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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.  The folks who put together I Made It Market have partnered with Bakery Square to bring you a huge market this weekend. Over 80 vendors will be at Bakery Square on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon… Read the rest

Workshop for Handmade/Crafty Sellers – The Business of Craft – Sat. July 24

Image by lazytcrochet via Flickr One of the things that makes Pittsburgh great – is the affordable cost of living here.  In recent years, a number of groups have started to promote and support local crafters and artists. Now there are lots of festivals, some shops and websites where you can purchase interesting, one of a kind, handmade items from local artists and crafters.  Over the past few years the craft seen in Pittsburgh has flourished with a couple of different groups working to promote handmade businesses.  A few years ago, I had a ton of fun spending an afternoon… Read the rest

Shop Lawrenceville This Sat – Streets Sale, Handmade Love and Flea Markets

Image by equita via Flickr Lots of fun shopping in the Lawrenceville area this Saturday! First up – make a stop at this big bad garage sale extraordinaire – just got the details from this Friend of IheartPGH (FoI<3PGH) – stop by and pick up some neat stuff. Big Multi Stop Garage Sale – Fisk, Main and 40th Streets Saturday, June 26, 2010 – 9am-1pm (rain or shine) PUT ON THOSE WALKING SHOES, CRACK IN TO YOUR COOKIE JAR AND COME ON OVER TO LAWRENCEVILLE FOR THIS HUGE STREET SALE!!! GET SOME EXERCISE AND SOME GREAT BARGAINS. WE HAVE TREASURES… Read the rest

I Made It and Handmade Arcade Gifts Ideas

Image by madflowr via Flickr A few weeks ago I had the great fortune to meet some of the folks who work at ModCloth, an online retailer of fabulous fashions that is based here in Pittsburgh.  One of the cool tools I learned about is Polyvore – which is a website that lets you “clip” your favorite items and group them into sets to share on your blog, Facebook and Twitter.   I have been having some fun creating sets of items for Spreadshirt so I thought I would do the same for IheartPGH too. (I have even set up an… Read the rest

Links Worth a Look – December 8th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: So Me – New Shop in Glenshaw – Check out this post from the Pittsburgh Craft Collective (with photos) of a new shop that has just opened in Glen Shaw. So Me features gifts from local artists and crafters. A Safe Street in Pittsburgh: Interesting Times : The New Yorker – Pittsburgh's City of Asylum project and the North Side's Sampsonia Way are profiled in the New Yorker. "City of Asylum/Pittsburgh provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of death, imprisonment, or persecution in their native countries." Rusty Waters Apparel… Read the rest

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