Our second stop this season was in the charming Downtown Ventura and the weather couldn’t have been better! Warm and sunny all day with those perfect Ventura ocean breezes set the scene for a day of shopping, crafting, listening to…

We kicked off our Fall season of Patchwork Shows this time in Long Beach, CA! We’ve been coming to this Marina location here for many years and we love our Long Beach community! It’s always a party here as this…

We’ve hit the halfway point in our spring season of Patchwork Show. What a fantastic day full of shopping from and meeting local makers, stopping and creating at our DIY activity stations, and enjoying the marina at Jack London Square…

The third stop of the spring Patchwork Show season is Long Beach, CA! We have loved Long Beach for many many years and are always inspired by the realness of the Long Beach community. It feels inclusive, colorful, quirky (in…

We were greeted by a very warm day with incredible ocean breezes during Patchwork Show in Oakland this season. We’ve been hosting this event in Jack London Square for over a decade and this location never disappoints! We had a…

We were so excited to be back with our creative community to start off our (still abbreviated) Patchwork Show season on Sunday in Santa Rosa. The day greeted us with warm sun and happy faces. We weren’t sure how anything…

Once again Dear Handmade Life has graciously been invited by Messe Frankfurt to participate in the international DIY trade fair, CreativeWorld! While attending the journalist dinner, I met folks from all over the world and had some interesting discussions about…

Last weekend at our last Patchwork Show of the spring 2019 season in Long Beach at Marine Stadium it was overcast and cool in the morning but, it burned off just as the show got started and the summer sun…

Hello, Spaulding here (aka the Dear Handmade Life Operations Director)! I recently did an Instagram story takeover for Dear Handmade Life while I was traveling abroad to Frankfurt, Germany. We were invited by the marketing folks at Messe Frankfurt to…