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Featured Artist Tress of Rozies Pearls

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Tress and Randy are dreaming big! In fact, every time this husband and wife team sells one of their darling pieces, Randy asks if he can retire now! Love this! Maybe not now, but Tess knows that one day she will be able to turn to him and say “Yes, you can retire now.” Tress [...]

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Bethie’s Cards Highlight Challenge Winner

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Highlight Challenge Winner Bethie’s Cards is our On Fire for Handmade Highlight Challenge Winner from last weeks Some Like it Hot Challenge! Beth has a wonderful card shop here on Handmade Artists! Darling creations for all occasions! Bethie’s Cards was started in Feb. of 2012. In the beginning, I concentrated on butterflies, so almost all [...]

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Winner of On Fire – Highlight Challenge

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Highlight Challenge Winner My European Touch The winner of our first On Fire Highlight Challenge is Monika of My European Touch! Her Entry came in with 425 views! You can see her winning challenge on the On Fire for Handmade site HERE Meet Monika: Have been crafting ever since I was a little girl! Monika [...]

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Featured Artist Sue of Tomie Harlene

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What does a young girl from rather humble beginnings and a subscription to Seventeen magazine do? Learn to sew of course! This young lady wanted the high fashion that she saw on the glossy pages of the magazine, but finances being what they were, was unable to afford such luxury. Her solution was to use [...]

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Featured Artist Handmade Creations by Shelly

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We all learn in different ways. Some are self taught through books and online while others are intentionally taught and still other learn by watching, which is exactly how Shelly got her start. She stood behind her grandmothers as they knitted and crochet and watched their fingers fly. Little did she know that years later, [...]

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Lady Faith Jewelry

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Artists are as varied as their arts in every way and each traveled their own journey to get to where they are; and it is those journeys which make art so special. Barbara Lady Faith Branson (isn’t that just the most incredible name you have ever heard? Like a real life fairy tale princess!) grew [...]

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Featured Artist Karen Gass

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When you picture an artist what do you see? Beret wearing painter? Vegan living in a commune? A homeschooling grandmother? My guess is the third choice was not even close, but this is just what I found in Karen! Karen lives a very packed life as a stay at home mom, wife, homeschool teacher to [...]

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Featured Artist Quentin of Lunar Skies

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“I’ve made more money in the past, but I’ve never been happier than I am now.” What a wonderful quote from a husband, father and grandfather that found his passion in the handmade world! Quentin showed an artistic side from early on, working in a career as a graphic artist, but said that trying to [...]

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Featured Artist Alixandra of The Alchemists Vessel

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Crayons, play-doh, painting, knitting, anything to keep her hands moving; this is how Alixandra describes herself from the very beginning. Born and raised in sunny San Francisco,California; Alixandra spent her childhood surrounded by the wonderful art of the area whether is was going to the Japanese Tea Garden or the California Academy of Sciences or [...]

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Featured Artist Marci of MarphilHearts

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Art is so many things to so many people. For some it is a joy of creating something beautiful for no other reason, for others it is a distraction from life’s stresses and for others still it was a way to change their thinking as was the case for Marci. Marci grew up with an [...]

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