Etsy and Paste magazine shop live Wednesday

Straight from Facebook! When? Wednesday, September 2 at 5 p.m. Eastern. Where? Etsy’s fun and interactive online meeting space, the Virtual Labs. http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php Remember the Virtual Labs only holds 150…

Martha Stewart and Kmart break up

At least that’s how I like to think of it! For the Martha fans out there, get thee to a Kmart! As her line starts to disappear, you’ll find her…

People’s Arts Festival this weekend!

The People’s Arts Festival is this weekend, and while Handmade Detroit will not have a booth there this weekend, you will certainly see a number of us in attendance there,…

DUCF 2009 vendor applications are live

Calling all handmade artists! The moment you’ve been waiting for is here! Vendor applications for 2009 are now on the Detroit Urban Craft Fair site. This year’s fair takes it…

Martha for $1

I was super excited to find “The Martha Rules” by Martha Stewart in my local Borders clearance bin a couple days ago for only $1! If there is any crafty…

Review: Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Crafts

The other weekend I sat down and had a date with Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Crafts. I’ll definitely be returning this book’s calls. OVERALL “Crafts” is the type of book…

Detroit Stitch ‘n’ Pitch Aug. 30

Attention, knitters! This is a fun event to check out. Here’s the info from City Knits’ e-newsletter. “We have ordered a few more tix for Stitch ‘N Pitch Sunday, August…

DUCF helpful hints

Applications for this year’s Detroit Urban Craft Fair will be available soon, and we want to help you get ready! We recently took part in an Indie Biz Chicks Conference…

Hanes gets crafty at BlogHer ’09

I was at BlogHer ’09 for work and happened to spot this crafty swag bag from Hanes. Definitely caught me by surprise! Sounds like they were a hit at the…

Martha Stewart visits Fox 2… Sorta

How surprised was I to see Martha Stewart on Fox 2 the other week? Very surprised. She definitely wasn’t in the studio, but heck, close enough. She was promoting her…