Get excited because this an awesome vendor line-up!! Our biggest show yet as we host over 30 mega-talented indie arts & craft vendors all in one sweet venue- the Davenport Sky Bridge! Handmade City 6 is gonna be amazing!

Bent River Bobbins – cute & functional sewn accessories
Tiny Yellow Key Designs - handmade vintage inspired jewelry
Pajama Love - huggable sock dolls, crocheted animals + other curiosities
Oh My Ganache – unique confections
B2 - handmade whimsical bags
Unforgiven - vintage, handmade clothing
Driftwood - handmade jewelry
Sweet William Handmade - modern, hand-crocheted jewelry & accessories
J.Bird Stitch - one of kind handmade sewn items
Hartley Studio - handmade sterling silver & gold jewelry
Lil Squeeks - handmade thingys for pets & their people
Kettle Art - paintings using wood & canvas
Beck’s Buttons – buttons & jewelry
Eden Accessories - women’s hand-made hair accessories
Decadence - reconstructed jewelry for men & women
Helena Sophia - pillow monsters, taggie blankets, handspun yarn
Miss Maehem’s Accessories - fun & colorful accessories
Papercake Creations - handmade notebooks, journals & cards
Pawty Dawg Treats - exquisite and healthy doggy treats
Artistic Red - Plush monsters, acrylic paintings & prints
Made with Delight - children’s hats & accessories
Midnight Kat Productions - wearable art jewelry
B.A.B.E - Unique one of a kind jewelry
the Crying Studio - handmade origami accessories
Cathy’s Creative Crafts - knitted scarves
Photography by Tassy - photography
The Pink Dandelion - chic boutique packaging & photo accessories
Marc Hans Showalter -  mixed media artwork
MightyMiss – handmade kid skirts & shorts
Ladynoble - artwork & jewelry

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN TIL MARCH 31! We will be posting the vendor here on list April 8! For more information on applying click HERE. We are super excited to be hosting an event in the Downtown Davenport Sky Bridge, it is a great space and we think you will love it! Stay tuned, this will be a really fun event!

Join us for some handmade shopping and loads of fun family filled activities including our HMC make&take Valentine craft table, ice skating!, free giveaways, hot cocoa and more! Please invite all your friends. This is a family friendly event with lots of fun things to keep kids AND adults occupied on an otherwise boring winter day! Keep up-to-date with us on Facebook and visit our Event Page HERE. We will be posting more great pics and details here on our site as we near closer to the date! Happy Crafting!

HMC @ “ICEstravaganza”

HMC @ ICE vendor list:

Ladynoble - art, jewelry and decor
Leo & Lola - baby clothing
Lil’ Squeeks - pet items and decor
Earth Faeries – soaps, perfumes and accessories
Hartley Studio – handcrafted jewelry
Beck’s Buttons – Buttons!
SystirWares - ceramic tile coasters and jewelry
Pajama Love - handmade toys and decor
Angel Sister- Soaps and candles
Warm Fuzzies - handmade up-cycled mittens
Farm Girl Studio – Handmade Jewelry
Oh My Ganache - Homemade Confections
Kathleen Rose Designs – Accessories
ReCreative – RePurposed Clothing
Kettle Art – Artwork & Prints
Cori Pitcher - Plush Monsters & Art

Official “ICEstravaganza” event poster:

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Adventure Orange- Awesome Handmades
Angel Sister- Soaps and candles
B.A.B.E. Jewelry – Unique jewelry
Beck’s Buttons – Buttons!
Bent River Bobbins – Sewn accessories for home & baby
Boho Chic Gallery – Fine art & photography
Chaotic Harmony – hand-bound journals & origami accessories
Decadence – chic re-purposed jewelry
Earth Faeries – soaps, perfumes and accessories
Fangrrl Fiber Arts – hand dyed yarn
Hartley Studio – handcrafted jewelry
Helena Sophia – sewn accessories
I’ll Be Yarned – hip yarn accessories for baby
Innad - wallets and book-bags
J.Bird Stitch - sewn accessories
Ladynoble - art, jewelry and decor
Leah & Seth – art and lanterns
Leo & Lola - baby clothing
Lil’ Squeeks - pet items and decor
Miss Maehem’s Accessories - accessories for women and girls
Maynie’s Bowtique sewn accessories galore
Obvious Front - fun junk sculptures
Pajama Love - handmade toys and decor
Plaid Peony - accessories for babies and girls
Phono Orange & Olive - letterpress goods
Photography by Tassy - photography
Rise Above Leathers - leather accessories
Sweet William Handmade - crocheted jewelry and accessories
SystirWares - ceramic tile coasters and jewelry
Totes & Toggles - handmade bags and clutches
Vintage Chic Crochet - crocheted accessories
Warm Fuzzies - handmade up-cycled mittens
Wiredowl Designs – handmade jewelry
Rozz-Tox - coffee and cupcakes
theplace2be - charity raffle
Bucktown Center for Arts – our venue and studio artists

We also have our updated flier done and hopefully you will be seeing it hanging around town soon. We will be flier bombing the QC and hanging them up in the windows of our HMC friends. YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE HMC  LOVE!!! Download this flier right here and print out copies to pass out and hang up. Simply click on the image below to download a PDF version of the flier.

Don’t forget to check our Facebook page and website often. We will be posting more information about the event including our local charity and fun giveaways. Stay tuned and get excited!

Handmade City is happy to help out our friends at theplace2be in Rock Island, Illinois. A group of our collective Handmade City artists will be donating items for theplace2be to sell and help raise money for the organization during an open house on August 5th, from 3-5pm. We will keep you updated and post more information closer to the date.

Artists participating in the Open House donation include:

ADVENTURE ORANGE
ANDIE’S PAPERIE
DECADENCE
HELENA SOPHIA
INNAD
J.BIRD STITCH
KLARKOWSKI POTTERY
LADYNOBLE
LIL’ SQUEEKS
MISS MAEHEM’S ACCESSORIES
OBVIOUS FRONT
ORANGE GUY
SUE C DESIGNS
TOTES & TOGGLES

What a great list! If you are looking to purchase some handmade items for a good cause you must check out the open house. Visit theplace2be.org to learn more about how they impact our community and how you can help! Pasted from their website:

“Theplace2b’s mission is to help youth, ages 14-18, develop hope, increase resiliency and create successful lives of which they can be proud.

Theplace2b is a safe haven for homeless and displaced youth in Rock Island and Scott Counties, located in the YWCA Annex in downtown Rock Island at 1600 2nd Avenue.

The center is open from 4:00-8:00 pm, Monday through Friday, providing warmth, food, clothing, shelter, homework help, creative programming, and counseling for the youth.”

Can you believe it has been a month since Handmade City took over Bucktown for HMC4?! Time flys when you’re having fun! We haven’t had much time the past few weeks to sit and type our official show recap post. So here is our best attempt at a sorta-recap & THANK YOU to all everyone who made Handmade City’s fourth show a success.

Bucktown Center for the Arts was such an awesome space and we had a lot of people come up and tell us how much they liked the venue. Did you like HMC4 there? We loved the openness and exposed elements of this historic building and we were very welcomed by the Bucktown artists and shops. Everyone was so nice! We would like to especially thank Brittany Klarkowski, Bucktown’s Galleria Manager for helping us set-up and get situated comfortably. She also helped promote the event heavily through the Spring leading upto the event. She managed to juggle moving into a new house the same weekend as HMC4 too – crazy! Remember Bucktown is open all year, visit their website to learn more about special events and artist studios!

Rozz-Tox rocked it at HMC4! Every time we looked over they were cranking out some fresh coffee for our shoppers and cupcakes were flying off the table. Thanks Ben and Donnie for bringing the caffeine! We absolutely love Rozz-Tox and hope to keep them as a part of our future events. If you didn’t have a chance to check out Rozz-Tox during our HMC2 & HMC3 events you really missed out and should visit them now. They are open Tuesdays–Sundays. It is such a great space, staff and menu – the perfect hangout vibe with art & music galore.

Handmade City volunteers unite! Sarah, Luanne, Amber and Alex you gals were a huge help directing shoppers, answering questions and hanging at the HMC merch table. Thanks so much for sticking around all day with us. We would love to have you back at the next event!

Thank you HMC4 Vendors. We can not tell you how many people told us how awesome the vendors at this show were! Everyone was very impressed with the level of quality that you guys rocked. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful collaboration of artists supporting the handmade movement. Not only were you all very chic but so nice and easy going! Thanks for helping us put on such a great event and we most definitely will keep you posted on future shows!

Leah and Lewis took over a hallway around noon and jammed some lovely tunes for our crowd. Thanks so much for playing!

Shoppers & Supporters, thank you so much for attending this event and purchasing from our vendors. We know that our collaborative artists are amazing and make amazing stuff but it is refreshing to meet so many Quad Citians who feel the same way! We are excited for what the Summer brings, with a few mini events up our sleeve we will be more than busy crafting away until Handmade City Holiday plans roll in. Expect to see applications for our Holiday event open at the end of Summer. Tentativly planned for the first week in December 2012, we will keep you updated through our site and facebook page. We also have a mailing list and if you would like to be on it, email us: handmadecityinfo (at) gmail.com  .  As far as the mini events we have planned for Summer 2012, we will post more information in the very new future. Check back soon!

One of our favorite candle makers and past Handmade City vendor Luminology will open it’s brand new studio for a sneak peek tomorrow during HMC4! Angela Sands, owner and artisan, recently moved Luminology to its new studio #200 at Bucktown Center for the Arts. She plans on launching her retail shop Grand Opening very soon! Follow Luminology on Facebook to learn more about the items (like the Skinny Laminx textiles & Adesso bracelets pictured above) Angela will be selling in addition to her alluring candles. Take the opportunity tomorrow to browse this new space before the grand opening, we know you will LOVE it!

Our good friends at Adventure Orange will once again be hanging at Handmade City for tomorrow’s event. In fact it almost wouldn’t be an event if these ladies were there. Cool DIY divas making things like clothing, toys, jewelry… we love it all! If you haven’t already stopped by their bricks & mortar location you must! They are located in the Village of  East Davenport at 2218 East 11th street. You can browse the Adventure Orange Facebook page to see pics of their most recent work and learn about the DIY classes they currently offer.

The queen of clever, cute and clean design, Miss Andie Douglas, has launched her new business Andie Paperie. We are looking forward to checking out new designs at her booth tomorrow during Handmade City Spring. Andie will have special gifts perfect for Mother’s Day including lovely cards and paper. make sure to stop by her booth and show some love.