

Here's a close-up of the teeny-tiny table and chair inside the house (previously a butterfly house):

7/11/12 Out with the old tag, in with the new

Lots of people had seen our tags outside Brewed Awakenings on First Ave., but the weather had taken its toll. Here's the old tag's funeral:

The Foundrix sews on her new tag:

A few minutes after the new tag appeared, a couple of guys (probably Coe students) walked by, noticed it was new, and gave it a little pat.

5/5/12 Goodwill "Recycle in Style" fashion show appearance

Our beloved chair sat next to the runway at Goodwill's 4th Annual Recycle in Style Fashion Show.

Cloak & Tagger added a yarn tag (which disappeared soon after) to Goodwill's downspout just before the show.

Ragbrai tag

Yarntagrz Facebook page fan Anne Salamon pointed out that the Yarntagrz ought to put up a tag on the Ragbrai route!  Awesome idea. Especially since many of the riders may not quite get as far as our awesome tagged house (post on that to come later).

So I whipped up a Ragbrai-themed tag.  It's orange, blue, and green--for the Orange Tribe, Blue Tribe, and Green Tribe, the three groups of Ragbrai riders.

The tag has our QR code on it.

It's outside Sycora Bakery, where I also bought some Kolaky cookies.  I'd recommend them.

Bikers were already in Czech Village when I put up the tag at about noon today!

Tags for EcoFest, 4/21/12

Street sign at the corner of 3rd St. & 11th Ave. SE

CSPS building

Door handle cozy on CSPS front entrance

CSPS is looking good after post-flood renovation

Tagging the Chair: the Process

We salvaged the chair from the CR Habitat for Humanity ReStore (before that, it had served in a GEOLOGY classroom -- yes, gum is stuck under its seat). Then we invited visitors to our table at the Maker Faire to help us embellish it. We added a few finishing touches at the home of Foundrix.

At the Maker Faire, people voted on where we should put it. First stop: the break room of the Cherry Building, in the New Bohemia neighborhood.