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Cancer-killing Megan was in Portland for Thanksgiving, so I got to spend some time with her. I dragged her over to the workshop of Queen Bee Creations<\/a>, a great company that makes vinyl bags and accessories. I have admired their work for some time, so I was pretty excited to discover that they are now based in Portland and that they allow visitors to the workspace. They sell a lot of seconds there for great prices, so how could we resist? I got a messenger bag and wallet, and Megan got, well, a whole bunch of stuff (my two items are on the left):
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\nThey do really great work, so please keep them in mind for your holiday shopping.
\nSpeaking of holiday shopping, I was thinking it might be good to buy from the indie crafters of the world instead of The Man this year. Here are just a few vendors you might want to check out:
\n-The aforementioned Amyville<\/a>, home of miniature clay creations
\n–My Paper Crane<\/a>, an amazing shop offering donut and toast and other plushes (totally love the donut hole plushes), as well as handspun yarn and fun fleece scarves (I have the striped one, and I love it!)
\n–Tania Howells<\/a>, who sells really, really, really cute bird stuff, including necklaces, silk purses, mugs, etc.
\n–Buy Olympia<\/a>, a collective of artists based in or near Olympia, Washington. Queen Bee is part of this pack, along with Stella Mars and Nikki McClure
\n–Giant Robot<\/a>, publishers of Giant Robot, an Asian pop culture magazine. The store has great T-shirts and tons of wacky Japanese goods.
\nI’m sure there are plenty more, but this a good start! If you know of any others you’d like to plug, feel free to leave them in comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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