National Farriers Week, from July 10-16, honors the men and women who care for and maintain the hooves of horses. This highly specialized trade requires skill in hoof care, blacksmithing, as well as care of injured and diseased hooves. While caring for these amazing animals, it is not unusual to receive calls at odd hours, […]
Handmade Artists Shout Out bjs gourdartetc is this weeks Handmade Aritsts Shout Out. You will find beautiful gourds to adorn your home or garden in this shop! Pictured above: Native Designed small gourd bowl Unlike some of my small gourd bowls this has different designs all the way around the bowl. Painted with Acrylics Bright […]
It’s time to Discover Handmade Good morning everyone and thank you for joining me today for another fabulous Discover Handmade. Are you looking for Glass Heart Charms or a Hand sculpted Polymer Clay Vase? Oh….you need a Magic Potion Kit for your grandmother?… Hmmmm! Can’t find the right Lampwork bead to fit your Pandora bracelet? […]
Today is the day to appreciate the most amazing piece of work ever created; YOU! Happy National Compliment your Mirror Day! On this special day, you are to stand in front of your mirror and, just for a moment, consider how amazing you really are. Don’t have the proper mirror for such an important task? […]
I would love to feature Nancy Pace today with her wonderful Art and ability to paint, and personally she always has inspired me. While I have Art and Music in me, I cannot paint as Nancy does. This blog post is also very fitting for this time of the year, Christmas is coming…. Nancy in […]
I just love Carolyn’s work, this piece entitled “Symphony” is just amazing. Just love how the colors bounce off each other. This triptych consists of two 30×20 inch canvases, one on each side of a 30×40 inch gallery wrap canvas. Though the total size is 30×80, when hung with an inch or more between the […]
Do you love to decorate using vintage hand painted porcelain plates? When the shabby chic craze started, everyone was buying vintage/antique porcelain plates, hand painted with pretty pink roses. (I was one of them!) It was then that I decided I wanted to learn how to paint porcelain. I knew absolutely NOTHING about porcelain painting, […]
I am Marilyn Kelley and I love to paint! My mom is an artist, although at 95 she doesn’t paint anymore, she was always my inspiration. Every piece of art in our home was original, either from my mom or her artist friends. I can remember mom holding art classes in our basement when I […]
Andrew and Kimberly are the husband and wife team behind HandmadeArtists.com and have an obsessive passion about creating and buying anything handmade. Kimberly’s love of handmade was carefully and enthusiastically fostered by her Grandmother who believed fully in making due and making it yourself. She taught Kimberly to sew, knit, crochet, cook, can, and do […]
There is nothing more amazing than to find someone that truly does something completely different than anyone else with a medium. Brenda, creative super power behind A Touch Of Glass Jewelry, is one such artist that takes a known medium, fused glass, and puts her own twist on it to make it truly unique. After […]
