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Blogs and Forums for the Craft and Retail Community
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Crafts Report Forum
Sign up and find out how your peers, both artisans and retailers, are handling challenges. Find out what’s going on nationally in the crafts community. Can view discussions without registering.
WarmGlass.com
Guide to fusing, slumping and related kilnforming techniques. Forum has a business section. Links to glass bloggers. Can view discussions without registering.
American Craft Forum
Sign up and find out how your peers, both artisans and retailers, from across the continent, are handling challenges, ie., what credit card companies to use; what POS systems retailers are using, etc. Cannot view discussions without registering.
News For and About Artisans and Retailers of the Adirondack North Country
E-newsletters and announcements archived since 2004.
Judy Dunn
Artrepeneur; The collison between art and business. Jeweler. Articles about letting go, tabletop photography kit and many other topics.
Luannu Dell
An artist’s life, and the business of craft. Jeweler. Columnist for The Crafts Report since December 2007. Writes about shows and preparing for shows, pricing, presentation, salesmanship and telling your story.
Adirondack Almanac
Adirondack Almanack, Blogging From Behind The Blue Line Since 2005, Culture, Politics, History, and The Environment. On the right menu, has Links to Adirondack blogs, news by county, local arts blogs (about 10 in all), Adk business blogs and other categories.
Mary Harding Jewelry Bead Blog
Bead and jewelry artist living in Northern New York. I have been making ceramic beads since 1998 and have been doing artwork most of my adult life. Active.
Todd Bissonette Photography Blog
Photos from shoots with descriptions.
Kate E. Austin's Art Blog
Arts Writer for local weekly newspaper The Chronicle and the Co-President for the North Country Arts Center and an exhibiting and active member of five local arts organizations. Glens Falls, NY.
Inky Fingers
Tidbits of interest to stampers and scrapbookers about what's new at the store or on the site from Little Falls ab about once a week.
Blue Clay Studio
Brenda McHahon, ceramic artist from east of Saratoga Springs, writes about, and shows photos, of her Saggar Firing workshops.
The Wild Inside
Jeweler from Ogdensburg, NY, on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Karan writes about the creation of her new pieces and includes photos.
Lynn Benevento
Painter of nature still lifes writes irregularly about newest paintings and business activities. Lake Luzerne, NY
Crazy As A Loom
Rug weaver from Kingsbury, just east of Saratoga Springs, NY.
Cambridge Buzz
News, lots of it cultural, from Cambridge, NY. Shared between three bloggers.
Paula McCullough
Mixed media from found objects. Stowe, VT.
Carrie Cahill Mulligan
Fiber artist from Canaan, NH. Markets herself in a down-to-earth manner at All About CCM Hats, CCM Hat Gallery, My Facebook, My Flickr, My LibraryThing, and MySpace. Member of New Hampshire League of Craftsmen.
Blue Piranha Jewelry
Polymer jewelery. Many topics including what’s the ten best things she’s done for her business.
Pottery Blog - Emily Murphy
Functional soda fired ceramics. Links to other potters.
Catherine Chandler
Metalsmith and jeweler. Links to other metalsmiths and jewelers. Portland, Oregon.
Extreme Craft
Designer at Perkins+Will architects in Atlanta, as well as adjunct faculty at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Writes and includes pods about and for extreme craft artists.
Design*Sponge
Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours.
Design*Sponge editor Grace Bonney has a unique angle on the industry, working as a freelancer with top publications like House and Garden, New York Home, Food and Wine, Better Homes and Gardens, and others. In addition, she wrote a weekly design column for the Philadelphia Inquirer for two years and has worked as Style Editor of HGTV’s Ideas Magazine. 35,000 daily readers.
This is Love Forever
By day Kayte works as a stylist and visual merchandiser in NYC. Some of her clients are Anthropologie, Parents Magazine, Adorn magazine and Cutting Edge magazine and Brooks Brothers. She is a member of the Department of Craft, a New York based organization dedicated to independent design and art. Lots of links.
Roadside Scholar
Gigi had two shops in the 90s in Chicago. Now she highlights artisans she has discovered in her blog "Stuff I found on the highway of life."
Abigail Percy - Designer Jeweler
From Glasgow, UK. Great collection of links to many other artists, publications, design sites and more.
Creative Thursday
Paintings and prints of flora and fauna. Sells the prints on Etsy, also produces podcasts, latest is a children's book.
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