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Saturday, 6 February 2010 2:06 P GMT-04

Focus Gallery Show

Susan R. Sorrell (fiber)

and

Joan Bazzel (jewelry)

Feb 23rd-April 20th

The Focus Gallery is located the The Southern Highlands Craft Guild Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Highway in Asheville, NC.

http://www.southernhighlandguild.org/

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http://www.upstairsartspace.org/

Tryon, NC

Looking Back, Walking Forward: Evolution of Southern Folk Art--Forty widely recognized, collectible folk artists demonstrate the colorful history and exciting trends of this well-loved art. Feb. 26 - Apr. 10 (I will be showing 7 pieces in this show!)

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January 2010 art experiment

Sunday, 31 January 2010 8:28 P GMT-04

On the Fiber Art/Mixed Media site we started an Monthly experiment group, where everyone picks a project on their own to play with. Since we all had books and magazines we had collected over the years, it made sense to put them to use. Also, I have bunches of unfinished pieces laying around that i am reworking too.

These pieces I call Dippity Do's and they are still in progress. Reworking the quilt sandwiches I made back in 2003. :) I will have some stiching to do and then will add the beads. I have a bunch of 5" x 5" quilt sandwiches I had put together and wanted to do something different for a couple of show I have coming up in Feb. So, I figured it was time to play with these to squares to see what I could come up with. :)

January experiment 2010

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February Handmade Purchase

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:46 P GMT-04

I went ahead and bought my February Handmade 2010 purchase early, since I had to pick out my own colors and have it made. So I should get it by February. But I was so excited about my purchase that I had to share it with you!! I bought a doggie sweater for Whoopi Doodle the Studio Poodle from Melissa Langer, who is one of my past online students. These sweaters are so cute and she has really reasonable prices from 22.00-28.00 dollars. Here is her Etsy site to check them out. http://www.etsy.com/shop/pugnotes and she also does Pug doggie artwork!

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Buy Handmade in 2010

Sunday, 10 January 2010 4:51 P GMT-04

Please support artists that produce handmade products. I did this last year and will continue to do it this year. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money, every bit counts. My January purchase comes from a couple that both lost their jobs last year and started a candle company out of their home. If you are ever in my home or studio, I always have candles burning, I get that from my mother that is crazy about candles too.

Every time I made a handmade purchase, I post it on my Facebook page and Twitter it, so I can help spread the love to others!

Candle Lynn soy candles- January 2010 Handmade purchase. I ordered 4 packs:
Banana Nut Bread
Cinnamon Bun
Vanilla Bean Supreme
Warm Vanilla Sugar

http://www.etsy.com/shop/candlelynn

These are all the scents Jana has!
Almond
Apple Jack & Peel
Banana
Banana Nut Bread
Blueberry Muffins
Bubble Gum
Buttermilk Pancakes
Butterscotch
Cake Bake
Campfire Smoke
Cantaloupe
Caramel
Carrot Cake
Cedar & Saffron
Chocolate Cappuccino
Chocolate Cvrd Berries
Chocolate Syrup
Cinnaberry
Cinnamon Bun
Cinnamon Stick
Citronella
Coconut
Cucumber Melon
Cupid
Dreamsicle
Fireplace
French Vanilla
Fresh Brewed Coffee
Gardenia
German Chocolate Cake
Ginger Lime
Green Apple
Hot Apple Pie
Hot Cocoa
Jingleberry
Lavender
Lemon
Lilac
Log Cabin
Orange Blossom
Peach
Peanut Butter
Peppermint
Pie Crust
Pine Plantation
Pomegranate
Popcorn
Pumpkin Pie
Sea Breeze (flowery)
Strawberry
Sugar Cookie
Sweet Dreams
Vanilla Bean Supreme
Warm Vanilla Sugar
Wild Watermelon

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Beads For Life Party

Sunday, 3 January 2010 2:10 P GMT-04

Beads for Life Party

Feb 13th and 14th

11-4

Come and shop! It is free!!

Hosted at Little House Art Studios,Taylors, SC

This event is an exciting opportunity to learn more about and support impoverished Ugandan women who are lifting their families out of poverty with their handmade, high-quality beaded jewelry, featured on NBC Nightly News, in O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Family Circle and other publications.

BeadforLife is a socially responsible global organization, working with women, all of whom were living on less than $1 a day in extreme poverty. Like extremely poor people worldwide our members have experienced many sorrows and difficulties. Yet they remain strong, resilient, and hopeful for a better life. Based in North America and Uganda, BFL has partnered with industrious women who make vivid beaded jewelry out of recycled paper. The 300 members of BFL support almost 5,000 others to climb out of poverty.

“BeadforLife’s philosophy is that people want jobs rather than handouts. We focus on ways for people to leave poverty behind forever,” says BFL Co- Director Devin Hibbard. “The beaders are incredibly hardworking, and every dollar they make goes into critical things, like sending children to school, paying for health care, and saving to build a home.”

The beaders’ work has been sold at thousands of home parties and businesses and community-sponsored events around the world. All net profits from BFL sales are invested in projects that fight extreme poverty, primarily in three key areas: health, affordable housing, and vocational training for impoverished youth, and entrepreneurial development through micro credit for small businesses.

For more information about BeadforLife is found at http://www.beadforlife.org/ .

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2010 Monthly art experiments

Sunday, 27 December 2009 7:55 P GMT-04

Hey everyone,

I have added a group on the Fiber Art/Mixed Media site for anyone that wants to join in on my fun journey in 2010. It can be any type of art medium...just as long as you try something creative and new!! http://fiberartsmixedmedia.ning.com/group/2010monthlyexperiment

So, pull out all of those art books you have been collecting and magazines you have stacked around your studio.Start flipping through them until you see some technique that interests you and jump right in! You can do more than one a month.

And if you want to add more excitement to the challenge, add Illustration Friday for a word to illustrate each week.

http://www.illustrationfriday.com/

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Fiber Art/Mixed Media Blog Chats

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posted Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Please join us for the Upcoming Blog chats on the Fiber Art/Mixed Media site. It is free to join and we have ongoing challenges too!

Sept. 27-22:00 GMT (5pm EST)

Topic:Writing an Article for Quilting Arts/Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine

Artist/Editor Pokey Bolton PATRICIA CHATHAM BOLTON (Editor-in-Chief) was introduced to embellished quilting and the related needle arts in 1998, and ever since she took her first stitch (a fly) and embroidered her first motif (a spider), she has been entangled in this hobby and doesn't envision herself free. Art quilting and mixed-media have, quite literally, taken over her life--so much so that she left her doctoral program and full-time teaching job to found Quilting Arts Magazine®, and later with her husband John, Cloth Paper Scissors® magazine. She and John live and work in Stow, Massachusetts.

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Upcoming Chats:

9/27-Patricia Bolton/magazine editor

10/25-Rice Freeman-Zachery-author/artist

11/29-Traci Bautista author/artist

12/27-Jane Davila artist/author

2010

1/31-Lorraine Stobie artist/video online classes

2/28-Violette artist/author

3/28-Heather Simpson-Bluhm

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