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Saturday Sept. 5 – Crafts N'At – with Auction Prizes too!

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This weekend the Pittsburgh Craft Collective is hosting Crafts N’At – a craft fair at the Union Project . Craft N’At will also include a the pick-a-prize auction benefit [gravity & grace], a contemporary opera benefiting the Parkinson’s foundation of Western PA. It is great to see that the Pgh Craft Collective is working to support the [gravity & grace] project. I first learned about gravity & grace last year and I think it is a really interesting project about living with a disability that has been holding some community workshops over the past few months and will have a performance on September 25 & 26,2009.

Auction Items include: A Gift Certificate from Pavement – one of the best shoe stores around, a membership to the Carnegie Museums, a gift basket from the East End Food Co-Op and MORE!

Here are just a few of the vendors you might want to check out

Cosy Makes – I love her hand dyed yarn – I have my eye on the Gravity is Mine green. She recycles yarn from old sweaters into yarn and other wonderful hand knit items. Check out some of her work in the book “Knit One, Embellish Too: Hats, Mittens And Scarves With A Twist”.
Ragtrader has some great necklaces – my favorites are the Brass wings – reminds me of pilots wings and I really love the Bird in Flight necklace too.
Garbella offers screen printed t-shirts, scarves totes and more. I think this black and gold one makes a perfect Steelers accessory.

Yuenglearrings

Lindsay posted about cool Steelers gear … so I thought I would post a link to my Etsy site where I sell my handmade Steelers bottle cap earrings. A friend of mine helped out and so now we have expanded to include Hines Ward, Sexy Troy, Action Troy, and Deshea Townsend. I can do custom ones on request. These were inspired by a pair of Virgin of Guadeloupe earrings I got in Veracruz a few years ago.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20406782

Holiday Shopping Handmade Style

Image by juliekaffe via FlickrThis is soo much more than holiday shopping. I really like the folks behind Handmade Arcade and they have done a lot of work to make this annual event a success year after year. Handmade Arcade has become on the of premiere handmade shopping events and vendors will be coming to Pittsburgh from all over to sell their handmade goods.

Aside from the crafts, there will be some tasty treats from my favorite Franktuary and I am sure some other delcisious vendors will be there too.

This year, Handmade Arcade moves to a new location at the Hunt Armory in Shadyside.

Handmade Arcade
Hunt Armory, 324 Emerson Street
Saturday, November 8, 2008 11am – 7pm
Sundsay, November 9, 2008 11am – 5pm

Here are a few of the vendors that I have meet before and I am looking forward to checking out this year…

Tugboat Print Shop has great prints. Paul and Valerie are really great and they also do framing work. Check out their blog here.

CitySpun – she used to live here in Pittsurgh, but now lives in Lancaster. Jessica makes yarn with soy – that she spins with other cool things to make some awesome hand spun yarn. Can’t make it to handmade Arcade? You can check out her Etsy shop here.

TinyRat – she makes some serious art out of the medium of plastic canvass.

Fresh Popcorn – When she isn’t writing interesting articles about local things, Jennifer is making local things. I really want a set of the Merry Signs of Christmas Cards that are made from local holiday signs.

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North Side Celebration in The Park – July 26, 2008

Thanks to Cosette from CosyMake for posting this great picture of the flyer for the North Side Celebration in the Park Flyer. She will be there selling some of her beautiful hand knit items. The festival is hosted by a North Side native Johnny Angel from Johnny Angel and the Halos.

Reasons to Celebrate in the Park:

For the Kids – The Children’s Museum has put together a treasure hunt called “Where is Allegheny City”. Until 1907 what is now the North Side was a separate city named Allegheny City – check out more on the history here.
Classic Car Cruise sponsored by the Rodfathers of Butler.
Furry Finalists for Comcast’s Canine Idol Contest
More Crafty Vendors from Handmade Arcade

Sundae Market Returns

I attended the Sundae Market last fall – they do a really nice job of bringing together a great group of vendors and the new and improved Schenley Park Entrance is the perfect venue. This photo is from the market last fall. Click here to read a blog post from Kathy who attended the market last week. She has some pictures of the park and Oakland too.

Update your art collection, score a pair of designer shoes, and dance in the sunshine at the Sundae Flea Market at Schenley Plaza from 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. More than 40 vendors, from artists to crafters to local shops offering great sales, will be on hand selling their wares. Live DJs headlined by DJ Nugget will provide entertainment.

Presented by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and Dream Store Media in partnership with I Made It! Market. For more info, visit www.schenleyplaza.org or call 412-682-7275.

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