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  • shop update

    Hi there. I’m still working on integrating our new store – with unique furniture, wood, glass, ceramic, and textile items from a number of craftspeople whose work I really respect – but until then I just wanted to let you all know that I’ve dropped in an Amazon store at the "shop" link above. Their affiliate store system is still under development and leaves a bit to be desired, but it’s a halfway decent way to pull together some good books and a few bargain furniture items that they currently have available.

  • Subscribe to Hewn & Hammered via email

    Folks have asked for a way to subscribe to Hewn & Hammered by email, and while I certainly hope that everyone does come to the site from time to time – clicking on our ads and visiting our sponsors pays the bills – I can certainly understand that it can be a pain to return to the same site several times without any new content being posted.

    By subscribing to our feed via email, you’ll only get a message when a new article is added; simply fill out the form below, and you’re set. Alternately, if you use an RSS reader or a web browser that is RSS-aware, you can subscribe to our regular rss feed, which also includes photographs from our Flickr stream and lots of other goodness.

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  • tiny problem with our feed.

    Hello. There’s a tiny problem with our feed, as you may have noticed – lots of photos that should not be there. Please don’t unsubscribe – we’ll try to fix it within a few hours!

  • We’re in Print

    The current issue of Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival – #2, Summer 2006 – includes an article on A&C-related weblogs. Mary Ellen Polson is kind enough to mention us in her article, along with plenty of worthier sites; she suggests getting started at houseblogs.net, which aggregates articles from over a dozen houseblogs (that is, weblogs not just about houses but about a particular house or remodel/restore project). Houseblogs is run by our good friends Aaron & Jeannie from House in Progress, and also includes an advice column and plenty of other useful goodness.

    Polson also suggests Bill Champman’s enonhall.com, housemade.blogspot.com, run by an Oakland couple who are coming along quite nicely with their Spanish Revival bungalow, and prairiemod.com, an excellent and relatively new site devoted solely to the Prairie movement to the ideas and ideals of the Prairie School and its application to today’s modern life (thanks for the correction!).

  • The New Look

    Welcome to the 80% finished almost-all-new Hewn & Hammered. The shop is not yet online, but please do explore some of our new features – bigger & better photo albums, a calendar (which doesn’t yet much much content, sorry – please send in events!) and the home registry, which we hope you’ll add your own house to. And remember – visiting our advertisers pays the bills. Let us know what doesn’t work – I’m sure there are a few things (at least!) here and there. And if you have some constructive criticism regarding the design, please let us know in the comments below. Thanks for returning again & again – knowing that we now have several hundred regular visitors makes this worth doing.

  • Craftsman Home Registry: add your home!

    On the redesigned, all-new Hewn & Hammered, this map and the associated registry/database will have a more prominent location. For the time being, I urge you to add your own home & forward it to friends who might want to add theirs.

  • images

    Sorry if a few images are not displaying correctly – this problem should be corrected soon.

  • New Search Window

    Please try the new search box I just added in the right-hand column and let me know if it works well enough; hopefully I’ve followed Matt Haughey’s example and it’s fine.

  • 2006 Bloggies

    Hello. It would be really terrific for our traffic and would be a great late holiday gift to me if you, dear regular readers, would take 2 or 3 minutes and nominate us for a Bloggie Award – that is, if you think we deserve one. I assume we would fit into the craft or topical subject categories, although I’m unsure of which of those best applies.