Etsy!

If you haven't been there yet. You should check out Etsy. It is a massive website "venue" of handcrafted functional art. I have finally gotten on board and I'm making my t-shirts available that way. There is a red button below my profile picture which will take you to Etsy's site. When you get to the Etsy home page, put Hartware into the search bar at the top and it should whisk you to my on line shop. Yeehaw! ....Wow! I just had a hummingbird fly into the middle of my yurt (where I am writing this from) hover and fly right back out the door. Nice Grand Opening moment!!! Wheeeee!
Happy Heat Wave!

The Oregon Country Fair

Yeehaw, the "Fair" is upon us.  For those of you who have never attended this event....I say there is nothing else quite like it.  And for those of you who have been there.....how many times have you heard these words? "I swear there was a booth here that sold really nice t-shirts...a minute ago. How did we get here?.....Where was that cheesecake booth?....no the bathrooms are that way."  I have had so many painted, bedazzled, giggly, festers tell me that they could not find my booth that I can't take it anymore. Here I am!!!! Da ta da daaaa! M68 is the official booth number. We are on Wooten Way which is the shady side of Chela Mela Meadow and when you get in the neighborhood look up.  The silk flags!  They really help. They will be above us. (it is way too hard to make them go below us). So have a magnificent Fair even if you never find us. 

Summers here and the livin is easy........

Hartware's entire festival schedule for 2009 is at the bottom of this page.

Altared Nation

I have returned from the Freemont Fair stimulated and jazzed and pumped with new ideas. I have been traveling with my buddy Olive who inspires me toward whole new levels of  interactive explosive joyful living. I am on fire with the idea of you. All of you are walking kinetic altars. You all choose with care the items which you drape upon your body.  And  with this act you are allowing the juices of your unique spirit to seep onto the physical plane. There you are!  

I am seeing a fashion trend a foot. The act of integrating the found object into each unique outfit. Folks are running around with all kinds of things draping off their bodies! Olive and I intersected with a young charmer who is turning cowboy boots into camisoles! Yes indeed! I am inspired! I am ready to turn coffee makers into turbins and candy wrappers into thongs and television screens into waistcoats. Be prepared.  I think that change is in the air. 

I also want to tell you about the charming liquid moments which occurred. But I am feeling that I don't have time at the moment. Remind me to tell you about the guy sitting on his pick-up truck who started singing DoReMi,( yes, from the Sound of Music) with us while we were packing up the booth.  

The other thing I am inspired to do...? To actually write something in my blog. Hah! 

I must be off to work. I have much, much, much  to do for the Oregon Country Fair. If you would like to find me there I will be in booth #M68 in Chela Mela Meadow.

The rest of the year's festival schedule is at the bottom of the page.

selling t-shirts on a blog

OK

 I believe that I can do this. Post things to my blog in little 10 minute bits of time between eating and making the t-shirts. 

The two designs above are heat transfers and I can put them on to tee shirts with many color combinations.  They are printed over a white rectangle created with a wax resist so there are cracks and texture in the background. I am dying the shirts with a unique process which gives a subtle texture to the whole shirt. They are pre-shrunk and completely machine washable. 

• tank tops $25
• organic short sleeve tees $30
• organic long sleeve tees $38

add $4 for shipping and handling. 

If you would like one of these designs or have any questions e-mail me and I'll give it to ya straight. 

Yay! 

Well,

I am the queen of spreading myself too thin. It has become clear that maintaining a retail site and producing t-shirts and carting everything around to festivals is just too much. The festivals have won out and I no longer sell my t-shirts at Kalapuya books in Cottage Grove. The bookstore and pub and bakery are all thriving and fantastic spots to visit. If you are passing by, stop in and say Hi. And if you are interested in seeing what my inventory looks like, shoot me an e-mail and we'll set up a time at my studio. Kalapuya Books, the Axe and Fiddle Pub and Eatery and the Backstage Bakery are all located on the southwest corner of 7th and Main St. downtown Cottage Grove, Oregon.

Hey ya'll New Stuff!

I'm excited by my new ventures. I've started a line of recycled, re-incarnated, resurrected t-shirts. Hallehujah! I am cutting up older/barely used t- shirts and sewing them into fresh combinations. Add to this the fact that I over dye these weary shirts with my tried and true dyeing process and they become pretty exciting hipster born agains. So, I am welcoming any donations you may want to send my way. OR...If you are so inclined, bring  your old t-shirts to my booth and they will have a trade in value of a buck a shirt. (that's $1) With a limit of up to 15. That means you can get a new short sleeve shirt from me for half price. I'm looking for 100% cotton and in pretty good shape. It's time to reuse and reevaluate our resources and get soooo much more from our stuff. We can do it and have a great time! See ya outside in the fresh air and live music and bubbling froth of our magnificent festival/market scene.

peace