Archive for the 'Handmade' Category

Cleveland.com:
When Tricia Hodson opened up a shop on Etsy two years ago, her sigh of relief was likely heard all around Garrettsville, her home of 11 years. Gone was her concern that her crocheted and knit creations would bomb locally.

“My neighbor doesn’t have to love them,” the stay-at-home mother of two said lightly. If long, [...]

BucyrusTelegraphForum.com:
A family Christmas tradition has turned into a small business this year as two Bucyrus natives make ornaments that look good enough to eat.

Kelly Stockmaster and her daughter, Kymberlee Stockmaster-Wood, produce hand-painted clay Christmas ornaments for their Gingerbread Keepsake Collection.
“It’s heartwarming and family oriented, and the ornaments will last,” Kymberlee said from her home in [...]

The Huntsville Times:
Paddy Lombardi is following in her family’s footsteps to design jewelry in her business, It’s a Paddy.

She was born into a family of artists, and her father and grandfather were successful architects in Canton, Ohio. She loves art and majored in art and music. “They all tie together,” she said.
“Each piece I make [...]

MyCentralJersey.com:
Township resident Sandra Kircher creates the memories of tomorrow - today.

Kircher, 41, is the owner of Li’l Inspirations, a personal, embroidery gift online store. The company is named after her two sons: Rudy, III, 13, a Hillsborough Middle School student and Zachary, 10, a Triangle Elementary School student. “They inspire me,” Kircher said of her [...]

Lynden Tribune:
A children’s boutique will be dropped right into the middle of the Lynden Fall Craft & Antique Show at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds Thursday through Saturday.

A trio of Lynden moms have pooled their talents — and individual businesses — to create the booth Once Upon A Time, fashioned after a small children’s boutique, but [...]

STNG:
For 25 years, almost up to the day she died, Plainfield seamstress Beverly Pisut owned and operated Beverly’s Interiors, where she designed, sewed and sold her custom draperies and home accessories.

The business was successful, said Beverly’s husband Stephen Pisut, and not just because her clients received beautiful window treatments.
“She was loving and caring,” Stephen said. [...]

Times Leader:
The population of Tunkhannock will double next Saturday as more than 2,000 people flock to an unusual and beautiful once-a-year sight. Quilts — hundreds of them — will blanket the streets. The handmade quilts will hang from windows and porches of picturesque Victorian homes and in store displays, flutter from lines strung along the [...]

Wood Creations, Inc. is honored to announce the “memorial” toy box or blanket chest. This one of a kind chest is designed for families with loved ones who have passed away. After a loss, family members can store their cherished memories in the toy chest. This chest can be laser engraved with special prayers, poems, [...]

Leader-Telegram:
When Shawnda Swanson was a teenager, her mom started making soap.

It was a hobby for Carla Benson, but she also wanted to provide gentle soap for Shawnda, who had sensitive skin.
Eventually the hobby grew until Benson was selling bars of soap at craft sales.
Three years ago, Swanson decided to take her mom’s Oakridge Soap a [...]

A bath bomb is a ball shaped product that fizzes when dropped into a bath, giving it that bomb appeal. They are made to give off a relaxing aroma while also moisturizing the skin. At Beyond The Bomb, they literally go beyond it. They are sold by a mom as well [...]