Personal Adornment

Avian Designs

Avian Designs – Longmont artist Amy Gates of Avian Designs enjoys combining her love of the earth and her creative side into making unique up-cycled leather and vintage tin jewelry. By using repurposed items like thrifted leather/suede jackets and vintage cookie tins, she is able to take something old and discarded and give it new life by making it into wearable art! Avian Designs donates 5% of all sales The Trevor Project, a non-profit organization which focuses on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.

One of our favorite ceramic artists, Julie has recently extended her texture and pattern themes to the realm of jewelry, bringing us her new lightweight ceramic earrings and necklaces!

Eve’s friend Jeanne Visvader joins our market this year with of few of her diverse artistic offerings – handmade leather-bound journals finished with unique vintage buttons, delightful little baskets woven from local Ponderosa pine needles, and jewelry ranging from festive and funky Halloween/Dia de los Muertos earrings to striking bracelets of fine Thai hill-tribe silver and semi-precious stones. Like Eve, Jeanne grew up in the art museums of New York City, and continues to draw inspiration from a vast palette of artistry and design elements that keep her creating. 

Joan Hemm began working with the fabrics found in thrift-store draperies, duvet covers, tablecloths, and sheets in high school where there was no budget for costumes for the drama department’s productions. We first met Joan at a Boulder County Farmer’s Market, where she was dressed in a wonderful period costume portraying Susan B. Anthony in honor of Women’s Suffrage, and armed with voter registration forms. She had, of course, made her costume from remnants.

Fashioned from top quality ‘designer’ home decor fabric remnants (small new, unused leftovers), Joan reimagines the fabrics into one-of-a kind crossbody bags for us. She designed her pattern based on features she personally wanted: a “gusset” to create a roomier interior, a pocket on the back for a cell phone, inside pockets, cotton linings, and an adjustable strap. Just what we all wanted!

Hat adornments by Sondra

Sondra joined us late in our 2015 holiday market and her fun, original hand-knitted hats and headbands immediately set off a buying frenzy! Eve gets compliments wherever she goes when she wears the fabulous feathery headband Sondra made, even from strangers on the street!

We’ve stocked up on her pieces this year, including her soft, snuggly hats and headbands, as well as her beautiful pressed-flower botanical cards.