Fall

                                              Photo by Jeff Scooler

                                              www.ScooyouPhotography.Etsy.com

How I LOVE fall! It is my very favorite season. One of my favorite things to see is the beautiful yellow, red and orange leaves blowing by on a sunny day. I so enjoy the pumpkin patch, decorating and of course Halloween!! Its even more special when you have a little one to share it with.

Every year, I make pumpkin bread. It is delicious, healthy and my own recipe.

Pumpkin Bread - Makes 2 loaves

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup wheat germ
• 2 1/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
• 1 1/3 cup dark brown sugar (I use 1/2 raw sugar and 1/2 brown sugar)
• 2 t. baking soda
• 1 t. salt
• 2 t. cinnamon
• 1/2 t. nutmeg
• 1/2 t. ground cloves
• 1 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 2 cups pureed pumpkin
• 4 eggs

Combine dry ingredients. Combine applesauce, pumpkin and eggs seperately and add to dry. Stir just until combined. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes.

• 1/2 - 1T. unsalted butter (optional)
• cinnamon & sugar mixture (optional)

Melt butter and brush over loaves. Sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar.

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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. 

Mary Engelbreit Ad

My ad came out! I got it through etsy. Etsy did a fantastic job and the ad looks great. Its in the August/September issue of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion. I love the magazine. I used to 

subscribe and recently renewed my subscription. I LOVE that the magazine features artists , I like to read how they got they started out and how they got to where they are now. I especially love the halloween and christmas isues. I've gotten lots of ideas on decorating and look forward to those issues every year.

Here's my newest piece, Mystic Garden Earrings. This piece took me so long that its the only one I got done this week. I obsessed and obsessed about the perfect stones to use. I drove my hubby nuts, asking almost constantly if I should use ruby or pink tourmaline? It was tedious but I got through it and I love how it turned out. I have enough materials to make another pair but honestly, I don't think I have the patience to make another. I will be listing these on my etsy shop later today. It has faceted mystic topaz, moss amethyst, iolite, labradorite and pink tourmaline.


Today we are going to my moms to make soap. Hubby wants to go to a cemetery to take pictures. Then, we are going to pick raspberries and snow peas.

Gpysy Challenge

My EAST team - The EarthPath Artisans Street Team is having a Gypsy Design Challenge. Team members have taken their interpretation of what the word "Gypsy" conjures up for them, and created new pieces in a variety of media.

So stop by the EAST Challenge page on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/earthpathchallenge to see pictures of the entries, and then go and vote at the EAST blog http://earthpathartisans.blogspot.com/ You can also see many of the entries in the members' shops by visiting the team shop's favorite items page http://earthpathartisans.etsy.com/ Voting ends July 21st

I am not participating in the challenge. Hopefully, the next challenge I will have more free time to create. I have been so busy lately. I opened up a second etsy shop http://www.soulysupplies.etsy.com/ I am selling rare, designer beads and supplies. And I am also helping my hubby run his photgraphy shop http://www.scooyouphotography.etsy.com/ He is very talented so check out his shop for very unique and amazing photography.


Here is one of my newest pieces. Earrings made with sterling silver turkish silver findings. It has labradorite and iolite wire wrapped around the edges. And a blue labradorite briolette in the middle.