San Francisco’s Velvet da Vinci will close July 1, owner Mike Holmes has announced, saying he plans to continue and expand the online presence of the gallery in lieu of its brick-and-mortar location. For 26 years, the influential jewelry gallery drew national talent and…
Retailing is a highly competitive market -- especially at a craft show. Not only are you competing with every other seller at the show, but also all the other demands on the customer's pocket, i.e. rent, tonight's…
We participate in a creative exercise related to EtsyMetal, a group of metalsmiths organized around Etsy. The exercise is called "Blog Carnival". Each month a topic is chosen and a variety of members from this international group each provide their individual perspectives on the subject. We thought (mistakenly) that we had scraped the subject of Art Versus Craft off our shoes for good. Thanks to Blog Carnival we have stepped in it again. It appears that it is the topic that will not…
Another Cleveland connection with fashion blogger, Allison Nottingham - we had a great conversation and she wrote this fun post on her blackOUT blog relating my jewelry to the trend of colorblocking in fashion.…
Wow!
I am completely done in: it has been non-stop since Friday and the stupid clock-change thing happened, which always makes my sleeping patterns go wrong...
Friday night was a night out with one of my friends of longest-standing, John. Through to Edinburgh to chat about things and see some sights, which mostly includes the inside of our favourite bar, The Regent. Didn't get home until 2am but had to be on the 10am train to Perth to go and see the Scottish Glass Society show in the… Continue
I have actually hurdled that HUGE fence that was in front of me called blogging!!! I have posted my first blog on my Ganoksin blog and hope to be able to follow up with one here as well! To view my post follow the address....http://genevieve.ganoksin.com/blogs/
Workshop and presentation notes up on the JSN file sharing site, go to
their site and click on the Drop link. Tons of free information from the
symposium that my Critique Collective participated in last week in
Farnham England. My favorite- Making a flocking machine!!! Watch for
fuzzy items coming soon.
http://jsnfarnham.com/
I found this dead bird the other day and couldn't resist picking him (don't know the gender, thought of him as a he) up to draw in the park. It was the most surreal moment. I had been sketching ideas for a bird pendant as I have been feeling very 'fertile' lately and wanted to do a piece with eggs. I had been thinking about ways to research birds as they are hard to view in the wild, when I saw this bird lying next to Brampton City Hall. It had obviously died recently and I pondered whether it… Continue
Now that I am a full time artist and am not in school I have decided to post my research, experiences and goings on in relation to my art, design, photography, jewellery etc on here, for you the people. I have always enjoyed researching but found it a nuisance to organize my research in a way that teachers, professors, and academics in general could follow my thought process. Now that I am 'free' I am finding myself wanting to record my research in a way that the public…you….can enjoy it. So if… Continue
Hello! I am new to Crafthaus...haven't really got my act/shop together much yet. BUT IT WILL HAPPEN! Currently I am in a remote part of Arizona and am focusing on promoting my art via my blog . I spend most of my time doing pointillism paintings, both portraits and landscapes. Currently, I'm working on a large painting of blackbirds. They are everywhere here! Please feel free to give me feedback and suggestions as a new member of… Continue
Added by Denise Landis on June 19, 2009 at 1:18pm —
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While I do have my own blog over at http://steviebjewelry.blogspot.com/ I may blog here a bit from time to time. Like some sort of super secret blog that only crafthausers know of.
I don't even know if the word crafthausers is appropriate.
Hmmmm....
Craft junkies?
Naw.
I sort of like crafthausers, as in people that use the social network crafthaus. It has a ring to it. Not a particularly… Continue