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Promoting Creators in our Community<\/h1>\nPromoting Creators in our Community<\/h1>\nIntended to highlight our community artists,\u00a0Penguicon\u2019s Maker Market\u00a0<\/strong>spotlights crafts, art, and electronic projects. We do not accept resale vendors, which means our vendors have created or designed the products they sell.<\/p>\n Makers are selected by the Con Committee based on quality, variety, type of merchandise, relevance to the Penguicon concepts (Open Source and SF or general fandom), and whatever adds the most to the Penguicon experience.<\/p>\n These vendors (and more) can be found in the Secure Maker Market Room<\/strong>, just down the hall from the Registration Desk.<\/p>\n Geeks with Scissors<\/a> Everyday Gear for the Everyday Geek.<\/p>\n We make useful, durable, spectacularly geeky items for everyday wear and use. Wallets. Purses. Skirts. Bags.<\/p>\n Things to show off your geeky side, while being supremely practical.<\/p>\n Kemmer Woodworks<\/a> Kemmer Woodworks makes quality handmade wood products from both domestic and exotic woods.<\/p>\n We offer cutting boards, butcher blocks, plates, bowls and mugs.<\/p>\n We also have dice towers, dice trays and dice vaults along with board games such as chess, checkers, mancala and nine man’s Morris.<\/p>\n Lightning Bug Crafts<\/a> Lightning Bug Crafts was born at Penguicon 2018, after working with our sister business, Lyra\u2019s Starshine.<\/p>\n We make unique artwork, games, jewelry, and more by wood burning, drawing, painting, inlay, carving, and “captured lightning” pyrography.<\/p>\n If it\u2019s made of wood, we\u2019ll put artwork on it. If not, we’ll recreate it.<\/p>\n Lyra’s Starshine<\/a> Lyra’s Starshine is a family-run business named for our young daughter, who is named after a constellation.<\/p>\n We etch our original and your custom designs into granite and glass, capture lightning in wood, and produce fabric, vinyl and leather arts.<\/p>\n From sewn to stone, we’ll help you make it your own.<\/p>\n Mystic Metalworks<\/a> Mystic Metalworks is a Michigan based company who sells unique, handcrafted chainmaille and scalemaille oddities.<\/p>\n From hacky sacks to dice bags to tops, we love finding new ways to use our rings and scales.<\/p>\n Stop by to see our latest creations as well as our Penguicon penguin keychains!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Promoting Creators in our Community Intended to highlight our community artists,\u00a0Penguicon\u2019s Maker Market\u00a0spotlights crafts, art, and electronic projects. We do not accept resale vendors, which means our vendors have created or designed the products they sell. Makers are selected by the Con Committee based on quality, variety, type of merchandise, relevance to the Penguicon concepts (Open Source and SF or general fandom), and whatever adds the most to the Penguicon experience. These vendors (and more) can be found in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2019.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Makers in our Maker Market<\/h1>\n
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