Blog — Indiemart

Creek Van Houten (noreply@blogger.com)

Extreme Summer Marketplace, I love Indie Mart, and Hops in the Garden.

I'm really grateful for the community aspect of this work. I adore the hours of time alone with my ideas, trays of old keys and cameos, soldering, weaving with metal. But I LOVE show season - the summer months that stretch into fall where I appreciate both my amazing customers and the clever organizers of events and marketplace craftiness. The marketplace interaction - direct from maker to appreciator, whether bread or a bracelet - is one of the oldest community interactions in this human family. I've gotten back into cameos. They are quite an investment on my end, but I...

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