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Betz White combines a whimsical color and design sense with a love for repurposing. This designer, author, and “green” crafter left a career designing children’s wear to pursue a new love: creating one-of-a-kind items using secondhand colorful wool sweaters as her medium. She began with felted cupcake pincushions and grew her idea into a vibrant line of home and fashion accessories that sells online and around the world, garnering media attention in the process.
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Camille Roskelley creates with an unexpected twist, whether she is using a funky block, adding rickrack to a sewing project, or embellishing a quilt with large flower appliqués. Her designs are bright, youthful, and playful while giving a nod to the quilting tradition she was raised in. Her signature color combination of red and aqua is at the core of many of her designs, but she loves to work with a variety of fabrics and styles and is always dreaming up new whimsical ways to incorporate quilting and sewing into the modern home. Read More

Carol Kemery is president and founder of Caromal Colours, a company offering DIY decorative finishing products to enhance design and lifestyle for homeowners. Carol has been an entrepreneur, business owner, artist, and teacher in a long career devoted to high-end decorative painting, gilding, and faux finishes. She enjoys presenting at shows nationwide and has been a featured artist in national consumer and trade publications. Read More

Dara DiMagno has always loved vintage images and antique treasures, and her desire to use them and give them new prominence — even if she didn’t know from whence they came — is what led her to create her signature pendant necklaces, wall jewelry, and bracelets. A school teacher-librarian by profession, Dara has indulged in the pleasure of jewelry making on a part-time basis for the past nine years; you can catch her at numerous shows and workshops coast to coast. Read More

Halligan Norris graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in metals and jewelry design. After working in the field on her own for several years, she found herself in a perfect fit as a junior designer at John Wind Signature/Maximal Art. For more on John Wind Signature/Maximal Art, please visit www.maximalart.com.

Jenni Bowlin resides in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and two young sons. She is the owner and creative force behind Jenni Bowlin Studio, a boutique papercrafting manufacturer that boasts a “vintage fresh” attitude. Everything she creates has a vintage edge and a general “reinvention” theme. Jenni is also the owner of Mercantile, a Web-based company offering monthly papercrafting, project, and jewelry kits.
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Jennifer Murphy’s unique style and vision was shaped by a childhood spent sewing and hunting for antiques with her creative family. At age 11 she began creating jointed animals with her mother, renowned teddy bear artist Pat Murphy. After graduating from Minneapolis College of Art in 2001, she launched her Web site, which is filled with teddy bears, animals, “and other silly things.” Inspired by the unique combination of vintage illustration, Japanese cute, and all things old “with a story to tell,” she continues to develop her line of quirky and endearing pieces.
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It may be said that Jill Schwartz has design in her blood. She is the daughter of two designers; one a graphic designer, the other an interior designer and antique dealer. Her fascination with jewelry began early; forbidden to have pierced ears until sixteen, she resorted to gluing beads to her ears at three years old. Her design education for Cornell and Pratt shaped her approach to design, as did her travels through Europe in her early 20”s. At that time, hoping to pay for another day in Europe she began making and selling her unique creations. Her stylized designers were in demand and her journey as a recognized designer began.Please visit her at www.elementsjillschwartz.com
Jill will be teaching classes in the Handmade Market featuring her new line of jewelry from Making Memories, Vintage Groove. Click here for more details.

Joanna Figueroa is currently designing her seventeenth collection in her signature Fresh Vintage color palette for Moda fabrics. She draws inspiration from vintage textiles, well-worn children’s illustrations from the 1800s, old quilts, the textures of antique ribbons, and other items she uncovers during her flea market and antique show excursions. Read More

Kaari Meng has been designing vintage glass jewelry for more than 20 years. After moving to New York City in 1988, Kaari began exhibiting at trade shows and designing for specialty shops, including Anthropologie. Armed with experience in all facets of jewelry manufacturing, she began teaching jewelry making out of her shop, French General. Read More

Kristin Nicholas is a knitwear and stitchery designer and decorative artist who lives on a working sheep farm in western Massachusetts with her husband and daughter. Her antique farmhouse has been featured in Country Home. Her knitwear is known for its wonderful color combinations that combine Fair Isle knitting patterns and hand embroidery.
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Laurie Meseroll has lived as an artist her entire life. One of her first paintings of an angel was shown publicly in 1963 at the Columbus Museum of Art. She went on to train as a sculptor and as an architect but realized that, above all else, she is painter and must follow her bliss. Read More

Heidi Loewen and Dani Lassiter own Oh Sweet Sadie! a seasonal event, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Oh Sweet Sadie! is an Art & Gift Show and crafty Academy wrapped into one fantastic event in heart of Utah, the mecca of all things creative. Heidi and Dani have hosted over 5 years of these weekends-extraordinaire, where nearly a hundred talented artisans and vendors come together to sell their hip and fabulous wares. It has grown into a getaway event with a make-and-take Academy, (where these inspiring women are the primary instructors) and of course, shopping galore. Heidi and Dani make and sell gobs of their own creations at each show. You can check out the show at www.ohsweetsadie.com.

Heidi Loewen has five beautiful children, and a rock star husband by the name of Danny as well. Heidi is an accomplished photographer and has been published on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens, Scrapbooks Etc. Magazine. She makes jewelry, sews clothing, bakes like nobody’s business, and can sniff out a bargain in 30 seconds or less.

Dani Lassiter is mother of four crazy kidlets and wife to a tennis professional/yoga instructor. She has a passion for graphic design, cycling, reading, sewing, crocheting, and eating. She has recently launched a series of women’s only cycling events called Goldilocks. www.goldilocksride.com. Oh Sweet Sadie will be teaching classes in the Handmade Market. Click here for more details.

Ruth Rae is a classically trained jeweler that somehow found her true creative calling when she discovered a sewing machine. She is best known for her mixed media fabric work and her way of altering textiles for a timeworn appearance that looks centuries old. When viewing Ruth’s work, you are instantly transported to the past. Read More

Wendy Addison was born in Missouri and raised by artist parents. She studied fine art at an early age. In 1993, she opened her studio in an old garage and began creating what she called “objects for an imaginary life.” Made from old sheet music, tarnished tinsel, vintage crepe paper, Victorian scrap, and other flea market treasures, Addison’s work evoked some lost sense of magic from times past. Her signature look quickly evolved and found its way to fine stores across the country, such as Bergdorf Goodman & Tiffany. Read More