Blog Love: The Knitter's Restaurant

Meet  Beverly Bochenek of The Knitter's Restaurant.

What does Beverly have to say about herself?

I learned how to knit in grade school - using pencils. I made a hideous looking scarf that I wore my freshman year in high school and after that I put down the knitting needles until a few years ago. Now it's amazing they are out of my hands long enough for me to write this!

I have a degree in English Literature and I love to write. Please visit my blog: http://www.beverlybochenek.com for a steady update on knitting (it really is quite interesting) and other things as I see them.

StitchCraft is a knitting group I founded in 2007 and has over 100 members. The group has three components:

A social network for people who just want to get together and knit. No pressure to make things for charity or knit a sweater or anything like that. Just getting together for the love of the craft and the enjoyment of those who love it the same.

A mission component for those who are interested in knitting for a cause. We are asked to provide items for different charities and we hold an annual Sit & Knit where we get together for a morning to knit for a specific group or organization.

The Marketplace - for those who want to sell their items, we provide opportunities to participate in craft sales and shows. It is a way to get into the business side of knitting without too much of a financial impact.

If you are in the Chicago area and would like to join the group, please visit http://meetup.com/stitchcraft for information on our meeting schedule.

What can you expect to find on Beverly's blog? 
 

 

 

 

 

 

To learn more about Beverly's work, please visit her blog or her Etsy shop!

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Blog Love: River Girls Studio 365

Meet Wanda Fleming of River Girls Studio 365.

What does Wanda have to say about herself?  

I am the girl, who at eight, loved to make her own dollhouse and furniture to fill it. After all, what are shoeboxes and vintage fabrics for? Valentines emerged from lace doilies, and quilts from found cottons and silks. Over the years, before babies and between writing, I fell in love with card design, stained glass window making and mostly soaping. In 2010, I celebrated 10 years of handcrafting River Girls gentle soap and bath products--always colorful, kind to the earth and 100% vegetarian.

Each day in the River Girls Studio, I seek to make the rudimentary-- pretty, the plain--witty and memorable. My sense of humor is a bit twisted and always wry! ;-) . And, I adore my work because, step-by-step, it recalls how to explore and play.

What can you expect to find on Wanda's blog?

Lovely soap creations...

 

 

Beautifully created Etsy montages...

 

 

and loads of humor!

To learn more about Wanda's work and to see what else is on her River Girls Studio 365 Menu, please visit her blog or her Etsy shop!

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Lime and Chocolate Etsy Treasury

Here is a new Etsy Treasury featuring the work of EAOC artists.

'Lime and Chocolate' by ArtisticExpressionsE

Who can resist these colors or flavors!

Urbanknit $25.00	JarvisGift $42.00	yarncoture $72.00	BeadtifulDesig... $14.00
Kezzmit $14.00	sabbio $16.00	DiasporaDesign... $18.00	sedruola $76.97
Jamilary $65.00	calabashcreati... $18.00	calabashcreati... $95.00	michemozaix $32.50
mrroberttrujil... $20.00	stoneandbone $45.95	thesoapseducti... $4.50	ChocolateCherr... $24.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

To view the Etsy Treasury page, click here.  Go, EAOC!

Blog Love: Stone and Bone

Meet Puakea, known to most as Pk, of Stone & Bone.

What does Pk have to say about herself?

I was born and raised in a sleepy little town called Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii, smack right in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Stone & Bone, is my love child. Everyone who knows me, knows that creating beautiful handmade jewelry and painting Hawaii’s beautiful landscape is my passion. Since I've been doing this for as long as I can remember.

My idea of all things handmade comes with a purpose, as well as practicality. If not, well, why do it. I'm most excited about designing wire wrapped and bead embroidered ethnic jewelry and accessories for both men and women, as well as making old vintage jewelry fashionable again. Creating anything with up-cycled discarded items, gives me such a creative rush. It pushes and challenges the artist craftsman to rethink, reestablish, and most of all really get inspired about the world around me, especially due to the fact that I believe in being eco friendly and going green in whatever way possible.

I also love the many native cultures that make me who I am, so I use nature as well as native tribal heritage to inspire and lend to my pieces. Knowing everything has a story, everything comes from the source, and there's no separating that, gives me a sense of pure joy to be apart of life’s magic evolution.

Stone & Bone, http://www.stoneandbone.etsy.com is pure essence to me, I love bridging the past with the future, native style with urban panache, which birthed a style all it's own, I like to call it Tribal Chic. I myself love to mix and match trends, styles, and cultures, borrowing from her, taking from there, and who knows what I'll come up with next. All I do know is I'm truly having fun doing it., and meeting a lot of wonderful people in the process. 

What can you expect to find on Pk's blog?
Loads of fabulously created jewelry...

 

 

 

 

 

...and Etsy treasuries, featured artists, and the motivations behind her Tribal Chic philosophy!

To learn more about Pk's work, please visit her blog or her Etsy shop!

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Blog Love: Sydney Austin Designs

Meet Robyn of Sydney Austin Designs.

What does Robyn have to say about herself?

"Keep in my mind that I'm a artist and I'm sensitive about my..." - Erykah Badu.

I have been a jewelry designer since 2004. My designs are created with lampwork, semi-precious gemstones, vintage beads, sterling silver,copper, pewter, freshwater pearls, shells, wood, swarovski crystals, and more. I rarely make the same thing twice!

What gorgeous jewels can you expect to find on Robyn's blog?

 

 

 

 

 

 

To learn more about Robyn's work, please visit her blog or her Etsy shop!

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XOXO,