Alpaca? What is an alpaca? It wasn’t until I read about Anita of ThreeHawkAlpacas that I really understood how amazing alpaca wool is to work with. Anita was born in raised in Pennsylvania and later moved to North Carolina. She has worked in accounting for over 20 years as well as built an impressive alpaca farm where she has bought, sold, […]
Gina is just such a person. As well as an active supporter of handmade, Gina plays piano, scrapbooking, reading, playing games as well as volunteering at her church. All this is done when she is not chasing after her two small children, ages 4 and 1 ½, her husband (or maybe that counts as another […]
With a name like RoxysRox, what else could she possibly sell (and don’t tell me rocks) other than jewelry? Roxy found her love for creating jewelry a bit later in life, but that did not stop her from jumping in! In fact, she recently found out that her mother also used to create jewelry before […]
Some people talk about creativity and passion, while others live it! Such is so true about CJ Bauschka who is the sole caregiver of her mother as well as wife and mother of eight children as well as Grammy to four grandchildren! She is passionate about her family and loves to make large meals to […]
Most people in this day and age have made, what they would concider, friends via the internet. Sometimes, those friends become very special to you over time which is the case of a very talented jewelry designer who passionately supports the handmade movement! Teresa grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan before meeting her husband […]
Who doesn’t like to win prizes? Anyone? No? Well, here is your chance to win any number of kickin’ prizes as well as check out the amazing creativity of our HandmadeArtistsForum members as they compete in our very own HAF Iron Chef Challenge! Our members were given a challenge; create something, in any medium, using […]
Often times you have to find the silver lining in a bad situation which is what Georgie did when her job of ten years in information technology was suddenly outsourced. Instead of searching out a new job in the same field, Georgie decided to follow her passion for art and dive in full time…the result? […]
Purple Rose, what a beautiful flower as well as the name of a wonderful artist that has found her passion in beads and clay! Lynda is a creative mother of four grown children who lived every artistic mother’s dream…taking over the kids rooms after they move out and filling them with craft supplies! Lynda found […]
Todays featured artist is a person that is near and dear to all of our hearts at the HandmadeArtsistsForum and HandmadeArtistsShop. Janelle was one of the original members of the forum when we began way back when. She passed away unexpectedly recently and her loss is still felt by many of our long time members. […]
There is something very exciting, and at the same time, terrifying about following your passion. Laura, AKA Narrina, AKA Handmaden Designs chose just this path and is steadily turning her passion into a successful business. Laura was born in Ireland where her parents were missionaries for 13 years. This start probably fed her love of […]
