Blue Buddha Boutique
Forget about medieval knights. One look at Blue Buddha Boutique's offerings, and it's instantly obvious that chainmaille today is elegant, intricate, colorful and surprisingly beautiful. Founded by self-taught artist and Chicago Craft Mafia member Rebeca Mojica, Blue Buddha has become one of the largest chainmaille jewelry suppliers in the world. Since 2003, customers have flocked to the company's website, drawn to Blue Buddha's innovative patterns, instructional kits, top-quali...
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Now in its 10th year, the 2012 DIY Trunk Show will be the largest, most attended handmade market the Chicago Craft Mafia has ever put together. And to help make this event as epic as possible, we’re making room for a small handful of special sponsors to cross-promote their businesses in conjunction with the show. About the DIY Trunk Show Known around town for kicking off the handmade holiday shopping season, this year’s DIY Trunk Show will take place on November 17th, 2012. The DIY...
Chicago Craft Mafia
What We Do: Our collective knowledge covers wholesaling, retailing, publishing digital and traditional media, licensing, teaching, graphic design, marketing, product photography, and website development. We organize quarterly Craft Rackets: free business-oriented workshops open to the public on a variety of subjects such as Pricing Your Crafts and How to Apply for an Arts Fair. Each holiday season, the Chicago Craft Mafia presents the DIY Trunk Show, now in its 9th year. This show br...
CHIRP
The Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) is dedicated to providing Chicago residents with a community radio station focused on the representation of local people, events, and issues alongside a wide array of local and independent music. We seek to promote localism, diversity, and independence in public broadcasting via programming and web content curated, created, and produced by Chicagoans. We aim to consistently expand the breadth and depth of our on-air and online voice by incorporat...
chronicbabe.com
If you're a sick chick in search of like-minded folks—people who are living well in spite of illness—ChronicBabe.com is for you. We offer thousands of resources designed to help you be totally Babelicious. Subscribers to our free ChronicBabe Goodie Bag eNewsletter get dozens of tips delivered to their inbox every other week (and when they sign up, they get a free ebook, How to Be a ChronicBabe: A Beginner's Toolkit.) Members of the Forum (nearly 1,200-strong to-date) chat every day...
Gapers Block
What is Gapers Block? Gapers Block is a Chicago-centric web publication providing information on news, events and other interesting stuff around town. Gapers Block wants you to slow down and check out your city!...
Harold Osterman
Dear DIY Attendees; On behalf of the 48th Ward, I am proud and honored to welcome the artists and guests of the Ninth Annual DIY Trunk show to Edgewater and the Broadway Armory Park. You’re inside of an historic building that since 1998 is one of Chicago’s largest indoor parks that serves residents of all ages and cultures with services, activities, and events. It was erected in 1916 as an indoor skating rink, then after World War II, it became home to the Illinois National Guard f...
Illinois Artisans Program
The Illinois Artisans Program focuses national attention on the rich heritage of the fine crafting that exists in Illinois. The Illinois Artisans Program is continually looking for talented new artists. All areas of arts and crafts, including folk, traditional, contemporary, and ethnic, as well as fine art forms are eligible. Our juried artists participate in art sprees, craft festivals, exhibitions and other events held at our locations in order to promote their work. The Illinois Artisans ...