Archive for September, 2009
Before and After: Hijacking Everyday Stuff to Craft Incredible Creatures
Ossu! Shugeibu, translated into English as Yo! Crafting Club, is fueled by a mix of testosterone and pure creativity uninhibited by rules or conventions. Using repurposed materials and freestyle techniques, founder and president Shoichi Ishizawa inspires his myriad club members – men and women who have participated in his workshops – to create surprising craft [...]
Paper Recycling Step-by-step Guide
Every year, entire forests full of trees are cut down to produce the approximate 300 million tons of paper used throughout the world. Furthermore, used and unwanted paper is often dumped in landfill, meaning part of it ends up in the environment, contributing to green house gases. Recycling paper means reducing the amount of trees [...]
It’s Easy Being Green: Arts and Crafts with a Mission
The Scrap Exchange lets people explore their creativity while helping out the environment. The Scrap Exchange was founded in 1991 as a sustainable art supply store that takes unwanted materials from businesses and community members and resells them as arts and crafts supplies. Materials sell for 50 to 70 percent off their retail prices, and [...]
Woman opens business, offers knitting classes from home
In a cozy navy-blue room, surrounded by stacks of yarn spun from everything using sugarcane to alpaca fur, Marilyn Scott sits making colorful creations using nothing but sticks and string. “People are afraid of knitting,” Scott, 56, of Lovingston said. “And it’s only sticks and string. That’s all it is.” For the past year, Scott [...]
‘Craft Bazaar’ – Marketing base for artisans
In order to honor the efforts of artisan community, CCI has been organizing an annual fair, Crafts Bazaar, since last 10 years. The 10-day annual fair, which is a marketing base for the artisans to display their products, was recently inaugurated by Governor Mr. Surjit Singh Barnala at Valluvar Kottam. It is a platform to [...]
Needle Baskets demo at Musée acadien Oct. 2
Nova Scotia pine needles just don’t measure up for coiling baskets. Beatrice Goodwin places a ruler beside a bundle of needles she’s brought back from down south to demonstrate. Seventeen inches is a lot longer than our native trees. But no need to despair Goodwin assures – the needles you need to learn the craft [...]
Group seeks funds for knitting project
A group of knitters striving to keep Vermont troops warm during their deployment in Afghanistan are asking for the public’s help to keep the extensive project going. The Knitters Network of Castleton Community Seniors Inc. has knit and presented 468 wool helmet liners to members of Vermont’s largest deployment of troops since World War 11 [...]
VVAmore Grows sales of Handmade Handbags Through Strategic Online Relationships
PRESS RELEASE September 30, 2009 — Having already started using social media, including Twitter and regular Blog / RSS distribution, VVAmore has developed a secondary store via Etsy, has been featured on the influential HandbagDesigner101.com website (recent featured designer) and now actively contributes to the popular Café Handmade networking website. “The internet has been a [...]
Book corner:Polymer Clay Color Inspirations, Techniques and Jewelry Projects
by Jocelynn Brown Longtime polymer clay artists and workshop instructors Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio have combined their knowledge and skills in a just-released book, “Polymer Clay Color Inspirations, Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes” (Watson-Guptill, $21.99). This book teaches polymer clay enthusiasts how to go beyond the rules of combining colors, shapes [...]
At least one tent will glow pink at the 37th Annual Pink Palace Crafts Fair.
“We have a challenge every year,” said Mary Jorgensen, a longtime member of the Memphis Guild of Handloom Weavers, “and this year the theme was breast cancer awareness, so there will be lots of pink woven objects in our tent.” The guild has participated in the Pink Palace Crafts Fair for 22 years.The juried fair, [...]
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