Here are blog posts about art and design at Pop Shop America. We’re a festival of DIY and handmade that has a show and tell blog about the arts, DIYs that you can do at home, and how you can be a successful designer too.
This and other blogs may contain affiliate links. Not long ago I wrote about some of my favourite European Etsy shops, but the truth is there are so many more small businesses and creatives worth to support. I love discovering new handmade items on Etsy, and I love ordering from other creatives – that’s for […]
Firefly Handmade is a totally unique series of events in Boulder Colorado. Their markets are 4 times a year and take place both indoors in the winter months and outdoors in the summer months. One of my favorite components of the festival is that it’s ENTIRELY handmade. No vintage. No fair trade! So cool. I […]
Letting go and giving in to an artist’s life and career can be scary. But if it feels right, then it feels right. Thanks again to this artist for reminding me just why we might commit our livelihood to our creativity. Meet Lauren Ulieme… Hello to those reading. Most people know me as Unorthodox […]
Hey y’all. Today we get to dig around Lindsay Burck’s brain! Are you sooo excited? I am! I can not get enough of this color palette, which is, to her, an interpretation of human experience and emotional capacities. Well… Don’t be shy–introduce yourself… Did you always feel destined to be an artist? Were you […]
Ashlea Bechaz’s warm and folkloric body of work is just what I like… Tiny details and magickal characters that look like they are from the future past! Check them out while Bechaz lets us in on her busy artist life and relationship with creativity. Please tell us a little about yourself and your artistic […]
This and other blog posts at Pop Shop America may contain affiliate links. You know my least favorite thing about Halloween? It’s those stale, cheap looking Halloween costumes. You know the ones that come from the Halloween supply store. They never fit right, there aren’t enough varieties, and the materials look cheap! They are no […]
Tucked inside the cutest shopping center in Eado is a new shop called Tierra de los Artesanos. It’s full of handcrafted goods that feel traditionally Mexican and fresh and modern too. The first time I stepped inside, I immediately fell in love. The walls were lined with photos of the artists whose goods you can […]
Get Lost in these Gifs! These experiments, pieces of art, trials of visual perception have minimal touches and clever illusions. They are all created by gif artist PI Slices who you can find on Tumblr. If you visit his website, you’ll see countless works of digital art that range from slow paced, to brightly colored, […]
DIY tutorial for painting, printing and hanging a large scale watercolour mural. Use it to pull together your bedroom as the focal point above the bed!
The first time I met Heather Wobbe I came face to face with an Amazon Goddess. She is well dressed, friendly, and fun. And she also happens to be the tallest woman I’ve ever seen in real life! She is absolutely mesmerizing. Her handcrafted jewelry line, Modern Artifacts, is mesmerizing too. Her jewelry is elegant, […]
In case you missed this in the news, in early July 2017 Hobby Lobby was fined $3 million dollars and forced to forfeit 5,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts.These artifacts were intended to be on display at Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible set to open in DC near the end of 2017. Although Hobby Lobby maintains […]
Summer is now officially here, and don’t know about where you live, but here in Italy we’re experiencing it at its fullest with a mixture of extreme temperatures and semi-tropical storms. Not sure what’s going on, but it’s making me SO looking forward to a vacation both ways. And if, like me, your vacation is […]
Night Market Cleveland, an outdoor arts, culture, and food festival in Cleveland Ohio has been surprising and exciting me since I started Pop Shop America! It’s the coolest blend of food tours, handmade goods, small businesses, and culture. It’s a must visit in Cleveland. I talked to Josh Maxwell about this amazing event. BB: What […]
I met Tayyaba before I met her dreamy work and immediately liked her. She is determined, hardworking, fun, and friendly. Then I got to see her work which is gorgeously crafted and perhaps even more magnificiently packaged. She makes handcrafted baby goods like adorable cotton crowns, blankets, and bibs with deliciously soft materials. I’m so […]
With Spring being right behind the corner (-2 days, who else is excited?!), I’m sure I’m not the only one being so done with Winter and sparkling with enthusiasm each time I spot a flowering tree! Spring is my favourite season, with the weather starting to be warmer, the flowers blooming everywhere, the world becoming […]
Hannah shares her journey through art, life and the realest Texas art scene there is: Htown. (I am biased, but it’s also true. I’m kidding…no I’m not.) Please tell us a little about yourself and your artistic background. Where are you from? Where are you now? Currently, the roles I strive for are artist, […]
Shrinky Dink Paper has been receiving a lot of criticism lately. In 2014, the company was bought by Alex Brands, the toy company behind Backyard Safari, Slinky, and Scientific Explorer. With that came a bad batch of printable shrinky dink paper. Perhaps it was a batch or perhaps the new production of printable shrinky dink paper […]
I’ve worked with and shopped from Tanya Bagashka for a couple of years now, but I did not fathom the awe that I would learn from interviewing her. It’s always so interesting when artists use just as much of their technical human skills and interests as they’re abstract ones. Not to mention, her beautiful macramé […]
