John Theroux
Bemidji Great Parade War of 2016

armor

July update!

The First Friday Art Crawl went pretty well, not the turn out we expected though. A lot of our regular supporters stopped by, so thank to everyone who did come and see us!Two days later we were in the Bemidji 4th of July parade. The parade was awesome and was definitely more fun than we thought it would be! We actually won an award for Most Creative float. We will hopefully have more people to help us next year. There was eight of us and we could barely keep up with handing out stickers and candy.

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Now, we are preparing for Art in the Park taking place next weekend. Our whole living room is full of chainmaille and we are getting excited! We are hoping this will be our best year yet.

First Friday and Photo Shoot!

Hello!The first weekend in July will be a busy one this year! Not only are we in the 4th of July Parade held on the 5th of July. On the 3rd we will be participating in the First Friday Art Walk here in Bemidji MN.  Basically, different businesses in town will host local artists to show their work in a self-guided art tour throughout the town. You can look at the Watermark Art Center website for more information on all the different locations and who else will be featured. The Least of These Boutique will be hosting us along with another artist. (whose name we don't know yet) Be sure to check out their facebook page!

And! We did fun photo shoot the other day to show off some of our armor pieces so be sure to check it out in our NEW photo gallery!

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Hello! We are very excited to announce that we will soon have jewelry in City Drug located International Falls. This will be the 3rd shop we have jewelry in, not including Etsy. Just a small selection of cross necklaces for now, but we are hoping they do well so that we can expand the available options later. 013

   We are also planning something new this year. Joining forces with our friend and fellow chainmailler Dan Krueger, we will be walking in the 4th of July parade here in Bemidji, MN. So, if you live in the area and want to wear some of our chainmaille and help us out message John on our facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/JohnsChains

Be sure to check out Dan's etsy page! https://www.etsy.com/shop/KreationsbyKruegers

Belts and Bronze

John has been busy preparing the silicon bronze rings for his grant project that he mentioned in his last post. To prepare the rings he uses pliers to partially open about half of the rings, and close the other half of the rings making the two ends flush. All together they will total to be around 60,000 rings for the Shirt, Coif and Mantle. 020 I have been working on something we haven't done before, women's belts. I am just starting off with a simple design to see if it is something that people are interested in.

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Also! This weekend we are beginning preparations for Art in the Park coming up in the middle of July. Keep an eye out on our facebook page for updates!