EVENTS: I Made It! Market 2011

Fabric bowls textilegifts by Lynn Foreman

Didn't make it to the I Made It! Market?  If not, then you missed an awesome weekend full of handcrafted wonder . Set in the up and coming shopping district of Bakery Square, the I Made It! Market celebrated its fifth year of displaying the newest and most innovative artists of the area.  This year was chalk-full of clever little baubles, eco-friendly goods, and affordable (and very wearable) jewelery - just in time for holiday shopping! This wasn't your normal "craft show" where there are endless aisles of landscape photography and astronomically priced glassware - no, this was an exciting and upbeat market with interesting items that serve good and useful purposes.What I loved best about the artists and the items I saw at the I Made It! Market, was how fearless and unconventional all of it was. There was no holding back with these artists, from clay ear gauges, to Satanic dress patches these artists each had their own message and signature style.  If you couldn't make it to this I Made It! then for sure don't miss the next one on February 4, 2012 at Southside Works.

Here are my favorite artists:

Hula-Hooping!!

Tea Kettle wind chimes made from re-purposed silverware by Whimsical Wonders. 

Collage Pins by (my dear friend) Joel Brown for The Surreal Banana Peel 

Puppets by Von Mir Fuer Dich

Hand-painted Wooden figures by Never New Furniture and Design

Lego Key Chains by Love Brick by Brick

Jagoff Pillow by (my lovely friend) Adrienne Rozzi from Poison Apple Printshop

Poison Apple Printshop

Gothic-romantic trinkets and jewelery from 19 Moons.

Whimsical necklaces by Oceanne.

Knitted Ornaments by New House Project

Patchwork ornaments and cat nip toys by oh melisa!

"Love" Book Sculpture by Recycled Reads

Book Spine-Book Marks by Recycled Reads

European Etched Eggs by Christine Luschas

Cameo pendants and jewelery by Burgheoisie

Pillow by Wild Notions

Choco-licious Exfoliating Scrub & Facial Masque by Una Biologicals

Clay Gauged Earrings by Bambi's Clay Design

Knitted scarf and necklace from The Pretty 1

Vinyl albums and Tee shirts from Get Hip Recordings

Painted Tin Boxes from Nightsquid Studios