Portland City Sampler

PIAC - Portland Independent Artisans Cooperative gathered 100 handmade items from 20 local artists for a unique October City Sampler available at the Sampler Website on October 1st

www.homeofthesampler.com/city/portland.html

Here are some of the items:

Autumn Comfort donated 80 soy candles. I can 

only imagine how delicious they must smell.

I'll take one in every scent please!              

Ruby Girl donated 50 pairs of gemstone

earrings. These are so beautiful and the 

quality looks exceptional! I am in awe of her

skills.

Zeldaloo donated 25 lady dolls. I want one!!

You can tell these were made with lots of

love and details.

Bread and Badger donated 100 etched glass

pins. I love all of bread and badgers items!

I would love to order every item in her shop!

Leah Pellegrini donated 100 glass

dangles. These are so bright and cheerful! 

She has such cool items in her shop!

Eye Pop Art donated 100 mandala window 

decals. How cool are these? I want all of 

them!

Skyisland donated 50 lampworked beads.

She is such a amazing artist!! Her beads and

jewelry is so unique, I've never seen anything

like it.

Lolly-Tots donated 100 stickers. These are 

so cute and cheerful. Her art just warms

your heart.

Trillium Artisans donated 15 catnip slugs. 

These were made with reclaimed, donated 

fabric. What a treat for your cat!

Scooyou Photography (my hubby!) donated

25 Photography ACEO's. He is one of the

best photographers in the world.

I donated 25 pairs of sterling silver pyrite 

druzy earrings

www.pdxindie.com

www.homeofthesampler.com/shop.html

Spirited Autumn Event Sale

Get ready for The Spirited Autumn Event! From Monday, September 22nd (the Fall Equinox) until Monday, October 6, Members of Etsy's Earthpath Artisans Street Team is offering special promotions on selected items in their shops. The event focuses on Fall Themed and Magical items, just in time for Halloween! Use TSAE as a search term to find sales items from our members or click on the link below

http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title&search_query=tsae

I am offering 15% off the items in my spirited sales section.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=56295&section_id=5644153

Latourell Falls

Photos by Jeff Scooler

www.ScooyouPhotography.Etsy.com

My knee has been injured most of the summer so I haven't been posting much. Finally, its getting better. Last Sunday, we went to Latourelle Falls which is in the Columbia River Gorge. It is quite beautiful there with a very short trail to the fall. Not quite as beautiful as Multnomah Falls but much less touristy. 

I have been working on my fall line. I'm making pieces with rich browns, dark oranges, velvety purples and golden yellows. Several pieces will be made with 14 KT gold fill and vermeil. Here is one of my newest. It is made with warm orange red fossilized coral and hammered 14KT gold filled chain. Vermeil Clasp. I was fascinated to learn that fossil coral is mined in Indonesia from pits and trenches dug in the jungle and along stream beds that was under water billions of years ago. Reefal Limestones are fossil remains of coral reefs. The calcium is leached out of the limestone and replaced as silica. This process is referred to as silification. The result of the silification is the creation of fossil coral.