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I added the Montclair Flea - Makers Only Market to my event schedule! I recovered quickly from Flower Power Flea Market and I’m looking forward to highlighting just my handmade products all weekend. Look for me at Lackawanna Plaza Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm each day! 

The Flower Power Flea Market has officially been moved to the rain date, Sunday, June 1st! This is great news because now I get an extra day to prepare and pack up! Can't wait! See you in Randolph!

In case you missed it, I braved the 35 mph wind gusts and vended at the second annual Montclair's Earth Fest on South Park Street last Sunday. I spent the weeks leading up to the event sorting the donations of arts and crafts supplies I had collected over the past year. I had so much more than I realized! I had to make tough choices about what to bring and what to leave behind. And as the day approached, and I saw that the weather was going to be my least favorite, windy, I put a lot of preparation into...

I'm returning to Montclair's Earth Fest this Sunday, April 27th! For the second year in a row I'll be promoting the Montclair Creative Reuse Project! I'll have art-related supplies available at "Pay What You Can" prices and I'll be collecting donations of materials! Read on for more info... Last year was a great success and I'm excited to bring a new, bigger selection of art-related supplies to South Park Street from 12pm to 4pm. We've received so many wonderful donations and I'm excited to share these materials with folks and inspire them to be sustainably creative! Some of the items...

January 6, 2025 will be my 19th Etsy-versary! (Oh friends, that date is not lost on me.) However, long before 2005, when my friend, Heidi, casually mentioned to me, “Have you heard about this new handmade selling platform called Etsy?”, that date had major significance to me. It was the date in 1990 when I married my first husband, Mik, in Santa Fe. It’s Three Kings Day. Epiphany. Anniversary. Etsy-versary.  The shop Montclair Made was created on January 6, 2010, but my first Etsy shop was named after my brick and mortar shop at the time, Copabananas, and was created...