Craft Fairs happen year round, but there’s something especially jovial and cheer-inspiring about ones that take place during the Holiday season. Curious as to how these frenzy-fueled events tick, I decided to take a behind the scenes peek at Second Storie, an annual holiday craft fair held in upstate New York.
Through the entry way of [...]

My iPhone is currently the closest thing in my life to a firstborn child or a spouse, and I’m pretty sure I am not alone in this. I have certain friends who are in long-term, committed relationships with their hand held devices.  They care for them, obsess over them, and buy things for them. And [...]

My friends Lisa and Jonah visited me at Handmade Mart this past weekend, where I was selling my crafty stuff. It was a really well attended show that brought in a brand new crowd of shoppers.
Sometimes I feel bad when my friends come out to see me at a show because I worry that they [...]

The American Craft Council show in Baltimore is huge.  I mean really, really huge.  With 3 days and over 700 craft vendors, craft sensory overload is common.  Hello Craft was fortunate to have the on-site aid of shoppers who stopped by our booth to share their hard-sought, handmade finds.
Here, in ACC Baltimore Part 1, I’ll [...]

In 2000 I stumbled upon the work of Dutch artist Hella Jongerius in a magazine. At the time I had recently started teaching myself to work with clay and was stuck in a very commercial and static mindset. Her embroidered porcelain dishware definitely gave me a moment of “joyous jealousy”. Jongerius takes a historically functional [...]

Talk Shop is the series where we interview independent store owners from across the country, to get their inside take on running an independent business that supports the handmade community.
In this Talk Shop, Jamie Chan, one half of the husband and wife team who owns Urban Fauna Studio, talks about her one-of-a-kind green craft boutique [...]