If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, please save the date for Creators For Japan fund-raising event next weekend, Saturday April 30th & Sunday May 1st at New People. There would be lots of handmade arts and crafts as well as baked goods and 100% of proceeds will be donated to Artists Help Japan Fund with Mercy Corps.
Heartfish Press is proud to be one of the participants along with chibi., Suga Jewelry, TOTA Press, urban fauna studio… and many more! For a whole list of participants information, please visit their facebook page — amazing! I so wish I could be there… please stop by for me and tell me all about it, will you?!
and wishing you a happy Friday & a weekend! xo Hijiri
Tomorrow and next Saturday, there is going to be a bake and craft sale in uptown NYC. Aki from oktak is organizing the event, she’ll have some of her wonderful handmade goods there, Heartfish Press will also be donating some letterpress cards, plus lots of yummy handmade baked goods (I can’t wait to get some) will be there! Please stop by if you live near there or if you are taking a walk to Central Park!
It’s been a week since the huge earthquake in Japan, my heart has been nowhere but in Japan… but I am staying strong for my country, doing whatever I can to help. If you follow my tweets, I’ve been passing around some valuable information on how you can help etc. since SO MANY people and companies are trying their best to donate their art work and raise funds for Japan, I’ve been so very touched to say the very least. Thank you all so much!!
Heartfish Press is still donating half of all sales throughout the weekend, please stop by!
To make your trip even more worth, the Brooklyn Flea (it’s huge, 3 floors packed with vintage stuff and handmade goods!) is walking distance from this place so before or after the Kings County General Store Holiday Market, you can stop by there, too :)
Well, I still saw lots of great handmade products, I was inspired by some of the booth/display designs, and enjoyed shopping. Took some photos to share — enjoy!
Great posters and kitchen towels by Claudia Pearson:
Awesome Brooklyn poster and t-shirts: (I just can’t locate who this is by — does anyone know?)
Miniature Rhino booth — I’ve been a fan of their work, their booth was so awesome!
Cute leather alphabet rings by Lucky Me Beads:
Loved their display ideas.
Speaking of display ideas, Queens Metal used vintage wooden boxes and oil can tops, I thought it was so cool.
Another cool display idea by the Hand of Fatima Design — using old books as earring stands:
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These jewelries by Cursive Design are so great, caught my eye for sure.
and I loved these handmade illustrated prints by Virginia Kraljevic!
Great chalk board and hand written price board:
and last but not least, loved the usage of woods throughout their work and displays via Timber!
I didn’t take photos of ALL the things I saw, but there were many many more… Cheers to all the artists!! I’m glad I made it even in the crazy weather and be able to support handmade!!
I saw some familiar products, new products… bought few things for my loved ones and… myself. :)
There were a lot more holiday craft shows in NYC, but I have been just way too swamped to go all of them, which I am pretty disappointed about… (booo) I hope everyone (both craft shop owners and shoppers) had a great time this holiday season wherever you are!
Shop local! Shop handmade! :)
I could only take some pictures, I wish I could have taken all the products that caught my eye, but there were just way too many…
Albertine Press booth:
I have this awesome “chronology” print from letterpress swap (I’ll post about this very soon!) — it was very nice meeting you in person, Shelley!
Ampersands T-shirts (I’m sorry, it caught my eye, but I didn’t keep track on where this is from… does anyone know?):
Chalkboard Tee! How fun!
Yes, it comes with a little pocket for the chalk. So cute.
This would be a fun cute kids’ t-shirts for sure. They can draw things on their shirts all day!
brainstorm booth:
I like their prints. I got one for my office area :)
Lots of cool posters!
Fun embroidery art:
Letter M:
Letter A:
Lovely booth from Jewelweeds:
kindling: these twig picture holders are super cute! I had to get one…
Something’s Hiding in Here: their booth is truly amazing. One of my favorites for sure.
Love this chalkboard calendar:
How cute this area?
awww the mustaches!!! I wanted to try it on… but I was a bit too shy to do that… (>_<)
Dolan Geiman: Their booth was one of my favorites, too! It was really cool.
I love this piece. Really great.
I couldn’t actually find some of the shops I was looking forward to seeing… there were so many people, so many booths, I somehow managed to miss those shops, which was kind of a bummer, but overall, I got lots of inspirations and respects, I can’t wait for the next year one already!!
My welcome area: I brought my wood type blocks to spell out my studio name (it’s mirrored letters so a bit hard to read, though, my stuff is printed with wood types so I wanted to show some at the table) and I wanted to print something for the show for everyone to take home, business cards are small and people might lose them so I printed “HELLO!” postcards on recycled chipboard. My studio information on the back. I love how it came out, it feels so good with the impressions!
and my new cards; alphabet greeting cards and silver and gold note cards… coming soon at my etsy shop! M for Mother card was a hit :) It’ll make a cute Mom-to-be card, too.
The alphabets are printed with wood types so I brought each letter for display, too. I will be posting a making-of pictures soon, too…
View from my seat:
That was another thing… I always enjoy shopping at the craft shows, but this time, I couldn’t shop… so that was a little sad part :) I met a few awesome talented people, though, it was great!
Oh, and I have to thank Randy, my husband so so much for all his support!! I couldn’t do this without him, and he was a big help as always! Also, my cousin-in-law, Greg and his girlfriend Caitlin came by from Boston! It was so nice to see you guys, thank you so much!
If you are in NYC area, please come by and say hi! I’m only doing Sunday show so I won’t be there tomorrow, though.
If you are not in NYC, I will miss you guys, I will take lots of pictures and post them here next week!
Have a great weekend!! xo
I always love going to craft shows, (I think my friends, chibi. is the first one to inspire me to go to craft shows) and when I opened my online shop, I was of course interested in having my shop at craft shows… but wasn’t really sure if I was ready… and then Deb from Brooklyn Lyceum found my shop and asked me if I was interested… and I finally decided to do one! I am excited and nervous, but it’s in my neighborhood and I went there just before the holiday and I liked it so it’s going to be fun no matter what happens! Please spread the words for May 3rd! I’ll be printing more prints and cards this months for sure… Any advise you guys have would be awesome, too! Thank you :)
Picture is from the holiday show — the place was really cozy and filled with many great booths!
More information here.
I wish you all a very nice weekend! See you on Monday for my last letterpress class report.