This Saturday in Downtown Silver Spring is the Holiday-Shop-n-Stroll. Handmade Mart and FRESHFARM Markets are teaming up, meaning there will be approximately 50 artisans and crafters selling their handmade products plus local  produce from the farmers market vendors. For those inspired to get crafty at the event, Art Spring (the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center retail [...]

Following the list of DC crafters I posted last week, below you will find links to all the Crafty Bastards in Maryland.  I’m working on the Virginia crafters.  Stay tuned. But first, one of my favorite ways to buy handmade: craft shows! Craft shows are a great place to find handmade gifts and come with [...]

One of a Kind Show is looking for exhibitors for their New York holiday show.  Here’s the info from the Hello Craft blog: Hello Craft is excited to be partnering with the One of a Kind Show & Sale and will have a booth at OOAK’s holiday show at Pier 94 in New York from [...]

Whew! If you wanted, you could have a really busy fall here in DC! New shows and markets are popping up all over. Check out the Capitol Marketplace Events page. They are sponsoring shows on the grounds of one of my favorite buildings in the city – the old Carnegie Library (The Square Market and [...]

What was once just a celebration of the arts in the Penn Quarter area, Arts on Foot has become a HUGE central event. The past few years, an ever growing market of artists and craft vendors has popped up at Arts on Foot. Last year, the vending expanded to Friday and Saturday. This year, the [...]

Applications for Crafty Bastards 2009 are now being accepted. The deadline to apply for booth space is July 5, 2009.  Get more info and submit your Crafty Bastards application here. There is a $10 non-refundable application fee. The jury will review and score all completed entries on various criteria from design and craftsmanship to saleability [...]

The holiday season might have crept up on YOU, but local craft show organizers have been hard at work setting up so many shows in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas. Every weekend between now and the end of the year you will be able to go and buy local and handmade. Crafty Bastards veterans [...]

1. Is there a specific product that you will be selling at the fair that you would like to talk about? I will be selling mostly concert posters I was asked to do from around DC and some from NYC, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Some of the latest work has been posters for My Morning [...]

Charm City Craft Mafia just announced that applications for their winter craft fair – Holiday Heap 2008 – are now available online. Holiday Heap will be November 15th, 2008 from 10-5pm at St. John’s Church in Charles Village (Baltimore). 40+ of the country’s most crafty vendors will be carefully chosen by a panel of jurors [...]