Handicraft is perceived as the manifestation of a self-managed and creative work, not disconnected from the impositions of the capitalist market, but guided by subjective components as perceived freedom, intrinsic meaning and personal development -some of the components found in leisure experiences as pointed out by some empirical research and the literature. This article aims to create approaches between the subjective qualities of the work of artisans and the characteristics of leisure experience. This article calls up a qualitative approach, based on an ethnographic research driven by the literature review of the concepts, making use of in-depth interview for data collection and identification method of the qualities of Personal Experiences of Leisure (MICEO) to examination. In the studied articulations it is observed that the artisans emphasize the satisfaction and personal development present in their office, among other things, that approaches those of a leisure experience.