Shop 85 local artists at GIVE Handmade Sale Sunday
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
We hope you saved some shopping strength this holiday weekend! We’re back from turkey break just in time for today’s GIVE Handmade Sale, a ginormous independent artisan market held at Northeast Portland’s Leftbank Annex from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28.
GIVE began as The Secret Society Sale five [...]
Neat TREND: Chic crochet fashion in the crafty city
June 16, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat TREND
By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
Spring 2010 runway collections by fashion powerhouses Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana took the humble art of crochet and elevated it to new levels of chic, as both designers simultaneously spun out high-fashion, craft-based looks. In Portland (a.k.a. craft capitol U.S.A.), this was hardly anything new. We’ve always been ahead of [...]
Crafty gal Jen Neitzel + friends take DIY to the tube
March 24, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Portland designer, crafter and DIY Lounge founder Jen Neitzel has yet another crafty trick up her sleeve – a new DIY Lounge TV show concept, which she hopes to put into action this summer.
Neitzel is partnering up with fellow crafter Richard Fox and award-winning cinematographer Patrick Cummings to produce a DIY Lounge television series that will [...]
Class up 2010! Learn to act, dance, cook + DIY
January 11, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Here we go with the mid-January blahs. You know the drill – every year we come crashing down from our holiday highs into these low, mopey months of blah, boring winter. What’s a girl to do?
“It’s great to start out the new year with a class – especially an acting class – because it’s sure [...]
Portland’s most stylish New Year’s Resolutions
January 5, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
So, The Neat Sheet put its finger on the pulse of Portland’s most stylish citizens (a finger coated in peachy Palm Springs polish from American Apparel’s new nail color line, by the way), and we asked our Portland fashion friends for their 2010 New Year’s resolutions.
It turns out we’re all working too hard and wearing [...]
