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Links Worth a Look – November 12th

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Links Worth a Look – November 7th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

  • 2008 Three Rivers Film Festival – Opens Nov. 7 – and runs until Nov. 22, 2008 – lots of great films coming to town. Which films do you reccomend?
  • new works « garbella – She is a member of the Pittsburgh Craft collective and she makes some great t-shirts and other screen printed items. IheartPGH was the first thing I screenprinted 5 years ago, long before I knew about blogs, so I have a love of anything screenprinted. I want a I bike PGH t-shirt! Check out this cool clock and the rest of her blog and Etsy shop.
  • Apple Festival and Pie Contest – Saturday at the Union Project – its all apples at the Apple Festival. There is also an Apple Pie contest.
  • Belt buckles, headbands, soap, t-shirts and more – check out some of the items that you will find at Handmade Arcade this weekend
  • Madcap recap « Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Blog – Check out the great picture of the tent in Schenley Park

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Holiday Shopping Handmade Style

Jen and MorganImage 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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Links Worth a Look – November 1st

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  • Encyclopedia Destructica – The Pittsburgh Craft Collective Blog highlights this business that makes handbound books and zines in lawrenceville. They also have public binding parties too – you can help to create their next zine.
  • Nine Mile Run Geology Tour – This looks like an interesting look at Nine Mile Run. Sunday. Nov. 2 at 1pm
  • The Buzz » Blog Archive » Welcome to the Berner Blog – I have been bugging Georgia Berner to write a blog about her business, which is a manufactuing business here in Western PA that makes air curtains. Georgia Berner is a wealth of knowledge about business and manufacturing and I hope you will check out her blog. This blog post has a good explaination of air curatins too.

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Links Worth a Look – September 28th

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  • MCG Jazz » MCG Jazz Mission – MCG Jazz’s mission is to preserve, present and promote jazz. Through our performances, we strengthen the long time Pittsburgh jazz community and contribute to the overall cultural and artistic diversity of the region. Through our live recordings we reach a national and international audience – a market we’d like to grow. Through our educational programs we are able to have students attend the concerts at low or no cost to them, make artists available for master classes and provide opportunities for internships in production and marketing.
  • Pittsburghers knit items for upcoming movie with Charlize Theron – Check out this great story about how some Pittsbrugh knitters ended up creating some items for an upcoming movie with Charlize Theron
  • Living on Earth: Your Environmental Road Trip – YERT (Your Enviromental Road Trip) who started and ended their trip in Pittsburgh is featured on the radio program Living on Earth.

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