Filed under: BirdDog Press, Craft Biz, Friends, Handmade Revolution | Tags: Boulder, Dottie Angel, handmade, handmade holiday, Knoxville
Upholding my own tradition of handmade gifts, I’m proudly guessing that I have about an 80% lifetime achievement rate of giving. Starting this holiday giving season, I pledge my allegiance to the Dottie Angel challenge of the utmost kind. I have been enamored with Dottie Angel since I stumbled upon it back at the end of summer/beginning of fall. Any Boulderites or Knoxvillians who would like to join in have an opportunity to start with the Open Studios Holiday Market at Twenty-Ninth Street or Handmade Holiday on Gay Street, both going on one more weekend for your holiday shopping pleasure. The first day & opening reception of Boulder’s market went so well and I am honored to have been chosen to show & sell alongside some of Boulder’s great artists & craftspeople:
Jaala Jewels {pair of red ball earrings}· Feral Apparel · Greenleaf Design {reclaimed corduroy skirt with scrap fabric patches} · ali dejohn {wool felt barettes}· Antje Ryken · CarolAnn Wachter {haute couture hat}· Luscious Metals {copper nest earrings}· Adagio Art Glass · 11:11 Productions · Ru Fabricates · K Starr’s Homemade Goods · Lola Images · Pottery by Terry · Perlalu {yellow + guinea feather headband} · Pink Collar Studio {dazzling necklace}· Alison Blair Studio · Sue Puterbaugh · Dsenyo Handbags · Candace Newlove · Caroline Douglas · Sweet Letter Press · Artist, Ltd. · Natural Imagery · Leapnlizart · Haberkorn {flower woodblock print}· Swear Jar Designs {belt buckle}· TrueJune · Cannon Pottery · Dandy Social Club {toddler tie + ridiculously cute plaid cropped pants, size 3T}· Marcus-McKenna Studio · English Retreads {inner tube handbag}· Mary Scrimgeour Studios · Vita Verde · Ferally Normal Clayworks · Double Vision Photography · Spirit of the Grain · Basically Tweaked
I may have already spent all of the money that I made, see in {parenthesis} what I have my eye on from each seller. And, no, it’s not all for me.
Filed under: Craft Biz, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution | Tags: dolls, handmade, Sophie & Lili
a feedsack! It must be a reproduction, but look how adorable these dolls are by Sophie & Lili. The polkadot & daisy in green/black and pink/black is one that I have in my collection and it really caught my eye. Handmade with love and it shows!
Filed under: Craft Biz, Friends, Handmade Revolution | Tags: cpsia, craft, DuchessCraft, Etsy, handmade, little alouette, samaria project, smallville, spinspin
You’ve probably heard of the CPSIA by now. It affects those who sell handmade items intended for children under the age of twelve. In theory, this is a good thing given all of the scares coming from things produced in China, however, the way it has been put together, it will kill any small business lovingly making handmade things for little ones and put second hand stores out of business. CPSIA needs your voice to be heard and a little amending. Now that we have bought a little more time, with a one-year stay, I encourage you to read this and take action. Otherwise, things like what I am showing in these photos, will no longer be available for folks like you and me to buy by next year this time. Let’s keep buying handmade!
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress, Life | Tags: handmade, montessori, valentine
My little boy started Montessori school last week and everything new that I learn about the philosophy warms my heart. I am so thrilled that he got a spot two mornings a week.
So they have been making the little paper bag “mailboxes” in the classroom and are encouraged not only to bring valentines for their classmates, but advocate them being of the handmade sort. You can imagine my delight.
I found a drawing from a couple of months back that actually resembles a heart and had it made into a photopolymer plate for my press. Today we spent the afternoon printing them, coloring on them and talking about who he would like to give each one to.
For more photos of this little mother-son love project, go to the BirdDog/Handmaiden Flickr Photostream.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Friends, Handmade Revolution | Tags: craft, DuchessCraft, Etsy, handmade, holiday, trunkshow
My friend Jill, of DuchessCraft on Etsy, just got big notice from channel 10 in Knoxville for her Handmade Holiday Trunk Show 2008, which is sponsored by Yee-Haw Industries & Downtown North Association.
The Handmade Holiday trunk show is in full swing down in Happy Holler for it’s 3rd year. It’ll be over 3 weekends in the restored White Grocery Store on N. Central St. in the historic Downtown North area (across from the Time Warp Tea Room.) The show will run Thursday through Sunday each week. Support local crafters & local business. Give handmade!
The BirdDog Press sent a few things back home to native Tennessee for this occasion, but all the credit goes to DuchessCraft! If you are in the Knoxville area, go get your holiday shopping done uniquely and in a flash!
ps. I got one of these super cute Urchin T’s for my little guy – LOVE it!
