Because she was happier when she was doing it, she would do more elaborate pictures, and before long, she would be selling them to art galleries, not arts-and-crafts stores or bars. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The arts-and-crafts retailer's board said the company is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, indicating it has received third-party expressions of interest. ❋ Donna Kardos Yesalavich (2011)
Brandi Ramundo of West Chicago, Ill., rushed out to a Michaels arts-and-crafts store April 16 to cobble together corsages for her seven-year-old twins, who were going to a father-daughter dance. ❋ Ann Zimmerman (2011)
It does help, especially the cooking classes she takes now and then, and the arts-and-crafts workshop where she learns how to make wallets and small things out of clay. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)
Above ground, there's a gym with changing rooms, his-and-hers offices, an arts-and-crafts room and a hairdressing area. ❋ Juliet Chung (2012)
In May, plaintiffs' attorneys in Massachusetts opened a new front, citing the California ruling in a putative class-action case against arts-and-crafts chain Michaels Stores Inc. That pending federal suit argues that asking for ZIP codes is a violation in Massachusetts, too. ❋ Erik Holm (2011)
As we neared the archeological park, we stopped at a roadside arts-and-crafts plaza and picked up Armando Bishop, who would be our guide to the monuments of Tikal. ❋ Meg Pier (2011)
Wurtz (b. 1948) takes sundry odds and ends, such as buttons, shoestrings, coat hangers, plastic bags and scraps of raw lumber, and transforms them (but not too much) into faces, trees, tiny villages, gardens and little trapeze-like swings—constructions whose misfit, arts-and-crafts quality is childish and endearing. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)
After Crail, the A917 hugs the east coast, traveling through the East Neuk of Fife, where one finds a string of ancient fishing villages from Anstruther, famous for its fish and chips; Pittenweem, known for its annual arts-and-crafts festival; and St. Monans, whose church, the Auld Kirk, has a sailing ship suspended from the ceiling, a nod to its maritime past. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Getty Images DJ James Murphy An ambitious project that pools together almost everything identifiable with a certain strain of Brooklyn culture circa 2011, the Brooklyn Night Bazaar will take over a "gargantuan" warehouse in Williamsburg and fill it with an arts-and-crafts gift mart, food and drink vendors, and a separate space for three nights of music. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)
In the past year, labor costs have risen 15% to 20% at Michaels Stores Inc.'s Chinese suppliers, says John Menzer , chief executive of the arts-and-crafts retailer. ❋ Justin Lahart (2011)
Occasionally, she would sell one or two of her works of calligraphy to one of the arts-and-crafts stores. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Irene was also good for business at Fantastic Kids Toys in New York City, where sales of board games and arts-and-crafts items surged on Friday and Saturday. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The onetime CEO of arts-and-crafts chain Michaels Inc. immediately increased sales at Sam's Club by refocusing the business to cater to more-upscale customers and by developing better private-label brands to compete with its more successful rival, Costco Wholesale Corp. ❋ Miguel Bustillo (2012)
Thieves tampered with debit-card processing equipment at Michaels arts-and-crafts stores as early as Feb. 8, nearly three months before customers who had used their bank cards at the chain first reported that their bank accounts had been looted, the retailer said. ❋ Ann Zimmerman (2011)
The Peeps came not like locusts but like meteors of great ambition and, yes, some arts-and-crafts psychosis. ❋ The Nag (2009)
