Meet The Vendor: Linda Hardin

Here's another one of the Craftacular Craft & Vendor Fair's vendors. Are you getting as excited as I am?

Linda Hardin

1) Your name and the name of your business

Linda Hardin of Polka Dot Ideas

2) What will you be sharing at the event?

Handmade, colorful, coordinating home decorating items to dress an ordinary room including pocket pillows, lampshade slipcovers, monogram wall and table top art. I also have many gift items just for fun such as tutus, tooth fairy pillows, jewelry bags, as well as some holiday themed items, gift bags and tags, and decorative banners. I welcome custom requests to match any theme or color scheme!

3) How long have you been doing this?

I have been sewing window treatments and bedding for more than twenty years but this creative venture started with a friend in 2009.

4) What is your favorite thing about doing what you do?

Colorful fabrics and beautiful papers inspire me and I love the design process of taking raw materials and mixing and matching patterns to create my ideas. Shopping for fabric makes my day.

5) What is your favorite book?

The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

6) How can people get in touch with you?

By email at PolkaDotIdeas@gmail.com or by phone 540-420-9049. You can view some of my items and show photos on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/polkadotideas/sets/72157631161778052/ Someday soon, I hope to have an ecommerce website.

7) Is there any piece of trivia about yourself that people might find interesting or amusing?

I have lived in eleven states and one foreign country, Spain. As a child, I lived off the Rota Naval base in Puerto de Santa Maria. That’s the port where one of Christopher Columbus’ ships, the Santa Maria, sailed from in 1492. The fact that the city was centuries old impressed me even as a child.

8) What did you want to be when you grew up?

A writer, or an interior designer, or a merchandiser…I’m still deciding.

9) What is your favorite animal?

The hedgehog, but you wouldn’t know that by my collection of watercolor paintings of birds from artists around the world.

10) Do you have another ‘real world’ occupation or hobby?

Yes, I am a medical accounts receivable specialist by day.


I really do hope you will check out Linda's Flickr page. Her stuff is seriously cute!