Showing posts with label kannapolis cultural arts festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kannapolis cultural arts festival. Show all posts

Sunday, October 8, 2017

With all this rain this weekend...even I've been creating some pieces.




But check out some of the other artists that will be there....
https://goo.gl/photos/xBE7Ui9CnBGsqo3o8



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Sunday, February 15, 2015

APRIL 18th
Saturday (10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
HarrisburgARTwalk

ARTIST LINE-UP!
(Plenty of Room - Sign Up Today!)





Special Thank you to:
Staci Noel
Staci Noel Photography
Facebook Page: Staci Noel Photography


Mary Buhl
Luci & Luca
Fashionable Reversibile Doggie Scarves
Want to see some products - drop her a note:


Steven Wilson
Caricature Artists
Want to see his work - drop him a note:

Marijoyce Porcelli
Ragged Edge Prints
Original framed prints, original matted prints, original mini prints with mini easels, original handmade cards from prints, etc. All prints are my original design. I call my business Ragged Edge Prints. Etsy shop can be found at 


Brianna Hatley
Artist
Lots of things:
Pencil Drawings
Clay modeling
Painting on canvas
Painted wood cutouts
Skull art
ncandpa28133@hotmail.com


Stephanie Champlin
Champ Stamp/Artist
I make custom wood signs from 2 foot signs, to 5x3 foot signs. They are all custom designed quotes on wood that I personally stain/paint and apply the quotes to. 



Susan McRorie
Bore Barn
Handmade soaps (including goat milk soaps), soy candles & tarts, 
jewelry, reed diffusers, lip balms and natural incense.
boerbarn@gmail.com



Tammy Morris
Clover Leaf Shop



Katie Krantz
A mix of artistic creations... pottery, prints,  photography and jewelry!



Joan Lambert
Adorable U - jewelry
Want to see her work- drop her a note:


Elizabeth Collier
Glass art with old wooden windows.
Bird feeders out of glass and small picture frames with glass art 



Michelle Toepfer
Hand-made cedar bird homes! 
Want to see - drop her a note:



Elizabeth Johnson
Starry Girlb
hand painted story stones for children and small canvas paintings.  
Donna McKay
McKay Pottery



Donna Ferguson
Spoon Jewelry
Want to see some products:



Denise Ciccone
Adorable Designs By Denise
Original, one of a kind glass and
stone beaded jewelry



Coral Wayland
One of a Kind Jewelry
Shirley Cassidy
Custom Teddy Bears. 
THE TEDDY BEAR LADY
Bears made from your treasured fabrics,baby blankets and other items.

Georgia Wills
Handlertered chalk signs for weddings, birthdays, maternity, home decor and more. Can customize. These are not traced. Like my page on Facebook at Fairy Tale Chalk Signs. 


Cheri Abbott
Decorative painting
American Girl doll clothes


Barbara Potter
Be Potter
Handmade soap, sugar scrubs, lotions and bath salts. Made completely from scratch.



Natalia Fedkiv
Painter/ designer
Want to see her work - drop her a note: 

Luci Wong
Handmade Felt Flowers
You can find photos of them here: 
and soon in my etsy shop: somethingswong.etsy.com



Dawn Davis
Handmade jewelry, wreaths and rustic housewares. 
dawn.davis330@gmail.com



Sybil Bralley
Simply Aroma Essential Oils & Artwork
Vessel AromaTherapy Lockets
Hand crafted Bath Crystals, Bath Fizzies, Lip 
Balms Lemongrass Organic Skin Care and some of my paintings. 



Christina Bunch
Paintings on Canvas
Need something custom:



Toni South
Small Keys Bath & Beauty



Lynn Beaulieu
homemade soaps, sachets, scrubs, salts, soap sack, lego soaps, 
hello kitty soaps, sample bag of soaps, soap dishes, dog soap 
and other bath items.



Daphne Helms
Visual Artist: pen an ink, alcohol paintings, clay sculptures, stained glass creations






Jody Williams
Jody Williams Photography



Gregory Hanks
Author and makes bookmarks from postage stamp collages.  



Rachel Gardner (w/Kristi Krantz)
Combo table: artist designed chalk board signs 
(custom messages, quotes, verses, wedding signs) 
and customs handmade Haitian art (supports Haitians) 
metal work, some jewerly, woodwork, sewn bag and items. 


Lee Hill
MADD Jewels
Want custom jewelry contact Lee at:
flowerchild2110@gmail.com



Amanda Stripes
Smash Jewels
smashjewels@gmail.com

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Monday, September 8, 2014


The Psychology Behind Messy Rooms: Why The Most

 Creative People Flourish In Clutter



 All our lives, we’ve been told to “be organized.” Organization has always been pegged as a direct key to success.
Whether at home, school or in your bunk at camp, organization is something that has been instilled in everyone pretty much from birth. On the other hand, being messy has been equally condemned and made to be a quick path to failure. And, honestly, no rebuttal could say otherwise.
I mean, what good can come from being disorganized, right? Perhaps more than you might think. More recent studies, conducted by the University of Minnesota last year, provide us with a new side of the debate. The pro-messy one.
There has always been this sort of “urban legend” that has floated around modern society deeming people with messy desks as having a high affinity for creative reasoning.
Frankly, I initially thought that people with “messy desks” had to be creative, out of necessity, to survive outside the boundaries of organization.
Last week’s take home test, still undone, in one corner. A page from last month’s Playboy ripped out and crumpled next to the bottle of cocoa butter in the other. Empty Arizona cans distributed across the surface, like a battlefield.
Your desk is a mess. Then again, it’s your mess, and thus, it feels very in-control. When you habitually fail to put things in their designated place, you’re bound to get creative figuring out ways to make everything, I don’t know, fit. And fit comfortably.
While it might look completely random to strangers, a lot of times, a person’s mess is very methodical – with respect to himself.
Psychological scientist Kathleen Vohs, from the University of Minnesota, who set out to debunk this urban legend, didn’t confine her study to solely the desk. No, Vohs, clearly a creative mind, chose to think outside the desk. She just sounds messy. The creative kind of messy.
Using a paradigm consisting of one messy room and one tidy room, and a series of trials, Vohs concluded that messy rooms provoke more creative thinking – and provided scientific evidence!
The next question is, what exactly constitutes “creative thinking,” and how will your pig sty of a room help?
Creative thinking, in its purest form, is thinking outside the lines of “conventional” reasoning. When considering this, it should be no huge shock that messy rooms containing possessions misplaced from their “conventional” locations would promote creativity.
I suppose if you prefer to “lay,” and I use that term very loosely, your clean clothes on the floor of your bedroom, when the empty dresser is only a few feet away – you’re certainly thinking outside the lines of conventional reasoning. And that same concept could be applied to more abstract conception.
Consider this from Albert Einstein, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?”
Obviously, Einstein’s desk looked like a spiteful ex-girlfriend had a mission to destroy his workspace, and executed it rather successfully. Yet, there’s no denying Einstein’s creativity.
Einstein wasn’t alone. Mark Twain, too, had a cluttered desk. Perhaps even more cluttered than that of Albert Einstein. Mark Twain was one of the most imaginative minds of his generation.
If the likes of Einstein and Mark Twain don’t catch the attention of Generation-Y, I give you Steve Jobs. No wonder he invented iBooks, it’s clear he had trouble maintaining his real life ones. His desk, and office alike, were f*cking disasters. I suppose this just added to his brilliance.
So what does this mean to you? Trash your desks, trash your rooms and hope for a touch of genius? Not exactly. The relationship between messiness and creativity is by no means causal. Being messy won’t find you waking up one morning more creative.
The two are, however, correlated. If you are “messy by nature,” perhaps finding a healthy medium between your usual mess and that urgency to clean, is optimal. By curbing your sloppy desk, room or tendencies, – keep in mind – you might also be curbing your overall creative tendencies.
Ultimately, the only way for you gauge the effectiveness of your mess-induced creativity is to go out and experiment for yourself. So, go ahead, make it rain with all your important files and paperwork, toss your clean clothes across the room, have a blast. See what you come up with, after.
PSA: If you have a roommate, tell him not to send me any hate mail if your dorm room turns into a zoo while you experiment with this. I am not liable for any of the future messes my readers may create.
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