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Make This: Avocado Seed Dye Tutorial

Posted on August 21, 2015 by artstar-artstar

Photos and Tutorial by Christie Sommers In my last tutorial, I showed you one way to carve avocado seeds to make a pendant necklace. Today I will show you how to turn those failed attempts and carving scraps into a… Continue Reading Make This: Avocado Seed Dye Tutorial

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Make This: Easiest Handmade Book Ever

Posted on July 30, 2015 by artstar-artstar

Photos + Tutorial by Bonnie Kaye Whitfield I am obsessed with this book form. It is the fastest way to turn a simple sheet of paper into an 8-page book, all without gluing or sewing. Use this tutorial to whip… Continue Reading Make This: Easiest Handmade Book Ever

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Move For Hunger Tackles Hunger and Food Waste

Posted on July 24, 2015 by artstar-artstar

On average, America produces enough food to feed over 500 million people each year, yet over 49 million Americans, including 1 in 5 children, go to bed hungry. While we cannot eliminate food waste entirely, we can all do a… Continue Reading Move For Hunger Tackles Hunger and Food Waste

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Meet ASCB Vendor Tadpole Creations!

Posted on July 23, 2015 by artstar-artstar

Some of us are born makers. I was fortunate to come from highly creative stock and was raised in an environment that fostered creativity. I was born to a family with kitchen designer parents and a fine artist older sister.… Continue Reading Meet ASCB Vendor Tadpole Creations!

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Meet ASCB Vendors As The Crow Flies + Co

Posted on July 22, 2015 by artstar-artstar

As the Crow Flies & Co is a little family business in West Philadelphia run by Mike and Wilder Scott-Straight. Married for almost ten years, they started As the Crow Flies & Co five years ago combining their efforts. Mike… Continue Reading Meet ASCB Vendors As The Crow Flies + Co

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Meet ASCB Vendor Bethany Rusen of Stanley Chester & Albert

Posted on July 16, 2015 by artstar-artstar

being a potter in an urban area has its challenges. every so often, i envy my friends who are ceramic artists in far flung, beautiful places like the mountains of North Carolina or the plains of Montana and Nebraska. i… Continue Reading Meet ASCB Vendor Bethany Rusen of Stanley Chester & Albert

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Meet New ASCB Vendor Eve Mobley of Cedar + Fawn

Posted on July 10, 2015 by artstar-artstar

I’m Eve Mobley, the illustrator working as Cedar + Fawn, based in Baltimore. I studied digital illustration in my undergrad, it wasn’t until I took an internship as a display artist at Anthropologie that I really fell in love with… Continue Reading Meet New ASCB Vendor Eve Mobley of Cedar + Fawn

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Make This: Avocado Seed Pendant

Posted on July 9, 2015 by artstar-artstar

Photos and Tutorial by Christie Sommers If your household goes through as many avocados as mine, you may have thought “there must be something I can do with all these pits!” (cue exasperated infomercial actor). Well there is! In fact… Continue Reading Make This: Avocado Seed Pendant

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Meet NEW ASCB Vendor Leanne Tremblay of Loomination

Posted on July 7, 2015 by artstar-artstar

I’m Leanne Tremblay, the weaver behind Loomination, based in Lowell, MA. I fell in love with weaving as an art student and bought my first loom right after grad school, almost 10 years ago. After working in arts and nonprofit… Continue Reading Meet NEW ASCB Vendor Leanne Tremblay of Loomination

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Meet ASCB Vendor Spaghetti Kiss

Posted on July 2, 2015 by artstar-artstar

Hello there! My name is Michael Bracco and I am the artist, writer, screen printer, and general weirdo behind Spaghetti Kiss; a company featuring my hand screened apparel as well as my graphic novels, “NOVO”, “Adam Wreck” and “The Creators.”… Continue Reading Meet ASCB Vendor Spaghetti Kiss

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