Holiday Season ’25: Open House & Art Market, etc!

Open House & Art Market at Day Moon Press! Saturday, November 29th, from 12-6 pm, at 3320 Beacon Ave S. There will be letterpress prints, ceramics, candles, clothes, paintings, jewelry, and more!

Hello hello! As usual I’ve sort of been a turtle the last few months, head down in the work and not coming out of the shop shell very much. But it’s now time to get moving, see what all that effort has been for, and engage with the outside world for the holiday season! We have our annual open house on Saturday, November 29th: Small Business Saturday, just after Thanksgiving. We’re supported in this by Beacon Arts and their South End Public Market program to host several other local artists & artisans:

Come see the studio & these artist friends from our community! There will also be warm tea and I’m pretty sure I can get the record player up & running just in time 😀

I’ll also be out and about most weekends at lots of other fun markets and events for makers of all kinds!! Please come join us whenever and wherever you can in supporting artists in your neighborhoods, creating with their hands and offering it to be held & admired & used & maybe passed along to others you care about.

Friday & Saturday
November 14th & 15th
(5-9 &10-4)
the Mount Baker Holiday Sale at the Community Club

Sunday
November 23rd
(11-4)
Tacoma is for Lovers at King’s Books

Saturday
November 29th
(12-6)
at the press, 3320 Beacon Ave S

Sunday
December 7th
(11-4)
at the Sweet Reel Maker’s Market, 5001 Delridge SW

Saturday & Sunday
December 13th & 14th
(2-5 each day)
Holiday pop-up at The Grocery Studios

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
December 19th, 20th, and 21st
(12-6 Friday & Saturday, 12-5 Sunday)
the 11th Hour Makers Market by Urban Craft Uprising, at Pacific Place

November Open House & Art Market

Our annual November sale approaches! As do several other art sales and events in the area—some repeat favorites, some new, all of which we are very excited to do and will thankfully get us out of the house. Come see us at any of them!! One, some, all—

November 2nd-4th: the Pickering Barn Craft Show at the restored 1800s barn in Issaquah, 1730 10th Ave NW. Open Thursday and Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5.

Saturday, November 18th: Backyard Holiday Market at Gretchen Siegrist Clay’s beautiful studio! Handmade goods: ceramics, prints, jewelry, embroidery, fiber arts, and more; and gathering winter supplies for our unhoused neighbors: bring anything you can of tents, sleeping bags, warm coats & pants, hats & gloves, tarps, hand & foot warmers, etc.

Sunday, November 19th: So happy to be back at the Tacoma Is For Lovers fair at King’s Books, 11-4! (We will only be there Sunday but they’re also open 11-4 on Saturday the 18th, with different artists!)

Saturday, December 9th, 6-9, AND Sunday the 10th, 2-5: Delighted to head just down the hill again to The Grocery Studios for their Holiday pop-up.

Come support local artists! See what we have, and more than once—we pack different things for different spaces, so maybe you’ll see something surprising the second time.

Journals for sale

We had cause to pull out the spiral binder a few weeks ago, a stack of various leftover text weight papers stored years ago, and seasonal decorative illustrations cast decades ago: these journals, in several sizes and designs, are now ready for sale! (At the shop, or online at the Etsy store.)

butterfly journals small blue floral journals small yellow floral journals dream journals?

Each journal has 31 pages which is a comfortable number for the spiral binding and a convenient number for all sorts of things: gardening logs, chore charts, daily drawing challenges? Someone at a fair suggested dream journal for the starred ones, which is a way better concept than what we’d come up with which was cute.

We hear it’s spring

And we’re prepared for spring, we always are: at our Etsy store we now have all kinds of cards in bright colors, with flowers and green grass and birds! A whole lot of birds. We’re big fans of birds.

Snakes in the Grass card Floral Dover Illustration card German lead-cast singing birds Bronzed hummingbird cards

Revel in the incoming weather! Taunt your friends in the autumnal southern hemisphere! Apologize to an ornithologist for us if you have to, we didn’t read a single book to fact-check these renderings.

Our Etsy store is up!

Blank cards, distinctly not-blank cards, prints, and journals are for sale at our Etsy store. In making these listings it’s come to my attention that our themes are apparently handset type, re-purposed cuts, tough words, and animals.

Uncertain Taxonomy Print Screaming Women: Rosa Diaz Belligerent Affirmations No. 3 Proverbial Rose card

The online store at present does not have nearly our full inventory! We’re working backwards and will update here as we add more listings. Currently it has Screaming Women and Belligerent Affirmations in completion, several varieties of blank notecards, a small journal, and a silly print about science, art, and the feeling of eh, close enough.