The House of Business Cards

Yup, still distracted and playing catchup.

A Ren Faire Card:

http://www.highlandsecrets.com/

and two Paradise Arts Festival Cards:

http://www.happyartstudio.com/

http://www.socklady.com/index.php

aka the guy who makes the glass squids and angler fish.

Enjoy!

http://vitekkruta.com/

This one is definitely from Paradise City. I saw a number of his painting live and in person and they're just amazing.

I don't want to hot link, but here are some of my favorites:

Purple Fins
Petrified Circles
Spiral

Unfortunately the pictures don't do these paintings justice.

I have been a little distracted, but here are the URLs from the two cards I should have posted:

www.anselblue.com - I think I got this one at a Pioneer Valley Roller Derby Match

www.susanelkin.com - Someone I know through an Etsy.com street team.

Erica Zap is one of my favorite jewelers. My mom and I always stop at her booth at Paradise City. My mother almost always buys something.

My current favorite necklace is from her sterling collection.

I'm pretty sure I met Raelinda Wood at the Paradise City Arts Festival, but it may also have been at a craft fair out in Boston. She makes these really awesome storybook pendants and pins.

I hadn't actually made it to her website until today, and when I did I discovered her warning about storylurkus chocolatus - a stealer of chocolate who uses convoluted stories as distractions. I have to watch out for those.

I met this lovely lady at a meeting for Etsy's Western MA Street Team. Her Etsy shop is JansJems.etsy.com.

Turns out she works at a local college where a friend of mine works IT. So the universe shrunk a bit when we got to talking.

Today's card is for Daniel Sevelt a DJ and event producer. I couldn't find a website for him, but I found Facebook and Myspace pages. (You can Google him yourself if you're bored.)

According to Facebook, we have mutual friends, but honestly I have NO IDEA where I picked up his card.

I assume I picked it up because he's a DJ in Western MA, so I'm going to add him to Red Gown Wedding's DJ list.

This card must be old, because the website printed on it is no longer available. Thankfully Google helped me find the artist's Facebook Fan Page and that lead me to her website, and then to her Lost Ocean Gallery.

I definitely picked this up because of her jelly fish pieces. Not sure where tho. Probably Paradise City...

FINALLY! A business card that isn't from a Ren Faire.

I met Jeff Zugale at the Webcomics Weekend. If I remember correctly, he was sharing a table with Danielle Corsetto who draws Girls With Slingshots.

But anyway, his comic is called Just A Bit Off, and I am officially hooked. And just because I can't get away from them, the current story arc is about going to a Ren Faire...

Yet another Faire dealer. This one has fans, belts and other accessories.

Their website (http://www.sachsandbyrne.com/) seems to be under construction, but there is at least one picture up on the main page.

Alas, the company is run by a couple and their last names are not actually Sachs or Byrne. :(

This is late due to illness.

And it doesn't have a website. And I don't know where it came from.

The card is black with a picture of a blue tile square with red and yellow accents. The title of the piece is "The Promise" (it says so underneath.

Other than that, I got nothin'.

I had to Google this one to find out who it was.

Kristin Thorson makes some of my favorite sculptures at the NY Renaissance Faire. Some day I will have a house and I'm going to want one of her fountains. Until then I will have to love them from afar.

Here is a piece I spotted last year:

I have no idea where I picked this up. I can guess WHY though.

It's the card for Jayson Munn and his studio in NH designs floral arrangement for weddings and events.

I must have grabbed this to add it to Red Gown Weddings

Sorry this is late. It's been one of those weeks.

Another easy one. I know these guys from a stack of Ren Faires.

www.Renboots.com - Renaissance - Pirate - Medieval Footwear

AND hats, and baldrics..

In addition to having really nice products, these guys have sheltered me from the rain once or twice.

"Handcrafted Writing Instruments"

I know exactly where this card came from. It was the Big Brothers Big Sisters Craft Fair - last year I believe. They have these gorgeous pens, and I LOOOOOVE fountain pens.

I haven't made an effort to keep any of my three fountain pens full for years tho. This is something I should really work on. I don't "need" a good pen at work, but I certainly WANT one.

This is one of the vendors at the New York Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo NY. They've been holding down the same booth for years, and for good reason. There work is really nice, and they've got a little bit of everything.

My all time favorite product carried by Perth Pewter is their Bodice Chillers. Specifically the Titmouse Bodice Chiller. I don't own one quite yet, but it's simply a matter of time...

I have no idea when or where I picked this up.

The "From Dust" e-zine is no longer active, but all their resource sections are still getting updates. The card I have is specifically for their New England Dark / Obscure Events Calendar. The text above the URL says "Want to know about upcoming goth / industrial / dark wave / dark ambient / noise / ethereal / dark electronic / etc events in the New England area?" (Actually it says dark ambient twice...)

My assumption is that I grabbed this card with the intent of adding it as a resource on the Strange Things To Do page of my website.

Side Note: I ran out of steam trying to build my own events calendar. Plus I'm going to be revamping that whole site soon. (I hope.) I may keep the page available, but I'm definitely not going to be updating it any time soon.

I met Nathon Macomber at the Paradise Arts Festival. He's a glass worker, and he makes many beautiful things. But my FAVORITES are his spiders.



I took that picture with my phone, so the quality is very "meh".

I spoke with him for a little bit, and we discussed how awesome spiders are. He's makes them in different sizes, but the one I took a picture of was referred to as mamma...

This is a great card to start with.

Back when I was in high school, I was at the New York Renaissance Fair (Sterling Forest in Tuxedo). There was a dealer there called Sleeping Dragon who made plush posable dragons that sit on your shoulder. I got one made of bronze scaled felt, and brought him to many MANY fairs. He's since been retired as he's had one or two repairs, and I don't want to stress him any more. Sleeping Dragon stopped participating in the NY fair and I haven't seen them since.

But that's not where this tale ends! That's just the back story.

A few years ago, a friend of ours owned a comic shop. My husband and I were hanging out, chatting with our friend when I noticed posable, plush dragons in his front case! Turns out his sister used to work with Sleeping Dragon, but they were cutting back on the number of fairs they were attending. (or something, I may be misremembering.) So she became Sleeping Dragon South.

Oh and shortly after that my husband bought me a NEW dragon, this one is tiger striped.