Good Morning Cats and Kittens.

FY…I now have an Etsy store to sell all those not quite perfect ceramic oddities that i continue to save (and unfortunately produce). How honored I am that my friend Kate Binghaman -Burt of Obsessive Consumption did one of her Daily Drawings of the Strawberry cups she bought from me on Etsy?

What a great gal this Etsy is. Lots of terrific handmade objects to choose from and by eliminating the middle person they are extremely accessible. If you need a gift I highly recommend a lengthy browse.

I think that Etsy is making history and I am interested in how the DIY generation is breathing new life into “craft”. I would say that there is a new “Crafts Movement” one of which the majority of us overeducated MFA’s are not a part of.. Garth Johnsons “Extreme Craft” has quite a few posts on this very topic and a link to a conversation (can i call it that?) started out on the Imogene blog. What ensued was a VERY lengthy, but yummy exchange between DIY’ers, artist/writer Bruce Metcalf and the new editor of American Craft Magazine Andrew Wagner (have you seen the new website?? where am i?). If the idea of a “New Crafts Movement” is of any interest to you- have faith and trudge through this.

More Soon.

Kari

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