Hello all, things are so very busy here in muchacha K land, that I have to take a break from blogging. Visit all things muchacha at the website though, as my focus for the next little while will be filling the shop and making some revisions to the site: muchacha K handmade It's all about more sewing, more promotion, and getting moved into the new studio.
I'm also starting the updates and planning for Concord Arts Market, so that site will be hopping too!
"Before" pics...
...the artists reception and wine tasting at Butters was so lovely. A ton of friendly people, DELICIOUS wine, lovely shop. Butters is located at 70 N. Main St. in Concord, NH. And many muchacha K creations made their way to new homes...
Okay, the Concord Arts Market is ON! Need more info? Well funny you should ask because the website is up. Here's the link:
CONCORD ARTS MARKET WEBSITE
Just waiting for confirmation on the dates...check back to the site for updates!
Hey everyone,
If you'll be in the greater Boston area this weekend, come say hello as a sell my wares at the Boston Handmade Marketplace, in Somerville, MA. Today, Saturday, June 28, 2008 from 3-7. A gaggle of high quality New England handcrafts will be there for you to browse and buy and two live bands will be performing.
More info: Boston Handmade Marketplace!
...it means we're really busy with orders! Doesn't mean we don't have time for yours though...need some custom clutches? We're on it, just send us a note...
...no pretty pics today, I'm still chugging away on my outdoor market proposal.
But check out the new muchacha K website if you haven't already:
muchacha K handmade
A jewelry roll is a terrific accessory that you can store your jewelry in for travel. We just happen to make them here in the muchacha K studio, in vibrant, juicy fabrics...
One of the awesome things about coming in to the studio/shop is that you can choose you own fabric in person. It's pretty fun for us to watch people get all excited about pawing through our giant stash of fabric too :)
Click on the link to our online shop to see more samples (psst, look to the left hand side of the page!)...
Hey so, I'm sure you've figured this out if you're reading this blog with any regularity, but I thought I take a second to point out that here at the Speakeasy, we sell only regionally handmade artisan-made items. Regional meaning New England, BUT we primarily feature NH creators. Here's a list of the NH artists and towns currently represented in our shop:
Anderstall Artworks--Bow, NH
Blue Sky Bindery/Emma Bates--Warner, NH
muchacha K (yeah, yeah that's me)--Concord, NH
Little Lucy/Jillian Brown--Concord, NH
drawn onward designs/Allison Murphy-Concord, NH
Susan Schwake-Rochester, NH
Diane Terragni-Dunbarton, NH
Hoopties-Epsom, NH
Bags By Melanie/Melanie Chabre--New Ipswich, NH
This is why it's so cool to buy handmade--you can get great, quality goods, from local people.
(That little lizard guy up there? Official NH amphibian...the Spotted Newt...who knew we even HAD one!? He's cute! AND...he's LOCAL too ;) !)
If you haven't been to Etsy, you should visit. It's the host site for the muchachaK/Speakeasy online shop. It's also a treasure trove of handmade goods, if you're into making OR buying that sort of thing (and if you're reading this blog there's a good chance you are, we betting)...one of our hairclips had the good fortune to be featured on Etsy's front page last month. Etsy's front page is always filled with pretty pictures that will beckon you inside...
www.etsy.com
Don't know about yours, but ours is sewing. Yes it's true, nothing sacred anymore here at muchacha K's Speakeasy, not even sleep, haha!
Must be Spring...the phone's ringing, the orders are coming in, and I'm sewing just as fast as I can to keep up ;)
What are YOU working on for Spring...?
Here at the Speakeasy, we're all about handmade. Well once upon a time, a friend brought me a really cool purse from Japan. "Here, see if you can make this," she said. It's never a matter of if, for the truly handbag obsessed, but a matter of how. So I came up with a tutorial for this purse, ages and ages ago, and posted it on Craftster. If you've somehow never visited Craftster, and you love making things, it really is a treasure trove of unconventional craft twists--mixed with excellent time-honored technique tips.
Craftster is also a bit of a Mecca for the resurgence in the making of handmade items.
The tutorial lives here: Japanese Purse Tutorial...don't laugh at my pics! They're vintage from my camera phone era!
Make your own!
As the shop preps to open, tons of great stuff is pouring into the shop--including an excellent batch of handbags by meticulous handbag creator Melanie Chabre aka Bagsbymelanie, out of New Ipswich.
Melanie's bags are all about careful craftsmanship, clean lines--and fantastic fabrics.
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