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A.T. Williams Art
Tony Williams, of Harleysville, is a wonderful guy to meet in person. He’s also a skilled furniture-maker. Here’s a little about how he got started: As a young man, my love of woodworking intensified as I learned to carve and began to realize that there was more to woodworking than just four-leg Oak or Maple [...]
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 [...]
Adam Rung Woodworks
Adam Rung Woodworks creates beautiful, fine custom furniture and woodworking. Divine. There is beauty in its design, its making and its history. Adam’s got a killer bio. What stood out to me was his stellar commitment to ecological responsibility – things like using scrap wood from bigger projects to make small pieces, using salvage and [...]
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 [...]
Mio – Green Design for Everyone
January is our design time. We spend a few weeks brainstorming, sketching, discussing and believe it or not- getting incredibly frustrated. Good design is hard [an understatement, I know]. Needless to say, I am in awe of Mio (Philadelphia). Have a look at these incredible designs- gorgeous, green and made with locally sourced materials. Awesome. [...]
Primrose Design, Simply Beautiful
I was thinking about a plea to the dudes to go straight to Primrose Design (Scranton,PA), but I’ve reconsidered. This is just one of those things we just need to do for ourselves. These Vintage Handkerchief Sachets [filled with lavender] are absolutely beautiful. We will enjoy them for a long, long time.
what works for…beeline studio
“I was always looking through magazines like Architectural Digest or Dwell, and I would see ads and think my lamp should be in that picture. So I created the collages to give potential clients an opportunity to see how my lamps might be used in different settings.”
new from the gatskis :: the steel fork
from the steel fork blog: “It is farming. It is food. It is design. It is the continuation of a journey.” i was lucky enough to be in on this project a bit (full disclosure!) and it is sure to be a stop on my christmas list this year! congrats, kate & ben! to celebrate [...]
new site: scoutie girl gifts
two weeks ago i launched a new extension to scoutie girl: scoutie girl gifts. sg gifts is about two things: community and buying handmade. or is that one thing?! scoutie girl gifts is fostering a sense of community by encouraging *you* to submit your own gift guide galleries of handmade goodies, rate posted gift guides, [...]
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 [...]
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