A Pocket for Your Treasures

Check out this final sneak peek from Sandy Parks of Sandy's Art Booth.

 kids' aprons in a variety of sizes and colors

utility aprons for all occasions

We'll see you Saturday, May 2!

Hula hoops and magic wands

 

Monica Casey of MonkeyHooper offers Monkey Hooper Hula Hoops custom made in bright colors and designs for all ages. New this year are handmade ribbon wands topped with crocheted hearts and spring bunnies! All you'll need are the magic words. 

The Perfect Ring for Spring

Wendi Mink of Metals by Mink offers "The Perfect Ring" with a perfect fit! Most chainmaille is flat, creating a ring that doesn't conform to the finger and therefore won't stay on. The Perfect Ring domes when curved, making it cling to the finger. This also makes it very comfortable and effortless to wear. All rings are custom-sized. Be sure to try one out--and check out Wendi's other beautiful work--at the Spring Show!

Button, button, who's got...

We've got the buttons!

Pretty up shirts, jackets, and dresses with handmade buttons from Karen Fisher Pottery. Available in $5, $8, and $10 sets, they offer a colorful way to brighten your spring wardrobe--or use them to embellish bags or for creative crafts or gifts!

View more of Karen's work, including her hand-thrown pottery, at Karen Fisher Pottery.

Gourds and more

Catherine Kramer of Treehouse Gardens in northern Orange County offers beautiful items for the home and hearth. She dries her home-grown gourds, then crafts them into functional and decorative objects. She embellishes baskets, urns, and birdhouses using a variety of techniques and media including leather dyes, pigment ink, acyrlic paint, pine straw, sea grass, handmade paper, and fabric.

8 Ways to Keep Your Whimsy

Check them out here. And the 9th way? Visit the Whimsical Women Spring Show on May 2!

Kudzu and honeysuckle

Pamela Buchanan is an artisan who designs unique one-of-a-kind baskets and other creations using kudzu along with other locally harvested and processed natural materials.  She has been working with natural materials since taking her first class in 1996 at Chimney Rock Park.  Over the years Pamela has honed her craft while taking class at John C. Campbell River Oaks Studio in Asheville, as well as assisting in other workshops.  Pamela gathers her materials, which include kudzu, honeysuckle, grapevine, bittersweet, willow, mimosa bark, tulip poplar bark, and river birch, in and around the Piedmont of North Carolina.  Pamela enjoys working with people and one of her biggest joys is watching others make their own unique baskets and other creations when conducting classes.

One month to go!

No fooling--the spring sale is a month away! Check out some photos of whimsical items we've offered at past shows. What new treasures will you find on May 2? See you soon!

Lovely spring greens

We are excited to welcome Karen Fisher from Karen Fisher Pottery to the 2015 Spring Sale! This will be Karen's first show with the Whimsical Women.

Check out Karen's pottery below and read more about her on her website!

Spring is coming. Hear us roar!

  Come in like a lion with this great jewelry from Kim Koltzau from Steampunk Cellars!

Announcing the 2015 Spring Show!

The 2015 Whimsical Women Spring Show

will be held on Saturday, May 2

(rain date: Sunday, May 3)

at the Village Green at Southern Village

Market Street

Chapel Hill, NC 27516 

 

We hope to see you there!

 

Registration forms for the spring sale will be sent to all artist by email on Sunday, January 25. If you do not receive your registration, please contact Liz Kaplan at eqak1206@gmail.com.

 

One last sneak peek!

 Sandy Parks offer booties

and bloomers

and bow ties galore!

(Great for babies, pets, or fruit you want to snazz up!)

See you tomorrow!

For one last look at all of our 2014 sneak peeks, click here!

Two days to go

till Saturday's show!

Preparations for the sale are in full swing. Above, Jerry Haas and Jim Sanderford are marking the booth spaces. We can't wait!

Only a few sneak peeks left!

Today, we're happy to feature these small original paintings and vessels by Ginnie Conaway.

Ginnie creates a variety of paintings, both framed and stand-alone, and paper mache vessels and critters. Be sure to find her art on Saturday!

Support Learning Together Art at 2014 Fall Show

Learning Art Together channels the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of low income, minority, refugee, and immigrant women in Guilford County by introducing the arts as a means of linking their native cultures to American cultural. Through the program, the women develop entrepreneurial, marketing, and business skills that lead to long-term economic and social self-sufficiency. Their work also creates and extends opportunities for multicultural awareness and sharing to the larger Greensboro community.

In February of 2014, a group of women from different countries with different cultures and languages met in Greenhill’s ArtQuest to start learning about art.  Over time the students became teachers; they taught, learned to communicate with, and encouraged each other.  The intertwining of cultures revealed commonalities that led to “From My Table to North Carolina.”

This project underscores the importance placed on preserving their culture and customs through food.  A simple discussion about food conjured sights, smells and tastes now shared with you from El Salvador, Mexico, South Korea, and Vietnam.  

At our 2014 fall show, Learning Together Art will sell cards and collages that will eventually become the page of their cookbook. Each collage card is created with hand painted and printed paper and is the vision of the individual student, based on memories of cooking and sharing food with family.

Learning Art Together is made possible through the Women to Women Grant from the Greensboro Community Foundation.