a creative whim...

Kelly went crazy tonight and randomly decided to update/redesign our website! 6 hours after initiation (and about 3 cokes worth of caffeine later) Kelly has finally completed the new face of bennykelly. Check out this very productive creative whim at www.bennykelly.com!

we must admit the contact page and home page are totally our favorites! What is yours?

last minute SAVE THE DATE...

Sorry for the late notice but benny and I decided to participate in Urban Stitch the sunday, Feb 21st in the city!!  We are really excited and have been sewing up a storm all week in order to bring you some of our newest spring tanks.  So if you have some free time on sunday, stop by for some awesome shopping, good music, and strong drinks!

a little love makin'

To help you get ready for this weekend's love ridden holiday, benny and I will be sharing some crafty love with you all throughout the week!  Let's start things off with some Candy Heart Tea Bags!!

So invite your "hot momma" over for a cup of tea in this rainy weather.  We are sure they will find you irresistible!! How tos after the jump...

Step 1:  gather supplies

Not much is needed really, most of which you probably already have lying about.  Things to get...glue (any kind really depending on the material you plan on gluing here), scissors, card stock, bagged tea and any needed markers/pens/paints.

Step 2:  cut out hearts

First, we need to create our hearts for the end of the tea bags.  To do this cut out a template heart (make this one a real good one it is what all your hearts will look like) and then trace it multiple times onto your card stock.  You will need two hearts for every bag of tea.

Helpful Hint:  A good trick for cutting out a template that is symmetrical is to fold the card stock in half and then cut out half a heart with the folded edge acting as the middle divider of the heart.

Step 3: decorate hearts

Once the hearts are cut, it's time to color and decorate them, making them look more like candy hearts. We used spray paint as a quick and easy way to color the hearts to our liking.  But you can color the hearts however you want with markers, paint, crayons, anything really!

And now for the very best part of this craft!!  The part where you get to bring all your witty genius to the table, coming up with hilarious saying for your intended valentine.  Although we have our talents, Kelly thought we were a bit lacking in the creative writing department, so we enlisted the help of our friends.  They helped us to brainstorm a great little list of tea related love sayings, for your pleasure of course!

10 tea-tastic love sayings...
"U warm my heart", "steaming 4 you", "chai love U", "UR my sweetea", "steep in love", "honey 4 my honey", "boiling hot", "berry nice", "2 hot 2 touch", and "stir it up"

Step 4:  gluing!

The next step is just putting all the pieces together.  Take your glue (we used our trusty hot glue gun for this one) and bagged tea, remove the small paper square at the tip of the tea's string and glue a pair of your hearts together, sandwhich the end of the string between the two hearts. Once the glue sets you have yourself a custom tea bag!!

Show us what hilarious sayings and creative designs you come up with.  We would love to post them!!

give a bit of love!

Benny and I are always trying out new crafts and recently we gotten super into making our own stamps.  So to help you spread a bit a love this holiday, we are making FREE HOMEMADE VALENTINES CARDS and offering FREE GIFTWRAPPING with every purchase until Feburary 14th!! Buy your lovely something sweet!

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new stock

We just dropped off a bunch of awesome new bennykelly styles at Pretty Penny today....

Ever wanted to curl up in your blanket and not go out on a cold morning?  Well, we have found a way for you to stylishly wear all the coziness of a blanket with our new cowl neck tees & tanks!  Each of our comfy creations is handmade from recycled t-shirts, recycled fleece blankets and other reused fabrics.  Best of all they are great for layering with sweaters and jackets.  Head over to Pretty Penny to cozy-up for yourself before they are all gone!

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SALE...SALE...SALE...SALE...SALE

As fall weather starts to set in, there nothing is more exciting then shopping the sales rack for new pieces.  So we just posted a bunch of new sale pieces on our etsy store for your shopping pleasure!!

just listed...

we love corduroy in fall...

check out some of our new temporary tattoo multi packs after the jump!

just listed...

new goodies for you to shop...

transition.

Fall has traditionally been a time of subtle changes for benny and I and this year we wanted to reflex that more than ever in bennykelly.  So instead of working on a whole new look for fall/winter we have been planning on keeping with similar style basics, but taking those basics and tweaking them in the small surprising ways!

You will be seeing a lot of cowl necks, varying hem, stenciled leather and bold textures, which can all easily be layered and worn from early fall, into winter and even on into spring.  We will be keeping the colors muted and more natural, as we will be more heavily favoring cool tones over warm ones.  As for our stencil designs, benny will be bringing us more navajo and nature inspired patterns as well as sweet new sea critter stencils!

save the date...

We are super excited to announce our next show, A Fair to Remember.  This will be a back alley super sweet arty party in san francisco!  And for your entertainment there will be people playing their records on turntables, hourly raffles, and lots of unique local vendors. Mark your calendars cause this will be awesome!

SAVE THE DATE...

We will be at this month's Indie Mart and we couldn't be more excited!! Besides shopping our handmade goodness you will get the best in local designers, makers, vintage, local rad stores, skateboards, zines, rock tees, local authors, bakers bringing you sweet treats and about everything else you can think of.  Indie Mart will also feature D.I.Y. demos every hour form 1pm on and lots of good music, of course!

MUSIC: local bands...123 Picnic (experimental pop), Red, White and Drunken (a new spin on 90s boy band covers) and Era Escape (Top Gun rock)
rad DJ's...Resident DJ Sarahdactyl, the Magnificent 7 and Mother Barry bringing you lots of old school punk rock, some rock and roll, a little metal and a few surprises to make you shake your ass.



. NO SPONSORS . NO BULLSHIT . JUST GOOD ALL DAY FUN . THE INDIE MART .

When: Sunday August 16th 12pm - 6pm
Where: thee Parkside (all ages) 17th & wisconsin street, san francisco
Cost: $2 suggested admission

more 5sf tees!!

Here are a few more tees we did for 5-Second Films....

Be sure to keep your fingers crossed for 5sf this saturday as they are screening one of their awesome films at Comic Con!!