Each week we feature an advertiser from the Crafty Bastards Classifieds. This week the honor goes to: Bohemian Babydolls! Bohemian Babydolls Unite! These are some incredibly cute handmade summer dresses and jewelry for your shopping pleasure. The dresses are available at SMASH! in Adams Morgan. You can see a greater selection of babydolls, vinyl and [...]

Celebrate summer shopping in DC with the Mid-City Dog Days of Summer Sidewalk Sale. This weekend-long event will take place on August 2nd and 3rd in Mid-City, the area surrounding 14th and U Streets NW. This Sidewalk Sale is not only a great opportunity to eat, drink and shop at discount prices, but it also [...]

Vickie Howell, host of DIY’s Knitty Gritty and Austin Craft Mafia co-founder, wants to know about you! Her next book, Craft Corps will focus on the craft community and she will be featuring 50-60 short profiles of crafters of all types. On her blog she writes: Whether you’ve found success selling your handmade sock monkeys [...]

The Design*Sponge Biz Ladies meet-ups are designed to connect local women running their own design-based businesses. The event is a fun, informal session that will provide free advice and information in the following areas: Marketing/PR, Wholesale/Retail, Business/Legal issues and local designer Kat Feuerstein will tell her story of turning their passion into a successful full-time [...]

Each week we feature an advertiser from the Crafty Bastards Classifieds. This week the honor goes to: The Broken Plate Pendant Company! The Broken Plate specializes in giving new life to old dinnerware, ceramics, glass and “anything else in my way.” Each piece of glass is wrapped in copper tape and lead-free silver solder to [...]

The Crafty Bastards Discovery Series is in full swing! With our second workshop in the series under our belt, we’re gearing up for the next one in August. The Crafty Bastards Discovery Series has crafting experts come to Whole Foods on P Street once a month, to talk to the Crafty community about ways to [...]

In the week leading up to last month’s Crafty Bastards Festival, we began posting a series of interviews of crafters who were going to be there. Unfortunately, in all the hustle & bustle we were unable to publish them all. This continues the Q&A’s that we weren’t able to get to! The devil was of [...]

Don’t forget! Today is the last day to apply for Crafty Bastards DC! The festival will take place on Sunday, September 28 in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Applications will be accepted through midnight. You can read the instructions here and some helpful hints here. We will notify all applicants of their status [...]

My favorite upcycled products are those that are made from actual trash picked up off the ground. That’s why these rings from Metals And Thread made out of used cigarette lighters are just awesome. In the listing for this ring, they write: A sustainable and artistic approach was used to make these pop art jewelry [...]

Crafty Bastards alum, Thembe Fashions, is hosting a Trunk Show & Sample Sale at Dekka this Thursday night. Dekka is the new, funky, hip place to shop and hang in the U Street Corridor. The Dekka showroom hosts fashion, art and music, and showcases local artists, designers, DJ’s, musicians, and other pretty darn cool talent. [...]