Mary McKinley of the Vintage Brooch Co. is Cleveland Handmade’s featured artist this week. Mary uses bits and pieces of vintage jewelry to create fantastic new designs for your lapel or purse.
This week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist is Nicki Schleckman, who sells on Etsy under the name handmade. Her handmade playsets are very popular. Read more about her here.
This week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist is Chris Zielski of Copper Leaf Studios. Chris was one of the first Etsy team members I met in person, and she makes lovely etched copper pieces, but on a much larger scale than I do. Her photos are lovely, but her art is even more spectacular in person.
This week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist is Leah Anastasakis of Leah Ana Designs. You can read my interview with her here.
Cleveland Handmade’s first featured artist is Sara Kate, who lives in Solon, Ohio. It is fitting that she is our first featured artist, because she kick-started this whole thing with one simple question in the Etsy forums: “Anyone in the Cleveland area?†Sara Kate makes awesome bags and envelope wallets; I myself am a proud owner of one of her Glam Squad bags.
Hard to believe it’s August already. The marching band is practicing at the high school, my niece and nephew start school in a couple weeks (one friend‘s kid has started school already), I’m making hot tea and wearing a fleece pullover today… Just not quite prepared for this time of year yet.
Sunday will be my last summer show of 2008, the North Olmsted Juried Arts & Crafts Show at Frostville Museum in the Metroparks in North Olmsted. The show itself is a small one and, sadly, not terribly well publicized, but the setting is just lovely — plenty of nature and nearby hiking — and there will be food and music. And, as a bonus, it’s not supposed to be blazingly hot that day, either.
This show will be the last chance for a bunch of items that have been following me around from show to show for a little too long now. These older necklaces and bracelets don’t quite fit in with the direction I’ve been going lately, so they will all be half price at the show this Sunday. After that, they’re going to be taken apart for parts to rework or sell off in the Etsy supply shop I’ve started but haven’t stocked yet.
This week, I’m offering a free upgrade to USPS Priority Mail shipping within the United States for orders placed through my Etsy shop. Assuming the post office keeps its end of the bargain, orders placed by noon EST Friday should still arrive in time for Christmas (if the package is going to Alaska or Hawaii, make that Thursday).
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