Laurelhurst Park Goodness

Etsy Tea Time in Laurelhurst Park

Sept 6th - it was a bopping good time - crafting goodness galore!

pictured to the left: Danielle making boxes for packaging (so cute!)

When I first arrived Lea was taking pictures in the perfect sunny yet cloudy outdoor light. I had to take pictures of her DIY setup - its brilliant. Cut the sides out of a box and tape on velum/tissue or some other semi-translucent paper, take outside for natural lighting:












I went and took some pictures of the lake in Laurelhurst... its just so beautiful, with all the ducks and Oregon lush goodness. Its particularily overgrown with algae at the moment though, so its kindof neon. And its roped off so people don't continue to throw bread to the cute ducks... thats what offset the algae balance problem...




Lots of people came today! Myself, Lea, Danielle, Judi, Mel, Jessi and her two youngest, Eliza, Sam, Audrey and her mom, Aimee and Mary. Whew thats a mouthful, and a lotta links! (please convo me reminders for links that i got wrong or forgot)














Crafting Goodness was happening right and left, there was felting and knitting, metalworking, paper-folding, popcorn eatting, lemondade making, trunk show planning... oh and I did a little mobile making.



Here you can see me showing off my brilliant new earrings from
MissPurl - and how they most amazingly and perfectly match the orange/red ring that I recently made myself. I am obsessed with orange. What better color of ring to make myself!

Making Promo Bags

promo bags in a box 8-30
Originally uploaded by LeahPellegrini

Tea time was lovely - isn't it always!!! (especially Etsy style tea time!)

Today we met up in Laurelhurst Park. It was a beautiful day. We sat around the orange table cloth and chatted. Aimee brought the most yummy treats - much including lemonade turned purple with fresh picked (by her!) frozen Chester black berries... ummmmmm

We made promo bags for the exciting upcoming Etsy End of the Summer Sale out in Lincoln City. The bags are awesome! Pins and stickers and bookmarks and beads, moo cards and other business cards and fliers galor - oh these are some tempting little promotional bags to hand out. So many goodies - ah the traffic we will drive to our Etsy stores! We outdid ourselves if you ask me! And I picked up more cards and buttons to include from Mary on the way home.


It was also our honor to have the chance to celebrate for LittlePutBooks. We are all stoked for Ryan achieving a landmark in sales - 3000 - in under a year! She is an amazing and generous friend - its awesome that her goodness is rewarded on Etsy with such sucess. Kudos!

So... we are all very excited about the success of last weekend's BOGO sale and this upcoming beach sale out in Lincoln City. Its looking to be a great event - good luck everyone this weekend!

-Leah

Field Trip to the Museum of Contemporary Craft

Myself (LeahPellegrini), Judi (CurlyGirlGlass), Lea (Leakarts) and Aimee(NewroticGirl) met up at the Museum of Contemporary Craft for a field trip.

New building
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWGhWl3m9I


the artwork was wonderful! Heres the group of us posing outside for a picture



We also went and checked out the museum next door - the Prints and Photography - awesome work displayed within! And there was this strange installation in the back that had a red button on it that said "END THE WORLD" and it was plugged in and sounding staticy... I couldn't help myself... I had to push the button! Its art for goodness sakes! And there was another button underneath that said "CHANGE YOUR MIND" I pushed that one too. :) I got Judi to take pictures!

U-Pick on Sauvie's Island

Oh my what fuN!
Picking Fruit at Krugers Farm - we picked rasberries, strawberries and tomatoes

we wandered the big farm tasting the goodness

we even dragged around an old red wagon to hold our booty

no camera was involved though! Mine was out of batteries, Gina's was out of memory. Go figure. so then we got out out the cell phones and started taking shots with them.

If anyone else has any good shots from their phones, email them to me: artist@leahglass.com

pictured here is Gina's (sparrowfish) awesome son checkin out the cell phone camera action, and in the background you can see rasberry bushes and Etsians(curlygirlglass and newroticgirl) trying to take pictures with their cellphones:


and then before we left (and may I say - I took home over 6 pints of picked rasberries to make some jam and it only cost $5!!!!)

we went and picked some flowers - a whole bucket of them. it was awesome - Dalias mostly, and a few sunflowers - sorry about the fuzzy picture - again, it was taken with a cell phone :)

Picnicing

We made acorn people at tea time this thursday - it was a blast.
From the far left, you've got Mr. Etsy and his fan club Betsy and Corney.











Carelia and her son brought the supplies to make acorn people.


And we made promo bags for the upcoming show this Saturday (for details check out PDXEtsy.com)

Picnic in Laurelhust Park

Picnicing in the park with Etsy ladies (+ kiddos) was a blast!

Here some of us are - chillin' by the Pond
click here for a link to the forum thread to see who was there

There was a lot of great show n' tell...

Tasty picnic munchies (scones, popcorn, chocolate and both pumpkin and blueberry bread!)

And best of all - lots of crafting!












we had some good fun with wool (above there is a sock and a purse being created) I played with some felting - this was a first for me! what fun!

Elaine brought a whole huge bunch of lavendar from her farm to share with us!




now all our cars smell good!






I busted out a few pairs of pliers and a bunch of glass bits on wire - the kiddos got to make mobiles! It was good times for all - beautiful mobiles were handcrafted by mini hands (and a few adults) and each and every one was a masterpiece! I couldn't help myself from taking pictures of all the kids and their creations!






look at what fun these kids are having!

Masterpieces! I will try and remember to keep taking pictures - so to not be so lazy about this blog!

lazy bloggin

Over a month has passed - many wonderful tea times have happened that I keep forgetting to take any pictures or blog at all!!! Ah how summer gets busy.