Next meeting of Houston Artisans is scheduled for August! :)

The Forum, an assisted living center located right at the intersection of I-10 and 610. Map here:

We will be announcing information about the date and location of our fall show after that meeting, and discussing it there. So if you attend, you will be among the first to know. We have adopted some bylaws, which will make it possible for our group to be a non profit. This has many advantages to us as a group and as individual members.

Third Tuesdays in August(17), September, October, and December will begin at 7:00 pm at:

The Forum
777 N Post Oak Rd
Houston, TX 77024

We are allowed to bring food in to this location, but it is not a restaurant, so brown bag or drive through on the way. :) After a long summer break, we'll all enjoy seeing each other again. Be sure to bring along new creations to share after the business portion of the meeting is completed. We will begin planning for the fall show, which will be at a great location!

If this is your first meeting to attend, please read the Artisans of Houston 101 post so you can have an idea of how the meetings run. You do not need a personal invitation from a current officer or member if you are a Houston area artist or artisan with or without an Etsy shop.

Look Outside the Box!

Good morning all! My Part 2 article about the amazing artist, Deb Hil is up and this one is about her studio! Yall will LOVE it!!! The main picture was donated my a wood artist where the box is all wood as well as the ribbon!!! I sure do hope yall mosey on over there and I'm leaving yall a link where you can go directly to the comment section. I had so much fun making this article and going on location. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, it's that gorgeous!!!
The link is:
http://www.indiesmiles.com/think-outside-of-the-box-part-2/#respond
Happy reading and visualizing!
Linda :)

Summer Meetings

Artisans of Houston will not be meeting in June or July. Our next meeting will be in August. Details of time and location will be posted later.

Have a good summer!

Etsy Craft Party on June 18th

Jun 18 Houston, TX

When:
Friday, June 18, 2010
8:00 PM

Where:
Sew Crafty, 321 B West 19th St
Houston, TX

Etsy is encouraging crafters to set up local parties to connect. This is the place and time for the Houson Party. If you might attend please go to: http://www.meetup.com/Etsy-Craft-Party/ and let them know you are interested. :) 228 people have signed up already as interested.

AoH button for your blog

I have created a button to use on your blog or wherever to lead people back to our blog. Here is what it looks like:





Blogger is not letting me give you cut-and-paste code, but just put that picture wherever you want it and make it a link to the blog - http://artisansofhouston.blogspot.com.

Congrats to Linda Jones!!

I want to announce that Linda Jones of Visual Smiles Gallery placed 6th in the Etsy Design Contest for January with her "Jack Russell Love" sculpture. He's really very cute. If you want to see a picture you can go to Linda's Etsy shop listed above.

Congrats Linda - we're proud of you!!!

ETC from Etsy has a monthly Design Contest with a different subject each time. If you are interested you can go to ETC's Ning site to get info.

February 2010 Feature - Acute Accent

Continuing the Artisan Feature series for February 2010:

Acute Accent is the creation of Shan Johnson Sevcik, who started making wallets and purses in frustration at the selection available to her. She has yet to come up with the perfect design, but is always working on it. All the designs for items made by Acute Accent are original - no patterns are used. Functional, durable, and beautiful are the goals for the items at Acute Accent, and with a perfectionist at the sewing machine, the quality of construction is excellent.

Shan started her business in early 2008, and it has been growing slowly but steadily. She hopes to continue this trend, as it is her only job and she is full of enthusiasm, new plans, and new designs.