On July 1st 2010 I pressed publish on my first ever OMHG post, I didn't know it at the time but I was about to dedicate the next 5 years to championing handmade goodness and crafting a welcoming community of fellow makers. When I started my first handmade business eleven years ago there were very few places to connect with other makers and share resources or support and being a … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday OMHG! Celebrating 5 Years of Community Goodness
Archives for 2015
100 Ways to Build Community this Summer
“Community” has become a popular word in marketing-speak and is used to describe everything from support groups to mentoring sessions making it harder and harder to spot real connection (you can read my full unfiltered thoughts about this here in 'Community is Not Clubs'). Speaking to the global maker community through OMHG has been incredible but the more saturated with … [Read more...] about 100 Ways to Build Community this Summer
Creative Bag: Good things come in pretty packaging
{A sponsored post by Lorrie Everitt from Creative Bag} I left my corporate day job in 2005 to purse my dream of starting my own creative business. While working for over twenty years as a visual merchandiser and marketing director for a number of large retail companies, I learned a couple of valuable lessons about selling anything. First, more often than not, customers … [Read more...] about Creative Bag: Good things come in pretty packaging
Maritime Makers #CraftParty
Maritime Makers is a new volunteer collective founded when advocates of handmade from Atlantic Canada met at the Etsy Team Captain Summit in Toronto at this February. We saw a need for one main portal to connect the work of Maritime makers and maker culture in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland/Labrador, and Prince Edward Island similar to how OMHG has connected makers … [Read more...] about Maritime Makers #CraftParty
2015 Maker’s Retreat with Oh My! Handmade
Gather to make more community, kindness, comfort, friendship, family, warmth, delight and creativity. When we gather with the intention of nurturing honest connection we make room for real magic. The requirements for making magic are simple: a warm welcome, a beautiful place, kind diverse people, whole local foods for the body, and nourishment for the head, heart, and hands. … [Read more...] about 2015 Maker’s Retreat with Oh My! Handmade
