I’ve been contacted to assist in finding people to serve as *paid* interviewees for a project attempting to prove that the world is moving away from big box stores and mass production and slowly, steadily returning to a culture of independent, handmade goods. So if you think you can handle sitting still long enough to […]
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The Summit of Awesome
The crafters are all in a tizzy since Hello Craft, a non-profit helping to organize and empower crafters and small businesses (therefore making your trips to Etsy and craft fairs ever-more professional experiences), announced that it will be holding its annual three-day conference—The Summit of Awesome—in Portland June 16-18 at the Kennedy School. Crafters who […]
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I Heart Art: Portland
So this collaboration with between Etsy and PNCA, and “PNCA’s Museum of Contemporary Craft” (that still just doesn’t sound right to me) sounds vague, but vaguely promising: Indie hearts beat strong in Portland, Oregon, one of the craftiest cities in the United States. Working from Brooklyn here at Etsy headquarters, I think of Portland as […]
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Applications Being Accepted Now for Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Spring Sale
Heads up to all crafty people: Crafty Wonderland has opened the floodgates for vendors to put their hand-knit hats in the ring to be part of the first-ever spring edition of the Super Colossal sale set for May 1 & 2 at the Oregon Convention Center. Will it be as frantic as the holiday edition […]
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Help!! Somebody Call the “Christmas Tree Doctors!”
“Hello, 9-1-1? I have a serious Christmas tree problem on my hands! YES, THIS IS A FUCKING EMERGENCY! I need the ‘Christmas Tree Doctors’ stat! Ummm… and if it’s not too much to ask, can one of them be… well, you know… gay?” Hat tips to Everything is Terrible!
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The Community Warehouse, Crafty Wonderland, and You
This week’s Sold Out column is about Sunday’s Crafty Wonderland‘s annual Super Colossal Holiday Sale, a bonanza of local craft vendors (like, 200) and a killer opportunity to pinch off the remainder of your holiday shopping in one swoop. Aside from the where (Oregon Convention Center, Hall D, 777 NE MLK) and when (Sunday, 11 […]
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Small Wonder: Downsizing Crafty Wonderland
Well here’s your recession-bummer of the day: Crafty Wonderland, the long-running monthly sip ‘n’ shop at the Doug Fir has announced that it will scale back to just two events in 2010, citing poor sales. Next year you’ll have to save up your crafting pennies for just the annual holiday sale plus and additional springtime […]
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Pay Off Your Craft Habit: Apply for Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Holiday Sale
If you’re already part of the local craft mafia (don’t laugh craft mafias are a real thing, although most of their weapons are crocheted and don’t hurt much), then you probably don’t need me to tell you that Crafty Wonderland is now accepting applications for vendors at their annual holiday sale, rightly referred to in […]
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Learning to Make Stuff and Do Things
You can make sauerkraut Tomorrow Ecotrust welcomes Portland’s first Fermentation Festival. If you don’t know where Ecotrust is, it’s more than likely that you’ll be able to track it down by smell as home picklers, preserves, and brewers trade ideas and cultures for kimchi, kosher style dills, kefir and everything in between. Of course the […]
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SNIKT! Also, a Few Questions.
1. Really? A cardboard box, huh? You spend however many hours building those and setting up a camcorder, and you can’t bother tracking down a mannequin? Or a bag filled with fake blood? Or a mannequin filled with fake blood? 2. And okay, not to harp on this or anything, but just one cardboard box? […]
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Le Bistro Bazaar
There’s a new regularly occurring shopping bazaar in town, described by organizers Amber Newby and Lauren Sheets as “a good mix of the Doug Fir’s Crafty Wonderland and the Eagle Lodge’s record sales.” It’s called Le Bistro Bazaar and it’s taking place quarterly (although they are considering expanding to monthly due to the positive response) […]