In the land of craft, there is no jewelry shortage. So to be a standout jeweler you have to be particularly impressive, and vendors like Fernworks go above and beyond that. Fernworks is the one-woman company of Faryn Davis (currently of Ashville, NC and formerly of the Pacific Northwest). Inspired by all things nature, fernworks [...]

This is great! Herban Lifestyle has created a line of bath and body products just for men.  They are made from all natural and organic ingredients including essential oils. Honestly, who doesn’t need a daily wash? The shaving soap and the shaving oil also look really incredible. I cannot wait to smell like pine and [...]

Sometimes it’s hard to believe Jon Wye is one person. Quietly and cleverly building an empire with belts, t-shirts, wallets and wrist cuffs, Jon is quickly taking over the pants of many a DC citizen. Jon makes beautiful belts in his obsessively clean craftsmanship from leather that he prints himself in his workshop in Capitol [...]

I generally leave a day at Crafty Bastards so exhausted that I can barely lift my fingers to my mouth to enjoy the delicious DC Ethiopian food I look forward to all year. But last year, I left the fair SO excited about finding new vendor Home Sweet (formerly of DC, currently of DE) that [...]

Needle Noodles combines crochet, creepy and cute with amazing results. Have a look! Searching for a Crocheted Space Worm? How about an Amigurumi Grim Reaper? And I found this ring box to be genius. Needle Noodles will not only have all kinds of awesome stuff already made and ready to sell, but they also sell [...]

Raeburn Ink is based in western Massachusetts and run by Jennifer Cooke and has been around since 1999, but seems to have really only graced the indie craft fair circuit with it’s glory a couple years ago. Cooke’s designs – inspired by everything from indian textiles to security envelopes are detailed drawings, hand printed on [...]

One of the best things about being a long time Crafty Bastards vendor is that it keeps us moving forward. So, while it is super exciting to spotlight and search out the brand new vendors for this year’s show, I also love to see that the old timers are still bringing with the new. Rania [...]

I had the pleasure of meeting Eve VanDalsen at Arts on N this past August. Eve constructs bags and wallets built to last (and last and last) out of beautiful leather remnants. She is a rockin’ lady who moved here recently from Detroit, and will soon be on the move again, this time to Luanda, [...]

The squeal heard round the jury-room for Jennifer Strunge’s Cotton Monsters explains why they sell out so quickly in her etsy shop whenever she does an update. The Baltimore seamstress works without patterns to create each and every colorful little beast, and uses almost exclusively recycled materials (except the stuffing, which she buys new). Strunge [...]

I remember the first time my twins saw real taxidermy in a family friend’s house. We walked into the room and immediately looked up at not 1, but 3 mounted deer heads over the mantle. “Why are they stuck in the wall?” one of my kids asked. “They are the family pets,” I said. “And [...]