Three Metro Detroit Makers You Need to Meet at the Honaker Home Scents & Crafty Day Events Market

This Saturday in Milford, three local makers are bringing handmade goods worth showing up for — here's who they are and what they make.

The Honaker Home Scents & Crafty Day Events outdoor market is this Saturday, May 23rd at Kensington Mill Falls Events in Milford. Eleven to five. Outdoor. Free to browse.

We already told you about the event. Now we want to tell you about the people.

Three Made in the D makers will be on the ground at this market. Each one is building something real — with their hands, their story, and their craft. Here's who they are.

Comfortably Uncomfortable Crafts

The name alone stops you.

Comfortably Uncomfortable Crafts was built on a simple but powerful idea — that there are ways to find comfort in life's discomfort. That philosophy shows up in everything this maker produces: unique hand-drawn coloring books, greeting cards, bookmarks, beaded plants, and more.

This is not generic gift shop art. Every piece is hand-drawn, which means every piece carries a specific point of view. The goal, as the maker puts it, is for people to find hope, humor, and relatability in the art. That combination — hope, humor, relatability — is rare. Most makers pick one. This one goes for all three.

If you've ever picked up a greeting card and felt like it was actually written for you, that's the feeling Comfortably Uncomfortable Crafts is chasing. The coloring books especially are worth a look — they're the kind of thing you buy for yourself and then immediately think of three people to give one to.

Find them at the Honaker market this Saturday and see the full line in person.

Koda's Home

Koda's Home is the kind of maker table that makes you slow down.

The product mix here is wide but intentional: charcuterie boards, woodworking, door signs, porch kneelers, shadow boxes, and quilting. At first glance those categories might seem unconnected. Look closer and the thread is clear — everything Koda's Home makes is built for the spaces where people actually live. The kitchen. The front door. The porch. The wall where a memory deserves a frame.

A charcuterie board from Koda's Home is not just a serving piece. It's the kind of thing that becomes the centerpiece of every gathering you host and the thing guests ask about every time. The door signs and porch kneelers hit the same note — handmade details that make a house feel like someone thought about it.

The quilting adds another dimension entirely. Quilts take time in a way that almost nothing else does. When you see one at a market table it means someone gave real hours to something that most people will never notice unless they stop to look.

Stop and look.

Luna's Designs

If Koda's Home is built around the interior of a home, Luna's Designs is built around its atmosphere.

Rustic wood crafts. White birch candle holders. Driftwood crafts. Live edge cutting boards. Centerpieces. And more.

Every piece Luna's Designs makes carries the feel of something found rather than manufactured — the kind of object that looks like it belongs somewhere specific, somewhere with texture and light and a story. 

White birch candle holders are a perfect example. Birch already has visual character before anyone touches it. What Luna's Designs does is take that natural quality and shape it into something purposeful — a holder, a centerpiece, a statement piece for a table or a shelf.

The live edge cutting boards are the kind of product that converts people on sight. No two are the same. That's not a marketing line — it's just what live edge wood is. Every board has its own grain, its own curve, its own character. That's the whole point.

Driftwood crafts carry the same energy. There's something about objects shaped by water and time that resonates in a way that factory-made goods simply can't replicate. Luna's Designs understands that and builds around it.

Come See Them Saturday

Three makers. One market. This Saturday, May 23rd from 11am to 5pm at Kensington Mill Falls Events, 2055 S. Milford Rd., Milford, MI 48381.

This is a free outdoor event. Show up, browse, and buy something made by a real person who put real work into it. That's exactly what Made in the D is here to celebrate.

— Made in the D · newsletter.madeinthed.com