Where To Find the Hudson Valley Etsy Team This Weekend!

New member Danielle of Wishbone Letterpress will be selling her beautiful hand-printed stationery and more at the 5th Annual Prospect Park Craft Fair, located at the Bartel Pritchard entrance drive to Prospect Park at 15th Street and Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, NY. The show is on Saturday, May 5 from 10 am - 6 pm, so you won't forget to pick up a nice card for your mom this year, right? Good.

                                      

Where To Find The Hudson Valley Etsy Team this Weekend... and Tuesday! And Thursday!

It's the perfect time to finalize your Mother's Day shopping and check out some unique events this week!

Kokma

Amy of Kokma will be participating in Beacon Open Studios, which kicks off with an opening reception on Friday night and studio tours on Saturday and Sunday.

Sweet Olive Jewelry

Gnorasaurus

Felt It

On Tuesday, May 1, from 4 pm
to 8 pm, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson is joining with Etsy Hudson for a night of learning more about how to market and sell your art. The Career Development Office at Bard is coordinating this panel discussion, and along with it there will be a craft fair of local Etsy artists! HVET members include Anna of Retropage, Anne of Felt It, Amy of Sweet Olive Jewelry, Susan of DiGilio Designs and Kathy of Gnorasaurus. The event is free and open to the public at the Bertlesmann Campus Center.

DiGilio Designs

Retropage

Anjali Creations

On Thursday, Hema of Anjali Creations will have a booth at the Montebello Jewish Center Spring Boutique at 34 Montebello Road in Montebello, N.Y. This special event runs from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Martha Stewart Show - The Etsy Show!

Yesterday Amy Madden and I, Ryan Green, were in the audience of one of the last tapings of the Martha Stewart Show. I am a HUGE Martha Stewart fan so I was super excited to be invited as an audience member on the Etsy episode.

The episode will air Thursday, April 26, 2012 and is all about Etsy!  All the guests and audience members were either Etsy sellers or employees of Etsy.  We learned a little bit about the operations of Etsy, did some crafts with owners of successful Etsy shops, and even watched an all-Etsy fashion show.  Plus we walked out of there with lots of presents from Martha - craft supplies, gift certificates to HP, and books.

Martha Stewart took questions from the audience after the show ended.

Going to a show taping is a lot of waiting in lines and being quiet and clapping for two hours, but loving Martha and Etsy so much definitely made it a very exciting day for the audience.  We all showed off our products to the cameras and Martha requested that we all have our individual photos taken so they can be put on The Martha Stewart Show website/blog.  That is huge to all of us small business owners and we really appreciated Martha's support.  It was obvious that she recognizes and appreciates that our group of people - craftspeople - are the ones who helped make her such a success.

A pillow from my Etsy shop, Wicked Mint, at The Martha Stewart Show!  (Incidentally, I was also wearing a necklace from Amy Madden's shop,  Sweet Olive Jewelry)