Congrats to Becky and Hooky McHookface who have both won Make Awesomeness Layer Books!

You can learn more about the designer, Leslie Jensen-Inman, in this interview here.

Interested in a sketch-book that combines specially made tracing paper, the “layering” capabilities of Photoshop, and macgyver-esque sensibilites in one? Then you’ll be fascinated and excited by Make Awesomeness Books, the handmade creation of designer Leslie Jensen-Inman. The books layer translucent paper with a graph template that can be folded behind any page in the [...]

Nicole McConville spends her work days thinking about decoupage and origami, sawdust firing and slab building, felting and T-shirt embroidering – even about how to combine gourd decorating and basketry. But the 35-year-old Asheville, North Carolina, resident isn’t planning the ultimate multimedia craft project. Instead, she’s overseeing the Craft Your Life line for Lark [...]

For someone struggling to succeed in a creative field, selling the clothes off your own back usually isn’t a sign that things are going well. But not so for R. Brooke Priddy, who in the early 2000s was striving to make it in the fashion industry, working out of her tiny New York apartment and, [...]

Even the most unobservant visitor to Asheville, North Carolina, would have to notice that it’s a place where crafts are a big deal. It has the Folk Art Center, the Guild Crafts shop, and the Appalachian Craft Center. It has the Blue Spiral 1 gallery, the Grovewood Gallery, and the North Carolina Homespun Museum. On [...]

The auto industry has spent and made fortunes convincing us we are what we drive. But even though Bridget Elmer has a vehicle that perfectly suits her, she’s probably far from any Detroit executive’s idea of the ideal consumer. The 33-year-old resident of Asheville, North Carolina, owns a 1966 GMC flatbed truck that she doesn’t [...]