Ok, ok, so maybe you think the cuckoo clock trend is so 2006. I’m sure the one at Urban Outfitters has been out of stock forever.  I’m also going to pretend that they were never available at Walmart but that’s not what we’re here for. No, I’m not done with all things from The Black [...]

Trend Hunter includes “DIY and the Rise of the Cottage Industry” as an official trend for 2009. It comes in at number 19 of their top 20 trends. They note that the declining economy will push more and more people to try their luck making and selling their own products. Not sure what I think [...]

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 [...]

Hello Craft. I have a confession to make….
When I was in high school, I was fairly preppy. The early 90’s were the days of v-neck Gap sweaters and pegged jeans. I fell in line with my geeky friends and lived a happy, although boy-less existence. That is until Paul started working at the craft [...]