A Comprehensive Guide to Holiday Craft Fairs in Houston, TX

Rice Village Flea Dec. 13th and 14th, 5504 Morningside, Houston, 77005

Hello Lucky Craftacular, Dec. 13th, 1025 Studewood, Houston, 77008

Mini Pops/Etsy Houston Bash Dec. 14th, Pavement Clothing, 1657 Westheimer St. 77006

Maker Market at Houston Makerspace, Dec. 20th, 100 Hutcheson, Houston, 77003

How to Make a Terrarium

Here's a quick video that shows you step by step how to make a terrarium. Make one and send us pictures of your results!

What's In Store for 2014 and a Review of What We've Achieved

Dear Etsy Houston Members,

Thanks so much for being a part of this great organization. During the last year we've managed to get more organized and find a forum to communicate, toss ideas around, and share in our experiences as makers here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/443126935751222/ If you are a maker, please join our conversation.

We had our first Etsy Houston Holiday Bash December 2013 in which members of Etsy Houston sold their wares to raise money for this non-profit. Last year, the street team won a Etsy Fellowship which all gave us a small amount of funds and a lot of cool swag that we were able to give to Etsy Houston Street Team members and give away to attendees of Pop Shop Houston.

What to do with our small amount of funds, we have yet to decide. But will have some time to discuss at the next Etsy Houston meeting which will take place at New Living in a few weeks. Fundraising is a current priority for the team. Space Montrose, Cactus Music, and Pop Shop Houston have made donations to the team to help us in our fundraising efforts!

All in all we've had a great year and hope to continue our growth into the future. Please check back often for more info and join our group if you haven't already.

Etsy Houston Holiday Bash this Sunday December 22nd!

Please join us at the first ever Holiday Craft Sale and party at Westheimer & Dunlavy to benefit the Houston Etsy street team. We'll have free craft beer tastings and loads of art and design objects for sale that will make perfect holiday gifts. The Reverberation DJs are going to play some vintage vinyl classics so come have some fun on the last Sunday before Christmas!

When: Sunday December 22nd 12pm-6pm

Where: Pavement Clothing (at Westheimer & Dunlavy)

How Much: Free! Raffle tickets are $5 and you can win awesome prizes.

Vendors include: Jessica Grundy, The Barking Bunny, Kelly Kielsmeier, The Boy & Her, Tiny Deer Studio, Tim & Ben, Forgotten Arts Clothing, Pop Shop Houston and more!

Great Day Houston

hi everyone! myself [roxy] and a few of our other members will be making an appearance on Great Day Houston tomorrow morning!

tune in to channel 11 [cbs] at 9am tomorrow to watch us as we super nervously try and explain ourselves :)

OR visit the website later that day to check us out :)

big thanks to melanie for giving etsy houston a jump start by appearing on the show last week!

Craft Party Goodness :)

Etsy Houston and Sew Crafty threw the Etsy Houston Craft Party.  Sarah, owner of Sew Crafty, is SO amazing.  She and her awesome staff helped us out SO much that we just had to make it up to them!

Because Etsy is also extremely brilliant and great, the top 5 teams were given Kenmore Sewing Machines.  We decided to donate the sewing machine to Sew Crafty as a thank you, and award Sarah an Etsy Houston Goodie Bag! :)

For those of you curious about the goodie bags:

A couple team members donated some of their goods [Swish Productions, Mad Cat Pearls, and Frilled and Feathered].  There was also a plethora of Etsy buttons and stickers, some pretty packing tape, file folders for all your shop management needs, receipt organizers, a magnetic notepad, and some other little goodies :)

Do you like our Tshirts???

They were made by Sticky Monkey Designs.

by andria

by andria

more photos can be found on my flickr.

sent in by cynthia

sent in by alejandra

photo collage by the art lady :)

I will be posting TONS more photos later tonight in the form of a slideshow. yay! :)

Thanks to everyone for coming by!  The party was a huge success!  We had well over 100 people show up and craft.

Special thanks to Sarah for letting us hang out at Sew Crafty and helping out with supplies, food, and so much more!  If y'all need sewing/knitting/crafting supplies, Sarah's got such cute fabric and yarn and more!  Sew Crafty offers all types of classes for almost any age group!  Check out the calendar on their website for more class info :)

Thank you to Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Etsy.

Thanks to the lovely ladies of Etsy Houston!!  We did it!!! :D

We all had such a great time and can't wait to plan the next event :)

If you'd like to a share the photos you took at the Etsy Houston Craft Party,

please email etsyhoustontx[at]gmail[dot]com

xoxo