The Pleasanton Craft Mafia is now the Pacific Coast Mestieri, and will represent artists and crafters all over California. We will still be hosting fabulous shows full of handmade art and craft throughout the greater bay area, so it’s really just the name that’s changed. Hope to see some of you at the Summer Splash [...]

Joanna, another craft mafiosa, showed her original drawings and paintings at the southbay soiree. Here’s a shot of her booth: I wish I had gotten a good close-up of some of her work, because it’s really hard to see all the detail in her drawings from this shot. You can see her work on her [...]

Here’s some fun jewelry from another Pleasanton Craft Mafia member, Jeannine of Designs by a Hummingbird: Jeannine’s work is colorful, fun, and often intricately beaded as you can see in the photo. She also does metalwork combining different metals, such as copper with silver. Here’s a shot of her booth from the show:

This photo shows a sampling of Chel’s mixed media art (and one of her dolls). In addition to creating art, Chel founded the Pleasanton Craft Mafia and a large organization for mixed media artists called ZNE. She is definitely multi-talented! Scroll down a few posts for a link to her doll-blog story about the Southbay [...]

Andrea of Dreams and Jewelry made these beautiful earrings with a verdigris patina: She was selling her beautiful enamel jewelry along with patinated metal creations like these earrings at the Southbay Soiree. I didn’t get a good picture of her enamel work, unfortunately, but you can see some of it on her dreams and jewelry [...]

This beautiful box was on display at the South Bay Soiree. Anni of Make a Scene Photography mounts her photographs on wood boxes like the one shown here. I think they would make great jewelry boxes! She also makes small books, and of course sells photographic prints. I believe she’s available for event photography too. [...]

At last weekend’s South Bay Soiree, I got to meet Brandi of Villain Accessories. She makes lovely beaded jewelry, and loves cloisonne beads. I love her company slogan: Villain Accessories “Because being beautiful makes you the bad guy.” Here is a shot of part of her display, a tree-like piece with lots of pretty chain [...]

Just a few links to some stuff I’ve been checking out around the web this week: Crafty Daisies – Learn to Crochet, Lesson 3. This lesson has links to videos demonstrating some common stitches, like shell stitch, that are slightly more complicated than the basic single and double crochet stitches. Jeannine of Designs by a [...]

I’ll post some pictures of my own from the south bay soiree eventually, but in the meantime, check out Chel’s adorable photo-journal of her doll, Ellie, checking out everyone’s goods!