Team NorGA Mardi Gras Challenge

The entries are in for the Team NorGa Mardi Gras Challenge.

Read more about it and vote here: http://etsynorthgeorgia.com/2009/03/01/mardi-gras-challenge/

Artfire

I joined Artfire today. Hopefully I'll get some listings up this weekend. I really need to do a better job of promoting if I want to some day be able to quit my day job :)

DING! Deals in North Georgia!

It's time for DING! Deals in North Georgia! This is a weekly feature from the NorGA Etsy Street Team. Participating members will have a chat room in Etsy, and will be having various sales in their Etsy shops!

Don't miss out! But if you miss out this week, check back next week!

Sale will be from 5pm - 10pm today.

Upcoming events

Cotton Patch Quilt Guild will hold its quilt show March 6 - 8, 2009 at the Oconee Civic Center in Watkinsville, Georgia. There will be lots of quilts to see, vendors, and the boutique to take home handmade treasures! Admission is $6 for adults, and $3 for children.

A's birthday is March 15. We will be celebrating at Elachee Nature Center. Should be a fun time had by all.

Show this weekend

It's time to get ready for the J.B. and Friends Pottery and Art Show and Sale.

If you get a chance, stop on by!

My Sister made Thrifty 50

My sister has been selected as one of the Thrifty Fifty on You Can Make This.

Follow her progress here
http://ycmt.wordpress.com/category/thrifty-under-50-diy-challenge/

Craft Show December 6th and 7th

J.B. (Jeff Bishoff) & Friends Pottery and Art Show and Sale

Saturday, Dec 6th 10am - 5pm
Sunday, Dec 7th 12 (noon) - 5pm

This is a small show in Farmington, actually held in J.B.'s backyard and studio. Other pottery studios also have shows and open houses that same weekend. There's like a "circuit" of pottery studios in and around the Farmington area.

Here is a list of the artists that will be there:
Caryn Curry - crochet and baby items
Carter Giles - functional pottery
Ann Hamlin - paintings and jewelry
D.M. Kirwin - paintings
Leeann Mitchell - clay
Janet McNutt - functional pottery
Jim Peckham - functional pottery
Michael Pierce - sculpture
Cheryl White - weavings
Rebecca Wood - functional pottery
Keen Zero - functional pottery
J. B. (Jeff Bishoff) - functional pottery
Bridget Fox - pottery

From Athens, GA:

• Take 441 South to Farmington
• Turn left into Farmington on Salem Road (at Winterhawk Pottery)
• In Farmington signs will be out to the show

From Atlanta, GA:

• Take I-20 East, exit #114 onto 441 North
• Go about 17 miles to Farmington
• Make a right into Farmington at Salem Road (at Winterhawk Pottery)
• In Farmington signs will be out to the show