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More Holiday Shopping Opportunities This Weekend

Christmas is just 22 short days away! But fortunatly for you there are lots of fun places to shop this weekend – pick up some great gifts and support Pittsburgh Businesses.

Last Unblurred of 2010 – Stroll along Penn avenue for the monthly Unblurred – held the first Friday of every month – businesses and galleries stay open late for fun times.

  • The Cotton Factory is hosting another Tee-Rex Event from 6-10pm, they will have t-shirts for sale, local crafts and local beer for drinking (Click here for Facebook event).
  • Pittsburgh Glass Center kicks off their Holiday Glass sale this eve – the glass sale will be open Saturday and Sunday as well.
  • C Space Collective has their annual holiday show this evening as well – lots of local artists will be selling gifts
  • Need a gift for a coffee lover? Stop into Voluto Coffee – they are serious about coffee and can help you select the perfect beans.  The also have some other gift items available for the holidays.  (Note they close at 6pm on Friday)

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Radio Round Up – February 5, 2010

Freak-Out
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  • Saturday, February 6, 2010, Noon-5pm at The Union Project
  • Over 50 vendors with gifts and more for you favorite valentine
  • Casino Night to benefit Western PA Humane Society
  • Saturday, February 6, 2010
  • RARE Opportunity to check out the PAPA – Professional and Amateur Pinball Association Headquarters located in Scott Township – home to over 400 pinball machines

Bring Your Own Meat is back for the Super Bowl

  • Watch the Super Bowl on the big screen at AVA – 126 S. Highland Ave
  • They will be rolling out the grill for all your meat (and vegetables)
Vote GTECH in Pepsi’s Refresh Everything

  • Pittsburgh non-profit GTECH is in the running for $50,000 dollars
  • GTECH = Growth Through Energy Community & Health
  • GTECH helps communities creat jobs and cleaning up vacant lands by growing sunflowers
  • VOTE everyday at http://www.refresheverything.com/gtech
classic video games
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Handmade Gifts for Valentine's Day – IMadeIt Market 2/6

Buy Handmade
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Just in time for Valentine’s day -IMadeIt- Pittsburgh’s handmade marketplace will be setting up shop this weekned.  Gift and treats and sweets will be available from over 50 different artisits.  It is the perfect excuse to get out of the house and pick up a gift for your valentine.

IMadeIt Mine
Saturday, February 6, 2010 – Noon-5pm
Union Project, 801 N. Negley Ave, Highland Park
Facebook Event – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=412824605028&index=1

Some vendors to check out:

Sapling Press – Lisa from Sapling Press – who provided a great afternoon with the Letter Press demo last weekend will be there with letter pressed cards and more.

Erika Originals – Erika is from Cleveland and will be bringing her jewlery to town this weekend – this love letter necklace would make a great gift for a special valentine.

Iron City Upcyclery – turning old clothes into new garments – their etsy page has some dresses that would be perfect to wear for a valentine’s date night.

Click here to see a complete list of vendors for this Saturday.

I Made It and Handmade Arcade Gifts Ideas

Handmade Arcade (Pittsburgh)
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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.

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Steeltown Shakedown – Hot Rods, Indie Crafts and Drive in Movies

Fiat Topolino hot rodImage via Wikipedia How could I not write about an event that takes some IheartPGH favorites and rolls them in to one great event.

Steeltown Shakedown

Friday September 5, 2008, 8-11pm – Preparty at Butya’s Bar and Restaurant

Saturday September 6, 2008 1pm-late – hot rod show at the historic Twin Hi-Way Drive In

Here are some highlights for Saturday’s festivities…

Who is behind all of this fun:

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