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Wednesday, July 29, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Folks flock to arts and crafts festival at Creekside Park
By Jodi Schneider mcNamee
Correspondent
Nearly 50 artisans and
vendors displayed a vari-
ety of handcrafted goods at
Creekside Park for the 15th
annual Sisters Arts and Crafts
Festival on Saturday.
The park overflowed with
creativity as folks browsed
by booths filled with original
art from unique paintings to
hand-designed aromatherapy
necklaces.
Demonstrations by glass-
blower and retired science
teacher Lawrence Eichman
drew a crowd. The art of
glassblowing involves fire,
molten sand, a long blow-
pipe, and an intricate and
careful process. The tech-
nique dates back to the first
century BC, and to Sidon
(now coastal Lebanon),
where glassblowing is said to
have been invented.
In a process called gath-
ering, glassblowers dip their
blowpipes into the melted
glass and turn them until they
have a decent sized blob on
the end.
“First you need to get the
glass at least 2,000 degrees.
The glass can actually heat
up hotter than lava,” said
Eichman, who is from the
Portland area.
Tina Mayfield, from
Amity, watched intensely as
Eichman turned liquid glass
into a stunning dolphin.
“This is so interest-
ing to watch, and he’ll
make what you want while
you wait,” Mayfield said,
grinning.“We’re parked in
the campgrounds and just
love Sisters; the shopping is
fantastic!”
Despite overcast condi-
tions and chilly tempera-
tures, the park took on a
festive atmosphere on
Saturday morning as folks
rocked to the music of Derek
Michael Marc & Double AA
Band, while munching on
fresh-popped kettle corn.
Jewelry designer, pot-
ter and lampworker Deanna
Brown from Coos Bay
showcased hand-crafted
aromatherapy necklaces
from her business, Euthalia,
which means “to bloom” in
Greek.
“I design the glass beads
for each necklace myself,
using lampwork. I also
design pottery and I made
ceramic discs and fired
them up to a stoneware tem-
perature which isn’t as hot
as porcelain. Stoneware is
more porous, so I decided
to experiment using a few
drops of essential oils on the
discs and because it’s porous,
the oils just soak into the
disc, which I use as a back-
ing for my necklaces,” said
Brown. “The outcome was
great because the heat from
your body causes the aroma
to be released when wearing
the necklace. Designing these
necklaces is a whole process,
and it can be very therapeu-
tic for the wearer since many
essential oils like lavender
have a calming effect. It’s
like having aromatherapy all
day long.”
With such a variety of
fine arts and crafts, there was
something for everyone’s
taste, including a few very
unique items.
Vendor Allen Henderson
from Lyons had a huge dis-
play of handcrafted antler
knives, and when asked by a
customer how he carved the
handles, Henderson replied,
“Mother nature carves them
for me.
“These are all real deer
antlers, all natural shapes
and sizes, all I do is grind
them down, buff them and
proxy them. I also handcraft
the sheath out of leather,”
Henderson said. “I worked
at my dad’s cutlery all my
life and would go to the fairs
with him, that’s how I got
started.”
ASPHALT
SEALING
photo by Jodi schneider McnaMee
Glassblower lawrence eichman in demonstration at Sisters art in the park on Saturday.
This marked event orga-
nizer Richard Esterman’s
15th show. It was his first
show/event in Sisters and has
run the longest.
“This is the show that
started it all for me. I remem-
ber how the idea started 15
years ago, it was because of
a dare from a vendor from
another show,” Esterman
said. “I had been to a lot of
festivals and always thought
how I would go about it dif-
ferently if I only had my own
show. So, it all began right
here in Sisters.”
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