First Annual Holiday Happenings

Have a nice evening out, some tasty food, good music and buy some art from your friends while helping a good cause.

First Annual “HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS”
Visaggio’s Ristorante – Castel Castagna
6990 Wertzville Road – Enola
November 16, 2012
5-10 p.m.
$35 per person in advance
$40 per person at door
Benefits: Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties
Ticket price includes:
Visaggio’s Hors d’oeuvres during Happy Hour (Cash Bar)
Visaggio’s Medley of Italian Entrées and Desserts

Incredible door prizes donated by PA Artisan Vendors
Master of Ceremonies: Matt Saltzer, Rhythm System Pro DJ
Begin your holiday shopping with these PA Artisan Vendors:
Wheat Weaving by Bekka Bekka Rousek
Dan Hayward Art Glass Dan Hayward
Wood Carver Robert W. Triplett
Tickle My Senses New Cumberland Gallery – Becky Lee
EK Creations-Jewelry/Steampunk Products Erin Keck
Perfectly Pennsylvania – PA Prodoucts Karen DeKlinski
Brittle Bark Company – Gourmet Candy Vonny Getz
Eye Candy: Jewelry/Purses/Scarves Abeer and Tania Srouji
Fanny’s Corner: Linens, Scarves Fanny Srouji
Glass Clocks/Jewelry Boxes Al Burkhart
Silver and Stone Artisan Jewelry Martha Smith
Carol Reed Fabrics Carol Reed
Pottery Maureen Joyce and Janelle Hoch
Participate in a Sports Memorabilia Silent Auction featuring sports collectibles; autographed collectibles; Steelers, Eagles, Pirates, and Phillies collectibles; many other items from your favorite teams.
Participate in a Live Auction by Mark Baranowski featuring beach vacations in Stone Harbor and Long Beach Island, NJ; Sunset Helicopter Ride over the Susquehanna; a special day at an area spa; etc.

To Purchase Tickets: Go to DVSCP.org – click on “Events/Fundraisers” – pay via Credit Card
Mail check to DVSCP, P. O. Box 1039, Carlisle PA 17013
Call Jill at 258-4806 or stop at Visaggio’s to purchase your tickets

AnJules & The 2012 Higashi Jewelry Designer Competition

The YBC’s very own Angela Heim & Julie Reitenbach also known as AnJules are finalists in the 2012 Higashi Jewelry Designer Competition.

The competition was an individual competition but the AnJules business is a partnership between the sisters.   The competition will help launch the AnJules business based on Angela’s designs.

The collection was based on windows that inspire them.  Angela titled the collection Windows To You.  Each window is open to the viewers interpretation of your soul during a specific period of life.  Some windows look very symmetrical, planned or arranged while others show growth or decline.

The voting is open from September 22 through Oct 7th. You can cast your vote and help pick the Grand Prize Winner by email contest@higashipearls.com, in store ballot or leave your ‘like’ or comment on the Face-book album of the entrant http://www.facebook.com/higashijewelry

From her Artist’s bio:  Angela Heim’s jewelry career began to solidify after taking a local soldering workshop in 2010.  She enrolled in night classes at HACC for further jewelry instruction, under the guidance of Ben Fierer. Since the first class on stone setting, Angela has an endless fascination for vividly colored gemstones, precious or otherwise. The gemstones provide the inspiration and Angela uses silver and gold to form reoccurring patterns to accentuate the diverse textures and cuts of the gemstones.

Like most artists Angela has a quirky side; she loves to create crowns and tiaras that she dreamt about as a young child.  Angela is a member of the Yellow Breeches Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths and a member of the American Craft Council.

Angela resides in the quite outer edge of Lykens, PA with her husband two children. Together they raise their family with the same ‘if you can dream it, you can do it’ attitude that propels Angela’s designs.

Let’s get out and support one of our members in a chance to be recognized!  Go to the Higashi store upstairs in the West Store plaza, or visit the Facebook page and vote!

Higashi Jewelry & Eyewear

Anjules

 

 

Friday Bonus! Class Announcement!

Spaces are still available at Erin Keck’s  “Vintage Tin Art
Babies” workshop at the Charmed I’m Sure Studio of Jean
Van Brederode in Mechanicsburg .

The cost is only $25.00 all inclusive.

Contact Erin at EGK1313 at aol.com for more information if interested.

Webby Wednesday – Random ‘Stuff’

Erin Keck is having a sale at her Etsy shop.  25% off until 07/29/12

Jean Van Brederode and Lynne Suprock’s shot gun shell ring class on 07/31/12 still has some spaces available.  Contact Jean or Erin Keck for details.

Amber Kane is having a sale at her Etsy shop too.

Anybody else have anything excellent to add?  Please email me at beadwhisperer at gmail dot com.

Photo Friday

Vapor Lock of the brain.  Too dang hot.  Weird week with a holiday in the middle.

 

Taken by Joe, last summer from our front porch.

 

By the way, if you haven’t visited Erin’s Big Giant Yard Sale yet, you have one more day.   This Saturday come on over and get the best bargains on crafting supplies, and Vintage Items. Lot’s of Scrapbooking supplies, Rubber Stamps, Florals, Berries & Picks, Ribbons, Old Books, Misc. Vintage Items, Futon, Tanning Bed, Vintage Sewing Machine. This is just naming a few of the items. It will be this Saturday from 8AM – 3PM. Exit 57 (Mechanicsburg) on Rt 81. We are right on the corner of Rt 81 & Rt 114. Signs are posted.

Photo Friday – Volunteers!

The sunflowers I planted this year did not come up.  Who knows why.  However, I do have two volunteer sunnies.  One is right off the front porch:

And the other is in the very front corner of my yard, under the buckeye tree.  Which is an odd place for a sunflower, since it isn’t very sunny there.  He’s happy though, so who am I to question his location?

And oh boy it’s been a hot one this week.  Richard the cat isn’t smart enough to hang out in the air conditioned bedroom, so we are treated to this look:

He’s a lovely cat however, so that makes up for not being particularly bright.

Webby Wednesday – Steal Like An Artist – A book by Austin Kleon

I read an article about this book in this month’s American Craft Council magazine.   It was interesting, and made me think about everything I’ve ever read about ‘stealing’ and copying other’s work.

We are surrounded by art.  Now more than ever, with Pinterest, blogs, Facebook, magazines, newspapers and all the other media we are saturated with daily.  I think our brains save a little of all the ideas we see, whether we know it or not.  So when we’re creating something that ‘comes from our heads’, is it really ‘ours’ or did it come out of some back corner of your brain (behind the password list and birthday data bank) where it was stored when you saw it on someone’s blog?

So take thee to Austin’s website and check out his book.  Buy it and think about it. Discuss.

PS-I don’t know Austin Kleon and this is not a paid endorsement of his book.  I just liked what I read, and if something makes me say, “Hmmmm” it’s worth talking about on this blog.  Feel free to chime in with something that makes you say “Hmmm.”  I’d love to blog about it.

 

 

Webby Wednesday – Near & Dear

This is an event that is near & dear to my heart.  Some of you may know “Amy’s Joe”, the guy who comes to meetings with me (when I come) or just ‘that guy’.

Take a break from your Pre-Foundry Day preparations and come enjoy some wine & cheese, music, and some amazing art.  Below is a portion of the press release issued by ‘that guy’.

The Elegance at Hershey “Sneak Preview” Event Set for First Friday, June 1 in Mechanicsburg, PA

 Special Vintage & Collector Cars Combine with “The Automobile as Art” Exhibit at Brath and Hughes Fine Art LLC to Showcase The Elegance at Hershey Charity Events June 8-10 at The Hotel Hershey

  The Elegance at Hershey, a weekend long series of charity vintage and collector car events partners with the Brath & Hughes LLC Fine Art Gallery at Mechanicsburg’s First Friday festivities on June 1, offering a “Sneak Preview” of the kinds of cars and “automobile art” one can expect to see at The Elegance at Hershey events the following weekend at The Hotel Hershey®.

The Friday June 1 First Friday event in Mechanicsburg includes a showing of several rare automobiles in front of the neo-classical Brath and Hughes Fine Art LLC gallery, the former Mechanicsburg Bank Building. Included in the display is a stunning 1935 Bentley 3½ Litre by Hooper from the nearby Rolls Royce Museum.  Also on display is a very rare, newly- restored British microcar; a 1958 Berkeley Roadster owned by Dillsburg car enthusiast Jay Young.  These and other collector cars will be on display in front of the Brath & Hughes Fine Art LLC Gallery at 41 West Main Street, Mechanicsburg from 5:00 to 9:00 PM on Friday June 1.

Inside the Brath & Hughes Gallery, a wine & cheese reception at 6:00 PM opens a special First Friday exhibit entitled “The Automobile as Art” featuring classic and vintage car photography from renowned Philadelphia photographer Michael Furman, as well as photographs by local photographer Stuart Leask of Sturazzi Photography.  Paintings by popular automobile artist Ken Reed of Hamburg and selections from the extensive collection at the AACA Library & Research Center in Hershey, one of The Elegance at Hershey beneficiaries, are also displayed.

Brath and Hughes represent more than 50 local and regional artists.  Watercolorist Debra Tritt-Kreiger is featured in “the bank vault” with seashore- themed art. Craig Smith is featured with a collection of mixed media fine art. Meet the artists during the event. Live music will be performed by Jeff Greenawalt playing Victorian era instruments inside the Gallery, with Jack Poole performing outside on the electric violin.

Admission to the Brath and Hughes LLC  Gallery exhibit is free and the public is invited to enter door prize drawings  each hour from 5-9 PM,  including the grand prize of a “Family 4-Pack” of tickets to The Elegance at Hershey events.

 The Elegance weekend June 8-10 at The Hotel Hershey® includes a vintage hill climb dubbed “The Grand Ascent” on Friday and Saturday, paying homage to the historic Hershey Hill Climb. “The Elegance” on Sunday is a showing of more than 60 of the world’s rarest collector automobiles arrayed through the formal gardens at The Hotel Hershey®.  The events are open to the public and raise money for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), the AACA Museum and the AACA Library & Research Center.

If you have a family member, friend or neighbor that is doing something cool and interesting and art related, drop me an email, and we’ll get them  up on the blog.

Teaser Alert!

Coming on Monday!  A super fantastic guide to the YBC at Foundry Day!  SQUEEEEE!

 

Webby Wednesday-Argosy/Rolling Bead

Friday & Saturday, May 18 & 19, Argosy will be having it’s Grand Opening at it’s ‘new’ location at 200 S. Spring Garden Street in Carlisle (In conjunction with The Rolling Bead).  Come by and check out the FABULOUS hand crafted art for sale, and the best selection of beads locally. All of the artists are from within a 50 mile radius from Carlisle, and some are YBC members.

There will be refreshments and some artists will be set up demonstrating their craft.  Don’t forget to say Hi to Harley the Shop Cat.