Link Love, for artists

A place where all those who follow the ♥ LINK LOVE ♥ train can talk and chat about their wares, thoughts, inspirations, and more; and join the quickly expanding community of crafty and very interesting people throughout the world!

Just started adding you link here and it snowballs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-and-Tentacles/10150125535310484?ref=mf&v=app_169505045786#!/group.php?v=wall&ref=ts&gid=112615538753021

Local Discoveries in PDX Portland, Oregon

Good Karma Good Energy,

My energy for much of this whole last week and weekend has been and is focused much around a new store on Alberta called "Local Discoveries", as I am a marketer at heart as well as a jewelry designer (shells jewels, hmmm no vested interest there) and retailer at the store, I hold it dear.

This brand new store as of end of November has stirred up a buzz it seams, with two articles already written since opening and three on the way?, one from the Oregonian themselves who called just a few days ago!

What we are; (Local Discoveries) A group of like minded local artists bringing to the neighborhood and surrounding Portland area great things that are HANDMADE and LOCAL, some of the items in the store are re-purposed meaning that the materials for some of the purses, jewelry, aprons and a few other goodies have been saved from landfill death and made into beautiful new items people can use.

We have Pottery, 4 Jewelry artists, crocheted hats (some by youngsters), scarfs and bottle covers, notebooks with great glass pens, Leather and upholstered purses, Handmade birdhouses, Carmel corn and Garlic pretzels, wrap skirts, potholders and scrubbies, dehydrated mushrooms for soups, aprons, cards, artwork and pillows, wooden handmade toys, tons of glass pendants to be strung by us or you, 66 scents in goats milk soaps, candles, lotions and now Bath fizzies!

Our approach is to be a venue for local talent to bring forth their product to the retail world in such a format that is unique, interesting and reasonable to vend (we all know a consignment can charge 50 to 60 percent, what this does is causes a vendor to raise there prices so high the average person cant afford the items (thus the botique). We want to keep it real and homey and friendly, not stuffy not pretentious!

Various artists are in the store on a daily basis creating or bringing new things!

The store is ever evolving on a daily basis so pop in often as not to miss new things!

local Discoveries LLC,
1627 NE Alberta street,
Portland, Oregon 97211
http://www.localdiscoveries.net/

Shells Jewels featured on Delightful Divas in Business

Bubble Gum Earrings Currently featured on Delightful Divas in Business Shell's Jewel's "Bubble Gum" earrings in "FABULOUS FINDS"...

Pink oval magnesite with pink turquoise rounds on top and tiny czech glass mauve tones in the middle measure just over one inch. a great pink tone to these,

do you have someone that likes Barbie pink? or Bubble gum pink?

VISIT THE SITE BELOW!!!

www.delightfuldivasinbusiness.blogspot.com

ETSY WEIRDNESS??? Enjoy this one or not??

Ok here goes (deep breath) an adventure into the weird and wacky side of ETSY. The dark, The nasty, The ugly you name it check out REGRETSY on Facebook or at their website below.

http://www.regretsy.com
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/Regretsy/285066400359?v=info&ref=nf


Here is an explanation from them and their site.
"Mission:
Don’t get us wrong. We like crafts.

We just don’t like these crafts."




Yes, we know these people put their hearts into it. We know it took hours and hours. We know how mean it is to laugh at their creations. And we regret being the only web site on the internet that makes fun of things.

But what can we do? We’re immature.

Besides, art is totally subjective. Who cares what we think? I barely care and I’m writing this.

Listen, if you like something you see here, don’t argue with us, go and buy it. Seriously. Click on any photo and you’ll be taken to the seller’s store*. We’re only too glad to have made the introduction.

Otherwise, we’re just going to sit here and look at the amputee kitten paintings and vulva earrings and laugh so hard that we pee in our reusable Pokemon pads.

- The Regretsy team


On a personal note thought some of it gross weird and ugly but still clicked through all 11 pages on there site to see EACH and EVERY one... LOL

Sharing is Caring

Shelley

Recent Custom work.. Really Gratifying,

Egyptian Scarab focal with vintage glass beads and Turquoise.















Jimmy Hendrix African Trading Beads and coconut,












Wow, is all I have to say about these two pieces. I have been blessed to have a great customer with some really cool pieces and ideas for custom finished pieces he can actually wear with pride.

The Scarab was a gift to my customer years ago and came together nicely with some vintage glass beads he bought in Carmel in the 70's add some turquoise and voila!! he calls this a piece of art.

The Jimmy Hendrix beads on kthe second necklace are another story alltogether, they invloved my customer being in the recording studio in 1967, Jimmy Hendrix was recording that day and had fallen and bumped his head, My customer has a picture with the said Hendrix and bandaged head from the studio that day...

Well I guess maybe Hendrix needed to relax after the fall? so he traded his necklace to my customer for something green and relaxing LOL. The beads I removed from the original necklace are the 5 larger beads which were then added to from some newly found also old smaller African trading beads, Coconut disks were placed in between and now there is a great flow to the piece.

I love working on vintage and antique pieces for my customers!!

Thanks for reading

Shelley

LaCeramiste Featured Artist this week...

LaCeramiste
This handmade heart-shaped ceramic pendant is Just one of her creations and was stamped with a fleur-de-lis imprint, glazed in a deep greenish teal, and sponged to show off the stamped design. Some of the natural clay color shows through in spots for an aged look.

Check out the rest of her Beautiful handmade things on ETSY at: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6694603&section_id=6241304

--She has also appeared on these blogs:
http://www.farmchicked.blogspot.com/
http://eyeletsagestudio.com/blog/
---Follow me on twitter!
http://www.twitter.com/LaCeramiste

Featured Portland Artist - Silver Jewelry Lovers look out..

This week I am featuring a Local Jewelry artist Cheryl Williamson of TANGLE,

She creates a bevy of cool twisted Silver items as well as copper, in Earrings pendants, bracelets and rings. Loves creating unique wedding jewelry, has been an Etsy seller for over a year and does many local shows in Portland Oregon.

Cheryl is also part of the Local Trillium Artisans all reclaimed shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=67443&ga_search_query=trillium&ga_search_type=seller_usernames.

You can view her online shop TANGLE at: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=34059&ga_search_query=tangle&ga_search_type=seller_usernames

If you would like to see her Art/Jewelry Live in Portland she will be at Last Thursday on Alberta this week 5-10 pm at 25th and Alberta in Portland Oregon.

Thanks as always for reading Shelley Loring