Handmade Happenings - May 22 & 23, 2010

Your brain may have already left for the beach, but if your body is still in the Triangle, come check out these arts events & shopping opportunities this weekend!

Saturday, May 22
Spring Arts Festival
30 talented vendors displaying handcrafted jewelry, books, whimsical mosaics, wall hangings, stained glass, soaps, candles, candy bouquets -- and much more! A family event with activities for creative kids, as well.
Where: Church of the Nativity, 8849 Ray Road, North Raleigh
When: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Sellers to look for: OldBroomStreet
More info: http://www.nativityonline.org/reg.html

Trunk Show at the Shops of Varina Merchantile
A special opportunity to shop for handmade jewelry and loose beads/jewelry supplies with Vicky of Shore Debris!
Where: 601 E. Broad Street, Fuquay Varina
When: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Seller to look for: ShoreDebris
More info: http://www.theshopsofvarinamerchantile.com/


We hope you'll visit our NC Triangle Etsy Team members and say hello!

(Members, if you have an event coming up next weekend, please send the information about the show to Orange Cat Art by Wednesday night to get onto next week's calendar!)

Spring Cleaning: Good News & Bad News

"Spring" is still a little over a month away, but I'm sure that you've enjoyed the warmer weather last week and the increasing daylight in the evenings.




With spring time coming soon, some are stricken with the need to clean...yes, that's right... Spring Cleaning!


I personally welcome the urges to clean my craft room. Numerous crafty endeavors are piled high on the table and shelves. Organization has long been gone. All thanks to my desire to stay busy during the winter, while the weather wasn't exactly welcoming with it's cold chills and flakes of snow. Some projects got pushed to the side for genuine excuses, others because I thought that it would be fun (and, boy was a I wrong!).

I invite you to do a little spring cleaning around your crafting space too....

The good news is that you can sell the "destash" craft supplies on Etsy too and recoup some of the money that you spent on them.

The bad news is that others are doing the exact same thing and you're likely to spot more supplies that you just have to have. I'm already guilty of this. But since I've done a little cleaning already there's room for more!

--The items above are just a few of the "destash" items that I found in NCTriangle shops, but there are lots more here. A couple team members have created entire shops just for their destash supplies! And don't forget the team members who specialize in supplies.

Getting crafty...

The next you're ready to start a new crafty project, be sure to the check out the supplies offered by NCTriangle team shops...