What One Discovers at Local Arts and Crafts Shows©
Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2011
by Arlene Wright-Correll
http://www.learn-america.com
The air was crisp and the skies were overcast on September 17thas we started out for Franklin, Kentucky and their annual Southern KentuckyRegion Antique Car Show/ Arts& Crafts weekend.
Though it is not too far from where we live none of the 4 of us had ever been to Franklin, KYand though I personally am not interested in Antique Car’s, my sister-in-law, Barbara is. As an artist and craft person, what interested me the most was going to be all those wonderful booths full of the efforts, creations and imaginations of the people who set up their booth hoping to sell some of their creations.
I have learned to start off any of this type of expedition with my brother, George, by saying I am going to go here or there and will meet up with all of you at such and such a time at such and such at time and that way he is not having a small fit because he moves faster than I do.
I love to look and to meander and especially talk with some of the artist and crafts people about their booth and creations and I especially love it when I spy something that I have never come across before such has the Two Girl’s Creations booth.
One of the Two Girls is Leah Smith, locally known as the Cheesecake Lady for her cheesecakes. The other is her mother Nancy Harvey. According to Leah, 4 months ago she saw a garden décor object that caught her eye and she and Nancy were off with a totally new business of creating beautiful recycled garden décor out of objects found at flea markets, thrift stores and junk piles.
Their creations are not only attractive, affordable, but function as bird feeders, bird baths and object de art for anyone’s garden or yard. They are weather protected even though the girls do not recommend you leave them out in the coldest part of the winter simply because these creations are made of glass and china and when water gets into or onto glass or water in the winter and freezes they tend to break or crack. These beautiful objects an easily be moved into your garage or unto your porch until it is time to put them back out in the spring.
So meet Leah Smith in the middle, her mother Nancy Harvey on her left and their friend Keirsten Jaggers on her right and take a look at some of their 2 to 3 foot creations.
What better way to recycle memories or things no longer needed or wanted than to turn them into useful and lovely garden decor creations.
And what better way to meet people and see new things than to support the local arts and crafts shows.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Recycled memories are absolutely beautiful memories. Love the place, love the people. Love your writing.thank you.
I'm also a lover of scouring art shows, craft shows and even flea markets though I do it very seldom these days. Recycling from old memories to make new ones is a terrific art and thing to do. So glad you shared the people and wrote with delightful detail.I recycle wine bottles in my high temp kiln and make them into cheese trays and dip holders.Wish I had a kiln - esp. the hot temps necessary for fusing glass. It's great that you have a use for used wine bottles. Some are really quite beautiful. I'd like to get some of the bottoms and work them up into a nice glass panel. I've tried glass cutting some of them, but haven't done the best job.A bottle cutter does NOT work. We use a tile cutter and it does a Jim Dandy Job!It wasn't even a bottle cutter that I did it with - I tried a glass cutter, one of my older ones. I'm big into stained glass and mosaics and I thought I could do something artistic with the bottoms of bottles.Yes you can do something with the bottoms of the bottles. I made a bird house one time out of wine corks and put bottle bottoms on the roof. Regardless using the right tool for the job works and the correct tool is a tile cutter. I guess this got on twice for some reason.It wasn't even a bottle cutter that I did it with - I tried a glass cutter, one of my older ones. I'm big into stained glass and mosaics and I thought I could do something artistic with the bottoms of bottles.Yes you can do something with the bottoms of the bottles. I made a bird house one time out of wine corks and put bottle bottoms on the roof. Regardless using the right tool for the job works and the correct tool is a tile cutter.
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