arts festival READING: Save the Date!
Save the Date for the Arts Festival in Reading! Saturday & Sunday, October 20 & 21 2012: 10 am – 5 pm This exciting indoor event debuts at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. arts festival READING is a high quality show featuring as many as 70 juried fine artists and craftsmen as well as 30+ [...]
Reap What You Sew
Article and Photo from ReadingEagle.com I was so inspired by an article here locally in Reading, and wanted to share it with the Handmade in PA crowd. A West Reading woman took her tubs of leftover fabric, and with a sister affected by domestic violence turned her scraps into something positive. Lily Kober took the 1 [...]
Chip Kidd
I’ve written a few posts about Chip Kidd, and I realized that many of you may have never even heard of Chip Kidd. So who is he, you ask? Chip Kidd is a well known graphic designer within the industry and mostly revered for his book cover designs. You probably have seen his work time [...]
Team-ing with craft
Ok, you already know this, but Pennsylvania rocks at making things. What if we all knew each other and could rattle off who made what and where they lived? That would be an amazingly powerful network. Well, that’s the idea of growing our Etsy street team. Joining, participating in and creating groups can be a [...]
HiP map update
Two weeks ago when I posted directions on how the HiP community could help build Handmade in PA’s map, I discovered there was a bug with the map I had created. It was a widespread error within Google maps so it kinda hampered the building process. But now things are back up and I want [...]
Let’s Build a Handmade Map
Last week, I put out a call for stores, shops and galleries in PA that carry handmade crafts for sale. With thanks to the HiP community, there’s now nearly 100 listings on the Handmade in PA Google Map. I’m ecstatic! But I know there’s many, many more than 100 galleries, shops and stores in PA [...]
