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Cleveland Handmade Featured Artist:
Teresa of SilverMade Studio

Posted: February 9th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | 1 Comment »

Teresa of SliverMade Studio is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. Read her interview here.


Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Cindy Benson

Posted: January 26th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | 1 Comment »

Cindy Benson of Simple Elements Design is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. Read my interview with her here.


Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Jodie Pastor

Posted: January 19th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | Comments Off on Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Jodie Pastor

Jodie Pastor of Lake Erie Beach Glass is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. Read my interview with her here.


Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Colleen Fitzpatrick

Posted: January 12th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | Comments Off on Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Colleen Fitzpatrick

Colleen Fitzpatrick is this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist. Read my interview with her here.


Cleveland Handmade Featured Artist:
Gina DeSantis

Posted: January 5th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | Comments Off on Cleveland Handmade Featured Artist:
Gina DeSantis

This week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist is Gina DeSantis. Read my interview with her here.


Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Erika Laine Hansen

Posted: December 29th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | Comments Off on Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Erika Laine Hansen

This week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist is the lovely Erika Laine Hansen. Read all about her and her work here.


Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Rob Merwath

Posted: December 22nd, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | Comments Off on Cleveland Handmade featured artist:
Rob Merwath

Meet Rob Merwath, this week’s Cleveland Handmade featured artist.


Cleveland Handmade featured artist: me!

Posted: December 19th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: art, books, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist, holiday, joy, life, work | Comments Off on 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

Posted: December 8th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | 1 Comment »

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

Posted: December 1st, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: art, Cleveland Handmade, Etsy, featured artist | Comments Off on 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.