Here are some photos of the table at the Gathering. The table
was almost dead center in the middle of the room. There was a
lot of traffic all day, and lots of people that looked for the table.
The one thing I would change for next time would be a sign declaring
what the table was. So if someone does this next year, I will
suggest that to them.
Once again thank you all for allowing me the privilege of doing this.
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Here is the front view of the
table at the Gathering |
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The side view of table |
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Amnon , Erez , Alyal , Robyn
(Right front & Upper Left) - Israel PEtra (Lower left)-
Germany Robyn makes
these wonderful huge hollows, Amnon has great Cosmo beads. Their
sons also each had a bead or two.
Petra shared a vast amount of
styles, but her flowers had to be my favorite, so delicate and
detailed.
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Julie (Right)& Lorraine (Left)-
Australia Lovely
delicate beads from both of these ladies. Julies hearts are so
sweet U Lorraine has great detail. Also Julie stayed in the
booth with me most of the day. She gave me a couple of breaks so
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Toshimasa Masui - Japan
Toshimasa makes the most
amazingly detailed beads. His demo was so enlightening too.
I have a picture of his $400 bead, but it is very blurry. DARN
IT!!!!! |
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Francesca - UK
Francesca has some really fun
Whimsy Beads. I just love her "Don't mess with Goldie" Beads |
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Dora - Germany
Dora has a wonderful sense of
detail and my favorite lentil sold. It is the amber and blue one on
the top right.
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Mike
(Top) -UK
Ingrid (Bottom) -South Africa
Mike's beads become more detailed every time I see them. He even
has gotten into "Real Colors"!!
Ingrid's beads are totally tribal. |
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Rachelle - Israel
Since Fairies are one of my
all time favorite things, you can just imagine how "Gah Gah" I am for
Rachelle's beads.
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Michelle - Australia
Michelle's Great Barrier Reef
beads make me so home sick for diving.....guess I know what my next
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Now to the Sisters show.
I am hoping that all or some of you will join me there next year.
This time I will make sure the box arrives!!!! Sisters has been
restored to look like the 1880's wild west. All new buildings
must comply with this look too, and most shops even have there inside
decor done this way. So Welcome to Sisters Oregon, it is approx
3 hours SE of Portland, on the East Side of the Cascade Mountain
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Top left - The West end of town, the show is about 1 1/2 blocks East
of the start of town. The large cloud in the background is
actual smoke from a forest fire. It started on Friday early in
the morning, it was caused by lighting. (As of today Aug 19, it is
still going and has started approaching the resort a few miles from
downtown.) Top right - Looking East into town. The yellow
building on the left side (way down the street) is the Saloon.
It is so cute and really makes you feel like you have stepped back in
time.
Middle right & Lower Right - Close ups of some of the buildings on
the North side of the street.
The only thing I would change about Sisters is the Cars!!! I
would love to see horses and wagons roaming the streets again.
This is HWY 20, it is the main street in town, and one of only a
couple of was to get into Central Oregon |
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Sisters only has 2 real streets with stores on them. This is the
other street, Hood. The show runs between HWY 20, and Hood.
There is a small park area and a "green space" See more picture
below of these. This is looking at the SW side of Hood |
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This is the NW side of Hood. The Green building is a cute little
Arts & Crafts type gallery. |
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This is looking at the SE side of hood. The blue building houses
the bead store that sponsors the show. - Out West Designs |
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This is looking due south of my booth. I have the very end booth
on the south end of the show, right on the street. The white SUV is
mine, and I can't remember what the building is in front of it. |
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Now to the actual show.
This is looking south, standing on the north end of the show, with
my back to HWY 20.
There were 28 artist tents, and some had more then one artist in
them, including mine. These pictures were taken early on Sunday.
On Saturday it was packed from Open till Close. We even stayed
open an extra hour.
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This is the waterfall and pond that are in this very small park.
I really wanted the first booth on this end, just so I could listen to
the water. It was so lovely. |
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This is the cute bathroom, if there is such a thing. Fortunately
only the outside is styled in 1880's. The inside has all of the
modern plumbing you could want!!! |
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Just past the bathrooms the show widens to two booths. The
booths on the left (East) are in actual parking spots of one of the
towns restaurants. |
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Behind the booths on the West side is the green space. There is
a little dry creek that runs through it.
Right - You can see the Arts & Crafts Gallery though the trees
here.
Below Left - is the front side of the Arts & Crafts Galley
Below Right - One of the little bridge across the dry creek.
There was another one right by me and it that brought customers
right into my booth.
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This is looking North from the south end of the show. This is
standing just outside my booth. |
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And here is my booth. I shared my space with a friend of mine
that hadn't made it into the show before it sold out. Her table
is the one that you can see the back side of. I really don't like
all of the metal in these tents, so I dress mine up a little to get
rid of that cold impersonal feel. Because we had sun beating in
the South side I have the white side up on that side. Then on
the side behind me I have my backdrop. It is a shower curtain
with lovely "Girly" pictures. |
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This is looking down my side of the booth. Notice the mirrors,
there are two of them, we place them there to draw people into the the
space, right to were I had the flyers about you guys. |
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Last but not least is a picture of the few items that I did have.
They are Michelle's. The frame picture in the back is a list of
all of you with your contact information. Nice bold colors of
Red and Gold. The flyers are tucked under the corner of the
plate in front. (the wind wanted to take them away.) The flyers
look just like the picture, except they are in black and white.
Well I hope you enjoyed this little tour, and I hope now you can
see why I love this little Oregon town and the show they put on. |
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