Look­ing for some­thing to do this sunny week­end, Charm City and D.C. metro read­ers? Then why not check out the High­land­town Spring Art­fest this Sat­ur­day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Held at Mag­no­lia Designs Gallery in the Skylofts, the Art­fest promises to be a fun way to wel­come the new sea­son and sup­port local artists and craftspeople.

Artists at Saturday’s event will include: Adorn­ments by Ate­lier Beads, Elisa Shere Jew­elry, Joe Den­ni­son, Lana Bella, Robert Funk, Tigerlilyshop and many others.

Sat­ur­day 20 March 2010, 10 a.m. — 3 p.m. at Skylofts 3701 Bank Street, Bal­ti­more, MD 21224, check it out

Liv­ing in the Balto/D.C. metro area and look­ing for some­thing to do this week­end? Well then head down to D.C. this Sat­ur­day (19 Dec) for the fourth annual Hol­i­day Booty Mar­ket! Fea­tur­ing the work of twenty regional artists and crafters, the mar­ket is a great chance to find last-minute hol­i­day trea­sures for your loved ones all while brows­ing among the beau­ti­ful fur­ni­ture avail­able at Design Within Reach. A few of the ven­dors fea­tured Sat­ur­day include:

The event will be held in Wash­ing­ton D.C. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Adams Mor­gan Design Within Reach show­room. Check­out the event Web site for more details.

Images: 60 bugs, De*Nada Design, Mary Ellen Doran, Gosh­darnknit, Red Prairie Press, Jaime Zol­lars

Pop­pytalk Hand­made has just launched their lat­est monthly online “street mar­ket.” Begin­ning today and run­ning through Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 18, this month’s theme is “School Days: A back to school market.”

If you haven’t already taken a look this month’s good­ies, here is a peek at some of the things that caught my eye:

Uncle Ruther­ford by Matte Stephens

eblouie 2 by Labokoff

Leap by Yardia

Num­ber 16 by Bueller

Alpha­bet Soup by Mod­ern­pop

Set of 12 post­cards by Tri­cia McKellar

My Friend print by Tutti stu­dio

Branch neck­lace by Florid­ity

If you haven’t checked them out before, Pop­pytalk curates a monthly online show­case of inter­na­tional design tal­ent; beau­ti­ful hand­made items are avail­able in this fun and diverse mar­ket­place. Go check it out!

Images: Pop­pytalk Handmade

Ever the win­dow shop­per, I could not resist shar­ing with you this after­noon the jew­elry of Sarah Hood. Based in Seat­tle, Sarah’s work is a soul­ful explo­ration of the nat­ural world.

Sarah’s work is avail­able for pur­chase online at her Etsy bou­tique.

Images: Sarah Hood

Ever since I spent far too many hours Christ­mas shop­ping online last year, I have been nuts for the jew­elry of Rachael Vic­to­ria Adams, also know as Nou­veau Mot­ley. Ever the fan of decon­structed objects from the past, my love for her work should be no sur­prise. Based in the San Fran­cisco Bay area, Rachael’s jew­elry is avail­able at Dark Gar­den Corsetry in Hayes Val­ley and Juniper Tree Fash­ion in Oak­land. Her wares are also avail­able online at her Etsy bou­tique.

A sam­pling of her gor­geous jew­elry:

Images: Nou­veau Motley

Since I’ve been post­ing about jew­elry lately, I thought what the heck, let’s share some more…

So today, I’m wish­ing I had a gar­den. I’m miss­ing the lush sum­mer growth I remem­ber as a kid in the humid south­east and want to smell the fra­grant flow­ers out­side my stu­dio win­dow. So I thought I’d share the work of Jade Gedeon, also known as, We Dream in Colour. Her jew­elry makes me think of sum­mer nights with light­ning bugs and walks along paths over­grown with vines… brows­ing Jade’s Web site and Etsy shop make me want to add a few pieces to my collection.

Don’t you just love Jade’s jew­elry? Check out her Web sites for more sam­ples of her beau­ti­ful work.
Images: We Dream in Colour

Recently, my dear friend, Wendy, pointed me in the direc­tion of a mutual friend from col­lege. We stud­ied together at Carnegie Mel­lon with far too many tal­ented peo­ple to count in a sin­gle post. Among those tal­ented folks who I call friends and class­mates is Ms. Laura Wet­zel, the designer behind Cerca Jew­elry.

Work­ing with mod­ern mate­ri­als like cop­per, glass, rub­ber, and sil­ver Laura’s work catches the eye with a crisp design edge that can only be described as con­tem­po­rary. Here is a peek at some of her beau­ti­ful pieces:

Her work is avail­able online through Etsy.com, go check out her shop!

Images: Cerca Jew­elry

For some rea­son, I’ve always been drawn to tex­tured and seem­ingly well-loved objects. Let­ter­forms and typog­ra­phy were also early draws for my atten­tion… as a kid, I’d spend hours trac­ing old ini­tials and alpha­bets from art books. So it should come as no sur­prise then when I state my admi­ra­tion for the work of Geor­gia jew­elry designer, Lau­rel Hill.

Ever the win­dow shop­per, I dis­cov­ered Lau­rel last year while brows­ing for a gift on Etsy.com. Since then, I’ve been look­ing for an excuse to treat myself to a piece of her care­fully crafted jew­elry. Here are just a few sam­ples of Laurel’s work avail­able on Etsy:

I just love this last piece and have been day­dream­ing of my own ban­ner cuff since last win­ter… but what to have her inscribe…

Images: Lau­rel Hill