16 days til MOTHER'S DAY!

Mother's love scarves... Mom's especially love Inspirational Designs Scarves! These amazing and luscious light weight outfit accessories are made with double strands of silk ribbon ladder yarn for an extra luxurious feel. Debe has to get her ribbon yarns from all over the world to bring us the marvelous selection that she offers. Follow the link below to get Mom the present she really wants for Mother's Day this year!

Inspirational Designs

Sisters Library receives Fused Glass Window

A BEAUTIFUL window created by one of our Artist's you haven't met yet, Ann Cavanaugh. Ann is a fused glass artist and she has done it again!

After a long and meandering journey this beautiful window makes it all worthwhile for everyone involved. Located above the west facing front doors leading into the library, the changes in light shining thru Ann's beautiful creation give it a life all of it's own.

Ann with Mary. Mary purchased the window to donate it to the Library and was instrumental in it's design.

It's Done! Complete! Finished! Stop by the Library and take a look.

Jim Anderson, Ann & her S.O. Barry Only a few people were invited to the installation. The window's dedication will be June 18th. Come on over!

Paul Alan Bennett and Mary

Ain't nothin' but a Hound Dog!

This is Barbara Berry's version of Elvis' famous song! Isn't he cute? Barbara has been doing Custom Pet Portraits, (don't know why but that seemed to call for Capitol Letters!) for years now and has quite a collection under her belt.

This is Alex and Lovey. Yorkshire Terriers that were obviously adored by their people! To see more of Barbara's work click this link;

Silver Prices continue to Rise!

We all know that the cost of silver has gone up right along with gas but did you know it's supposed to go up even more in the upcoming market? As quoted from "The Sovereign Investor": " A controversial new silver report insists silver prices are about to explode. Savvy investors are secretly waiting for silver to reach what they call ‘the profit point.’ Once silver prices hit this point, its going to return its owners windfall profits fast. Here’s why. In the past, a lot of investors got rich when silver went from $6 to $50 in one year. Average investors think silver’s already too high, but the truth is, the best time to get into silver is yet to come!" http://www.monex.com/images/charts/SB_LINE_1825DAY.PNG As quoted from "CoinTrackers": "The current price of Sterling Silver (anything) is $26.58 per Ounce (oz), or $0.94 Per Gram (g) Sterling silver is defined as 92.5% pure silver and is widely used in high end cutlery, jewelry, and pitchers. The other 7.5% is usually made of some other metal like copper. Most sterling silver pieces will have the word sterling somewhere on the bottom or back, as an example look at the photo adjacent of the back of a large sterling silver spoon." Hmmmmn. Maybe we need to do some investing? I believe a new pair of earrings are in order!!

Friday the 13th

Click to see more of Debe's wonderful scarves! What a great day we had today! In Bend with two of my partners in crime hitting EVERY quilt store there is. What better way to spend an "unlucky day"! We shopped til we dropped then we ate. Couldn't have asked for a nicer time!

Monday, Monday...

Click  HERE   to see more of the "13th of Never"

SteamPunk is here, (n there n there n here n there). If you jus put that one word in an Etsy search

you will be astounded if you haven't searched it before! It's sum coolness. 

Watch gears n parts, jewels, dragonflies, keys, old maps, butterflies, all things nautical and all things 

kinda rusty pirarte qualify as Steam Punkish, as long as they are combined and piled all

over each other. According to Wikipedia;

Steampunk is a genre which came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s and 

incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. 

It involves a setting where steam power is widely used—whether in an alternate history 

such as Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time —

that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often

 feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, 

based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. 

This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

If you have any questions about a style or genre please contact us and we'll

do our best to research the subject and get back to you!   ~ jae

Finally it's Friday! 

Mystic Dusk by Barbara Berry, Sisters OR

Welcome back to S.A.'s blog. We're glad you've joined us and 

are looking forward to getting to know you thru our email connection or blog comments. We always try to answer but are also trying to have a life so it may take us a day or 

two at most to get back to you.

If you are an art lover you've come to the right place! 

We have several medias represented so please join our blog by clicking on any of our posts then hitting the subscribe button at the bottom of the post and let's start a dialog. 

We're waiting for you! ;0)  ~jae

Petite Quilted Wall Hangings

Click  HERE  to see this listing and more from Sisters Embroidery Co. on Etsy.

   Not everyone is familiar with Sisters, OR. It's a little blip on a map, really, so it's not surprising. What you have to know, though, is that these people in Sisters know their quilts. Quilts, and the resulting tourism from their massive quilt-hangy-exhibit-thing, is how a lot of these folk make their living.

Sisters, OR is to quilts what Seattle is to coffee, what Silicon Valley is to computers, what Florida is to old people. So when someone in this quilting town starts selling quilty stuff, you had better believe she knows what she's doing.

   Jae and Lissetta pieced together these tiny wall hangings with cotton, thread, and awesome. The embroidered flower is made of thousands of tiny stitches of high quality joy.

 Snap this up, you guys. Don't worry. I won't tell anyone.

~Lynda

(not an artist)

Crow's sterling earrings

Click  HERE  to see more of these beautiful earrings by Crow's Creations

Crow's work is simple and elegant.
Both in jewelry and pottery, he uses clean lines and bold strokes.
These are part of the new collection that he's working on.
Keep checkin' back for his latest work.
Things, they are a-changin'!   ~jae (artist & Lynda's Mom!)

Liftoff!

   It’s official. Sisters Artisans, the six-person group of artists making artsy things and selling them now has a blog.

   “An art blog, in my internet?” you ask. (Rudely, I might add.) In any case, it’s not exactly an art blog. Yes, there will be art from our favorite six featured on here. You’ll also see biographies, chatter on artsy-schmartsy daily life, and we might even throw some helpful how-to articles at you.

   This kind offer would probably be even more appealing if you knew, really, what Sisters Artisans is. If you’re an astute reader you picked up on my subtle mention in the first paragraph. The bit that went, the six-person group of artists making artsy things and selling them. Their art is diverse, ranging from sexy scarves to pretty paintings to fabulous fused glass to anything else for which I can find alliteration.

   Barbara, Ann, Jae, Debe, Crow, and Debbie are all hotshots in their respective mediums, and they’ve banded together to give each other support. Conveniently for you, beloved reader, this also means a sizeable percentage of the world’s good stuff has been placed together for you to access easily.

   Expect a post soon featuring one of our ultra-talented artists. Until then, one of her scarves for your consideration:

Check out one of Debe's scarves here.

~Lynda

(not an artist)