Support your local businesses

I stopped by Acme Mercantile in Ann Arbor today, a great knick-knack shop on Liberty downtown. The story really does have all sorts of kitschy treats, so I highly recommend…

Project Crawl: Kites!

You know the song. “Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring!” Musicals aside, flying kites is a lost art, if you ask me. It’s May. It’s actually nice…

Check it out!

For all us crafty, tech-smart ladies, a great Web page to reference! Worth a good read and a bookmark! PopGadget

Detroit Urban Craft Fair updates!

If you picked up a copy of today’s Metro Times, you might see us in the Night and Day section. You might also notice that you have a little more…

Create, make, promote with Council C!

A great opportunity for Detroiters from the awesome folks at Councilc Council C Print – Submit today! Council C is developing our first print issue! We are currently seeking your…

Mitten pins, get your mitten pins!

This Saturday, come to the rock show, stop by the Handmade Detroit table: Lots of free high fives for everyone! Big thanks to the bands that want to create with…

Project Crawl: Mama mia!

Whoa! Mother’s Day is May 14?! How did that happen! Yikes. It’s time to make a gift … quickly. Try these ideas to make any mom prouder than punch this…

Time to apply!

Have you been meaning to apply to the Detroit Urban Craft Fair but haven’t gotten around to it yet? Well, stop wasting time and start applying! The deadline is May…

Book Review: ‘Tease’

JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM Tease Sarah Sockit, editor Penguin Books, April 2006, 176 pages $15.95 It seems like T-shirts are the DIY reconstuctors’ object of choice these days. Maybe it’s…

Project Crawl: Office Tech Trash

Talk about living in a digital world. Gone are the days of saving book reports on big floppies, recording the season finale of Growing Pains on a video tape and…