Perhaps you’ve seen them in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Woman’s Day magazine or while wandering around an Anthropologie store. These seed bombs are actually made by VisuaLingual, a little design studio in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati. With the popularization of guerrilla gardening in the spring of 2010, the bombs took off and Anthropologie ordered a few thousand. VisuaLingual [...]
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World Peace Day
Posted in Handmade with a Cause, How To, Traditional Craft, Uncategorized, tagged crane, Handmade, Hiroshima, japan, origami, paper, peace, Sadako, Thousand Paper Cranes, World Peace Day on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow, September 21st, is World Peace Day. I’d like to speak about something that relates to Japan’s Peace Day, August 6th. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr, is a children’s book that is both heart breaking and important to read. Sadako Sasaki was a twelve year old Japanese girl that developed leukemia [...]
Project Linus
Posted in Handmade with a Cause, tagged blanket, Blanketeer, blankie, cancer, chapter, charity, crochet, donate, Etsy, Handmade, Karen Loucks, Knit, Project Linus, Regretsy, thoughtfulness, Wool on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As I mentioned before, Regretsy, the site that brings the “WTF to DIY“, coordinates drives for certain charities. After reaching a certain amount of money, Regretsy hires an Etsy seller to contribute to the charity. The latest charity the Regretsy community is raising money for is Project Linus. I conducted my own drive for Project [...]
Marketplace: Handwork of India
Posted in Handmade with a Cause, tagged batik, clothing, coop, cooperative, dyeing, empowering women, Global Dialogue, Handmade, independence, India, Marketplace: Handwork of India, Mumbai, non-profit, opportunity, Pushpika Freitas, SHARE on January 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Handmade: Creating opportunity where the once was none. Marketplace: Handwork of India is a non-profit that does just that. Starting out from SHARE, a non-profit in Mumbai in 1980, the organizers realized that there was a market for handmade clothing in the US, and Marketplace was born in 1986. It’s not about turning a profit. [...]
Prayer Shawls
Posted in Handmade with a Cause, tagged comfort, crochet, Handmade, Knit, peace, prayer, Scarf, shawl, thoughtfulness, Wool on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of people have described handmade objects as representing love and thoughtfulness. What if the object is specifically made with healing and blessings in mind? You won’t find any Etsy links in this article because “Prayer Shawls” are not to be sold. They are made specifically for someone who may be enduring any number [...]
the Uniform Project
Posted in Handmade with a Cause, tagged creativity, donate, dress, Eliza Starbuck, fashion, Handmade, reinvent, reuse, Sheena Matheiken, Sustainability, Uniform Project on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a project that I’ve been following since it started- a friend told me about it. The project aims to demonstrate sustainability through creativity. To do this, Sheena Matheiken decided to wear the same dress for an entire year. Her friend Eliza Starbuck made the seven identical dresses. According to their website, Sheena’s challenge [...]
