EXTRA EXTRA - READ ALL ABOUT IT!
My lovely artists/crafters/performers/inventors!!! Check in is at 8-9 (no later than 9:00 please otherwise your spot will be given away) text me if you're lost 704.458.0362! Here are directions:

NOTE: I'd go in through the YMCA because traffic might be a bit crazy off of Roberta Road!

Google Map it
YMCA/Harrisburg (LOOK FOR SIGNS)
4100 Main St Ste 200, Harrisburg, NC 28075

Check in BOOTH - that's where you will see my smilin' face is going to be by Hawthorn's this year due to the KIDS' KORNER, that will be in front of Sports Junction! With Pottery Cottage and Faith, Coffee and Sweets doing some AWESOME stuff with the kids this year!
So excited - nervous and sleep deprived! So again, remember to put on your Happy Hat and come with no expectations other than meeting other very talented folks AND networking!
GREAT DAY to be in HARRISBURG!!! Instagram the event and post photos all day!

Registration is now closed and we thank everyone for registering and supporting this great family event for all ages. The event is still planned for April 18th - this Saturday from 10:00 a.m. til 2:00 p.m. With over 95+ artist in attendance from paintings/illustrations, pottery, photography, metal works, woodworks, writers, poetry, drama (thank you Hickory Ridge High School Drama Club), crafts, hand-made soaps and jewelry, decor and more! Live music and entertainment - great restaurant to attend and much more! Special thank you to Pottery Cottage and Faith, Coffee and Sweets for coming to make the Kids' Korner a special event. With free give-a-ways and demonstrations by local Karate/Martial Arts Group.


There is forecast for rain that day - if that be the case depending on how hard it is down pouring we will reschedule for that Sunday April 19th - from 10-2 possibly go longer due to church services.

Let's pray for sunshine Saturday! I'm very please to see how many vendor/artists we have attending!

ATTENTION VENDORS!

Jewelry Vendors! Only one spot left. We want to thank everyone for registering as a jewerly vendor but we need more paintings, metal, woodwork, crafts and unique talent of ALL ages!

Drama Clubs - Dance Groups - Music! Please contact me either via facebook or email me directly at Harrisburg ARTwalk

Again we greatly appreciate everyone signing up and sending in photos! You can see everyones' work on the "event" page of the HarrisburgARTwalk facebook page. (it's on the bottom left hand side of the screen)

Harrisburg ARTwalk Event Page

APRIL 18th

Saturday (10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

HarrisburgARTwalk

ARTIST LINE-UP!

(Plenty of Room - Sign Up Today!)

facebook.com/harrisburgartwalk

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:

mbuhl@carolina.rr.com

Steven Wilson

Caricature Artists

Want to see his work - drop him a note:

caricature68@gmail.com

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 

www.etsy.com/shop/raggededgeprints

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. 

smc1819@yahoo.com

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

www.cloverleafshop.com

Katie Krantz

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

Shop Online

Joan Lambert

Adorable U - jewelry

Want to see her work- drop her a note:

www.adorableu.com

Elizabeth Collier

Glass art with old wooden windows.

Bird feeders out of glass and small picture frames with glass art 

sabrinarobbinscollier@gmail.com

Michelle Toepfer

Hand-made cedar bird homes! 

Want to see - drop her a note:

mtoepfer@msn.com

Elizabeth Johnson

Starry Girlb

hand painted story stones for children and small canvas paintings.  

www.etsy.com/shop/starrygirlb

starrygirlb@yahoo.com

Donna McKay

McKay Pottery

facebook: www.facebook.com/mckaypottery

ddmckay01@yahoo.com

Donna Ferguson

Spoon Jewelry

Want to see some products:

dfergie40@yahoo.com

Denise Ciccone

Adorable Designs By Denise

Original, one of a kind glass and
stone beaded jewelry

adorabledesignsbydenise@gmail.com

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.

cassidyshirley@gmail.com

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. 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/fairytalechalksigns

Cheri Abbott

Decorative painting

American Girl doll clothes

pintastic1@gmail.com

Barbara Potter

Be Potter

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

bepotter@gmail.com

Natalia Fedkiv

Painter/ designer

Want to see her work - drop her a note: 

knata@aol.com

Luci Wong

Handmade Felt Flowers

You can find photos of them here: 

facebook.com/shopsomethingswong

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. 

TherapeuticOils@live.com

Christina Bunch

Paintings on Canvas

Need something custom:

graycart@gmail.com

Toni South

Small Keys Bath & Beauty

southtoni@gmail.com

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.

lynnbeaulieu2005@yahoo.com

Daphne Helms

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

dshelms@msn.com

Jody Williams

Jody Williams Photography

jodywilliams.photography@gmail.com

Gregory Hanks

Author and makes bookmarks from postage stamp collages.  

www.ghunterhanks.com 

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. 

regardne@windstream.net

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



Amanda Stripes
Smash Jewels
smashjewels@gmail.com

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR APRIL 18th ARTwalk!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

 (Please note 15 jewelry vendors for every 50 vendors) Thank you.

Send me your links/facebook page, website, or blog and I will post it when payment is received! Thank you!

https://fs30.formsite.com/HarrisburgARTwalk1/Harrisburg-ARTwalk/index.html


Look forward to seeing everyone's art in all forms. Music, Dance, Drama, & Painting, Pottery, Sculptures in all forms!

Theme: Bloomin' in the Burg!

NOTE: All Cabarrus schools - We invite the ART programs/ art teachers get your class together and come up with a mural, sculpture, mix medium of any kind that express Bloomin' in the Burg!

How do you interrupt it? The community will vote - $1.00 a vote to help with art supplies for the school! Help us support the ARTs~

Harrisburg ARTwalk
www.facebook.com/harrisburgartwalk

Join and Share the great news happening in our little town!

Wow - it's been forever since I've written on here. New Year's resolution! Weekly blogs! I have to.

I unfortunately could not afford the website anymore. It was coming out of my own pocket. Sorry folks. So I thought I'll start a blog - get some sponsors and hopefully build this one step at a time.

So we are almost (1 day away) in February and things need to be rolling and shaking. The registration will open up this weekend. Sunday evening. OFFICIALLY. Thank you to all that have been inquiring about it. And thank you for your patience.

RULES to REGISTER:
1. Your product MUST be handmade. We want to see your craft. Whether it's painting, illustrating, photography, pottery, sculptures (metal, wood, mixed media), crafts, oils (if homemade), baking, music,  drama, writing/writers, poetry, dance - those are all ART RELATED.

2. You must send in photos of your craft or a link to facebook or website if available. For reference and to help us promote your craft on our blog and facebook page.

3. You must be prepaid through the paypal registration form. If it does not go through then it is not confirmed.

4. You must provide your own table - the area is 10' x 10' and it will be in the grass area this year. Leaving the sidewalk free for the public. Cost is $20.00/ booth area and $80.00 for food trucks
Along with a table - we highly recommend chairs, tents (overhead to shade you from the sun) and any drinks or snacks for the day.

5. Restaurants area providing special for that day. And will come to your booth for orders and deliver the food, so you don't have to leave your booth.

6. Invite friends, family and groups you below to - church or volunteer groups. The more you invite the more the word spreads to help bring MORE business for you. SHARE our fb page and blog!

7.  Parking is only permitted up front for the public. All participates must park behind Sports Junction and or the Salon on the corners.

8. EVERYONE is responsible for their own trash. So please be respectful and pick up after yourselves.

9. 80% of the registration is going towards the scholarship. the other portion needs to help with advertising and flyers. Any in-kind donations is greatly appreciated.

Any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me directly at Teresa Stern (teresastern16@yahoo.com) or you can reach me at my work at teresas@journalbooks.com
You can call me after 6:00 p.m. at 704.458.0362. (cell)

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.