Us, Our stuff,
 Our booth, Our studio
 

                                                                                                 

Our family has been working
Renaissance Faires, Pirate Festivals, Arts and Crafts Festivals, Victorian Events, Music Festivals, Scottish Games and Celtic Events for many years. It all  began with out first booth at the Northern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire at Black Point in Marin County. 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, talented artist and exceptional crafter.

We have been showing at major Class A, 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:

Our booth is filled with unusual things we create ourselves, interesting, beautiful and practical items found absolutely no where else*. Mother and son, we create our items and use our original artwork (each piece is one of a kind) from natural, organic and as much as possible recycled and local renewable materials. Our functional art is priced between twenty and two hundred dollars.

 


Candle Holders and Night Lights

Above are a few examples of our handcrafted stone and wood night lights and candle holders. Heather begins with her original drawing and intricately cuts her design out of rescued or renewable wood.

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 (tea 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. We fit the Agate Slab into a base made of walnut or pine to hold a tea light perfectly.

Depending on the type of event ( Renaissance Faire, Sci Fi Con, Pirate Fest, Art & Wine Festival or Music Festival), we may add one or two of our other hand crafted items as the promoter sees fit. We stay with the theme boundaries of each event to ensure a consistent presentation for patrons.

Everything in our booth, however, is always made personally by us using natural wood, stone, leather or bone as the raw material. We are real, actual, working artists!

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.

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.

Engraved Wooden "Faire Legal" Pocket Mirrors

NEW!
Shanti's Amazing SteamPunk Goggles!
Find these at our Sci Fi and SteamPunk Events!
SteamPunk; the future the way it was!

Shanti MacEwan creates and designs the most wonderful, Top of the Line goggles known to the SteamPunk Art Movement. Hand stitched leather, made start to finish by us of antique and found objects, these leather, brass and steel objet d'art are sought after by collectors.

McEwan Goggles

No Plastic, No Elastic!

 

Close up of the incredible detail and fantastic craftsmanship in Shanti's goggles.

  

 

Booths and Costumes
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    Presentation is important to us!
The majority of our events are Themed Shows, requiring specific costumes and look to our booth. We delight in this and take great time and care in our presentation. You will love us at your show as not only is our craft highly unique and popular, we also understand how important it is to create an enjoyable experience for the patrons. We have won many best-of-show awards for our various booths and costumes as they are always crisp, profession and built to faire specifications. We take the time to learn the language and the historical aspects of each.  Heather also brings her sketchbook and creates watercolors right on the spot, our customers know they are buying direct from the artist.

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 , Best Booth Design at the Celtic Midsummer Festival in Fair Oaks and Best of Show Costumes at the Original Harvest Festival.
Customers regularly stop in front of our earthy booth to have their picture taken.

 

  

 

 

Dickens Victorian Booth

Here is the booth we built for a wonderful month long
 Dickens Christmas Faire that runs in San Francisco starting Thanksgiving Weekend and through December.
Heather painted it entirely by hand to create
 the illusion of an intimate Victorian courtyard rose garden.  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.

 





Pirate Faires

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

 

Our Outdoor Booth
at a recent
Art and Wine Festival.


This is our standard "pop-up" booth we use at City Festivals and street fairs. Outdoors we do NOT need electricity. This is
a 10X10 space, we can build our booth from a 4X4' to a 26X26" without a problem.  We will always build a beautiful booth 'to suit'!

 

SciFi - Fantasy / SteamPunk / Conventions Booth/Costumes

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

 

 

 

A Well Turned Out Gentleman Paleophysicist

Our SteamPunk Corner at Nova Albion SteamPunk Convention 2011
in Santa Clara at the Hyatt Regency

Miss H. S. D-, Lady Techno-Egyptologist and her Exhibition of Highly Crafted Goods
 

 

 

Our tabletop Booth at Nova Albion 2011

Featuring the sought after MacEwan Goggles

Our tabletop booth at BayCon 2010
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 oak slates using the wonderful Air-Z engraver  mircodrill and other equipment. To see Heather's original drawings and paintings please visit her portfolio site. Then the agate slice is selected that best compliments the design.


 

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 1500ft studio where we create the artwork and things we sell, store raw materials, crate, wrap and box our finished pieces and load the vans for events etc.  This is how we make our living. As you can see below the studio is surrounded by raw materials, reference books, art supplies, wood carving tools, a few of Heather's paintings, piles of found objects and antiques, dvds to help us work late into the nights etc.

We are real, actual, working artists.
 
 

Heather's Drafting Table and Work Area

The Rock Room,
where we sort raw materials, pick, toss and create

Costume Rack for our Themed Events. We love dress up!

Shanti's work tables with the SteamPunk odds and ends and tools to create the goggles and other steamy things

 

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