handmade in PA
supporting arts & crafts in the keystone state
  • Make Your Craft Pay
    Making a living from your craft should be simple. You are talented and skilled at making beautiful and unique objects. You toil, sweat and pour your heart into them. Your hand-crafted objects should return the favor. They should provide you with the basic comforts of a good life. They should pay all your bills, your [...]

  • A Productive Mama is a Happy Mama.
    I have been really busy this week working on several projects around the ol’ homestead.  One of the jobs I tackled was creating a new look for The Grey Blog (my personal blog).  I love playing around with the features on Blogger and got some great free backgrounds & buttons from The Cutest Blog on [...]

  • Useful Depth of Field Tools
    Depth of Field — The distance between the nearest and farthest objects judged to be in focus in a photograph. Simple enough, right? And you probably already know that the easiest and most common way to control your depth of field is by selecting the proper camera aperture. All else being equal, smaller apertures (higher [...]

  • The Crafts: Ceramic Works by Young Kang and Nicole Dubrow at The Water Gallery in Lansdale, PA, through June 30th, 2012
    The Water Gallery in Lansdale, PA is exhibiting ceramic works by two Montgomery County area ceramic artists, Young Kang and Nicole Dubrow, through June 20th, 2012. Nicole Dubrow is a full-time master potter and artist living and working in Skippack, Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in Sculpture  from the San Francisco Art Institute and Masters in [...]

  • Support Small Fabric Stores in Pennsylvania
    Fabric is really one my favorite creative commodities on the planet and it’s great that we can find unique beautiful fabrics for all kinds of sewing purposes at some local stores. One of my favorites is a swwet little shop called  Cloth and Bobbin in Narberth PA. It’s a bit of a hike for me out here in Chester [...]