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One of our participants this month at PHM is Apol from La Pomme . And today she's sharing a few photos from her part of world in the south of France. (Dream, dream, dream). Being surrounded b…

One of the Canadians (out of Montreal) in Poppytalk Handmade this month is designer, Janick Gravel who launched her beautiful embroidered wall wear at the beginning of this summer which has been m…

A nice little sunday brunch feature: Marketing Your Handiwork by Kelly DeVries of Mollycoddle Soap . I didn't begin as a soap maker - quite contrary! I went to school for Fine Arts with an empha…

Potter, Alyssa Ettinger is sharing some insights into her home in this post on Something Special. And with that we see she has some new product fresh out of the kiln, which are NYC themed from her…

A painter and fiber artist from North Dakota, Michelle Brusegaard (now in Minneapolis) got her BFA in painting and photography. A coworker told her about the gocco machine, which she subsequently pu…

Our Something Special post today is from UK's Esther Coombs who makes these beautifully hand-painted vintage dishes. Her newest pieces are plates and she put together a great collage of them a…

Artist, Cathy Nichols fell in love with the encaustic process and used it to do many of her paintings in the past until she moved to Manhattan and became pregnant with her first child. The switch f…

Jo of Green Island Studios lives by the sea in Cornwall, in a remote part of the United Kingdom. She works full time from her artspace which is situated in a woody glade near the seaside village of …

Today's Something Special comes from Regina of Modern Quilts . She sent along some photos to show us how interested she is in color, along with robots/faces and beings. But what struck me was h…

My second installment on Something Special is on the artist, Heather Smith Jones . Each month that she has participated in the market she has incorporated the theme of the month into a selection of…

Soar Plaque by Shanna Murray. I'm doing a series this month called, Something Special where I visit the blogs of this month's Home Sweet Home market participants and pick out something spec…