Us, Our stuff,
 Our booth, Our studio
 


My family has been working Arts and Crafts Festivals, Home and Garden Productions and Renaissance Fairs for over 23 years. We understand what needs to get done and are easy to deal with. Heather is a professional artist, holding both a Summa Cum Laude BFA in Fine Art from UC Berkeley and a Graduate Certificate from the prestigious Academy of Art in San Francisco. Heather's son, Shanti, is a gifted designer, artist  and draftsman, his wife Kellie is a wizard with the bookeeping.

Our booth is filled with unique things we create ourselves, interesting, beautiful and practical items found absolutely no where else. Mother and son, we create our items from natural, organic and as much as possible recycled (at least 85%) and local materials.  Our gemstones are from Fair Trade Members only. Our functional art is priced between twenty-five and about two hundred dollars.

You will love us at your show as not only is our craft highly unique, we also understand how important it is to create an enjoyable experience for the patrons. Our booth is always crisp and professional, built to faire specifications. We delight in costuming, researching and designing them ourselves. Presentation is important to us!

Heather brings her sketchbook with the drawings and paintings for our designs and always creates new watercolor paintings right on the spot. We have been showing at major, tightly juried shows for years and have excellent long standing relationships with our promoters. Please click here to see our current schedule of Fairs and Shows.

Wood, Stone, Leather and Bone
What We Make:


Candle Holders and Night Lights

Above are a few examples of our handcrafted stone and wood night lights and candle holders which always make up 85% of our booth. Heather begins with her original drawing and intricately cuts her design out of slates of rescued wood,   beautiful oak scraps from a nearby cabinet makers shop.

Using finely honed design skills, Heather selects the translucent agate gemstone to compliment the design. The result of the combination of these two elements with a light source (candle or 4 watt bulb) is a uniquely beautiful delight for any home. Currently we have over 75 of Heather's original designs, each available as a night light or tea/votive candle holder.


This is our tabletop display for the night lights. We use this set up at our Renaissance Faires  to keep within the historical theme.
As Heather designs only nature themes, mainly floral and fauna with a few respectable dragons and faeries, they work beautifully at Ren Faires and compliment the organic materials from which they are created.


This is our display for Festivals and Art & Crafts Shows. The night lights are on hanging display boards with electrical hookup. Each board uses less than power than an 75 watt light bulb.

 

 

 

Below are examples of the Candle Holders. The rescued redwood or pine candle holders are made from scratch by us and fit a tea light or votive perfectly.
   

Depending on the type of event (Art & wine Festival, Home & Garden, Renaissance Faire or Music Festival), we may add one or two of our other hand crafted items as the promoter sees fit.

Everything in our booth, however, is always made personally by us using natural wood, stone, leather or bone as the raw material.
 

Scrimshaw Buffalo Bone Fair Favors

 Etched in actual buffalo bone, we engrave Heather's original artwork, ancient designs and 'words of wisdom' into the 2" disks of bone, adding a pin to the back. Strong and hardy enough for the wildest of Ren Faire Revelry.  Very whimsical, unique and popular item.

Heather takes delightful fridge magnets on recycled materials from a cabinet making company using the same process to our Art & Wine Festivals.

 

Handmade Leather & Oak Journals
 
Each sketchbook/memory book/diary is filled with blank acid free, 100% recycled drawing paper. Heather creates the books using glove leather grade elk hide for the binding, buttery soft yet very tough. She inlays wood (oak) faces into the covers, engraved with her own artwork or ancient images.
We offer our the same book covers in a lovely and economical leather-free style as well.
 

 

Booth, Costume
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Our Outdoor Booth
at a recent Art and Wine Street Festival.
Outdoors we do NOT need electricity. This is
a 10X10 space, but we can always build
a beautiful booth 'to suit'!

 

Art and Craft Indoor
 Festival Booth

10X10 at an indoor Harvest Festival. We can adapt this booth from 6X8 to 10X20 without losing it's inherent charm.  Indoors or at night the booth just twinkles with our night lights yet uses very little electricity.

 

 

 

Dickens Victorian Booth

Here is the booth we built for a wonderful month long
 Dickens Christmas Faire that runs in San Francisco in December.
Heather painted it entirely by hand to create
 the illusion of an intimate Victorian courtyard.  We enjoy the theatrical aspects of many of our events, it's fun to create a historical and entertaining atmosphere for our patrons.

Presentation is important to us!

This picture shows the Candle Gates of the entrance to our little Victorian Courtyard Rose Garden.

 

     

 Mother and Child 1840's Victorian costumes.





Renaissance Faires

Recent booth at a Renaissance Faire, composed of leather,
jute netting and tapestries for a charming traveling market day look.
We have won many awards for our presentation, including Best Overall Renaissance Booth at Shrewsbury Faire
in Oregon (2006) Best Booth Design at the Celtic Midsummer Festival in Fair Oaks (2007)
 and Best of Show Costumes at the Harvest Festival (2008).
Customers regularly stop in front of our earthy booth to have their picture taken.

Okay, here is the Heather's braids and net haircrown shot everyone asks for:

Pirate Faires
         
Pirate Booth & Costume, for the Pirate Festivals that are so much fun!
 

SciFi - Fantasy / PantheaCon Convention Hotel Booth/Costumes

Our Mini-Booth at PatheaCon
at the Double Tree in San Jose

 

 

 

A Well Turned Out Gentleman Paleophysicist

A SteamPunk Adventure at BayCon this year
in Santa Clara at the Hyatt Regency

Miss H. S. D-, Lady Techno-Egyptologist
 

Our two tabletop booth at BayCon

Studio, Artists at Work

Here is Heather working in her studio. It shows a bit of the night light process, each one begins as a drawing (notice the open sketchbook), and is cut out of wood slates using the wonderful Air-Z engraver  mircodrill. To see Heather's original drawings and paintings please visit her portfolio site. Then the gemstone slice is selected that best compliments the design. The last step is the whole piece is equipped with either with a small light bulb or placed in one of Shanti's handmade recycled redwood or pine candle holders.



 

Studio Shots

I include a few pictures of our studio as I know good promoters like to feel confident their vendors are handcrafters.
 We have a 4000ft space where we work, store raw materials, crate, wrap and box our finished pieces and park and load the vans etc.  We make our living at this and are serious artists!

We are real, actual, working artists.

Heather's studio, surrounded by raw materials, reference books, art supplies, wood carving tools, leather tools, a few of Heather's paintings, dvds to help us work late into the nights etc. Everything we sell is made here in conjunction with Shanti's wood shop down the hall.

 

The view from the drafting table.

A corner of the wood shop.

 

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