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Handmade Habitat - Website
This business perfected combining old-fashioned pieces (think Pride and Prejudice appropriate/Mark Twain-era home items) with modern minimalist style. Along with natural candles (varying from ones stickered with customized typewriter notes or tall prayer candles with paired mantras and yoga poses), you’ll find beautiful snuffers, matchsticks, and soaps. Enjoy their subscription-based, ceramic vessel reuse or glass container recycle discounts!
Peacesake - Website
When scrolling through this website, I bet you’ll be imagining carpeted, hardwood floored rooms with ambient lighting scattered between tropical plants. The intriguing candle scents, the simple smudges, and the staple room sprays will all be perfect for your home or as gifts for others. The makers also attend the Eastern Market where you can return your empty jars.
Rewilddc - Website
This is a plant store that not only has a wide and beautiful selection of plants that can thrive in DC, but also some planters that were made in North Brentwood and a collection of totes and mugs that support the National Botanic Garden! They have 4 locations around DC (Ballston Quarter, Shaw, Capitol Hill, and North Bethesda) in which they host events and workshops so that you can learn how to stop killing your ferns.
Jeff’s Fan Birds - Website
For anyone lucky enough to be a homeowner in Arlington, you have the opportunity to have some carpentry done by Jeff Jacobs. He is a handyman and carpenter with skills in cabinet- and staircase-design, and has a side crafting business of creating wooden fan birds. His woodworking skills in all shapes and sizes are phenomenal. Reach out with your project idea to see if it is doable for him!
Ma Elodie - Etsy Page
Katie creates textiles that are gentle and 100% cotton, batting included! Her simple embroidery work is perfect for a gallery wall or for decorating a small space in a bathroom, and her quilts… are honestly lifetime gifts for a newborn. They are hand-stitched, all-natural, and tastefully crafted, from the colors and patterns chosen to the size of the quilt fragments and borders.
Kate Zaremba - Website
Kate, not to be confused with Katie from above, designs and produces stylish and eco wallpaper. They are hand-drawn designs that are perfectly subtle enough to replace plain walls or as eclectic as a dull corner requires.
