Last night, I finished an order for Bre from Red Heart Robot. She is also one of the key people in planning the Salt City Urban Arts and Crafts Market. Briana needed an address book and weekly planner to help her organize her contacts for the Market, which is happening this Oct. in Syracuse. I [...]
Tags: address book, custom, handmade, journal, weekly planner
The Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market has decided on a location! The market will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 10am to 6pm at the Case Supply warehouse. Case Supply is located in the heart of Syracuse right on West Fayette Street.
Tags: Case Supply, indie craft show, salt city, Syracuse Community, Urban Art & Craft Market
After many emails back and forth, I finally managed to get together with a couple of artisan friends at Roji Tea Lounge on Tuesday. I met up with Erin of Bride Designs and Lucy of Lucy Mink and Mink Stuff. We were minus one, because Tara of Ink + Wit was out of town. We [...]
Tags: Bride Designs, bubble tea, Central New York, Lucy Mink Covello, Roji Tea Lounge, small business, Syracuse restaurant
I am happy to introduce a new product in the small inventory of Concepcioun handmade journal selection: pick up line notepads. Each one is folded, trimmed, hand sewn, and stamped by hand. They are clever little things, and I am proud to say that I am a personal fan.
Last week I was approached by Jan Halvarson, of PoppyTalk, to be featured in her monthly themed market on PoppyTalk Handmade Market. She was interested in having Concepcioun’s journals be a part of her Back-To-School themed market. PoppyTalk Handmade’s virtual marketplace is essentially a virtual craft fair, with each artisan selling the items at an [...]
Tags: back-to-school, blog, crafts, handmade, Jan and Earl, Jan Halvarson, journals, marketplace, PoppyTalk, PoppyTalk Handmade, school supplies
I have a hard time going to any art supply store without stopping by the handmade paper section. There are so many wonderful patterns, textures and colors now in handmade paper. I often walk out with one or two sheets of interesting sheets. I have recently refrained from passing through the paper section of art [...]
Tags: antiqued paper, book, Bookbinding, coptic stitch, diary, doodle, hard case, hard cover, journal, red illustration, signature bound, sketchbook, writing