At a loss for words? Marla Landers-Renouf isn't. She's a new Street Team member who recently moved to Salem, NH from Canada. She runs Short-Order Verse, a custom poem-writing service. Customers provide basic details and she transforms them into poetic holiday letters, wedding toasts or gifts for any occasion. She also offers single verses for invitations, announcements and cards. Her Etsy shop can be found at http://shortorderverse.etsy.com and she also has a website at www.shortorderverse.com.
I figured that there are so many different talented people in our group that I decided to show, that even though there are some of us that make the same type of thing that they are all unique and special.
What I admire most about Katy is her ability to work with some of the most hair raising, stressful fabrics and make something truly beautiful.
The don't only make wallets, wristlets, bags and more.
We can't talk about bags without mentioning the famous CraftyKathi (just in case you missed it she was on NH Chronicle), who takes boring plastic bags and crochets them into fun, reusable, eco-friendly shopping totes. Need I say more??
Now that you have read through all of this and have seen some amazing work, you may have noticed my comment in the beginning of this post about myself being so passionate about bags, well that is because I am BagsByMelanie, maker of all sorts of different bags. I have quite a variety of things to choose from because I am always changing and trying new things. Always trying to design the next big thing. Which of course hasn't happened yet, but it will. One of my favorites is this brown and white bag, which not only you can see here, but if you are in the Concord area you can go see it, in person at the Speakeasy Boutique.
Almost all of my bags are one of a kind creations, I usually only make more then one if someone asks for it.
Well I think this brings us to the end of this long post about bags. I hope you enjoyed reading it, and looking at all the different variety we have to offer here in New Hampshire.
Katy's little birds from the treasury by estasketch made the front page today!
I thought I would jump in and add this post to celebrate our love for Katy and all of her hard work with the street team.
Go Katy!
This lovely bird is the work of Susan Schwake. Known as artesprit on Etsy, Susan is a fine artist and owner of the artstream gallery in Rochester, NH.
Her smaller works have found a home at her Etsy shop Artesprit.
But a broader offering of her work can be seen at her website, www.susanschwake.com.
Michelle of GriffinGear and Pandy's of Lake Sunapee is a busy lady. She has two Etsy shops after all. GriffinGear is her home shop for great gear for pint sized guys...like flannel lounge pants, fleece pants, vests, jackets and hats. Pandys of Lake Sunapee is home to the oh-so-handy beer quilt and other quilted items including wall quilts, table quilts, quilted totes, quilted coasters, pouches, fabric gift bags, creative chaos quilted keychains. She's proof that not only do we have a talented membership, but many multi-talented members as well.
We should all be so lucky as this beer, to be lounging lakeside in a Pandy's Beer Quilt...ahhh summer in New Hampshire...
