Calling all craftaholics--time to awake from your winter hibernation, arise and apply for this years Spring Beehive Bazaar. Click here to get started--hurry--we can barely wait to see what you all have in store for us this season!
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Why buy handmade?
Buying Handmade makes for better gift-giving. The giver of a handmade gift has avoided the parking lots and long lines of the big chain stores in favor of something more meaningful. If the giver has purchased the gift, s/he feels the satisfaction of supporting an artist or crafter directly. The recipient of the handmade gift receives something that is one-of-a-kind, and made with care and attention that can be seen and touched. It is the result of skill and craftsmanship that is absent in the world of large-scale manufacturing.
Buying handmade is better for people. The ascendancy of chain store culture and global manufacturing has left us dressing, furnishing, and decorating alike. We are encouraged to be consumers, not producers, of our own culture. Our ties to the local and human sources of our goods have been lost. Buying handmade helps us reconnect.
Buying handmade is better for the environment. The accumulating environmental effects of mass production are a major cause of global warming and the poisoning of our air, water and soil. Every item you make or purchase from a small-scale independent artist or crafter strikes a small blow to the forces of mass production.
We Heart Felt Club
Next weekend us Beehive Bazaar ladies will hit L.A. to attend one of our favorite craft fairs--the Felt Club. We love to soak up all the crafty vibe it has to offer--what a huge inspiration. Be sure to visit their site...
Artists for 2008 Christmas Bazaar Chosen!
We want to thank everyone who applied for this years 2008 Christmas Bazaar--we were so impressed by the turnout as well as the quality and creativity of the arts and crafts that were represented. Along with the huge response came an increased pressure to choose this years participants--we are always limited by space as well as trying to assure we have as many unique and unduplicated offerings as possible--and it ain't easy. We were actually able to include more artists than ever this year--more than 50 total--and have a wider variety of arts, crafts and treats as well--we think you all will be pleased. Here is a list of the 2008 Beehive Bazaar Artists(we're still missing a couple names--we'll add the remaining soon) --be sure to visit each of their individual pages and give them a little "woo-woo":
See you at the Bazaar!
Molly Call & Noelle Olpin