5.17.12 Its Love and a .45- Truly marvelous stationary and novelty gift tags by Jones Notions!
5.16.12 Getting ready for the Trenton Ave Arts Fest on Saturday! http://trentonaveartsfest.blogspot.com/
5.15.12 Feathers and jewels for your head!
5.12.12 Last chance to do the gift dance for all Moms and Mom-like folk, for tomorrow is Mother’s Day!
5.11.12 Not mother of pearl, but they can be pearls for your mother! Freshwater pearl, stretchy bracelets by Venus in Chains.
5.10.12 Mother’s Day is on Sunday! Give a wee handmade somethin’ to the maternal people in your life!
5.9.12 Didja knows that ‘slapstick’ comes from Punch & Judy? Happy 350th Birthday!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17895716
5.8.12 Although we need to be out of this location by the end of the month, we still are getting some new items in! Stop in to see what ‘news’ we have- and what display units are for sale!
5.4.12 Hmmmmm, what do you think this is?
5.2.12 New buffalo horn, stretched ear hole earrings, re-interpreted into a small hole, earring & necklace set. Cool-OH!
5.1.12 What could this lovely be? You’ll just have to stop in and see! at Square Peg Artery & Salvage
4.28.12 ‘Oooooh that’s why I’m easy- easy like Sunday morning.’~ but on a Saturday. Actually, the original lyrics were written with ‘Saturday’, but no one could make the music fit around the extra syllable, so it became ‘Sunday morning’.
Commodores record album journal by Be the Absurd!
4.27.12 Printed things on printed things depicting a facet of the food-chain. Rather ouroborosy dont’cha thinks? The whole infinite circle of life, death and rebirth- right here at SquarePeg ArterySalvage!
4.25.12 I can’t decide today- red or blue? black or white? Both! All! Everything! And that’s what we gots for Mother’s Day, and everyday… a bit of everything! — with Krista Peel and Bricolage Bedlam.
4.24.12 Now it can seem as if Goethe plagiarized YOU! Goethe’s Werke journal by Kat Zagaria for sale at SquarePeg ArterySalvage!
4.21.12 You can see all the Midwives Collective’s Beasts Closing Show 4.20.12, photos on our facebook and flickr pages!
4.20.12 Just in case you haven’t heard… BEASTS show tonight from 6-8pm. Dress as your favorite domesticated animal! (optional 
108 S. 20th St., 19103
4.19.12 One of the pieces from The Midwives Collective’s closing reception TOMORROW from 6-8pm, by Irma Shapiro. Come, eat, drink, and share the love with puppies and kittens that need a home!
4.18.12 Need some calm and healing? Beth Richey has an assortment of gemstone bracelets and earrings that can aid in everything from creativity and courage, to stability and spirituality!
4.14.12 We have many many interesting things at the shop! Visit Rich Cotton today and make him show you some of these items, or visit me at GO WEST! Craft Fest at The Woodlands!
4.13.12 According to Smithsonian Magazine “fear of the number 13 costs Americans a billion dollars per year in absenteeism, train and plane cancellations, and reduced commerce on the 13th of the month.”
Change this statistic and shop at Square Peg Artery & Salvage today! — with Meg’s Ragged Edge, Jackie Brown, Ashley May Designs, BCM Bijous, Krista Peel.
4.11.12 Month long sale for ALL Jill Ellen Goodman- Ruggieri Designs! Buy one set of earrings at $20 and get the 2nd pair 50% off! You can give a lovely gift for up-coming Mother’s Day, and a littl’ sumpthin sumpthin for yourself!
4.10.12
Knock, knock!
-Who’s thar?
ORANGE!
-with Bricolage Bedlam
4.7.12 ❖ ❖ ❖ 4.5 out 5 professional whistlers agree that the newest batch of magnets from Beth Richey are truly the most! (And these are the only ones that can be posted publicly!)
4.6.12 Dazzle and inspire your fellow 1st friday-ians with trimmings from Square Peg! — with Krista Peel, Jes Ayres Mariya Dimov, Charms City Company, BCM Bijous, Bricolage Bedlam.
4.5.12 “Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn — with Zoe Joy Einbinder, John Davis and Kat Zagaria.
4.4.12 Green is the colour- — with Kate Dawes, Joseph Rose, Zoe Joy Einbinder, Margaret Almon, Valeria Kremser and Nicole Wiegand.
4.3.12 They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly): — with Meg’s Ragged Edge, Kathryn Kelly, Jen Edwards Menkhaus, Joseph Rose and Kate Dawes.
March 31, 1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress was born. In photo: Kat Zagaria, Jackie Brown, Julie Rose, John Davis and Melynda Yesenia.
3.30.12 So the question in my mind this marnin’ when i woke up was: i wonder what the etymology of backgammon is. to alleviate this burning question for you to, here it is: 1640s, baggammon, the second element from M.E. gamen, ancestor of game; the first element because pieces are sometimes forced to go “back.” Known 13c.-17c. as tables.
And, here is a picture of our April window!
3.29.12 This is the craft pricing guideline i give out to folk- and now i’m giving it to YOU!
3.28.12 Mirror, mirror in your pocket will always show how much you ROCK IT! Eileen Litchendorf Herbst
3.27.12 In honor of the cool weather, our picture of the day features cool colors! BCM Bijous, LLC, Nutmeg Designs, Michael Scott-Straight
3.24.12 Give a hand to The Soft Palate when she starts grad school here in Philly! End of Season SALE on her classic necklace design which she paired with these unique stones.
3.23.12 From Bug juice to Beaujolais and all libations in between- liquids have never been placed in vessels as lovely as these! by Jeanne Lombardo Intuition
3.22.12 Its time to enjoy bikes of all kinds, see cityscapes and urban bats! Kaye Rachelle Designs, Sharif Pendleton, Angela Davidson, SquarePeg ArterySalvage
3.21.12 Here’s one for your brain sprockets and The Art of Inspiration!
3.20.12 I feel i don’t plug our fine arts enough. We have oil paintings, photography, letterpress prints, lino prints, digital prints, + more- and run the gamut of subject matter!
3.16.12 Emblazon your person with these earrings from Jill Ellen Goodman- Ruggieri on St. Patrick’s Day. They have the spectacular ability to either repel or attract your fellow human, depending on which you desire!
3.14.12 Last day for Jes Ayres’ 15% OFF SALE! ALL proceeds from Je Suis will go to benefit the International Women’s Day initiative. For more info regarding the 3/14 Philly event, go to: internationalwomensday.com
3.13.12 Thankfully Angela Davidson is helping with the animal euphoria im still feeling from the Mwc Art “Beasts” show!
3.10.12 The opening show for Mwc Art “Beasts” with ACCT Pen Pals and Love Four Paws was such a jubilant time there will be another chance to share yer luvin’ with wee beasties (that need adoption) at their closing show on April 20th, from 6-8pm!
3.9.12 I’ve never seen a ‘hamster kitten’, but there will be one at the shop tonight- along with other kittens and puppies for the Midwives Collective & Gallery & ACCT Pen Pals ‘Beasts’ show! 6-8pm. whoseawittlesnugglebottoms?
3.8.12 SOLAR FLARE SALE! Anything magnetic (magnets, jewelry with magnetic clasps, etc.) 10% off Today!
3.6.12 New felted card cases and jewelry including this seriously awesome piece by Jen Edwards Menkhaus are at the shop this very second!
3.3.12 Welcome new artisan Jes Ayres of @buyjesuis to the SquarePeg ArterySalvage fold. Sophisticated, elegant and FAIR TRADE jewelry when ya gatta impress!
3.2.12 Just one of the exquisite pieces sent by Heather Jones for our The Art of Inspiration project! More images to come…
3.1.12 Our march window! — with Janis Pinkston, Krista Peel, Victor Fiorillo, Nicole Wiegand, Sharif Pendleton, Jen Edwards Menkhaus, Margaret Almon, Jeanne Lombardo Intuition, Julie Rose, Gretchen McHale Aregood, Jen McCleary and Heather Longfeather.
2.29.12 Another batch of pieces for our ‘The Art of Inspiration’ project from the lovely Jeanne Lombardo Intuition! Thank you Jeanne!
2.28.12 Let the sunshine let the sunshine let the sunshine in- through our new collage-esque stained glass pieces!
2.25.12 We just received our first snail-mailed pieces for our “The Art of Inspiration” project. Thank you Jenny Alexander!
2.24.12 New screen printed textile designs and home accessories (like table runners!) from Kaye Rachelle Designs!
2.23.12 Embrace your inner animalophilia by getting one of these spectacular cassette card cases by orangemich! (as you can see, non-animal ones too!)
2.22.12 Its fetching to support type casting! Vintage typewriter key rings, bobby pins, and sweater clips at Square Peg Artery & Salvage.
2.21.12 Just one example of the sophisticated and elegant jewelry designs we have by Krista Peel!
2.18.12 Just back from the BMAC! — with Nicole Smalls Krecicki, Victoria Percy and Nicole Wiegand.
2.17.12 If you are a person, and are smitten with things that have persons on them- we have some choice items just for YOU! — with Jenny Alexander, Darlene Ostrowski, Kate Dawes and Joseph Rose.
2.16.12 Aren’t eye spams weird? Leftie has been twitching for almost a full 5 minutes now. This really has nothing to do with the picture that i’m posting today… unless it makes your eye twitch too. Which would give me a slightly sadistic pleasure knowing i have company.
2.15.12 New journaliciousness by new artisan Heather Longfeather! All materials are recycled/reclaimed- Yeehaw!
2.14.12 Ripping out your heart and giving it to your loved one, would i believe, be considered a handmade gift- but giving a handmade gift from Square Peg is significantly less messy! Sales in shop today! — with Zoe Joy Einbinder.
2.11.12 The spoken word is fleeting, but a card can endure until the end of days!
TODAY anything in the shop that’s Valentine oriented, red and/or pink is on SALE for 1 5 % off- And get a free gift with purchase (whilst supplies last!). — with Heather Jones, Joseph Rose, Kate Dawes and Melynda Yesenia, Tinkerkate.
2.10.12 Pin yer loved one down with these brooch/pin/tie pins that are on SALE! Also anything in the shop that’s Valentine oriented, red and/or pink on SALE TODAY for 10% off- And get a free gift with purchase (whilst supplies last!). — with Margaret Almon.
2.9.12 Never leave me… at least without cab fare home. Yeah, that’s right- i said CAB FARE. — with Kate Dawes, Joseph Rose and Pat Henriques.
2.8.12 Hearts (and spleens) take flight on acrylic laser cut aeroplanes by Amy Buller!
2.7.12 Extol your gratitude for written (and yet gestational) words on Charles Dickens day of birth TODAY, by supporting self published writers and book makers! — with Danamarie Hosler, Kat Zagaria, Bonnie MacAllister, Valeria Kremser, Marsha Bailey and Barry George.
2.3.12 Alright- so ya think valentine’s day is dumb. But itsa really important time for independent businesses and artisans to get back on top of the cupid and recover from the January sales lull! Show us yer love! — with Colleen Heineman, Valeria Kremser and Darlene Ostrowski.
2.2.12 Be Locketed, Loaded & Loved with new pieces by DoBatsEatCats on Etsy! 12 Days Left!
2.1.12 We just happen to have the perfect non-valentine, Feb. 14th gift! Fine Art prints from Jill Remer of Hazel and Nikita!
1.31.12 From SquarePeg ArterySalvage to YOU! by Rachel King Birch.
1.28.12 Give a loved one the gift of enchanting flight! with Rich Cotton.
1.27.12 Yeah, baby ~ we got heart! — with Kate Dawes, Janis Pinkston, Gretchen McHale Aregood, Rachel King Birch, Val Lucas, Laura Luttrell, Jurgita Cenkute, Black Heart Letterpress, Allison Ostertag, Olivia McPherson, Kathryn Kelly, Joseph Rose, Victoria Percy, Nicole Smalls Krecicki, Natasha Nicole Mark, Jenny Alexander, Danamarie Hosler, Darlene Ostrowski and Laura Annis.
1.26.12 Handmade! Cooked your way, everyday! — with Laura Luttrell, Valeria Kremser and Melynda Yesenia.
1.25.12 PUT A RING ON IT! preferably this one~ with Jurgita Cenkute and Square Pin.
1.24.12 New vintage photograph mini journals and deep red knit shawl in today!
1.21.12 New glorious and elegant works from Venus in Chains and Fabricatedends!
1.20.12 New beguiling bright colors available in umpteen variations at SquarePeg ArterySalvage! — with Julie Rose and Jessica Eldredge.
1.19.12 “Warm colors rev us up and get us going. The warmth of red, yellow, & orange can create excitement. Warm colors convey emotions like simple optimism. ” — with Jen McCleary, Gretchen McHale Aregood, Jill Davis, Valeria Kremser and Mariya Dimov.
1.18.12 Example No. 5602 of the most unique, unconventional, and irresistible jewelry on this plane! — with Gretchen McHale Aregood, Olivia McPherson, Shelly Rabuse, Laura Bodzioch Zimmaro, Margaret Almon, Jen McCleary and Zoe Joy Einbinder.
1.17.12 Combat the cold with handmade winter-wear, and pretties to match! — with Laura Luttrell, BCM Bijou, Maria Isabel Schroder and Margaret Almon.
1.14.12 New lovelies from BCM Bijous, LLC! — with Olivia McPherson.
1.13.12 Christiana Kugel of The Midwives Collectiv’s opening show is tonight from 6-8pm! 108 S. 20th St, 19103
1.10.12 New charms from Charm City Company! Choose your animal spirit and/or house pet.
1.7.12 Jill Remer’s photographic works will be on display in The Bare Bulb Mini Gallery through the end of the month. Here are just a few!
“This collection of work is made with various medium format photography techniques, showcasing places in Jill Remer’s life. Jill is a constant photographer, inspired craft maker, and life long collector.”
1.6.12 Yesterday was the bestest day! New items in from Bonnie MacAllister, Nicole Wiegand, Nicole Smalls Krecicki, Margaret Almon and welcome Laura Lutrell to the Square Peg fold!
1.4.12 Expand your knowledge and creativity by making marks in these expertly bound journals by Kat Zagaria. They open from left to right, right to left, top to bottom AND bottom to top. No pigeon holin’ here!
1.3.12 Our new knit shawls are just like the cosy hugs we want to give everyone who supported our artisans this holiday season!
12.30.11 Today is yer last chance to support folk who make items with their very own hands at Square Peg so YOU LOOK PHENOMENAL this New Year’s Eve- and the first day of 2012!
12.29.11 Bedazzle & Beguile this New Year’s Eve!
12.28.11 Celebrate this TIME of a New Year with TIME PIECE embellishments! Jewelry, Cuff Links and Hair Accessories!
12.27.11 Nifty New Year’s Eve Accoutrements by Jeanne Lombardo Intuition, Jenny Alexander, Sharif Pendleton, and, Joseph Rose & Kate Dawes!
12.24.11 It was the day before Christmas & all through the Shop, handmade items were glittering just like the Big Top! (??)
12.23.11 Lovely items for baby- or for those with wee heads and feets- all handmade by Philly locals!
12.22.11 Bedeck the halls of your person with colorful and unique handmade designs from the artisans of Square Peg! Kids and mens bedecking too! — with Olivia McPherson
12.20.11 Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah and we have an abundance of spectacular handmade gifts! — with Kate Dawes and Joseph Rose.
12.18.11 We’re getting lotsa new items in just about everyday! 100% recycled candles from Julie Rose and beaded masterpieces from Maria Isabel Schroeder!
12.17.11 Warm n silken children’s ponchos and wee one’s hats by Lynda Schwechtje and Maria Schroeder are now available just in time for the holidays!
12.16.11 Decorations to enhance your character- unique, one of a kind, jewels of all kinds! — with Shelly Rabuse.
12.15.11 One of the finest amalgamations of function and fine art, and the perfect gift item for anyone who possesses a wee plane of metal. Glass magnets from Tana Reynolds of Copious Glass.
12.14.11 Give the gift of… gifts! Gifts for friends! Gifts for family! Gifts for pets! Most importantly- Gifts for yourself! Share and support handmade gifties!
12.13.11 12,846 in 12,846 doctors agree that the best way to counter massive caloric intake is to buy handmade from independent businesses! — with Zoe Joy Einbinder
12.9.11 Treats for the feets by the renowned Jurgita Cenkute! Oodles of scarves, wrist warmers, jewelry, booties, slippers, felted soaps and other creations at SquarePeg ArterySalvage!
12.7.11 Etymology of “book”: boc “book, writing, written document,” traditionally from P.Gmc. *bokiz “beech” (cf. Ger. Buch “book” Buche “beech;” see beech), the notion being of beechwood tablets on which runes were inscribed, but it may be from the tree itself.
And now as ornamentation and trimming for your person, by Valeria Kremser!
11.30.11 Hundreds of unique handmade gifts for all occasions! — with Gretchen McHale Aregood and Mariya Dimov.
11.25.11 Witness the stunning designs, textures and hues of our newest jewelry artisan, Gretchen McHale Aregood!
11.22.11 Bring instant levity to your or a loved one’s life with taxidermy magnets by BetheAbsurd. We have tops and bottoms which can be mixed and matched to create your own animals, like this Ponydoodledo!
11.19.11 Could you imagine a world absent of eco-friendly felt finger puppets? Nope- neither can we.
11.18.11 Welcome Jen Menkhaus to the Square Peg fold! Brilliantly hued felted jewelry and hair accessories are now available at the shop! — with Jen Edwards Menkhaus.
11.16.11 A bevy of kitschy journals from BetheAbsurd! Spanning from the late 60′s to the early 90′s Americana has been captured and bound!
11.15.11 Pending Pollyanna Party at Work? Come see our office friendly and unique gifts!
11.12.11 A glimpse of two of our purdy red adornments by Jurgita Cenkute and Shelly Rabuse!
11.11.11 Catch our eye dazzling dichroic fused glass bee pins by Laura Bodzioch Zimmaro!
11.10.11 New rib-tickling and utterly wacky magnets from Beth Richey! Ya just gatta see for yourself!
11.9.11 New copper masterpieces from Mariya Dimov!
11.2.11 Exactly 21 days left to donate handmade items for Project Handmade Warmth! (see Notes for more info.) So far we have 37 scarves, 16 hats and 2 cowls. 245 more items needed to meet our goal! Please help the homeless men, women and children of Philadelphia!
11.1.11 Honestly the best assortment of critter carriers evah! Made by Jurgita Cenkute.
