Have to hype this place up! Fantastic customer service along with overall experience. We purchased…read morea few spots at a group class for my mother's birthday and unfortunately received a cancellation notice the day prior due to the instructor having COVID. However, they were quick to accommodate us with a private lesson that worked with our availability, and it was great! Matt is a great teacher that had us laughing even and was quick to provide helpful tips if it looked like we were struggling. The class allowed us to make our own bowls, then select a glaze from a number of great options they had and pick up the pieces about a week and a half later. We had so much fun and will definitely be back!

My daughter and I decided to take a pottery class for a month while she was home on summer break…read morefrom college just to spend quality time together. Neither of us had any experience with pottery. Matt, the instructor, was super engaging, had a great a sense of humor, and just made the whole experience fun for us. He's also a very good teacher. Within no time, we were making bowls and mugs, and I absolutely fell in love with creating something with my hands and "getting lost" in the process. I got hooked, and I've been coming back every month for over a year. Huge thank you to Matt, Jenna, and Jodie for all your great instruction!

Burkhead is a lovely art center located in a rural setting between Snohomish and Monroe. Gorgeous…read morelandscaping, roamed by wild peacocks. Classes are available in Ceramics, painting, metalwork, and jewelry. The big hit here is pottery. Studio memberships are available for independent work, and both beginners and advanced potters work in a supportive, well-furnished environment. Highly recommend!

A great place to unloose your creative side! Never attempted ceramics before? No problem, take a…read morebeginning wheel or handbuild class. Always wanted to paint but afraid to try? Nope! Watercolor, acrylic or my personal fave, encaustic (hot wax and a torch, what not to love??). Seriously, Burkhead is a welcoming environment for people of all skill levels

I'm a traveling knitter, and I felt welcomed. The shop was tidy, unique and plenty of staff to…read morehelp. The selection of yarn was exquisite. I hope I get to come back!

My favorite yarn shop in the area. Every staff member I've interacted with is fabulous and very…read morehelpful with any questions I've had. Such a great selection of yarn. Plus I love that they have a rewards card.

I am in love with this shop. My first visit, the owner was helpful, friendly, and connected on a…read morepersonal level. Everything in the shop is very original and makes a magnificent gift that you wouldn't find anywhere else. Since I went there the first time, I have stopped by whenever I'm in town. For the Everett Art Walk, the owner, Tami Walker, had a fondue fountain and many things to dip in. There was also an adorable folksy band playing. Everyone had a great time. This is more than just a store, it's an experience every time you enter. One of my favorite places in Washington.

From what I could tell from peeking in the windows (Boxyqueen's wasn't open on Easter) this place…read moreconvincingly resembles the name "gallery of awesome". A variety of intriguing handmade etsy-style necklaces, paintings, and art pieces decorate the windows and interior and seem to be adding some much-needed excitement to Everett.

I'm amazed at the great work and service we received at Anabel' in Everett. The staff was…read moreincredibly helpful and creative in helping my wife and I select mattes amd frames for our Dead and company posters. They also put in extra effort to make sure we got the frames we selected after the manufacturer made changes to the frame.

I like to get my art work framed here at Annabel's for great creative style and personal…read moreinteraction. I purchased basic frames here for the annual Santa pictures, the children's school pictures and Christmas gift giving. They are a little more expensive but also a nicer caliber of frame. I think it's time to frequent speciality shops for the expertise we lose at big discount stores. This is a speciality shop with character, talent and ability to inspire those paintings on the wall to have a creative flare without the conformity of Target/Walmart interior design shopping.

Highly recommend for summer camp! Heart Art Studio offered a magical, peaceful and beautiful camp…read moreexperience for my child, and she came home with a huge bag filled with all the treasures she created. We will be back!

I love this studio. It is so special to find an inclusive and encouraging environment to share and…read morecreate art in. Thank you for bringing this magical world to us

Machine taken repair gets heavier every year! Wonderful,…read moreenergetic helper on her way before I got to the door. Very intuitive and practiced as she began her inspection to help ID the problem and if it could be corrected before 'sending it off" Another knowledgeable, and able, helper was there to assist and problem was solved!! Two very engaging, experienced young women! Hitting the "!" key is not exaggerated! Decided to have service done and looking forward to a renewed, well-running machine after much neglect over time.

I showed up on Black Friday looking for a new vacuum to replace my 6-7 year old Shark. The Shark…read morehas been fine, it's needed a brush replacement and plenty of filter replacements and cleanings as it's bagless, but it's just not really keeping up with our two dogs and current lifestyle. Amanda greeted me right away and started getting information on what I was looking for, what machine I have currently, aspects of my house layout that might impact my decision, etc. My own research on what to get next led me to SEBO, and Amanda demo'd both the Felix (which is what I was originally thinking would be a good fit) and the E3 (which ended up being a better fit and what I ended up going with). The E3 has been amazing. It doesn't try to sell you with all kinds of gimmicky technology, sensors, systems, etc. It has just enough to make sure I am at the right brush height, don't have anything stuck, and can alert me to when the bag needs changing. The SEBO does as well in one pass as the Shark would do only after I took a rubber broom to loosen up all the embedded dog hair, and it can get all the way under furniture my Shark had no chance to get under because it can lay practically flat. And the kicker? It's even quieter than the Shark. I never thought I'd be spending four-digits on a vacuum cleaner but, like with my Herman Miller office chair, this is one of those buy once, cry once kind of things (or at least buy once every decade or more kind of things). The warranty is fantastic and knowing I can just bring it to my closest Quality S&V location for service is even better. No futzing with online claims, no shipping, no waiting for contractors to come out, I can just bring it in locally. Thanks Amanda, and thanks Quality Sewing & Vacuum! :)

Makerspace everywhere is amazing! But a 24-hour Makerspace! This is such an amazing resource for…read morethe community!

This is an amazingly well-equipped _nonprofit_ maker space. I drive all the way from Redmond to…read moremake stuff. Before I get into the stuff, I want to point out that the greatest strength of the place is that it's a community. I'm a regular member, and in awe at the work that the volunteers do to make it great for everyone. I try to do my part too. Most of the good stuff is for members only, but they also have regular classes that are open to non-members. Membership covers rent on the space, use and maintenance of equipment, and lots of basic supplies. It's well-equipped enough for advanced makers, and supportive and welcoming enough for newbies. Here's my descriptive tour: The space is in a building with businesses on the ground floor, and apartments above. The front door leads past some salons. The door to the space is on the left near the end of the hall. To get in, members use an RFID key; visitors are let in by a member or just walk in on open house days. There's a large multi-purpose room with big tables and lots of tools and supplies along the walls. The biggest tool in the room is a heavy duty sewing machine; I think it can stitch through leather. There's a door to a deck where members can do outdoor work. The front room opens into a lounge area with more tables and quite a few bookshelves full of books and board games. In the hall, there's a space for members' lockers. Just beyond that is the wood shop, which has all sorts of useful hand tools and power tools. There's a large CNC milling machine that I really want to learn how to use. There's a cool dust-removal system. About the only wood shop tool that I can think of that's absent is a lathe. There's a bathroom with a cool light fixture and the necessary facilities. Around a corner, there's a space for some typical office equipment. Opposite, the 3D printing room has enough filament 3D printers that I've never heard of all of them being busy or out of service at once. There's a resin 3D printer that builds layers through a high-resolution optical process, inside a booth that contains the fumes well enough that its weird smells are imperceptible through the rest of the space. There's a 3D scanner that I want to try out. (Unlike most stuff at the space, 3D printers have a per-hour cost to use, which covers filament and maintenance.) Next is the electronics room. I don't know much about the stuff in there, but every time I've asked about something electronic, someone has told me, "Yeah, we have that." People make cool robot stuff there. The fiber arts room has a computer embroidery machine that I'm looking forward to making stuff with. There's a projection system for cutting fabric from projected digital patterns (instead of old-fashioned tissue paper patterns). There's a lot of other sewing equipment, and stuff for other fiber arts, such as knitting. Across from the fiber arts room is a kitchen, more like an office break room than a full-featured kitchen, but great for making tea or coffee, or warming up snacks from the Safeway across the street. Around another corner is the laser room. It has a Mira 9, a fast, powerful laser cutter with a large workspace (two by three feet). There's also a Glowforge, a desktop sized laser cutter. (Laser cutters have an hourly fee because they're maintenance is expensive.) Finally, there's the Wazer room. What'a Wazer? It's a waterjet cutting machine, which can cut through metal, ceramic, glass, possibly even kryptonite. It uses water at extremely high pressure, with a slurry of garnet abrasive. I want to learn to use it! (It has a fee because maintenance and the garnet are expensive.) The Wazer room opens to a small deck. About the only maker department that isn't well covered is metalworking. A _few_ of the woodworking tools can also be used on metal, the Wazer can cut metal, and the Dremel in the craft zone can be used on metal. But if you want to do welding, forging, heavy-duty bending, casting, and so forth, there aren't a lot of options in metro Seattle. It's also not a ceramics shop. I've been a member for quite a while, which is about as strong an endorsement as I can offer.