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Last year, along with ten thousand other people, I happily signed the Buy Handmade pledge. Then came the stress and the guilt. Some of my family made following the rules easy. I gave my jewelry or jewelry made [...]

Hello Craft is putting together a holiday episode of our podcast and would love to hear from you!
The theme of the episode is getting and giving handmade for the holidays. Maybe grandma made you something really weird one year, maybe you gave someone the most amazing handmade treasure and they didn’t appreciate it. Maybe you [...]

The Talk Shop series is where we interview independent store owners from across the country, to get their inside take on their running an independent business.
This week, Dave Sakowski, co-owner of the crafty haven Magpie, talks about his famously rad Massachusetts shop, which he owns alongside animator/playing card designer/knitter/DJ Emily Arkin, craftster.org founder and author [...]

Here we continue with our series on the trials and tribulations of starting a craft business. Shall we learn together?
This past weekend, I was lucky enough to be in my very first indie craft fair. The Holiday Booty Market was produced by some wonderful people in the Craft Mutiny. I thought I would share with [...]

We hosted our 2nd Shopper Show & Tell at Craft Mutiny’s Holiday Booty Market this past Saturday and it was super fun with yummy baked goods, a gift-wrapping station, happy shoppers and lots of awesome makers from the DC area.  Here are some of my favorite purchases and pictures from the day:

Purchase: Blood Pillow by [...]

When my friend Terri emailed Hello Craft asking for a tutorial on how to decoupage, I would never have guessed that my answer to her would come in the form of video featuring the mother of the Brady Bunch, and the star dude of Designing Women (and, of course, the totally 80’s classic, Mannequin).
Now, I’m [...]