The Little Shop in a Great Big Wild
Creative Workshops & Supplies for the Handmade Life
Handcraft Haven & Homelife Mercantile in Cordova, Alaska since 1984
Art Supplies | Fine Yarns | Gifts | Jewelry
Upcoming Net Loft Workshops
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Learn to Crochet with The Woobles
Sign up here!Looking to learn how to crochet this summer? Learn how to crochet with The Woobles and Alena!
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Under the Sea Camp
Sign up here!Make under the sea inspired art. Learn to draw favorite sea creatures, needle felt, use watercolor and acrylic paint, and sew a felt fish.
Penguin Random House
Discover the Art of Field Sketching | Nature-Inspired Techniques for Pencil, Pen, and Watercolor
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Gardening & Outdoor
Explore our gardening and outdoor collection, thoughtfully curated quality products designed to help your outdoor vision come to life.
Upcoming Zoom Sessions
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Introduction to Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions: Getting Started Live Zoom
Register here!Dotty Widmann will be conducting an orientation zoom session that will introduce the different aspects and procedures for attending the Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions.
Orientations are suspended until after the new year, but one can register for the online sessions and watch online introduction in Teachable document.
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Gansey Construction Study Group
Register here!Join us in a study group for gansey construction live and online at The Net Loft.
Weekly group meets Thursdays at noon Alaska time in the shop and on zoom. Registration for the Gansey Project will provide link for participation
The Net Loft Current Events
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what listening looks like
Dotty WidmannA year ago, The Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions Book Club decided to read the book, “Braiding Sweetgrass”, by Robin Kimmerer. Our previous Book Club selection had been Hannah Hinchman’s...
what listening looks like
Dotty WidmannA year ago, The Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions Book Club decided to read the book, “Braiding Sweetgrass”, by Robin Kimmerer. Our previous Book Club selection had been Hannah Hinchman’s...
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across an endless sea
Dotty WidmannI have a friend who told me the story of how her grandfather had come many years ago from Japan, and landed on one of the islands in our regional...
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Dotty WidmannI have a friend who told me the story of how her grandfather had come many years ago from Japan, and landed on one of the islands in our regional...
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Happy Gansey Day
Dotty WidmannThursday, November 25, is the first ever International Gansey Day. I have been thinking on this, reflecting on our Cordova Gansey Project that started only 7 years ago, following a...
5 commentsHappy Gansey Day
Dotty WidmannThursday, November 25, is the first ever International Gansey Day. I have been thinking on this, reflecting on our Cordova Gansey Project that started only 7 years ago, following a...
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