This month’s featured artist is the very talented Rachel Austin. Rachel Austin’s map paintings are created using maps and layers of transparent acrylic paint, ink and oil paint on wood panels. Rachel is inspired by crisp moments of beauty and tries to capture them in this series.  Each one is uniquely named after a location on the map and mounted on handmade wood frames.  Rachel Austin is a full time artist living in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Jon and three year old, Adelaide.  When not painting, you can find Rachel stomping in puddles or tending to her garden.

We wanted to send out a big THANK YOU to all of you who came to our Super Colossal Spring Sale on May 12th! It wouldn’t be what it is without all of our talented vendors, helpful volunteers, and YOU our lovely and loyal supporters. We are so thrilled to be doing what we’re doing and always super grateful for the support of our community. WE LOVE YOU!!!

Have you ever wondered what’s in the goodie bags we hand out at the opening of each show? And why people line up so early to get one?! Check out this fantastic video made by the very talented Jen Neitzel!

Want to be involved in our Super Colossal Spring Sale this coming Saturday, May 12th? We have some really fun volunteer opportunities available! Sign up here!

Web banners and postcards suited for online promotion are now available on the Downloads page! We’d love your help in spreading the word about our upcoming Super Colossal Spring Sale on May 12th!

While some of you are already familiar with this awesome event in our sister city to the north, we wanted to be sure to spread the word about Urban Craft Uprising. UCU is Seattle’s largest indie craft show and is held twice a year at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. Kristen and Lindsey are the ladies behind the show (kind of the Torie and Cathy of Seattle!) and we are excited to work with them to help cross promote our shows to vendors since Seattle and Portland are just a short drive from each other. If you have never sold at an out of town show, this is a great opportunity to give it a try while not straying too far from home!

Urban Craft Uprising is now accepting applications for their summer show (July 7th & 8th) but you need to act fast – the deadline is April 13th! We have personally sold at this show and have seen first hand how the hardcore Seattle shoppers support their handmade goods! Last summer UCU had over 6,000 excited shoppers attend over two days and they expect that number to be even higher for this year’s show.

Now in its eighth year, UCU offers shoppers a wide variety of hand-crafted goods, including clothing, jewelry, gifts, bags, wallets, buttons, accessories, aprons, children’s goods, toys, housewares, paper goods, candles, kits, art, food, and much, much more. It’s a great event with a great following and we hope you’ll consider applying!

Read up on all the details over on their FAQs page, and once you’re ready, click on over to their online application.

We are super excited about a fun feature that we have added in the new shop space…each month one of our vendors will be showcased as Artist of the Month! All of their goods will be displayed together under the amazing new mural that was done by the charming and talented BT Livermore! The featured vendor will also be creating exciting new work that will only be available for that month! Pretty cool, right?!

Our very first Artist of the Month is the ever crafty team of Jenn Hill + Jenny Tiffany from Robot Candy. They have been making the world cuter since 2002 with their amazing work that reflects a combination of mid-century, Scandinavian and Japanese design. You may know these ladies from their popular tile coasters that have fun imagery sealed under a resin coating but they pretty much do it all under a number of other businesses including Chet and Dot, Plants and Animals and Automatte. Come check out their awesome selection of coasters, plush, art prints, home accessories and more!

We’ll be unveiling our new mural by fabulous local artist duo Jolby!! Be the first to see it!

We can’t wait to officially welcome you into our new home! We spent the last 16 months in a temporary situation but were always wishing and dreaming of a permanent location for the Crafty Wonderland retail shop! Well, our dreams have come true and we have officially signed a 3 year lease for the space one door up SW 10th from our previous corner location! It’s bigger and prettier and we couldn’t be more thrilled! This Saturday we will be celebrating the occasion with coffee, doughnuts and discounts! We hope you can come down to check out our fancy new digs and to join the festivities!