The holiday version of Portland’s Crafty Wonderland took place earlier this month amid a wintery mix of low temperatures and snowy-sleety rain. Holiday shoppers were not detoured with over 200 lined up, steamy drinks in hand, before the doors had opened. The show featured the finest makers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. To [...]

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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 [...]

The British are crafting!  The British are crafting!
Ready for another invasion from our friends on the other side of the Atlantic?  Not a hostile takeover like the Red Coats arriving on our shores, think more along the lines of the Beatles coming to America.  This is a cultural exchange that you don’t even have to [...]