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Coming Soon the HAFshop gets a Face lift!

Just a quick little teaser, the Handmade Artists’ Shop is going through a face lift from top to bottom. Any way the existing HAFshop is ready for a new look and feel. We are starting completely from scratch. We have went into private development and are about halfway through. We hope to  relaunch before the [...]

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Featured Artist Hearts of Stone on the HAFshop

Hearts of Stone creates lovely one of a kind (OOAK) handmade jewelry. Her shop name says it all hearts as she uses a  lot of hearts in her design and stone as most of her work is just that stone. Such as these beautiful Love Never Gets Old earrings. Dramatic coral fossil squares sit between [...]

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A Book Review of Chained By Rebeca Mojica

Well our long time friend and member of the forum Rebeca Mojica,  from Blue Buddha Boutique,  is now a published author of what I found to be a  great book about chainmaille. We were lucky enough to get an advanced copy of  “Chained” so that we can give it a once over and make sure [...]

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Music Inspired Contest

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Well this is our second forum wide contest we have hosted and once again we have pushed our artists to their limits . The idea of the music inspired challenge was to have a song or a certain type of music inspire our artists to create a piece that reflects how the music affects them. [...]

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Haffina Creations – Amazing Talent, Amazing Person

I know that there is plenty of talented people in the world; there are many that are multitalented, now imagine finding a multitalented Australian mother of 5 (yes, you read that right…5 kids!) and still finding time to follow her passion for creating beautiful things from beads and Polymer clay! Haffina is just such a [...]

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Eye Candy by EyeCandyChainmaille

On top of being a really cool business name, EyeCandyChainmaille’s driving force is actually named Candy!  She has been painstakingly creating amazing work since 2009 and is fast becoming a chainmaille artist to take notice of. I am such a chainmaille junkie; but there is nothing better than finding a maille artist that really adds [...]

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