Category: Local Love

June 27, 2016

Maker Monday – Jen’s Plaid Pants

This Monday we want to introduce you to Jen from Arthur’s Plaid Pants!! Jen is one of our makers that we’ve borrowed, stolen, secretly convinced to join us from Bloomington Handmade Market. When we juried her into BHM a couple of years back, I just HAD to have her work in the shoppe, and there’s…
June 22, 2016

Favorite Handmade Item – Michal Ann Carley

It really is all about the stories. It always has been. And maybe I’m not the best story-teller out there, but every week when I get to introduce you to another one of my friends – another one of these people that I am honored to call a part of my tribe – I get…
June 20, 2016

Maker Monday – Press Puzzles

Back to the grind it is!!! Maker Monday folks, and this Monday we’re bringing you local puzzle extraordinaire, Marc Tschida from Press Puzzles!! Marc and I go way back…like, way way back; back when I was a copy girl at Kinko’s and he was a club promoter at Second Story (who remembers Second Story!?). Many…
June 1, 2016

Favorite Handmade Item – Jessica Near

This week we’re sharing the favorite handmade item of local maker and handmade business owner Jessica Near! Jessica owns and operates Opposite of Far: a handmade business built on the backbone of play and imagination! Jessica lives in Ellettsville with her partners in crime (her husband, cats and dogs) and every day is enlivening the…
May 25, 2016

Favorite Handmade Item – Amanda Biggs

So, that beautiful young lady over there on the left might look familiar to some of you. Perhaps she’s taught your daughter or son how to belt out Hallelujah, or maybe you saw her in Cardinal Stage’s Les Mis last year. Maybe you see her walking around town with her beautiful family in town, Maxwell…
May 15, 2016

Tales from a Shopkeep

Oh what a week!! Students are gone and we can start to breathe townie-life back into our beings . . . or can we? The older I get, the longer I live in this town, the less the students become a part of it. . . Interesting that. So, this week we spent getting ready…
May 8, 2016

Tales from a Shopkeep

This weekend was FULL of wonderful-ness for us at Gather, and in Bloomington. This weekend marks the end of the IU spring semester and a time when the town calms down a bit (only a bit) and comes back to ‘us’. It was also Gallery Walk and Mother’s Day!! So, three big things happening all…
April 24, 2016

Tales from a Shopkeep (part 1)

I’ve missed writing to you the past couple of weeks! I’ve been down and out – first emotionally, then physically, and eventually mentally — life of a shopkeep (and a mama, wife, maker!). I have a lot to write about though – so much has happened the past few weeks in my absence, and I…
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!
December 18, 2013

Featured Artist: Vincent Desjardins

Vince is a freelance illustrator living in Bloomington, IN, who loves vintage things. These Holiday cards are perfect to send to your friends who are into the mid-century look, retro design or children’s book art. The cards are blank inside so you can personalize your message to a loved one, and they come with a matching envelope.