Pack Rat wants you to tell us what you need and we’ll take heed and lead you in the right direction for perfection. See what we’re saying? We’re not playin’, so stop delayin’ and make us your natural selection. It’s that great time of year again, East Coast boys and girls. The Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair’s [...]

Pack Rat has a new girlie crush! A’ight, haters. I’m gettin’ ready to drop some truth…or maybe truthiness? I love me some Stephen Colbert. Say what you will about me falling in to the hipster pothole that is Daily Show/Colbert Report (now you know what I’ve been doing when I’m not writing blogs), label me “main [...]

Pack Rat pledges allegiance to the United States of Craft If you have been reading this blog, or have in any other way been clued in to the arena of indie craft, then you’ve probably heard the buzz surrounding Handmade Nation, an independent film directed by the co-owner of Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery , Faythe [...]

Read the new issue of Pack Rat, and join in our birthday contest! Today’s frugal find comes from a fellow nut megger (if you can’t tell, I love my home state of Connecticut. Don’t underrate the Constitution State!). Carissa Black’s checkbook cover ($10) is just perfect. The design is neat, no frills with plenty of storage space, but [...]

My favorite Project Runway challenge of all time has to be from Season 3 when Tim Gunn takes the contestants to a recycling plant in New Jersey and tells them that they have to make outfits out of what they find in the bins. Recycled crafts are amazing to me, because they say so [...]