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Holiday Art Crawl - El Paso

Posted December 8, 2019

On December 14 and 15 is the first annual Holiday Art Crawl right here in El Paso. Four west side artists are opening their homes/studios for two days of shopping for unique handmade Christmas gifts for a friend, a relative, a loved one . . . or yourself. Guest artists will also be found at most of the homes. Food and beverages will be available (including my almost-world famous sangria at Nina Eaton's house). You can also register for a chance to win a door prizes at each location. So, mark your calendar and come join us at the Holiday Art Crawl!!

I'm thrilled that Nina Eaton has asked me to be the guest artist at her house. I'll have a wide variety of handmade jewelry from my Shadow Dog Designs shop, mostly earrings and necklaces, but a few bracelets as well. Everything is one of a kind with the exception of a few Christmas earrings. Nina will have a wonderful selection of El Paso photography and gift items. I have purchased several beautiful items from her over the course of a couple years, including, most recently, custom photo coasters of our sweet dog, Seamus (: Here's a link to her online shop: Nina Eaton Photography

A Melange of Handmade - Three for Thursday - June 20, 2019

Posted June 20, 2019

This weeks's Three for Thursday is a melange of items. Since I have an addiction to words, I wanted to give a brief etymology of the word melange. The word, which rolls off the tongue to so beautifully, first is first found in French documents around the comes from the 15th century French word meler, meaning 'to mix, mingle." Meler, in turn, came from the Old French meslance or meslinges (a set of diverse elements). So, according to The Free Dictionary, the modern word means “a collection of various things.” Which is the perfect definition of the variety of handmade items I found from artists and am sharing in this post: The items featured are from three handmade artists: beautiful original watercolor paintings from Roxanne of watercolorsNmore; fun and handy to have cards of various types from Jacki of Christie Cottage; and a selection of one of a kind handmade jewelry from me, Catherine of Shadow Dog Designs.

I hope you enjoy these picks. And that you will visit the shops of the artists for more handmade beauties.

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