Danielle Sargent and Julia Lund, owners of Honeybee Bouquets, are preparing for their busiest holiday. The two met waitressing at Mac’s Shack, an experience that has proved surprisingly helpful when […]
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Paul Suggs Gives the Old Lobster Hutt’s ‘Tweet’ a Face-Lift
In those days, ‘you could just do stuff like that’
WELLFLEET — Before there was a Mac’s Shack, which is to say before there was butter-poached lobster on fresh corn risotto, there was the Bayside Lobster Hutt. It was Joe […]
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A Past in Puppetry Shapes an Artist’s New Works
For Ed Christie, dryer lint lends itself to characters a person can relate to
Ed Christie’s career lending life to fabric started when he was five years old. And he had a following: kids from his Elmont, N.Y. neighborhood would flock to the puppet […]
YARD ART
Jeanne Dore’s Collections Add Color to Her World
A garden grove inspired by Southern bottle trees and swap shop finds
Jeanne Dore and Joan Cancilla’s house sits between Drummer Cove and Blackfish Creek in Wellfleet. At this time of year, the water glimmers through the pitch pines at high tide, […]
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Tight Knit at the Cape Tip
Two weekly fiber arts groups where creativity and company abound
Yarn is not the only material handled with dedication and nimble care at two weekly winter gatherings on the Outer Cape, though it certainly does lend purpose, texture, and polychromatic […]
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The Art and Craft of a Small-Town Chocolate Maker
A business with its heart in Truro puts its arms around the globe
TRURO — A rich confectionary scent wafts through the air in Chequessett Chocolate’s production room. It’s a perfume that can make ordinary visitors swoon. But co-founder Josiah Mayo is on […]
BOOK MAKERS
Old Books, Reembodied
Ephemeral sculpture, fashion, and imaginary worlds emerge from repurposed pages
When the Eastham Public Library takes books out of circulation, either because they’re damaged or haven’t been checked out in years, they give them to students at Eastham Elementary School, […]
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The Craft of Couture Sewing
A stitch in time takes Jessica Kidd from patchwork skirts to wedding dresses
On a dreary winter day, the windows of Coastal Bridal Boutique on Main Street in Orleans glitter with fairy lights, casting a golden glow on the gowns displayed behind translucent […]
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The Craft of the Clam Rake
The R.A. Ribb Company continues a family tradition, making bull rakes to fit each fisherman
HARWICH — There are half a dozen bull rakes lined up outside the door of the R.A. Ribb Company waiting for pickup by A.R.C., the Dennis-based shellfish hatchery and grower. […]
DOVETAIL JOINT
Five Ways to Improve Your Home’s Accessibility
Ramps and other elements of universal design can be beautiful
Ed McPartland is a retired carpenter living in Wellfleet who bemoans the fact that traditional Cape homes — and new houses that replicate their style — are not well adapted […]
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Dried Flowers Capture Summer Colors in Winter Wreaths
Grower Meryl Gartside brings her design skills full circle
It took a while for Meryl Gartside, the owner of Blue Lobster Flower Farm, to find a way to extend her flower-focused business into the winter months. “I don’t have […]
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The Art of Making and Giving Cards
Handmade greetings are a cozy form of communication
Working on a tabletop in her Provincetown studio, Sylvia Tomayko-Peters drags a layer of mint green ink across the surface of the silkscreen she’s using to print a series of […]
ART OF FORAGING
Ink Making With Acorns
An illustrated wild harvest how-to
Drawings and text by Grace Emmet
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Quilting as Biography
Chris Grozier’s handiworks are a family tradition full of memory and feeling
WELLFLEET — At Chris Grozier’s house, every holiday calls for stitching up a change in kitchen decor. She made the zigzag-patterned runner that stretches the length of her kitchen table, […]
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Practicing the Ancient Art of Pyrography
Ellen Adamson and Rob Richardson turn and burn their designs into wood
Maybe you’ve seen Ellen Adamson playing her nyckelharpa at one of the local farmers markets. The instrument, which looks like a cross between a fiddle and an autoharp, is the […]
