Classes coming June 29!

Yes, dandie is having craft classes!
First up:

Sunday June 29th Knitting Madness Learn to knit in 3 hours. For only 10 bucks!
12-3 or 4-7

Stop by the shop to sign up.

Coming up:
sewing tskirts, embroidery, felting, beading, and more

HOLIDAY SALE, this SAT. the 22nd.

This Saturday, the 22nd we'll be having a 10% off sale all merchandise in the shop. So, come on in all of you last minute shoppers!

IT'S TIME

to show you all some new stuff. We finally took some pics and even dowloaded the ones from the craft fair back in September. So, get ready!

Monster hats by Anne. They come in tons of colors and sizes, from babies to adults.





Our mascot Dandie ladies dressed with scarflettes by Ashley, a Baby E headband, a knit hat by Kelsey, and big blue earrings by Ali. They're a bit crazy.



A wall full of accessories from button necklaces and earrings, shrinky-dink necklaces and earrings, tweed pins, etc.



Some dolls and creatures, ReWAX candles, an origami mobile, cupcake pincushions, and felted cake boxes.



A case full of Punkette dolls, Paddington Sweet's Mod-ern Chocolates, and origami gift boxes.



Orange monsters stuffed with lavender! Do you see the moustached one?



A variety of plants by Ben.



Then some more stuffies and cuties.




Next, onto the Mass Market craft fair. Our table was layered and layered with so many items from many of the artists in the shop. I think we pulled it all together though, it has the look of the shop but just on one surface.

That is the adorable Ashley, who helped us out the whole day and informed us about the fair. She's the sweetest. She's one of our wonderful volunteers and is the face behind the scarflettes.



There are cards and Cara Taylor recycled plastic bag purses. Cherry Winter's animal creatures, and button necklaces. Wallets and ipod holders. Bookends, crayons, and notepads made from recylced paper. Earrings, mirrors, and monster kits. Soap, bath salts, and aprons. Sleep masks, hats, and cuffs.
The list goes on.









Then here's a pic of the space with some shoppers.

teeny.tiny.cute

One of our awesome volunteers, Carrie, makes the cutest felt items among other amazing things that she sells with us. She has a blog, teeny.tiny.cute, where she shows some of her items.

Here are the stuffed candy corns that she made, some act as zipper-pulls. I think this is such a great idea. Then there's the little bats. Unfortunately, we sold all of these, but she does work on commission as do many of the other artists selling with us.

They were intended to be with us only for Halloween, but why can't candy corn be a year-round love, right?

BEAM STOCKINGS

We just got a batch of holiday stockings made by Kristen Beam. Here are pics of a few of them. They're very beautiful and unique, perfect for gift-giving.

FOR MEN

One of the biggest challenges we've found is that most of the items in our shop are for women. There are a few unisex things, but primarily people get the sense that it's gender-specific. Many of the artists selling with us try to come up with products for men but it's more difficult.
Hopefully this will change.

Saying that, I posted about the Handmade Pledge a couple weeks ago that is floating around the web. I really want to sign it and hope all of you do too to support indie designers/crafters. But I know for myself, I was having a hard time committing to signing it because buying handmade for the men in my life is a bit more difficult.

So to my happiness, the Modish blog posted a great handmade gift guide for men today. Check it out.

And, then take that pledge....look to your right and click on it!

NEW STUFF

Yes, it's true. We have tons of new product in the shop and lots of winter goods; hats and scarves. We also have more clothes and a few new artists selling with us. I wish I had pictures to show you all right now, but unfortunately I do not. You'll have to trust me that there's lots of wonderful items to come in and see.

So, I hope you do.
And, Happy Thanksgiving.

THE HANDMADE PLEDGE

Click here to pledge for this holiday season!

IN COSTUME

Here are some pics of us and friends out for Halloween fun!

HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES

Tomorrow night, The Sierra Grille, in Northampton is having a special Halloween costume gig. They've been doing gigs Thursday night, but changed this week because of Halloween.

Prizes will be given away for best costume, one of which will be a gift certificate from us! So, get those creative minds flowing and go dressed for the occasion.

GOING TO A CRAFT FAIR

There is a DIY Craft Fair in Boston this Sunday, the 28th from 10-5, and we'll be one of the vendors! It's at the MASS Art Pozen Center. It'll be a new experience for us, and hopefully a good one. Wish us luck!

Here are two fliers that were sent my way about it:

YES, MORE

I'm on a roll this week. I have more product pics to share with you all. I'm really going to try to stay on top of this. We've been getting so much new product in, it's crazy.

This time, we have mosaic mirrors by Maria, glass earrings by Caitlin, and spiders by Ann.
*note: some of these pics may be slightly different than the ones we still have for sale.

The beautiful mosaic mirrors by Maria:












A variety of the glass earrings by Caitlin:
We have a ton more colors and shapes of these in the shop.













Plus a few of the beaded spiders by Ann:
Halloween is coming....

CHERRY WINTERS

We recently got some new stuffed creatures from Cherry Winters, and we're getting even more this week. They are graphite and watercolor crayon on mulberry paper, varnished and hand-sewn. We'll be filled with bunnies, chickens, horses, 2 elephants, manatees, and some steak & cheese.

The Art Parlor wrote a nice blurb about her work seen at the Easthampton Art Walk last weekend. They mentioned us too!

SID VINTAGE FASHION SHOW

This Friday, the 19th at Diva's in Northampton, Sid Vintage is putting on a fashion show. It should be a really fun night. We're adding a small promotional piece to the goody bags too, plus a door prize!

We have something new to offer you all

As many of you know, attached to the Dandie in the Underworld boutique is a studio space. It's filled with piles of community supplies that are free to any of our volunteers to use. We pretty much have anything you can think of from: colored pencils, markers, crayons, fabric paints, spray paint to fabric and clothes that can be reconstructed, fake flowers, beads, buttons, a fully functional sewing machine.....etc, etc. It is a small space and as most studios, tends to get a bit messy, but that's the nature of the space!

So we decided since we have so much in there and we want some more creative energy flowing in there we would like to offer it to any/all of you for an hourly fee of only $5/hr. The only catch is that you can't take any of the supplies with you and we would prefer if things you work on were inspired to sell in the shop. They don't have to be but it would be cool if they were. So maybe you don't have a space to work or can't afford to sign a lease and pay monthly rent, or just need a change of scenery. You'll have full access to all of the supplies in the studio and a place to go to create.

Or if you want, we can still use volunteers to work on the boutique side too....where there is a lot of down time so most likely you'll have studio time then and won't have to pay the $5/hr. We're also thinking that if some of you are interested in volunteering but not for our traditional open hours (thurs-sun, noon-10) then you can still come in and have the shop open on off hours. It can only help business to be open more anyway!

If this interests any of you or if you have any questions, let us know. I'm going to try to set up a calendar so times don't overlay.

Think about it.