Sept 20th - Field Trip!!!

Portland Oregon Tea Time
Thursday Sept 20th - 11am

FIELD TRIP to Portland Fixtures!
This local place is an awesome resource to our micro businesses! Portland Fixtures is dedicated to selling used and new retail equipment at the best prices possible. They are self-described as crazy and I think they are a truly fun place to shop!

Aimee(Newroticgirl.etsy) gave us all free samples of minty bath salts - umm yummy! Thanks!

A whole bunch of us met up (myself, bluejayecrafts, mmmfiber, urbana, tinymeat, curlygirlglass, spinnerin, misspurl, and newroticgirl) and had an afternoon field trip that rocked our socks! :)


Joanne from Portland Fixtures gave us a tour - two full buildings (I had previously only been in one!) crammed with retail fixtures of all kinds. What fun. I like the odds and ends section the best. This was the first time I walked thru that section without buying something - patted myself on the back! They have everything....
We went out to Bakery Bar around the corner to continue to chit chat etsy and have a nice little lunch, but not without wandering the warehouse for a while... they just have everything... including hulahoops - just kidding, these are for clothing displays!And this is Briar - a very cool dog that the owners bring to work with them everyday. He is like a rug.

Sept 12th - Origami in Laurelhurst Park

Amiee of NewroticGirl

hm... I think I ate too many sweets today :) hurt my tummy! There was cupcakes galor! Orange cupcakes(i ate two - they were little :) they had candy-corns on top! There were chocolate and vanilla cupcakes too! Oh and the warm cranberry orange bread (fresh from the oven!), home baked brownies, lemonade with frozen hand picked berries, chex mix and parsnip chips. what a party! yeah I know, the parsnip chips didn't really fit, I must admit I was the one who brought those, and they were pretty strange, kinda bitter.

Anyhow - Laurelhurst Park and origami. It was kinda overcast and rainy. Strange, the weather said it would be 80 and 0% chance of percipitation. Ah well, we tucked ourselves under a tree in the park on a picnic bench, busted out the orange table cloth and made a whole huge mess. it was great. thanx ladies for a great time as usual!

Molly of NyankoChan.etsy is leaving Saturday for Japan where she is going to be studying in Tokyo for a year! How thrilling. She mentioned there may even be an opportunity to study with a traditional woodblock studio or some other traditional art form there - how amazing! Well, I for one hope she has a great time - the party was lots of fun. I know she must be crazy busy with getting ready to leave!

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)