Walmart Need Not Apply: Calling All Artists and Craftsmen
I will be off the computer for a few days to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family…but I will still be using my brain. I will pause and allow time for snickering. Done now? Let’s face it people… if you haven’t started MAKING gifts yet, you ain’t going homemade this year…at least not from your home. Time to start thinking of other ways to check off your list without selling your soul to Walmart. I’ve told you about cyber gifts, but maybe those just won’t work for all you need to please. So besides stuffing myself with manateeesq portions at my ma’s this week, I will be preparing a little series all about what alternatives there are for purchasing gifts this year of the artistic nature. As usual, I don’t want to do all the work myself. So…if you have a favorite painter, seamstress, potter, quilter, soap maker, cheese sculptor, creator of any kind drop me a line in the comments and I will include them in the series. Trust me…they will appreciate your efforts. (Yes…it is okay if YOU are your favorite creator. I won’t tell…you little self-promoter you.)
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
OMG, I LOVE this lady’s work. She hand-crafts jewelry from dichroic glass and it’s GORGEOUS. Well made too, I’ve had a necklace from her for over a year with no issues. In fact, I’m wearing one of her pieces right now…
http://www.jkadesigns.etsy.com
Wow! I just found your blog and LOVE it (followed a comment from Green Phone Booth). I have a store at an Ecovillage; some things we make here in our artisan co-op, some we purchase from the talented crafts-people on etsy. Here are two or our items: A hand-sewn carrier for bamboo flatware & cloth napkin (no more disposables!) http://store.milkweedmercantile.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=86_2&products_id=232
and a very cute hand-embroidered bib: http://store.milkweedmercantile.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=82_71_95&products_id=323
One of our favorite Etsy products are the Sweater Balls made by Handmade Pretties in Iowa: http://store.milkweedmercantile.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=82_71_96&products_id=197
Happy Thanksgiving!
i have a wonderful friend who is promoting the purchase of water for christmas… check out her link, buy a bracelet, buy water… and while doing it, give the gift of water to people that don’t have any.
http://dancingforwater.blogspot.com/
Some of us will still pull handmade gifts out of the air despite the lateness. I started just last Tuesday and have practically finished a little bedding set for the bed/bath plastic monstrosity that we got from the thrift store for my stepdaughter. It has a mattress, pillow, decorative pillow, pillow case, sheets, blanket and quilt(that is made from leftovers from her quilt). Only the quilt is left to quilt and bind.
I still intend on making a hat for my stepson that matches his dinosaur shirt. If I have enough leftover material my husband will get a matching hat too.
I will also be transferring some of my stepsons pictures onto transfer ‘printer sheets’ and my Mom and husband will be getting original art by Piero on Tshirts.
Should I be so lucky as to have some left over time… I will be buying some minkie and making some easy 2 piece bears for them.
I know it is December but there is time to pull a couple of simple items out of our creative hands.