Cleveland Handmade featured artist: me!

I am this week’s celebrity, and you can read my answers to the off-the-wall questions posed by the lovely smashing, who also took the photo of me that accompanies the interview, on the Cleveland Handmade site.

December has been a whirlwind so far. I was expecting a quiet month, just a couple of little proofreading projects, then a plum writing project dropped into my lap. I’ll share more about the project when the details are more settled and I have something to link to rather than trying to explain it in all its quirkiness, but the jist is that I’m coauthoring a fun book about cats with two other writers. What this means in my universe is that those people who usually get a personal, handwritten note in the holiday card I usually mail on the first of December will get a form letter in their holiday card that might get mailed tomorrow. Or Saturday. And I’m going to continue to be really rotten about returning nonessential e-mails and phone calls into the beginning of 2009.

This weekend marks the last of my 2009 shows, the Cleveland Handmade Last Minute Market. We had such a great time at the last CH Market that we decided to do it again. This time it is in a warehouse space in Westlake, on Canterbury Road to the north of Detroit Road (that link will lead you to more details and a map). I hope to see a few friendly faces on Saturday evening — come on by and say “hi” and see some really nice stuff from 22 Cleveland Handmade artists.

PS: I’m using Twitter a lot to post little tidbits a couple of times a day when I don’t have time to write full blog posts. If you’re a tweeter, you can follow me there, or just check in under “What I’m Doing…” in the sidebar over there to the right —>

Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Kathy Patton

Kathy Patton of smashing is one of my favorite people on the planet, a creative and dedicated artist, and one of the other coleaders of the Cleveland Handmade team. You can read her interview here.

Cleveland Handmade Featured Artist:
Jodie of la petite libellule

Jodie of la petite libellule is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. I personally own one of her scarves and the most perfect felted wool messenger bag she custom made just for me (and with which I am delighted). Read the interview here.

Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Jane Pierce

Jane Pierce of zJayne is the Cleveland Handmade featured artist this week. Read the interview here.

Cleveland Handmade Featured Artist:
Stacie Pate

Stacie Pate is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist.

Read about her here.

Cleveland Handmade Market at Mojo’s Coffee

I will be joining a dozen or so other Cleveland Handmade artists for a trunk show at Mojo’s Coffee in Bay Village on November 23. We’ll be there 10 a.m.–4 p.m. with a selection of great stuff just in time to beat the holiday shopping rush. Stop by for a cup of coffee or cocoa and say hi!

Artists:
Jill Slaby * Lake Erie Beach Glass * LaPetite Fleur * Lori Paximadis
Lazy T Crochet * HandmadeGoods * Beautiful Era * Ramona
Petite Libellule * Stargazer Designs * Smashing * Leah Ana Designs

Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Valerie Tyler

Valerie Tyler is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. Read all about her here:
http://www.clevelandhandmade.com/?p=93

Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
minimeg

Margaret, aka minimeg, is a bundle of talent. She sews, crochets, wire wraps, fuses plastic — and sings and plays the violin, too. Very fitting for an art education major.

Read the interview here.

Cleveland Handmade Featured Artist:
Tricia Hodson

Tricia Hodson of LazyTcrochet is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. Read more here.

Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Susan Saltzman

Susan Saltzman is well known for her distinctive jewelry incorporating beach stones. Much imitated but never duplicated, her work has been featured in a number of books and magazines. Susan sells her work under the name stonz on Etsy.


Read more about Susan here.