This and other blog posts at Pop Shop America may contain affiliate links. You know my least favorite thing about Halloween? It’s those stale, cheap looking Halloween costumes. You know the ones that come from the Halloween supply store. They never fit right, there aren’t enough varieties, and the materials look cheap! They are no […]
What Can We Do for Hurricane Evacuees? So Much. I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about feeling “helpless” after Hurricane Harvey. Don’t. People want to help but the needs of shelters and evacuees is changing from minute to minute. So us at Pop Shop America and lots of other handmade businesses are focused on […]
Tucked inside the cutest shopping center in Eado is a new shop called Tierra de los Artesanos. It’s full of handcrafted goods that feel traditionally Mexican and fresh and modern too. The first time I stepped inside, I immediately fell in love. The walls were lined with photos of the artists whose goods you can […]
Get Lost in these Gifs! These experiments, pieces of art, trials of visual perception have minimal touches and clever illusions. They are all created by gif artist PI Slices who you can find on Tumblr. If you visit his website, you’ll see countless works of digital art that range from slow paced, to brightly colored, […]
DIY tutorial for painting, printing and hanging a large scale watercolour mural. Use it to pull together your bedroom as the focal point above the bed!
The first time I met Heather Wobbe I came face to face with an Amazon Goddess. She is well dressed, friendly, and fun. And she also happens to be the tallest woman I’ve ever seen in real life! She is absolutely mesmerizing. Her handcrafted jewelry line, Modern Artifacts, is mesmerizing too. Her jewelry is elegant, […]
The sweetie, Stephanie Gonzalez, is an amazing creator, painter, person, Houstonian-community-supporter extraordinaire. Her art story is really invigorating as she talks about process and life and inspirations. My advice to you is to keep a close eye on her come-up because she’s pushing out work constantly! Not you or you or you could keep up […]
In case you missed this in the news, in early July 2017 Hobby Lobby was fined $3 million dollars and forced to forfeit 5,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts.These artifacts were intended to be on display at Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible set to open in DC near the end of 2017. Although Hobby Lobby maintains […]
Summer is now officially here, and don’t know about where you live, but here in Italy we’re experiencing it at its fullest with a mixture of extreme temperatures and semi-tropical storms. Not sure what’s going on, but it’s making me SO looking forward to a vacation both ways. And if, like me, your vacation is […]
The voting is done! The tallies are in and we have the winners of the 2017 Pop Shop America Art Awards. We’re so excited about this list and think that you will be too. These are the artists, handmade creatives that we’re voted by their peers as the Best Makers across the land. The nominations […]