Name: Aileen Roberts
Age: 44
Location: Modesto, California
Profession: Small Arts & Crafts Business owner and Altered Artist
Craft(s) of Choice: Altering the ordinary and turning it into something unique extraordinary using paint, paper and found objects.
Blog: http://aileensmusings.blogspot.com
Having grown up with a mother who was a high school art teacher/artist it seemed perfectly normal to me to come home [...]
Name: Alyice Edrich
Age: 40
Location: Beresford, SD
Profession: Freelance Writer and Artist
Craft(s) of Choice:
When I’m watching television or on long drives, I love to crochet blankets.
When I’m feeling nostalgic, I love to scrapbook and make mixed media canvases using photographs.
When I want to de-stress, I must put paint to brush and create vases out of old jars [...]
Name: Angela
Age: 33
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Profession: SAHM
Craft(s) of Choice:: I love all crafts! Painting, sewing and fabric arts, decoupauge, jewelry-making, mixed media
Blog: http://www.moxiemae.com
I HAVE to try it all. I had a candle and soapmaking business for 7 years and sold it shortly after having my first daughter. I also made jewelry for my store. Since [...]
Name: BethAnne Hoffmann
Age: 25
Location: Baltimore, MD
Profession: Account Manager, Neustadt Creative Marketing (we make college viewbooks and admission materials that really rock)
Craft(s) of Choice: Book making, painting, drawing, and making more books!
Blog: www.PurpleSkirt.Etsy.com
I started making books about 6 years ago when I took a short course on letter press and book binding at the University of [...]
Name: Brianna
Age: 29
Location: Connecticut
Profession: Counselor
Craft(s) of Choice: Crochet, sewing, knitting, painting, photography.
Blog: http://thehooknook.blogspot.com
At approximately 10 years old I thought crocheting was the coolest thing in the world. Until I went to high school and realized it wasn’t “cool” at all. Then I went to college, and towards the tailend of my senior year I got [...]
Name: Cassie Seals
Age: 23
Location: Rockford, Ohio
Profession: College Student, Retail
Craft(s) of Choice: Knit, crochet, sew, paint, just about anything else I can get into!
Blog: http://knittingseal.blogspot.com/
I actually just started to knit from watching Knitty Gritty when I was hugely pregnant and unable to sleep at night. Well now my daughter is 3 and my son is almost [...]
Name: Ching, TEOH
Age: 37
Location: Georgetown, Malaysia
Profession: ( ): Art
Craft(s) of Choice: Painting
Blog: http://www.ching-teoh.blogspot.com
I love painting .. But it is so strange that I studied in Computer Science in my university life … haha.. but after so many year working in the area which I didn’t enjoy, I have slowly came back to arts [...]
Name: Christian Anhalt
Age: 15
Location: Killeen, Texas
Profession: Sophomore (10th Grade)
Craft(s) of Choice: Textile and Painting
Blog: http://www.christianthevegetarian.tumblr.com
This may sound a little strange, but every time I walk in Hobby Lobby, I feel exhilirated. The smells, the layout, and the staff are so comforting and a joy to experience. On several occasions, I have thought about staying [...]
Name: Claudia Dunitz
Age: 55
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Profession: Maker (of Natural Skin Care Products and Graphic Design)
Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, Freeform Crochet, Art Quilting, Baking, Mosaics, Beading, Sewing, Embroidery, Surface Design, Painting, Printing, Fusing, Burning, Yikes – I can go on and on!
Blog: http://www.healmyhands.typepad.com
I don’t think there was a time when I didn’t make things with [...]
Name: Dawn Buettner Huntington
Age: 35
Location: Vista, San Diego, Southern California
Profession: 75% Mommy, 15% Crafter, 10% Archictural Drafting
Craft(s) of Choice: Silkscreen, Sewing, Sketching, Painting, Woodwork
Blog: http://www.OUToftheBOXcalifornia.blogspot.com
In grade school, perfect penmanship always invoked people to proclaim, “You should be an Architect!” So, I suppose it’s only natural I would pursue a graduate degree in Architecture, especially since [...]
