Category Archives: craft

Hot Date Idea – Make-It-Now Flowers at Pittsburgh Glass Center

This event has been a popular one in the past few years with IheartPGH readers – including one friend who asked me not to blog about it because it sold out and he was at a loss for date ideas for his girlfriend. This Friday, February 10 – take your date to the Pittsburgh Glass Center to make a glass flower or heart. The glass center will be open more

Update on P.Nosa’s Sewing Tour – First Stop Pittsburgh

Last week I posted about Paul Nosa’s Sewing Tour project on Kickstarter. Paul is an artist based in Tuscon, AZ who is planning to travel across the country with his solar and bike powered sewing machine. I posted about the project because the video is awesome (check out the video here) AND he is bringing the tour to Pittsburgh.  The first Kickstarter more

Help Bring Paul Nosa’s Sewing Tour to Pittsburgh

Sewing Tour 2012 is project that came up on Kickstarter. We have posted some Kickstarter projects here before – Kickstarter is a website that lets your croudsource funding for projects and businesses. I am sharing this project because it has a really nice little video and I think it is a neat little project.  While I don’t do much of it myself, more

Shop Handmade at Bakery Square Dec. 2 & 3

Wow – we have been getting lots of visits from people checking out our posts on Small Businesses we love and Pittsburgh Cyber Monday Deals.  Be sure to take another look at the Cyber Monday Deals post – many of those shops are offering savings all week and all month long. You have another opportunity to pick up some gifts this Friday and Saturday. more

Super Pgh Weekend = Prom, Crafts, Clothing Swaps and More

Prom Redux - Friday, November 11, 2011 relieve your prom days – but this time you are allowed to drink - benefits the Pittsburgh Literacy Council Prom Redux – A benefit for Pgh Literacy Council Take that old Prom dress out for another spin, bust out your powder blue tuxedo and head down to Cattivo in Lawrenceville this eve. iheartpgh “ Only more

Check out a Cheese Printer at the Mini Maker Faire

I have been waiting for MakerFaire to come to Pittsburgh for years!!!  I have been a follower of Make and Craft – both are magazines/blogs published by O’Reilly Media.  The Make magazine folks organized the first Maker Faire in CA back in 2006.  It was a live festival of all things creative, handmade, DIY and hacked.  Since 2006 – Maker more

2nd Annual Handmade in Marriage is May 21, 2011

Recently a few friends of IheartPGH have decided to tie the knot and have been asking me questions left and right about planning a wedding in Pittsburgh.  If you are engaged or involved in wedding planning – then Handmade in Marriage is the craft show for you. Handmade in Marriage is a one day wedding show to show of the best of independent wedding more