YouTuber Marion Smith challenged people to make 31 videos showing 31 goals completed in 31 days! This video montage pays tribute to some of the beautiful and amazing crafts which were created during this challenge! Video edited by pages4theages. To learn more about pages4theages…. SHOP: www.artfire.com WEBSITE: www.pages4theages.com FACEBOOK www.facebook.com
Looking for a unique gift? Hampton art gallery sells CDs by local musicians
(Gallery at the Chapman in Hampton. Mix Position photo)
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Find the perfect gift with the help of algorithms
Take some of the guess work out of shopping this year, and try out one of these websites, which generate intelligent gift ideas using algorithms. They might know the people on your list better than you do.
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Center for the Arts: Local artists create the best gifts
With the turkey purchased and the pantry stocked, my mind is now free to move on to Christmas shopping.
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Warren-Newport Library renovation project begins
The Warren-Newport Public Library is cleaning house in preparation for its $8 million expansion and renovation project. In addition to a “garage sale” of surplus supplies and equipment, residents are invited to participate in a hands-on pre-demolition of the old McCullough Meeting Room Saturday.
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Angels Among Us
Recognizing the need to alert women of the silent symptoms of ovarian cancer and to help local patients who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, the Pollino family will host a benefit, “Angels Among Us” in tribute to their deceased mother, Judy…
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ARTS CORNER: Helping artists find success
Continuous professional development is a key factor in career success and nowhere is this more evident than with visual artists.
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Time to get a library card
Do you have the card that not only promises but actually gives great rewards? If you don’t have an Elbert County Library District card, you definitely need to get one.
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One-room schoolhouses focus of tour in Burlington County; Maple Shade landmark one of stops
It once was the lone school in Maple Shade. It’s one of the oldest building in town and it has been closed for quite some time now because it’s unsafe.
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CHELSEA: Local artists to showcase craft at Ann Arbor gallery
As part of the First Friday series at 16 Hands Gallery in Ann Arbor, Chelsea woodcarvers Marlene and John Dusbiber will give a demonstration of folk art carving from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 1 and noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 2.
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Family Finance: After the Nortel bankruptcy, a laid-off employee rebuilds his life
Substantial savings mitigate pension disaster
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Bounty Hunter Rare Wine & Provisions Releases Fall 2010 Catalog
Now in its 16th year, Bounty Hunter Rare Wine & Provisions has released its 2010 wine catalog offering for the Fall and Holiday season.
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Boston Artists Win ETSY Grant & Offer Free Contest for Custom Jewelry, Graphics & Art… Massachusetts Artists Design …
“Velvet Chokers,” Boston jewelry store, is proud to announce their “Boston Babe” team as a 2010 Etsy grant winner. The “Boston Babe” ETSY team consists of local artists designing handmade jewelry, custom graphics, clothing & art. Team stores offer monthly free contests, for free jewelry and prizes, into which customers are automatically entered.
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Hudson’s 13 Ks, Prado’s 5 RBIs lead Braves
ATLANTA — Tim Hudson struck out a career-high 13 and Martin Prado equaled his career best with five RBIs, powering the Atlanta Braves to a 12-3 rout of the Florida Marlins on Saturday night.
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Woodworking hobby yields spectacular results
Like many retirees, Dave Sawatzky’s hobby of choice keeps him healthy and active. But the former farmer isn’t golfing, he is woodworking. For the past 15 years, the 83-year-old has been putting a skill he learned in school to good use making beautiful pieces for himself and his family.[...]
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Aggie artists display sculptures, photos at gallery
Larry Schueckler was an Aggie swimmer and Tanner Singleton was a ninth-grade inventor of sorts. Now, they’ve both grown up to become accomplished artists whose works will grace the expanded halls of the Spirit of Texas Bank Gallery starting Thursday. …
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From the 2005 documentary film, “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Pt. 4 continues the story of Doug and Mary Pickford’s secret romance which culminated in divorces from their respective spouses and finally, a much-anticipated wedding in 1920. Examines the fabled Pickford-Fairbanks marriage and everyday life at their world-famous Beverly Hills home, “Pickfair.” Also discusses the formation of United Artists, which Fairbanks founded in 1919 along with Pickford, Charles Chaplin and DW Griffith. Featuring rare Fairbanks film clips, photographs and other materials from the museum’s archives. Also includes interviews with museum curator and Fairbanks biographer Keri Leigh, film historian Sparrow Morgan, and Annette Lloyd of Hollywood Forever. 90 minutes, available in 9 parts on YouTube or on DVD through the museum’s online gift shop at DouglasFairbanks.org
Hello again… Please take a few minutes to view my introduction to the beautiful 25 piece Miniature Asian Art Painting Collections that I have available. All of the scenes and settings shown here are included and all are 100% freehand painted by rural Thai school children on black felt like material The artists were members of a rural village children’s co-operative who painted them during a self help programme initiated by my Dad way back in 1995 and which continued to 2000. Each piece is signed and included in each collection there is a brief biography of each of the artists. Some of these very talented students were as young as 9 years of age but the work they produced rivals that of many prominent painters. All members of the co-operative were chosen from low income rural families and their participation enabled them to supplement their meagre pocket-money allowances and enabled them to have some of the things they had yearned to own or enjoy, but weren’t able to afford. Quite a few saved their earnings and used it to continue their education through college and beyond. Others purchased motorcycles and musical instruments and all manner of other things that they had been dreaming about. And still others contributed what they earned to assist their siblings through school. Most of what this co-op produced during that period were used for the purpose they had been created, but some remained after the project had run its course and that surplus production is what I now …
Etsy Thread Artists creations on Winter Themes – either for the Holidays or for just for the Season – Links to our items on our Blog Winter Gift Guide: etsythreadartists.blogspot.com
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