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2014 Guide to Crafty/Indie/Vintage Holiday Shopping Events in Pittsburgh

Saturday 11/22 – Pittsburgh Vintage Mixer

Time: 9am-3pm
Location:Teamsters Local 249, 4701 Butler Street in Lawrenceville
Details: Vintage Vendor Fair
Admission: $5 at the Door
Facebook Event | Follow @PghVintageMixer

Friday 11/28 & Saturday 11/29 – I Made It Holiday Market @ Heinz 57 Center

Time: Friday 2pm-8pm, Saturday 11am-5pm
Location: Heinz 57 Center, 623 Smithfield Street
Details: 80+ Artisans, Food Truck, Free Parking
Link | Facebook Event | Follow: @IMadeItMarket

Thursday 12/4 – 21+ Party at TechShop

Time: 7pm-10pm
Location: TechShop Pittsburgh, 192 Bakery Square Blvd.
Details: TechShop hosts a holiday party with demos, workshops and a holiday market featuring local vendors
Tickets are $15 (Free for TechShop members)

Friday 12/5 & Saturday 12/6 – PULSE Alternative Holiday Gift Market

I did a lot of holiday shopping at this event last year. PULSE – Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience is a great organization that has been bringing college graduates to Pittsburgh and inspiring change in several neighborhoods. This market features handmade items by the PULSE fellows and supporters.

If you go on Friday, take some time to visit the other businesses that will be open for First Fridays on Penn Ave.

Time: Friday 7-10pm, Saturday 9am-Noon
Location: PULSE offices 5151 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15224
Facebook Event | Follow @PulsePittsburgh

Saturday 12/6 – Handmade Arcarde

Time: 11am-7pm
Location: David Lawrence Convention Center
11th annual event featuring over 150 crafters/artisans from Pittsburgh and around the country
Website | Facebook Event | Follow @Handmade Arcade

Sunday 12/7 – Holiday Book Sale from Pittsburgh’s Indie Booksellers

Time: 12-5pm
Location: Stephen Foster Community Center, 286 Main Street
Vendors: Copacetic Comics, The Big Idea Bookstore, Inc, East End Book Exchange, Amazing Books, Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Autumn House Pres, Braddock Avenue Books, Six Gallery Press, Lilliput Review, Small Press Pittsburgh
Facebook Event | Follow @BookstoreMemoir

Saturday 12/13 – Last Minute Gifts by Close Creations at Tazza D’Oro

Time: 8am-7pm
Location: Tassa D’Oro Coffee Shop, 1125 N. Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Follow @tazzadoro

Saturday 12/13 – I Made It Holiday Market at Boyd Community Center

Time: 10am-3pm
Location: Boyd Community Center, 1220 Powers Run Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238
Details: TechShop hosts a holiday party with demos, workshops and a holiday market featuring local vendors
Link | Follow @IMadeITMarket

Saturday 12/13 – Holiday Festivus at the Pittsburgh Public Market

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Thursday 12/18 – MANta Claus Last-Minute Shopping in Lawrenceville

Time: 5-9pm
Location: Businesses along Butler Street in Lawrenceville
Details: A last-minute holiday shopping extravaganza for men (and let’s face it, anyone) who waits until the last minute to buy gifts for the holidays. Plus enjoy free beer, snacks, and special discounts!
Facebook Event | #Mantaclaus

Yule Need a Santa Suit for This Saturday – SantaCon, Handmade Arcade & More

Good morning Pittsburgh! While the weather outside might be frightful – 5 days of rain is headed our way – there is plenty of holiday fun to keep you busy this weekend! Here are all the details with lots of links to more information for the events we shared on WDVE radio this morning. You can listen to our weekend picks Friday mornings t 6:45 am.

Have an event you think we should know about? Please submit it to our events calendar here.

Unblurred on Penn Avenue The first Friday of every month – all of the businesses on Penn Ave in the Friendship/Garfield area stay open late for a gallery crawl. Holiday open house at the Pittsburgh Glass Center Commonplace Voluto Coffee Shop will be serving up pie Holiday Shopping at Tee Rex – stop by for t-shirts, there will be tacos and snacks for sale and beer from East End Brewing for drinking
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation on the Big Screen Friday & Saturday 10pm @ The Oaks Theater	National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis Saturday, December 8, 2012 Registration starts at 7am, Run/Walk starts at 10am Holiday dress is strongly encouraged	2009 Richmond Jingle Bell Run/Walk (Photo credit: rogercarr)
Pittsburgh SantaCon 2012 8th Annual Pittbsburgh Santa Bar Crawl the fun starts at 2pm sharp in Market Square Santa is forgoing the sleigh and has chartered a boat for 2012 Follow @DamnSanta on Twitter for updates Facebook Event Link	Santacon 2012
Handmade Arcade Biggest, baddest and crafiest sale in Pittsburgh Saturday, December 8, 2012 @ David Lawrence Convention Center 11am-7pm Over 150 artists from Pittsburgh and all over the country – you can check out a map of the vendors here. Crafty activitites for kids of all ages Live music and DJ’s all day long	Handmade Arcade (Pittsburgh) (Photo credit: Leigh (Rhymes with Twee))
Roller Derby: The Penn Bruisers take on the Mon Monsters Sunday, December 9th, 2012, Romp N Roll in Glenshaw: 1661 E. Sutter Rd, Glenshaw, PA 15116. Doors 5:00, derby action 6:00. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Kids 10 and under get in FREE!! The Steel City Derby Demons are recruiting new skaters – find out more here.	Battle of the Burgh
Winter Flower Show @ Phipps Phipps is decorated for the holiday season – the best of the outdoors – all inside a cozy, dry location. Sunday, December 9 – Brunch in Bloom – special monthly brunch at Phipps	Phipps Winter Flower Show (Photo credit: jennandjon)

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

From Earth Day to Easter Eggs – A Weekend of Spring Festivals

A collection of traditional pysanky from Volyn...

Image via Wikipedia

It is shaping up to be a super spring weekend in Pittsburgh. We know that Friday is a hockey night in this town – but here are some things to keep you busy until game #3. You can listen to IheartPGH chat live with Jim and Randy on WDVE 102.5 FM most Friday mornings at 6:45 am.

The Tech Fair

CMU now calls this Spring Carnival – but I have always refered to this as the tech fair
April 14-16 @ Carnegie Mellon University
Amazing carnival games, student buggy races and live music
Check out the live webcams of the event here – http://webcam.springcarnival.org/

Pittsburgh Comicon

calling all comic book lovers – this is the convention for you
Friday-Sunday @ the Monroeville Convention Center

Handmade Arcade

The biggest baddest craft show in town has a new location at the Convention Center downtown
Saturday, April 16 11am-7pm
Handmade Arcade attracts vendors from all over the country

photo from Pgh Parks

Activities and workshops for the whole family
Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:30-4pm @ Frick Park environmental center on Beechwood Blvd
Also – check out the Panther Hollow Clean Up – hundreds of volunteers will meet at Schenley Plaza on Saturday to tackle panther hollow. Sponsored by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.

45th Annual Pysanky and Traditional Food Bazaar

St. Peter & St. Paul Ukranian Othrodox Church in Carnegie
Over 1,000 Pysanky (Ukraininan Easter Eggs) for sale!
Traditional foods – YES that includes pyrohi!
Sunday, April 17, 2011 11am-4pm

Steelcity Showdown – criterium bicycle race through the city of Pittsburgh

Sunday, April 27, 2011 8am-2pm
Cyclists compete on a closed .8 mile loop from downtown to PNC park
For non-cyclists – there is a tailgate!

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 IheartPGH group on Polyvore here).

My first Polyvore set for IheartPGH is a round up of some items from vendors who were at the I Made It Market or Handmade Arcade. (I wanted to add even more but for some reason – you can’t clip images from Etsy to Polyvore 🙁 ).

Here are just a few of the goodies that were available – click on each item to learn more about it and visit the website of the vendor. Most of the vendors are from Pittsburgh too!

Did you buy any handmade gifts? Who were your favorite vendors? Please share more links to Etsy shops in the comments.