Winter Showcase: Tiny Expo Indie Art & Craft Fair

Special to WLAA
December 2, 2020, 4 years ago

Welcome to Tiny Expo’s Winter Showcase!

While we can’t gather in-person this year, we are happy to showcase some of the vendors that have sold at Tiny Expo the past few years. Browsing the showcase is a great opportunity to find that perfect gift while shopping local and buying handmade. This year’s makers are from Ann Arbor and beyond, selling handcrafted goods in a variety of categories. Check it out!

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What are you shopping for?

Apparel
Ceramics
Fiber Arts
Health + Beauty
Home Goods
Jewelry
Paper Goods (+2D Art)
Sewn Goods
Toys + Kids Items

Apparel

Dcreated Boutique. Dcreated Boutique handcrafts + carefully curates artisan baby garments with a stylish vintage flair.

Color of Sound. Color Of Sound is a design shop selling high-quality items, such as poster prints, t-shirts, and coffee mugs. The designs are inspired by a love of art, music, and vinyl record collecting.

Purl You Crazy. Fun and whimsical fiber art creations for all ages.

Solstice Handmade. Textiles + Goods hand printed with illustrations inspired by the natural world.

Ceramics

Alma Pottery. Illustrated clay by Lavinia Hanachiuc, Almapottery is offering one of a kind functional ceramic gifts, prints and small unusual wearable ceramic creatures.

Debbie Carlos Studio. Debbie Carlos Studio is a photography and ceramics studio based in Lansing. Her photographs captures the strange and sublime in everyday life and her ceramic work plays with form and shape to bring you unique and beautiful functional objects.

One Acre Ceramics. Art pottery and tiles handmade of stoneware clay, wheel-thrown with carved designs and luminous glazes.

Fiber Arts

A-Cute Design. I sell colorful, vintage inspired hand crochet pieces. I focus on beanies but also sell headbands and neckwear.

Drewbie’s Zoo. Handmade crochet stuffed animals and home decor!

June Loom Handwoven. Slow made handwoven textiles to use and wear.

Purl You Crazy. Fun and whimsical fiber art creations for all ages.

Woolly Mammoth Design. I use fiber modification techniques like block printing, dying, hand and machine embroidery to create truly unique sewn goods inspired by the natural world.

The Woven Good. I make handwoven super-soft cloth towels and washcloths from bamboo and cotton yarn. Ask me about custom items for a unique gift!

Health + Beauty

LUNA ROSA. Artistic stamped soap bars with feel good designs and vegan bath products.

Rose & Perry Co. Rose & Perry Co. is an all natural company that specializes in natural bath and body products. We create vegan and non-vegan options that are packed with skin and body beneficial ingredients. We small batch cold-process soap, goat milk soap, mango butter massage bar soap, coconut wax massage oil candles, coconut wax melts, charcoal incense, butter lotion bars and tattoo balms.

Home Goods

The Brave Wimp. Eco-conscious artist and activist creating affordable wearable pop art and housewares from reclaimed and natural materials.

Dote Note + Gift. Dote Note + Gift aims to inspire celebration and acknowledgement of life’s precious moments, both large and small.The line includes greeting cards, art prints, buttons and stickers that are positive, thoughtful and functional.

Glass Action! Glass Action! is a stained glass portrait maker, project creator and home studio.

JKM Soy Candles. JKM Soy Candles makes candles using 100% soybean wax in a variety of styles ranging from simple & timeless to vintage apothecary to modern & contemporary. Their curated fragrance combinations are unique, inspired, & intoxicating.

Kamajomi. We create personal, functional, and one of a kind goods for the home. Each piece is hand drawn and then hand wood burned by us.

Plateful Jewelry. Whimsically miniature food jewelry and accessories.

SAJEEV VISWESWARAN ART. I make tote bags, tiny prints & Christmas ornaments.

Stacey Malasky. I create hand screen printed textiles and paper goods. All of my work is created from original drawings and hand printed by me in my basement print shop/studio.

The Woven Good. I make handwoven super-soft cloth towels and washcloths from bamboo and cotton yarn. Ask me about custom items for a unique gift!

Jewelry

The Brave Wimp. Eco-conscious artist and activist creating affordable wearable pop art and housewares from reclaimed and natural materials.

BuildWithWood. Wearable mini nature features celebrating the world’s lichen, fungi, & flora.

Ella Calas Jewelry. Minimal earrings and necklaces made with traditional techniques with a contemporary aesthetic. This series is made from powder coated brass and each piece has an individually carved pattern.

Glass Action! Glass Action! is a stained glass portrait maker, project creator and home studio.

Great Lakes Rock Shop. Handmade jewelry using rocks, beach glass, and sand from the Great Lakes.

Plateful Jewelry. Whimsically miniature food jewelry and accessories.

White Bird Pins. White Bird Pins is a store with some pretty cool enamel pins, wooden pins, and stickers.

White Owl Jewelry. I make hand-dyed jewelry from vintage and repurposed lace.

Paper Goods (+2D Art)

Alma Pottery. Illustrated clay by Lavinia Hanachiuc, Almapottery is offering one of a kind functional ceramic gifts, prints and small unusual wearable ceramic creatures.

Arsenal Handicraft. We are a husband and wife screen printing / illustration studio. We make hand screen printed art prints, cards, and other items.

Cakeasaurus Prints. Cakeasaurus Prints: art & cards to amuse the irritated and uplift the downtrodden, since 2008. The linocut characters of CP navigate a world much like ours: disturbing, nonsensical, and greatly improved by engagement with each other.

Color Of Sound. Color Of Sound is a design shop selling high-quality items, such as poster prints, t-shirts, and coffee mugs. The designs are inspired by a love of art, music, and vinyl record collecting.

Cruz Creative Co. Maker of illustrated greeting cards and art prints celebrating our state and universities in a fun and whimsical style.

Haley Rose Design Studio. Whimsical, handmade art prints and journals.

hay.mo.mad. Hay.mo.mad takes community and packages it into small shareables such as greeting cards, stickers and posters. All great gifts to pass along to your given or chosen family.

Melissa Dettloff/Hooray Forever. Screen printed art, comics, and zines. Also: stickers.

SAJEEV VISWESWARAN ART. I make tote bags, tiny prints & Christmas ornaments.

Sally Bjork Photography. Photography, mostly black-and-white, including images featured in “I Spy”, a column in the Ann Arbor Observer done by the artist since 1999. There is also a photo puzzler book for sale of select architectural images from Ann Arbor featured in the column.

Solstice Handmade. Textiles + Goods hand printed with illustrations inspired by the natural world.

Stacey Malasky. I create hand screen printed textiles and paper goods. All of my work is created from original drawings and hand printed by me in my basement print shop/studio.

Treehouse Block Prints. Handcarved, handprinted linocut prints which highlight the beauty of everyday life.

Sewn Goods

Taneko Says Hello. I invent and create handmade plush pun friends and art—because it’s important to play with your animals, food, and words! My main character is Taneko, a warm-hearted “octopuss,” who enjoys befriending others, and she would love to be your friend too ☺

Woolly Mammoth Design. I use fiber modification techniques like block printing, dying, hand and machine embroidery to create truly unique sewn goods inspired by the natural world.

Taneko Says Hello