We love Poppytalk’s recent blog post series, “101 Reason to Buy Handmade.” What better way to launch Strange Folk’s brand new site than to convince you to spend your hard earned cash on products by local makers rather than factory produced knock-offs from overseas. Here are some of our favorite quotes from this series:

Reason #14 – Human rights & ecological aspects. Buy handmade and you support a true artist. You can be sure that human rights are respected in the making of your gift. Handmade gifts are for many reasons often more ecological than mass produced: indie artists are superb recyclers (and we mustn’t forget upcycling, upcycled gifts are a big hit this year!) and of course handmade in most cases outlasts mass produced.

Reason #20 – The items are much more fashion forward….there is no “wait-time” for large businesses to design and then mass-produce. One indie designer can list something *today* that he/she made *today.* (So it wasn’t designed and planned last Christmas…for this Christmas)

Reason #48 – You make two people happy. (buyer and seller)

Reason #52 – ITS THE BEST WAY TO AVOID SHOPPING MALLS!

There are atleast 97 more reasons to buy handmade, and if you’re in the area…to buy handmade at Strange Folk this September! Preview all our vendors or explore specific item categories through our tag system (lovely ball-o-words dancing around on the right).