Glass
Kick back, relax and enjoy the day
I hope your Memorial Day weekend has been relaxing. Revel in the last day of a long weekend. Any plans?
TeamHiP
Do you want to support artists you see on Handmade in PA? Well, now it got even easier. TeamHiP is an Etsy street team comprised of artists and makers featured on this blog. Below is a sampling of what you can find when you go to etsy.com and type in ‘teamhip‘ to find members of [...]
Team HiP – Etsy Street Team
(prints by Stephanie Corfee) When I joined Etsy last fall, I thought it would help my sales immensely. After all, it’s the premier place to buy handmade, right? What I didn’t expect was to be so lost in numbers. With many sellers being there for years, they had formed friendships and joined teams. I noticed [...]
A Day In The Life: Margaret Almon and Wayne Stratz of Nutmeg Designs: Mosaic & Stained Glass
It always amazes me what creativity people possess. I found Margaret Almon (or rather, she found me) through twitter. Margaret creates mosiacs, and her husband Wayne Stratoz, creates stained glass. Together they make beautiful works of art. Enjoy a day in their life! It’s Saturday, with the luxury of sleeping in until 7:30 or 8:00. [...]
Glass
After the Buyers Market of American Craft, I’ve had a renewed eye for glass. The section devoted to glass is huge. When I started working for the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, my first day on the job was attending the Buyers Market. What a crazy first day. And what an amazing introduction to the craft [...]
Speechless
Photo credit: Nathan J. Shaulis Pictures of Pittsburgh’s first all glass public art installation created by Jill Reynolds and Dan Spitzer. On view at 11 Stanwix, Downtown Pittsburgh. Discovered through Pittsburgh Glass Center.
Re-lights by Jerry Kott
All his forms, whether they are his concrete garden sculptures or glass chimes have a calming quality. This particular series he calls, RE, “Rebuild, redefine, relive, reinvent, recycle.” Jerry says, “I take empty wine bottles, cut them apart, polish the edges, frost the glass (inside and out} and reassemble them into hybrid bottles of various [...]
Artisan Clay | Bucks County
I stumbled across this little number on Etsy’s front page yesterday. After I poked around the shop for a few minutes, I noticed – to my delight – that the artist was from Bucks County! In the piece above, Kristie – the artisan behind Artisan Clay – fuses recycled industrial glass to stoneware in the [...]
Momo Glass, Summer Calm
It is the height of summer. I am still fixated by calm and cool designs. My recent inquiries into recycled art and craft lead me to Momo Glass (Hellertown, PA). I felt at ease as this gorgeous glass medallion appeared on my screen. Now I must confess that they are relocating out of Pennsylvania. At [...]
Spot On Designs – Philadelphia
Penny, from Spot On Designs, is a murrini glass artist out of Philadelphia. These pieces are made by creating layered glass rods and then fusing them together. It’s then cut in cross-sections to reveal the pattern. She has many colorful pieces in her shop, but I love these neutral pendants. Ask my mother or my [...]
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