Author: Gather Shoppe

• April 11, 2016

  Maker Monday – Vincent Desjardins

  This week’s installment of Maker Monday brings you local Bloomington artist Vincent Desjardins!! Vincent is a force to be reckoned with in the illustration world; bringing us not only prints and cards (which are glorious) but also plush and pillows with his designs, and most recently a published book and infinity scarves for this glorious…
• April 10, 2016

  Tales from a Shopkeep

  Ahh yes, another week in shopkeep land has come and gone. This week  the weather has proven to be quite interesting, with snow, sleet, hail, a freeze overnight and winds from out of this world. More than that though, this shopkeep has been a busy bee in the back of Gather, working in the Conduit…
• April 6, 2016

  Favorite Handmade Item – Mike Bridavsky

  I’m so excited to share with you our very first Guest Post from members of our community for our Favorite Handmade Item Column!! This one happens to be a pretty famous member of our community, actually, and we Love that Mike is such a supporter of the handmade movement. Let me introduce you to Mike…
• April 4, 2016

  Maker Monday – Kreativ Mindz

  Hello hello and welcome to another round of Maker Monday!!! This week I’m excited to introduce you to Aly of Kreativ Mindz. I’m so grateful to have met Aly and gotten to know her over the past couple of years – she and her bestie Lizz (from Lily in Flux) are just about the cutest…
• April 3, 2016

  Tales from a Shopkeep

  Another week, another blog post. I’ll be honest – I don’t (feel like I) have much to write about this Sunday. Our week went by pretty uneventfully. The weather was interesting (rain, wind, more rain, more wind), the ebb and flow of the shoppe continued in its spring haze, and then the weekend came. With…
• March 28, 2016

  M(anic M)aker Monday – Wood Merkaba

  Just another Manic Monday…sorry folks, that song has been in my head all morning and it’s not going anywhere! And it just happens to go along with our Maker Monday, so we’re going to make it work! Seems fitting though, that our featured maker this week is none other than Jessica Miller from Wood Merkaba…
• March 27, 2016

  Tales from a Shopkeep

  This week (for Gather, and myself) was a little like second spring break. See, I have a younger brother who is 14, and he lives in my hometown about 3 hours north of here with my folks. Traditionally he comes down and spends a few days with us over his spring break to escape the…
• March 24, 2016

  Throwback Thursday – Craft Night

  Tonight we host our second official (open to the public) Craft Night at Gather. We’ve been hosting craft nights in some form or another for quite some time now – even before we were a real entity. Today we throwback to when our craft nights were hosted by the wonderful Jessica Shurr at she and…
• March 23, 2016

  Fill your Easter baskets with handcrafted-ness

      Don’t forget, this Saturday Gather will be hosting a Craft Table at the Downtown Easter Egg Hunt on the Square!!! The Green Nursery will be dyeing eggs, and O’Child will be handing out cookies!!! And More!!! Egg Hunts starts at 11!
• March 21, 2016

  Maker Monday – Awesome by Jenna

  Hey folks, it’s Maker Monday again!!! So excited to bring you a NEW maker each month to introduce you and let you get to know them better!! This week we’re bringing you the backstory from Jenna Gordon from Awesome by Jenna!! You’re surely familiar with her work in the store because we simply can’t keep…