5.20.13 Deacon Carpenter
What products do you make?:
VedaBars – Real nutrition bars made from REAL and locally source ingredients which are based on Yoga and Ayurveda.
What is your favorite item?:
That’s a really hard question. Its a little like asking a parent which child is their favorite. Each bar has its own personality and flavor. VataBar is made form Beets yams and Almonds, so it has an earthy and somewhat chocolaty flavor. PittaBar has ginger, turmeric, coconut and dates, so it’s sweet and spicy, and KaphaBar is made form puffed amaranth, cinnamon and raisins, so it’s nutty and toasty. VataBar is definitely the most unique!
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa (Apparently, on the wrong side of the tracks)!
What are you passionate about?
When I’m not making the bars, I’m an Ayurvedic doctor and professor. I help people maintain good health through Ayurveda and Yoga. I also teach the next generation of Ayurvedic Doctors and practitioners as well as help to educate western MD’s on the benefits of Ayurvedic medicine. I’m passionate about helping people maintain their health through foods and lifestyle changes. I’m passionate about raising the awareness of Yoga and Ayurveda from a very practical and approachable way, and I’m passionate about local food and enterprise!
VedaBars – Real nutrition bars made from REAL and locally source ingredients which are based on Yoga and Ayurveda.
What is your favorite item?:
That’s a really hard question. Its a little like asking a parent which child is their favorite. Each bar has its own personality and flavor. VataBar is made form Beets yams and Almonds, so it has an earthy and somewhat chocolaty flavor. PittaBar has ginger, turmeric, coconut and dates, so it’s sweet and spicy, and KaphaBar is made form puffed amaranth, cinnamon and raisins, so it’s nutty and toasty. VataBar is definitely the most unique!
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa (Apparently, on the wrong side of the tracks)!
What are you passionate about?
When I’m not making the bars, I’m an Ayurvedic doctor and professor. I help people maintain good health through Ayurveda and Yoga. I also teach the next generation of Ayurvedic Doctors and practitioners as well as help to educate western MD’s on the benefits of Ayurvedic medicine. I’m passionate about helping people maintain their health through foods and lifestyle changes. I’m passionate about raising the awareness of Yoga and Ayurveda from a very practical and approachable way, and I’m passionate about local food and enterprise!
5.13.13 Scott streeter
What products do you make?:
At the store I sell home and office decor items. Bookends, vases, business card holders, candle holders, that type of thing.
What is your favorite item?:
I am really proud of the wine bottle and glass bookends. I’ve never seen anything like them before. I think the slightly abstract element makes them interesting.
Where do you live?:
I live here in wonderful Sonoma County. I work out of my home in Roseland and the machine shop of my day job.
What are you passionate about?
I am passionate about anything with two wheels, building Trueform Design & Mfg (my business), my 4 great kids, emergency foster care, my amazing wife of 17 years, Kim and our church, Hope Chapel SR, but not necessarily in that order.
In the last 17 years I have been honing my skills as a metal worker in many disciplines. I have come to realize that using these skills to solve problems for people is the most rewarding work I’ve done. Across the county nearly every garage has a hammer, and saws but not many have welders, mills, lathes and waterjet machines. I want to bridge that gap for businesses, individuals, restaurants and more. Feel free to contact me for your special project.
At the store I sell home and office decor items. Bookends, vases, business card holders, candle holders, that type of thing.
What is your favorite item?:
I am really proud of the wine bottle and glass bookends. I’ve never seen anything like them before. I think the slightly abstract element makes them interesting.
Where do you live?:
I live here in wonderful Sonoma County. I work out of my home in Roseland and the machine shop of my day job.
What are you passionate about?
I am passionate about anything with two wheels, building Trueform Design & Mfg (my business), my 4 great kids, emergency foster care, my amazing wife of 17 years, Kim and our church, Hope Chapel SR, but not necessarily in that order.
In the last 17 years I have been honing my skills as a metal worker in many disciplines. I have come to realize that using these skills to solve problems for people is the most rewarding work I’ve done. Across the county nearly every garage has a hammer, and saws but not many have welders, mills, lathes and waterjet machines. I want to bridge that gap for businesses, individuals, restaurants and more. Feel free to contact me for your special project.
3.4.13 Rhonda Lee
What products do you make?:
I make pottery and have been a potter since 1978. My work is mostly functional utilitarian made for daily use.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite pieces at the moment are my platters. They are made from slabs and decorated with a wax resist technique using my handmade glazes.
Where do you live?:
Rohnert Park
What are you passionate about?
I love to work with clay and make pots. I have done it for over 30 years and it has become a vital part of my life. I enjoy lining up the pots on my table as I work on them and witness them going through different stages until the final glaze firing. I still get a little rush as I open the warm kiln to peek in and see how the pots turned out.
I make pottery and have been a potter since 1978. My work is mostly functional utilitarian made for daily use.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite pieces at the moment are my platters. They are made from slabs and decorated with a wax resist technique using my handmade glazes.
Where do you live?:
Rohnert Park
What are you passionate about?
I love to work with clay and make pots. I have done it for over 30 years and it has become a vital part of my life. I enjoy lining up the pots on my table as I work on them and witness them going through different stages until the final glaze firing. I still get a little rush as I open the warm kiln to peek in and see how the pots turned out.
2.18.13 Keith Dale
What products do you make?:
Photographs on matte or watercolor paper. I prefer the texture.
What is your favorite item?:
A sunset over Venice, Italy is one of my favorites.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Photography (of course), laughing, travel, hiking, music and Purely Decadent’s Chocolate Obsession dairy free ice cream.
I have been traveling and photographing for 40 years. I’m currently working on putting up my web site at roamosapien.com.
Photographs on matte or watercolor paper. I prefer the texture.
What is your favorite item?:
A sunset over Venice, Italy is one of my favorites.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Photography (of course), laughing, travel, hiking, music and Purely Decadent’s Chocolate Obsession dairy free ice cream.
I have been traveling and photographing for 40 years. I’m currently working on putting up my web site at roamosapien.com.
2.3.13 Tania Prosser
What products do you make?:
I make hair accessories and dolls handcrafted from upcycled textiles.
What is your favorite item?:
I really enjoy my floral hair accessories. I use upcycled cotton knit harvested locally to make soft eco-friendly blossoms. With so many colors to work with my worktable is soon a lively flowerbed by the end of the day and I have the satisfaction of making beautiful things from castoffs.
Where do you live?:
I live in west Sonoma County near the town of Bodega on a sheep and cattle ranch with my rancher husband and two daughters.
What are you passionate about?
I am very passionate about upcycling. We live a materially wealthy time and place and my practical nature calls for me to take advantage of that wealth. I bring new life to that unwanted t-shirt. As any gardener knows, from the compost heaps come the healthiest and most stunning garden.
I make hair accessories and dolls handcrafted from upcycled textiles.
What is your favorite item?:
I really enjoy my floral hair accessories. I use upcycled cotton knit harvested locally to make soft eco-friendly blossoms. With so many colors to work with my worktable is soon a lively flowerbed by the end of the day and I have the satisfaction of making beautiful things from castoffs.
Where do you live?:
I live in west Sonoma County near the town of Bodega on a sheep and cattle ranch with my rancher husband and two daughters.
What are you passionate about?
I am very passionate about upcycling. We live a materially wealthy time and place and my practical nature calls for me to take advantage of that wealth. I bring new life to that unwanted t-shirt. As any gardener knows, from the compost heaps come the healthiest and most stunning garden.
1.28.13 Neil Burgstahler
What products do you make?:
A collection of children’s stories and greeting cards with calligraphy in the form of the object itself.
What is your favorite item?:
The children’s stories because of what the stories are about.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, CA
What are you passionate about?
Christ-centered values from the written word. I am also passionate about working with children, music, and various art works (I play the diddle- mostly folk music from Ireland and Scotland).
A collection of children’s stories and greeting cards with calligraphy in the form of the object itself.
What is your favorite item?:
The children’s stories because of what the stories are about.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, CA
What are you passionate about?
Christ-centered values from the written word. I am also passionate about working with children, music, and various art works (I play the diddle- mostly folk music from Ireland and Scotland).
1.21.13 Debbie Van Dyke
What products do you make?:
I create art that heals the heart! My hand-embroidered fiber collages include recycle fabrics, ribbons, beads, and other found objects. I also incorporate weaving and screen print into abstract and impressionist-style pieces, inspired by human emotion and nature.
What is your favorite item?:
My most important piece is a homage to Claude Monet’s “Lilies,” which started my collage career.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, CA
What are you passionate about?
My passions lie in sewing, weaving, and craft. I love working with texture and fiber, and I am happiest when my hands are busy creating!
I create art that heals the heart! My hand-embroidered fiber collages include recycle fabrics, ribbons, beads, and other found objects. I also incorporate weaving and screen print into abstract and impressionist-style pieces, inspired by human emotion and nature.
What is your favorite item?:
My most important piece is a homage to Claude Monet’s “Lilies,” which started my collage career.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, CA
What are you passionate about?
My passions lie in sewing, weaving, and craft. I love working with texture and fiber, and I am happiest when my hands are busy creating!
1.7.13 Emma & Sabrina Mann
What products do you make?:
Natural Bath and Skin Care including Handcrafted Bar Soaps, Pacific Ocean Sea Soaks, Shea Body Butters, and Hand Salve
What is your favorite item?:
Bar Soap
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Soap Cauldron is a small Sonoma County minority-woman owned specialty Soap Company that creates and sells natural artisan bar soaps and skin care products. At Soap Cauldron we make both private label and branded products. Our brand, Three Sisters Apothecary utilizes only the finest natural plant oils, pure essential oils and herbal ingredients to create truly beautiful bars that gently cleanse and nurture the skin. We have been creating handcrafted soap since 1999. Our bar soaps are made in the time honored tradition of the first soap guilds of 7th century Europe. Now just as it was then each bar is handmade in small batches with only natural botanicals, pure essential and vegetable oils. From the early recipes coveted by these guilds, these beneficial ingredients nourish and support skin on a daily basis. We are also provide whole body care with bath salts, body butters, soothing salves and lip balms to keep skin soft and hydrated. All of our products are natural and contain only pure essential oils and vegetable oils.
I began making soap after the birth of my extremely premature daughter. Each choice for her was so critical; so I grew our produce to make her baby food and began making our own soap. I experimented in our kitchen, with only plant oils, pure essential oils and natural botanicals. It was easy to see that handmade soap was superior to store bought bars. For years we would blend our bars one batch at a time and give them all away. When my daughter was old enough she joined the efforts. We take ingredients form nature into our soap cauldron and transform them into nourishing and gentle products to gently cleanse and pamper the skin. We bring back a simplicity and reverence for nature with our products with each product that is placed out into the world.
Natural Bath and Skin Care including Handcrafted Bar Soaps, Pacific Ocean Sea Soaks, Shea Body Butters, and Hand Salve
What is your favorite item?:
Bar Soap
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Soap Cauldron is a small Sonoma County minority-woman owned specialty Soap Company that creates and sells natural artisan bar soaps and skin care products. At Soap Cauldron we make both private label and branded products. Our brand, Three Sisters Apothecary utilizes only the finest natural plant oils, pure essential oils and herbal ingredients to create truly beautiful bars that gently cleanse and nurture the skin. We have been creating handcrafted soap since 1999. Our bar soaps are made in the time honored tradition of the first soap guilds of 7th century Europe. Now just as it was then each bar is handmade in small batches with only natural botanicals, pure essential and vegetable oils. From the early recipes coveted by these guilds, these beneficial ingredients nourish and support skin on a daily basis. We are also provide whole body care with bath salts, body butters, soothing salves and lip balms to keep skin soft and hydrated. All of our products are natural and contain only pure essential oils and vegetable oils.
I began making soap after the birth of my extremely premature daughter. Each choice for her was so critical; so I grew our produce to make her baby food and began making our own soap. I experimented in our kitchen, with only plant oils, pure essential oils and natural botanicals. It was easy to see that handmade soap was superior to store bought bars. For years we would blend our bars one batch at a time and give them all away. When my daughter was old enough she joined the efforts. We take ingredients form nature into our soap cauldron and transform them into nourishing and gentle products to gently cleanse and pamper the skin. We bring back a simplicity and reverence for nature with our products with each product that is placed out into the world.
12.31.12 Amber Engfer
What products do you make?:
I work in alternative process photography; using cyanotype, vandyke, lumen printing and natural stain solutions. I then print my artwork onto fabric to incorporated them in functional and wearable items. In the Made Local Marketplace I have pillows, lampshades, and scarves on display.
What is your favorite item?:
My roots pieces are probably my favorite. Although, my image of two dogs kissing has become my most popular photograph.
Where do you live?:
Sebastopol, CA.
What are you passionate about?
When I’m not focused on art and creation crafts, I spend a majority of my time on our home farm. Gardening and taking care of animals, including sheep, chickens, and turkeys have become a great love in my life. I love spending time with my husband, walking our dogs on the beach and lazy days around the house with our cuddly cats.
I work in alternative process photography; using cyanotype, vandyke, lumen printing and natural stain solutions. I then print my artwork onto fabric to incorporated them in functional and wearable items. In the Made Local Marketplace I have pillows, lampshades, and scarves on display.
What is your favorite item?:
My roots pieces are probably my favorite. Although, my image of two dogs kissing has become my most popular photograph.
Where do you live?:
Sebastopol, CA.
What are you passionate about?
When I’m not focused on art and creation crafts, I spend a majority of my time on our home farm. Gardening and taking care of animals, including sheep, chickens, and turkeys have become a great love in my life. I love spending time with my husband, walking our dogs on the beach and lazy days around the house with our cuddly cats.
12.17.12 Melissa Keyser
What products do you make?:
upcycled items- holiday gift bows & reusable produce bags
What is your favorite item?:
right now, the bows. I get to reuse all my magazines and they are so much more fun than the tacky plastic ones you get at the store
Where do you live?:
Petaluma
What are you passionate about?
I love my 3 adopted kitties, to cook, garden, hike and be outside. I am passionate about knowing where my food comes from and raise almost all my own produce & eggs in my apartment backyard. I have a background in environmental education, and hate being wasteful and sending things to the landfill, which is why I craft items from things that would normally be thrown away.
My personal blog discussing my adventure in urban homesteading is forgottenskills.wordpress.com
upcycled items- holiday gift bows & reusable produce bags
What is your favorite item?:
right now, the bows. I get to reuse all my magazines and they are so much more fun than the tacky plastic ones you get at the store
Where do you live?:
Petaluma
What are you passionate about?
I love my 3 adopted kitties, to cook, garden, hike and be outside. I am passionate about knowing where my food comes from and raise almost all my own produce & eggs in my apartment backyard. I have a background in environmental education, and hate being wasteful and sending things to the landfill, which is why I craft items from things that would normally be thrown away.
My personal blog discussing my adventure in urban homesteading is forgottenskills.wordpress.com
12.10.12 Corinna Kirk
What products do you make?:
Needle felted & hand-sewn felt gnomes, Totoros, stars & strawberries to name a few.
What is your favorite item?:
I love making all things Totoro, he’s a favorite in our home.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Being with my children & husband, reading by the fire, making soup, looking for pink clouds, eating pie, going for rain walks, visiting the ocean & woods and taking deep breaths. I also love to MAKE and besides all things felt, I really, really enjoy embroidery.
Needle felted & hand-sewn felt gnomes, Totoros, stars & strawberries to name a few.
What is your favorite item?:
I love making all things Totoro, he’s a favorite in our home.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Being with my children & husband, reading by the fire, making soup, looking for pink clouds, eating pie, going for rain walks, visiting the ocean & woods and taking deep breaths. I also love to MAKE and besides all things felt, I really, really enjoy embroidery.
12.3.12 Ron Petty
What products do you make?:
Metal sculptures large and small (from 5” to 5’+) of things in nature as well as what seem to be abstract pieces created from inside me.
What is your favorite item?:
Joy. A small but lively piece that makes me smile.
Where do you live?:
Cotati, CA
What are you passionate about?
Exploring old structures, being in nature and enjoying the great outdoors.
Metal sculptures large and small (from 5” to 5’+) of things in nature as well as what seem to be abstract pieces created from inside me.
What is your favorite item?:
Joy. A small but lively piece that makes me smile.
Where do you live?:
Cotati, CA
What are you passionate about?
Exploring old structures, being in nature and enjoying the great outdoors.
11.26.12 Brenda Rose
What products do you make?:
I make handpainted ceramic tiles.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite is “The Musicians” executed in a fauve syle.
Where do you live?:
Residence/Studio: Cloverdale
What are you passionate about?
I’m into gardening, my Corgi Otto, piano & really hard crossword puzzles. I’m most passionate when I’m sketching ideas for a clients’ mural.
I make handpainted ceramic tiles.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite is “The Musicians” executed in a fauve syle.
Where do you live?:
Residence/Studio: Cloverdale
What are you passionate about?
I’m into gardening, my Corgi Otto, piano & really hard crossword puzzles. I’m most passionate when I’m sketching ideas for a clients’ mural.
11.19.12 Susan Wosk
What products do you make?:
I sell nichos at the Made Local store at Share Exchange. My work is always changing and expanding. In addition to nichos, I paint all kinds of mirrors, metal art, folk art and metal art jewelry. When there is a Made Local fair or show, all of my work is displayed. The nichos are pressed tin frames that are embellished with paint, fabric, paper, metal art pieces, silver plated Milagros and other “found object”décor. Each frame is handmade in San Miguel de Allende, often special ordered for style and creative design.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite item is the very large nicho which can hold, for example, a scene of mariachis, a small church, hearts and folk art decorations. A nicho is also called a retablo; they are meant to tell a story, or recall the miracles of a saint, or give protection and guidance from a holy or spiritual being.
Where do you live?:
I live in downtown Sebastopol, and have been there since 1968!
What are you passionate about?
My inspiration in life, comes from my love of family, dance, song and artwork. I have a very large and fantastic family in the area of Sonoma County. My children are performers, but they do come home for lengthy visits, to revitalize their parents! You can find me line dancing, performing with “The Powdered Sugars” and creating more holy nicho ware throughout the Northern California galleries. I am passionate about the spirit of life and how it unfolds each day. As my good friend says, “The nichos talk to me!” This kind of art work, that may hold a holy deity, an enlightened being, a luscious tomato, or simply, a newly elected president….moves me to keep on putting the meaning of life right out there..on my sleeve.
I sell nichos at the Made Local store at Share Exchange. My work is always changing and expanding. In addition to nichos, I paint all kinds of mirrors, metal art, folk art and metal art jewelry. When there is a Made Local fair or show, all of my work is displayed. The nichos are pressed tin frames that are embellished with paint, fabric, paper, metal art pieces, silver plated Milagros and other “found object”décor. Each frame is handmade in San Miguel de Allende, often special ordered for style and creative design.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite item is the very large nicho which can hold, for example, a scene of mariachis, a small church, hearts and folk art decorations. A nicho is also called a retablo; they are meant to tell a story, or recall the miracles of a saint, or give protection and guidance from a holy or spiritual being.
Where do you live?:
I live in downtown Sebastopol, and have been there since 1968!
What are you passionate about?
My inspiration in life, comes from my love of family, dance, song and artwork. I have a very large and fantastic family in the area of Sonoma County. My children are performers, but they do come home for lengthy visits, to revitalize their parents! You can find me line dancing, performing with “The Powdered Sugars” and creating more holy nicho ware throughout the Northern California galleries. I am passionate about the spirit of life and how it unfolds each day. As my good friend says, “The nichos talk to me!” This kind of art work, that may hold a holy deity, an enlightened being, a luscious tomato, or simply, a newly elected president….moves me to keep on putting the meaning of life right out there..on my sleeve.
11.12.12 Hannah Caratti
What products do you make?:
Yoga DVDs, Healing Music CDs
What is your favorite item?:
Gentle Yoga DVD & Mother’s Heart Flute Relaxations CD
Where do you live?:
West Santa Rosa, CA
What are you passionate about
Yoga, Music, Relaxation/Meditation/iRest, Reiki
website: www.counselingyogameditation.com
I LOVE to give yoga classes (small group or private) at our home yoga studio in the country and I also DELIGHT in offering yoga workshops at the mineral pools in Sonoma
www.counselingyogameditation.com/workshops
Yoga DVDs, Healing Music CDs
What is your favorite item?:
Gentle Yoga DVD & Mother’s Heart Flute Relaxations CD
Where do you live?:
West Santa Rosa, CA
What are you passionate about
Yoga, Music, Relaxation/Meditation/iRest, Reiki
website: www.counselingyogameditation.com
I LOVE to give yoga classes (small group or private) at our home yoga studio in the country and I also DELIGHT in offering yoga workshops at the mineral pools in Sonoma
www.counselingyogameditation.com/workshops
11.5.12 Sylvia Marie
What products do you make?:
I express my love of plants and nature through creating Living Earth Essences® (flower essences, herbal salves and tinctures) and Clear & Vibrant® Skin Care products – face cream, body lotion, hydrosols, face mask, and lip balms.
I initially created Clear & Vibrant® Face Cream in 2001 for my personal use, to have a moisturizer for my skin that contained healthy ingredients. I make Clear & Vibrant® Skin Care products in small batches in my kitchen with healing, protective ingredients and loving care. There are no synthetic or paraben (petroleum-based) preservatives.
I make essences of the flowers on our land, listening to them, attuning to them, and the qualities what they offer.
What is your favorite item?:
Each product I make is my favorite. I use the face cream the most, at least twice a day, and also sometimes on my feet. I also love the hydrosols that I make in an Alembic Copper Still.
Where do you live?:
I live in the country South of Sebastopol, where I have lived for 26 years, with 5 cats, a large garden, herbs and beehives. I use the honey from the bees in my face cream and lotions.
What are you passionate about?
I am passionate about being in a harmonious relationship within our own inner nature, and with the outer nature. The plant world facilitates people in reconnecting with and maintaining health and harmony. Nature is alive, nature heals. Medicinal herbs and the plant world can support the body’s healing processes in many ways.
I love using and making affordably available healing and healthy products for the body.
More of my products can be seen at www.earthlightharmony.com
I express my love of plants and nature through creating Living Earth Essences® (flower essences, herbal salves and tinctures) and Clear & Vibrant® Skin Care products – face cream, body lotion, hydrosols, face mask, and lip balms.
I initially created Clear & Vibrant® Face Cream in 2001 for my personal use, to have a moisturizer for my skin that contained healthy ingredients. I make Clear & Vibrant® Skin Care products in small batches in my kitchen with healing, protective ingredients and loving care. There are no synthetic or paraben (petroleum-based) preservatives.
I make essences of the flowers on our land, listening to them, attuning to them, and the qualities what they offer.
What is your favorite item?:
Each product I make is my favorite. I use the face cream the most, at least twice a day, and also sometimes on my feet. I also love the hydrosols that I make in an Alembic Copper Still.
Where do you live?:
I live in the country South of Sebastopol, where I have lived for 26 years, with 5 cats, a large garden, herbs and beehives. I use the honey from the bees in my face cream and lotions.
What are you passionate about?
I am passionate about being in a harmonious relationship within our own inner nature, and with the outer nature. The plant world facilitates people in reconnecting with and maintaining health and harmony. Nature is alive, nature heals. Medicinal herbs and the plant world can support the body’s healing processes in many ways.
I love using and making affordably available healing and healthy products for the body.
More of my products can be seen at www.earthlightharmony.com
10.22.12 Robert Janover
What products do you make?:
Producer / publisher / photographer / designer of Sonoma County retail products such as the new Sonoma County Hardcover picture book, the 19 year series of the Sonoma County Photo and Event calendar, a scenic notecard series, posters, etc etc.
What is your favorite item?:
The Volume 2 of the Hardcover book would have to be the crowning achievement so far, after 26 years of photographing all my visual passions, and to date, it still never grows old capturing the ever-present plethora of enticing visuals that captivate me.
Where do you live?:
I’m back out to my homestay in West County these days after a 5 year visit to a gorgeous little spot in Kenwood right on Sonoma Creek among a dazzling 3 acre garden. It was a photographers paradise, though a little isolated. I’m much more a down to earthier of west county delights, than the more Napa influenced elements of the East county, though they each have their visual perks... Though there really are some big differences when it comes to living in each. I had a office in the heart of the county in downtown Santa Rosa, 3 doors up form the Made Local shop, for 12 years, so for a while I had 3 great locations as bases... but that also meant 4 different telephones. I’m streamlining life a bit these days, and west county suits me very well.
What are you passionate about?
My life is dictated by my visual passions, and the pursuit of bringing those visuals out in various retail products to share with anyone who has a passion for what Sonoma County is all about. In this day and age, with the explosion of digital photography, just about EVERYONE is a photographer, literally, in some way or form. It’s a rare thing that your passion can be your livelihood, and this March marked my 26th year of pursuing it in one way or another, thru every challenge imaginable.
Yet here I am, on the cusp of going to print on a 2nd (SECOND) Sonoma County calendar for 2013! It’s crazy to imagine 19 years of a continuous region calendar being produced, let alone from the same source.... and even crazier for a region to have 2 strong calendars exalting itself, but I’ve know for quite a while that some people are passionate about my visuals of Sonoma County, and some are passionate about the abundant activities here.......I’m a Gemini, so I appreciate BOTH elements showcased in the calendars all these years! :}
So the 2013 calendars feature the best of both those worlds, a 16-month EVENTLESS photo showcase calendar, and the traditional 12-month Photo and EVENT calendar, which is just about to go to print as I type this... these are my passions... for someone to tirelessly and very tiredly research for a solid month and a half the 700+ events that will be imprinted on the calendar for the next year, takes such a commitment, and this year it’s really put me to the test. I can finally tell I’m not 35 anymore!!, but the privilege of living in Sonoma County, and walking the same trails as previous Janover’s here, and doing what I continue to do and pursue are the best passions one could have I suspect, and I don’t take it lightly. It is an honor and a delight to have been able to produce and distribute something like 190,000 self-published calendars to this point.... that’s a massive, unique passion and commitment.... and a responsibility I relish.
More of the wide variety of my work can be seen on my web site http://www.robertjanover.com and right across the street from the Share Marketplace store, in the Santa Rosa Mall is a nice series of 30 large format images ( 28” x 40” ) from the new picture book, featured on the walls of the long hallway leading to Fresh Choice and the mall offices/restrooms.
Producer / publisher / photographer / designer of Sonoma County retail products such as the new Sonoma County Hardcover picture book, the 19 year series of the Sonoma County Photo and Event calendar, a scenic notecard series, posters, etc etc.
What is your favorite item?:
The Volume 2 of the Hardcover book would have to be the crowning achievement so far, after 26 years of photographing all my visual passions, and to date, it still never grows old capturing the ever-present plethora of enticing visuals that captivate me.
Where do you live?:
I’m back out to my homestay in West County these days after a 5 year visit to a gorgeous little spot in Kenwood right on Sonoma Creek among a dazzling 3 acre garden. It was a photographers paradise, though a little isolated. I’m much more a down to earthier of west county delights, than the more Napa influenced elements of the East county, though they each have their visual perks... Though there really are some big differences when it comes to living in each. I had a office in the heart of the county in downtown Santa Rosa, 3 doors up form the Made Local shop, for 12 years, so for a while I had 3 great locations as bases... but that also meant 4 different telephones. I’m streamlining life a bit these days, and west county suits me very well.
What are you passionate about?
My life is dictated by my visual passions, and the pursuit of bringing those visuals out in various retail products to share with anyone who has a passion for what Sonoma County is all about. In this day and age, with the explosion of digital photography, just about EVERYONE is a photographer, literally, in some way or form. It’s a rare thing that your passion can be your livelihood, and this March marked my 26th year of pursuing it in one way or another, thru every challenge imaginable.
Yet here I am, on the cusp of going to print on a 2nd (SECOND) Sonoma County calendar for 2013! It’s crazy to imagine 19 years of a continuous region calendar being produced, let alone from the same source.... and even crazier for a region to have 2 strong calendars exalting itself, but I’ve know for quite a while that some people are passionate about my visuals of Sonoma County, and some are passionate about the abundant activities here.......I’m a Gemini, so I appreciate BOTH elements showcased in the calendars all these years! :}
So the 2013 calendars feature the best of both those worlds, a 16-month EVENTLESS photo showcase calendar, and the traditional 12-month Photo and EVENT calendar, which is just about to go to print as I type this... these are my passions... for someone to tirelessly and very tiredly research for a solid month and a half the 700+ events that will be imprinted on the calendar for the next year, takes such a commitment, and this year it’s really put me to the test. I can finally tell I’m not 35 anymore!!, but the privilege of living in Sonoma County, and walking the same trails as previous Janover’s here, and doing what I continue to do and pursue are the best passions one could have I suspect, and I don’t take it lightly. It is an honor and a delight to have been able to produce and distribute something like 190,000 self-published calendars to this point.... that’s a massive, unique passion and commitment.... and a responsibility I relish.
More of the wide variety of my work can be seen on my web site http://www.robertjanover.com and right across the street from the Share Marketplace store, in the Santa Rosa Mall is a nice series of 30 large format images ( 28” x 40” ) from the new picture book, featured on the walls of the long hallway leading to Fresh Choice and the mall offices/restrooms.
10.8.12 Yoshimi Hinman
What products do you make?:
Purses,Bags, Coasters and Hair Ties.
What is your favorite item?:
My purses.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
I love to visit new places and take pictures. I have a passion for creating something new.
Purses,Bags, Coasters and Hair Ties.
What is your favorite item?:
My purses.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
I love to visit new places and take pictures. I have a passion for creating something new.
9.24.12 Laura Shafer
What products do you make?:
Re-made and ready-made fun things to help people with hanging out laundry. I have a laundry photo series I’ll be showing at the Share Exchange this March.
What is your favorite item?:
Baby Hawaiian Shirt clothespin bags with a clothespin poem set.
Where do you live?:
Sebastopol
What are you passionate about?
Singing, Dancing, gardening and Air Drying Laundry! I find the Act of Hanging Laundry up to dry, a profound ecological choice that smells wonderful.
Re-made and ready-made fun things to help people with hanging out laundry. I have a laundry photo series I’ll be showing at the Share Exchange this March.
What is your favorite item?:
Baby Hawaiian Shirt clothespin bags with a clothespin poem set.
Where do you live?:
Sebastopol
What are you passionate about?
Singing, Dancing, gardening and Air Drying Laundry! I find the Act of Hanging Laundry up to dry, a profound ecological choice that smells wonderful.
9.17.12 Pat Nicholson
What products do you make?:
Dyed and painted fabric, original designer created clothingand accessories.
What is your favorite item?:
Anything with color.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Creating new and different items.
Dyed and painted fabric, original designer created clothingand accessories.
What is your favorite item?:
Anything with color.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Creating new and different items.
9.3.12 Cindy Bishop
What products do you make?:
1) Quan Yin greeting cards;
2) an acrylic, wax and gel pen painting called ‘LP Framed’
What is your favorite item?:
Equally favored
Where do you live?:
Cherry Street Neighborhood near downtown Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Solitude and community, symbols and synchronicity, dream work and journaling, reading and hiking, social justice, watching good indy movies, making documentaries, playing harpsichord, learning Aikido, farmer’s markets, Manchego cheese & the SF Giants, volunteering with kids, creative experimentation, hanging out with my husband.
I do one-on-one consultations and lead a monthly ‘DreamWebbing’ group, where we look at our lives in seriously playful ways through the lens of symbol and synchronicity.
I’m grateful to Jessica B. for helping me turn my drawing into a card, and to the MLM for including me in their vibrant home-grown community.
1) Quan Yin greeting cards;
2) an acrylic, wax and gel pen painting called ‘LP Framed’
What is your favorite item?:
Equally favored
Where do you live?:
Cherry Street Neighborhood near downtown Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
Solitude and community, symbols and synchronicity, dream work and journaling, reading and hiking, social justice, watching good indy movies, making documentaries, playing harpsichord, learning Aikido, farmer’s markets, Manchego cheese & the SF Giants, volunteering with kids, creative experimentation, hanging out with my husband.
I do one-on-one consultations and lead a monthly ‘DreamWebbing’ group, where we look at our lives in seriously playful ways through the lens of symbol and synchronicity.
I’m grateful to Jessica B. for helping me turn my drawing into a card, and to the MLM for including me in their vibrant home-grown community.
8.27.12 Candace Birchfield
What products do you make?:
Mosaic top boxes, functional ceramics, cactus planters, ceramic containers with finials.
What is your favorite item?:
Whatever I am making at the moment.
Where do you live?:
Planet Earth; specifically, Petaluma CA.
What are you passionate about?
I love learning new things, relearning old things. I am passionate about encouraging others to pursue their passions.
I am very pleased to be a part of MLM. It is such wonderful organization, connecting people in so many positive ways!
Mosaic top boxes, functional ceramics, cactus planters, ceramic containers with finials.
What is your favorite item?:
Whatever I am making at the moment.
Where do you live?:
Planet Earth; specifically, Petaluma CA.
What are you passionate about?
I love learning new things, relearning old things. I am passionate about encouraging others to pursue their passions.
I am very pleased to be a part of MLM. It is such wonderful organization, connecting people in so many positive ways!
8.20.12 Lada Ladik
What products do you make?:
I paint in water color and acrylic, and I also make greeting cards, which are my main product. I like to make cards because they are great little gifts and many of them can be framed.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite is my lady bug and my flowers. They are also my best sellers.
Where do you live?:
I moved to Santa Rosa in April 2010 but I am originally from the Czech Republic.
What are you passionate about?
I love to travel and see other artists at work. I also love to visit galleries.
In 1996, I began to paint objects in a decorative way, following folk traditions native to Eastern Europe. I soon developed my own style after learning more about techniques and materials from books and by carefully observing the nature around me.
Along the way, I have attended workshops and frequent classes given by more professional decorative artists, as well as instruction in the operation of a successful small business.
In addition to decorative objects, I produce a line of note cards and a limited number of original drawings and paintings suitable for the wall, including custom work
My daily life is full of emotions and memories.
In the silence of the moment, I paint my feelings and visions.
When I paint, I try to show how intricate or simple my subject could be.
It is a process of many layers.
I want the viewer’s own feelings to sense the passion within each work.
I paint in water color and acrylic, and I also make greeting cards, which are my main product. I like to make cards because they are great little gifts and many of them can be framed.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite is my lady bug and my flowers. They are also my best sellers.
Where do you live?:
I moved to Santa Rosa in April 2010 but I am originally from the Czech Republic.
What are you passionate about?
I love to travel and see other artists at work. I also love to visit galleries.
In 1996, I began to paint objects in a decorative way, following folk traditions native to Eastern Europe. I soon developed my own style after learning more about techniques and materials from books and by carefully observing the nature around me.
Along the way, I have attended workshops and frequent classes given by more professional decorative artists, as well as instruction in the operation of a successful small business.
In addition to decorative objects, I produce a line of note cards and a limited number of original drawings and paintings suitable for the wall, including custom work
My daily life is full of emotions and memories.
In the silence of the moment, I paint my feelings and visions.
When I paint, I try to show how intricate or simple my subject could be.
It is a process of many layers.
I want the viewer’s own feelings to sense the passion within each work.
8.13.12 Carrie Redfern
What products do you make?:
Beeswax candles: votives, tapers and tea lights, as well as shaped candles such as dahlias, chrysanthemums, duckies, floating hearts and roses. My candles are made from locally sourced 100% pure beeswax or botanically dyed beeswax (I make herbal dyes as opposed to using synthetic ones).
What is your favorite item?:
My favorites are the burgundy dahlias and mums. My dyed colors always vary slightly, due to the environmental nuances that make every batch of beeswax a different shade, ranging from bright gold to deep mustard yellow. I love that the base beeswax color is going to affect the outcome of my dye experiments, it keeps it interesting and makes each candle unique. My most recent batch of burgundy flower candles came out with the rich plum purple tones that I’m always striving to achieve with this color.
Where do you live?:
Sebastopol
What are you passionate about?
I love being a mama, I recently made my first candles with my daughter. With a little help, she was excited to roll the beeswax taper candles for her 4th birthday celebration. I am passionate about the positive shifts in consciousness that I see changing myself and others around me. Through love and local sustainable economies I have great hope that we can be the change we’ve been waiting for.
Beeswax candles: votives, tapers and tea lights, as well as shaped candles such as dahlias, chrysanthemums, duckies, floating hearts and roses. My candles are made from locally sourced 100% pure beeswax or botanically dyed beeswax (I make herbal dyes as opposed to using synthetic ones).
What is your favorite item?:
My favorites are the burgundy dahlias and mums. My dyed colors always vary slightly, due to the environmental nuances that make every batch of beeswax a different shade, ranging from bright gold to deep mustard yellow. I love that the base beeswax color is going to affect the outcome of my dye experiments, it keeps it interesting and makes each candle unique. My most recent batch of burgundy flower candles came out with the rich plum purple tones that I’m always striving to achieve with this color.
Where do you live?:
Sebastopol
What are you passionate about?
I love being a mama, I recently made my first candles with my daughter. With a little help, she was excited to roll the beeswax taper candles for her 4th birthday celebration. I am passionate about the positive shifts in consciousness that I see changing myself and others around me. Through love and local sustainable economies I have great hope that we can be the change we’ve been waiting for.
8.6.12 Scott Hall
What products do you make?:
Oil Paintings
What is your favorite item to paint?:
Old trunks, ocean brine, clouds, various colored skies, the seasons changing grasses..
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
I love to paint and draw. I also love to express myself through poetry. Nature, natural beauty: fields, sky, water- I love all of these things. I love to read, I love my friends, family and I love my Joyce.
I am grateful for the Share Exchange and for this opportunity to share my work.
Oil Paintings
What is your favorite item to paint?:
Old trunks, ocean brine, clouds, various colored skies, the seasons changing grasses..
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa
What are you passionate about?
I love to paint and draw. I also love to express myself through poetry. Nature, natural beauty: fields, sky, water- I love all of these things. I love to read, I love my friends, family and I love my Joyce.
I am grateful for the Share Exchange and for this opportunity to share my work.
7.30.12 Jana Lombardo
What products do you make?:
Crafty bits and pieces of whatever has my attention at the moment, usually something with fun, colorful fabric. I love to sew clothing for little girls, mixing and matching different print cotton fabric with natural muslin and wool. My clothing is made to be comfortable and designed to fit the little ones for a long time. I also make fun little gifts like tooth pillows, bunting flags, reusable snack bags, felted wool soaps and don’t forget the famous pocket hampster!
What is your favorite item?:
I would have to say of those items my favorite is always the one I am working on “right now”. It usually starts at the fabric store with some piece of fabric I just can’t resist, then off to Legacy Thrift in Sebastopol for yards of trim and embellishment. Then I am off designing and planning what this new dress or pair of ruffle pants will become.
Where do you live?:
I live on a nice dirt road in Santa Rosa with my husband and three sweet daughters.
What are you passionate about?
I love lots of things, my family, the look on my daughters face when she learns how to ride her bike, or how to sew on a button. I love my husband, who can build and fix anything. I love photography, fabric, wool, making stuff, being outside, my willow tree...so many things.
Crafty bits and pieces of whatever has my attention at the moment, usually something with fun, colorful fabric. I love to sew clothing for little girls, mixing and matching different print cotton fabric with natural muslin and wool. My clothing is made to be comfortable and designed to fit the little ones for a long time. I also make fun little gifts like tooth pillows, bunting flags, reusable snack bags, felted wool soaps and don’t forget the famous pocket hampster!
What is your favorite item?:
I would have to say of those items my favorite is always the one I am working on “right now”. It usually starts at the fabric store with some piece of fabric I just can’t resist, then off to Legacy Thrift in Sebastopol for yards of trim and embellishment. Then I am off designing and planning what this new dress or pair of ruffle pants will become.
Where do you live?:
I live on a nice dirt road in Santa Rosa with my husband and three sweet daughters.
What are you passionate about?
I love lots of things, my family, the look on my daughters face when she learns how to ride her bike, or how to sew on a button. I love my husband, who can build and fix anything. I love photography, fabric, wool, making stuff, being outside, my willow tree...so many things.
7.16.12 Richard Flatto & Laura Davies
What products do you make?:
Custom Recycled License Plate Art Signs and Whimsical License Plate Art Creations
What is your favorite item?:
Richard: “The Rider” - a mixed media piece of a bicyclist created using license plates and bike parts on a painted background.
Laura: “In Vino Veritas” - a custom license plate sign crafted from a wine barrel top and surrounded with wine corks.
Where do you live?:
In the Bennet Valley area of Santa Rosa.
What are you passionate about?
Richard: Recreationally, golf! Artisically, we both love to conceptualize and generate new forms of artistic expression and expansion of concepts using recycled license plates as the “bones”of our art.
Laura: I do a lot of theatre locally, but I also write and create lots of mixed media and collage art. License2Spell was really born as a collaborative process - we’re both highly creative and love words and art. It was natural for us to have combined those in a way that enables us to have a shared artistic expressiveness
We love the concept that we’re creating art from locally-sourced salvaged materials and we are breathing new life into those materials. We want to keep expanding into new and different creative outlets with our chosen “medium” - trying to find and do things either differently or better (or both!) with our art. And we’re excited to be using recycled materials in a way no one else has (at least not that we are aware of) with the things we’ve created using Wine Barrel parts and incorporating them into our artwork. The sky is the limit, and we love to explore the limits!.
We love creating our own art but we really enjoy commissioned work - taking someone’s idea and making it a reality. We’ve done lots of specific signs for people, sometimes utilizing their own found objects or ideas and creating something that speaks to their artistic expression.
license2spell@gmail.com
Custom Recycled License Plate Art Signs and Whimsical License Plate Art Creations
What is your favorite item?:
Richard: “The Rider” - a mixed media piece of a bicyclist created using license plates and bike parts on a painted background.
Laura: “In Vino Veritas” - a custom license plate sign crafted from a wine barrel top and surrounded with wine corks.
Where do you live?:
In the Bennet Valley area of Santa Rosa.
What are you passionate about?
Richard: Recreationally, golf! Artisically, we both love to conceptualize and generate new forms of artistic expression and expansion of concepts using recycled license plates as the “bones”of our art.
Laura: I do a lot of theatre locally, but I also write and create lots of mixed media and collage art. License2Spell was really born as a collaborative process - we’re both highly creative and love words and art. It was natural for us to have combined those in a way that enables us to have a shared artistic expressiveness
We love the concept that we’re creating art from locally-sourced salvaged materials and we are breathing new life into those materials. We want to keep expanding into new and different creative outlets with our chosen “medium” - trying to find and do things either differently or better (or both!) with our art. And we’re excited to be using recycled materials in a way no one else has (at least not that we are aware of) with the things we’ve created using Wine Barrel parts and incorporating them into our artwork. The sky is the limit, and we love to explore the limits!.
We love creating our own art but we really enjoy commissioned work - taking someone’s idea and making it a reality. We’ve done lots of specific signs for people, sometimes utilizing their own found objects or ideas and creating something that speaks to their artistic expression.
license2spell@gmail.com
7.9.12 Stacey Alysa Dennick
What products do you make?:
Fused and painted glass jewelry, art, home décor including boxes of all sizes from 2” square keepsake boxes to 8” by 10” jewelry boxes, dishes, bowls, suncatchers, desktop affirmations, and gemstone jewelry (necklaces, earrings and bracelets) in 14 kt gold filled and sterling silver.
What is your favorite item?:
How can I choose one of my children to love the most? But I do especially love the little boxes. Each one is a tiny one-of-a-kind piece of art framed in a box. I also love my desktop affirmations because they’re unique, fun and affordable. I like imagining them sitting on people’s desks, giving them positive juice. “Permission to Play” has to be my all time favorite saying.
Where do you live?:
West Sebastopol, almost to Occidental. In a wonderful area with a big garden.
What are you passionate about?
I’m in love with color. One of my favorite things to do is open the kiln after waiting those long hours for it to cool, and seeing my glass art all shiny bright with gold paint and deep saturated colors. I also love stringing tourmaline, pearl, amethyst, peridot, carnelian, all the yummy gemstones, onto silk cord. It’s very meditative, creating patterns in color and shape, tying knots.
I’ll always be grateful to Debbie for noticing my display at the Goddess craft fair and inviting me to become a vendor at MLM. It is such a wonderful place brimming with energy and innovation.
Fused and painted glass jewelry, art, home décor including boxes of all sizes from 2” square keepsake boxes to 8” by 10” jewelry boxes, dishes, bowls, suncatchers, desktop affirmations, and gemstone jewelry (necklaces, earrings and bracelets) in 14 kt gold filled and sterling silver.
What is your favorite item?:
How can I choose one of my children to love the most? But I do especially love the little boxes. Each one is a tiny one-of-a-kind piece of art framed in a box. I also love my desktop affirmations because they’re unique, fun and affordable. I like imagining them sitting on people’s desks, giving them positive juice. “Permission to Play” has to be my all time favorite saying.
Where do you live?:
West Sebastopol, almost to Occidental. In a wonderful area with a big garden.
What are you passionate about?
I’m in love with color. One of my favorite things to do is open the kiln after waiting those long hours for it to cool, and seeing my glass art all shiny bright with gold paint and deep saturated colors. I also love stringing tourmaline, pearl, amethyst, peridot, carnelian, all the yummy gemstones, onto silk cord. It’s very meditative, creating patterns in color and shape, tying knots.
I’ll always be grateful to Debbie for noticing my display at the Goddess craft fair and inviting me to become a vendor at MLM. It is such a wonderful place brimming with energy and innovation.
7.2.12 Kelley Rajala
What products do you make?:
I design small businesses intended to have a positive community benefit. The Made Local Marketplace, Share Exchange and GoLocal are a few examples of my work. I also get crafty doing graphic design. Most recently, my partner Eric and I are growing plants -- lots and lots of vegetables, herbs and flowers in our neighborhood.
What is your favorite item?:
All my work is a labor of love but right now, our gardens are bringing me much joy. We are “urban farming” in three yards in our neighborhood and will be selling some of the produce to local restaurants. I’m loving that.
Where do you live?:
I live in the Burbank Gardens neighborhood in Santa Rosa.
What are you passionate about?
Encouraging ideas and dreams to evolve into reality.
I design small businesses intended to have a positive community benefit. The Made Local Marketplace, Share Exchange and GoLocal are a few examples of my work. I also get crafty doing graphic design. Most recently, my partner Eric and I are growing plants -- lots and lots of vegetables, herbs and flowers in our neighborhood.
What is your favorite item?:
All my work is a labor of love but right now, our gardens are bringing me much joy. We are “urban farming” in three yards in our neighborhood and will be selling some of the produce to local restaurants. I’m loving that.
Where do you live?:
I live in the Burbank Gardens neighborhood in Santa Rosa.
What are you passionate about?
Encouraging ideas and dreams to evolve into reality.
6.25.12 Christian Andersen
What products do you make?:
I am the maker of functional clay vessels that are intended to be used to enhance our daily rituals.
What is your favorite item?:
I would have to say that my favorite creation has to do with my favorite ritual of all. My coffee mugs are my most cherished items in my cupboards. Without my daily cups of coffee I would not be the same individual. And without my favorite coffee mugs my coffee just does not taste the same.
Where do you live?:
I live in many places. I live in my classroom by day (during the school year, I’m a 6th grade teacher), with my beautiful wife and energetic daughters during the afternoon into the evening, and then campout in my pottery studio by night and into the wee hours of the morning. All of this takes place in Santa Rosa, CA.
What are you passionate about?
My passion with clay started over a decade ago when I took my first ceramics class. I was instantly hooked. I’ve continued playing with mud ever since. I strive to make vessels that enhance people’s daily lives. It is my hope to share with you the joys of being connected to a handmade piece of pottery. A piece that you’ll look forward to using everyday.
I am the maker of functional clay vessels that are intended to be used to enhance our daily rituals.
What is your favorite item?:
I would have to say that my favorite creation has to do with my favorite ritual of all. My coffee mugs are my most cherished items in my cupboards. Without my daily cups of coffee I would not be the same individual. And without my favorite coffee mugs my coffee just does not taste the same.
Where do you live?:
I live in many places. I live in my classroom by day (during the school year, I’m a 6th grade teacher), with my beautiful wife and energetic daughters during the afternoon into the evening, and then campout in my pottery studio by night and into the wee hours of the morning. All of this takes place in Santa Rosa, CA.
What are you passionate about?
My passion with clay started over a decade ago when I took my first ceramics class. I was instantly hooked. I’ve continued playing with mud ever since. I strive to make vessels that enhance people’s daily lives. It is my hope to share with you the joys of being connected to a handmade piece of pottery. A piece that you’ll look forward to using everyday.
6.18.12 Deborah Little Bear
What products do you make?:
I sell jewelry and paintings.
What is your favorite item?:
I love paint. I am very intrigued by its fluid properties. My paintings combine showing my fascination for the medium and how its fluidity can reflect my view of the world.
Where do you live?:
I live in Santa Rosa. I work as an Art Therapist and Certified Gerontologist, providing creative arts classes for elders in Sonoma and Marin counties.
What do you love to do/ What are you passionate about?
I love working with people, exploring life through art materials. Together, we explore the challenges and changes in our lives. Making art allows us to continue to make our mark. Through making art, we can renew connections to ourselves, our families and friends. We can explore where we are in life and our place in the world. We gaze at our art and feel more at home. The art process helps us to find joy in the moment and explore ways to hold steady in the face of change. Find more information on art classes at www.artfulmindsmc.com or contact me, Deborah, directly at art4elders@yahoo.com.
I sell jewelry and paintings.
What is your favorite item?:
I love paint. I am very intrigued by its fluid properties. My paintings combine showing my fascination for the medium and how its fluidity can reflect my view of the world.
Where do you live?:
I live in Santa Rosa. I work as an Art Therapist and Certified Gerontologist, providing creative arts classes for elders in Sonoma and Marin counties.
What do you love to do/ What are you passionate about?
I love working with people, exploring life through art materials. Together, we explore the challenges and changes in our lives. Making art allows us to continue to make our mark. Through making art, we can renew connections to ourselves, our families and friends. We can explore where we are in life and our place in the world. We gaze at our art and feel more at home. The art process helps us to find joy in the moment and explore ways to hold steady in the face of change. Find more information on art classes at www.artfulmindsmc.com or contact me, Deborah, directly at art4elders@yahoo.com.
6.11.12 Paty Hermosillo-Perkins
What products do you make?:
Bee-Inspired Body Balms! I am a beekeeper and began making hand balm with the beeswax from my hives. Beeswax offers so many healing and protective qualities that are gifts for our skin. I currently make 4 differently scented hand balms, Bees and Butter for the Sole, our foot balm, 3 varieties of Cook’s Balm, a Lavender Rose Salt Scrub and our newest product - Bee a Rose Face Cream!
What is your favorite item?:
I love them all, it’s hard to choose a favorite! The Cook’s Balms are an interesting idea - a product that is so safe you can keep it on your hands while cooking and working in the kitchen - no need to wash it off! I love that none of our products contain petroleum or unknown chemicals. You can easily recognize every ingredient on our labels!
Where do you live?:
I live in Petaluma and keep bees here as well as Sebastopol and Healdsburg
What are you passionate about?
Honeybees, of course! I have learned so much by observing them, their cooperative nature and incredible work ethic. I’ve always loved to garden but since becoming a beekeeper, I’ve become much more attuned to the seasons and the intricacies of my garden. I think I’ve become a better gardener as a result!
Bee-Inspired Body Balms! I am a beekeeper and began making hand balm with the beeswax from my hives. Beeswax offers so many healing and protective qualities that are gifts for our skin. I currently make 4 differently scented hand balms, Bees and Butter for the Sole, our foot balm, 3 varieties of Cook’s Balm, a Lavender Rose Salt Scrub and our newest product - Bee a Rose Face Cream!
What is your favorite item?:
I love them all, it’s hard to choose a favorite! The Cook’s Balms are an interesting idea - a product that is so safe you can keep it on your hands while cooking and working in the kitchen - no need to wash it off! I love that none of our products contain petroleum or unknown chemicals. You can easily recognize every ingredient on our labels!
Where do you live?:
I live in Petaluma and keep bees here as well as Sebastopol and Healdsburg
What are you passionate about?
Honeybees, of course! I have learned so much by observing them, their cooperative nature and incredible work ethic. I’ve always loved to garden but since becoming a beekeeper, I’ve become much more attuned to the seasons and the intricacies of my garden. I think I’ve become a better gardener as a result!
6.4.12 Dorothy Morgan
What products do you make?:
I sell Organic Botanicals for Bath Body and Massage. My products include face and body creams made with infused rose petals, lavender and chamomile: Rose and Lavender Skin toners with Vitamin C that also work as a mild sunscreen; healing salves for muscle and joint issues or skin conditions like fungus, psorasis, toothpowders that help heal gums and fight plaque, and lip balms in Ruby Spice, Lemon Vanilla Rose, a unique creation, or Marvelous Mint that tastes like mint chocolate. They have Stevia in them so they leave your lips kissably sweet, soap poured into a luffa and ones shaped like a dragon: and aphrodisiac fizzy bath bombs.
What is your favorite item?:
That is so hard to say. Since I created them all, I love them all! If I have to pick I think my Chamomile Eye Cream or The Volcano Balm is my favorite.
Where do you live?:
I was renting a small farm in Petaluma and growing the herbs for the products and had a massage studio. I am currently looking for my new place to “land” and living in Sebastopol but have studio space in Petaluma and Santa Rosa for Massage and outcalls in Sonoma County
More about Plant Passions:
I use all of my products in my massage practice and bring the Organic Spa to you!
My company name was chosen because I have a degree in Horticulture but have always had a “Hand” in the Healing Arts. Thus the combination of my plants, products and healing arts combines my Plant Passions.
I sell Organic Botanicals for Bath Body and Massage. My products include face and body creams made with infused rose petals, lavender and chamomile: Rose and Lavender Skin toners with Vitamin C that also work as a mild sunscreen; healing salves for muscle and joint issues or skin conditions like fungus, psorasis, toothpowders that help heal gums and fight plaque, and lip balms in Ruby Spice, Lemon Vanilla Rose, a unique creation, or Marvelous Mint that tastes like mint chocolate. They have Stevia in them so they leave your lips kissably sweet, soap poured into a luffa and ones shaped like a dragon: and aphrodisiac fizzy bath bombs.
What is your favorite item?:
That is so hard to say. Since I created them all, I love them all! If I have to pick I think my Chamomile Eye Cream or The Volcano Balm is my favorite.
Where do you live?:
I was renting a small farm in Petaluma and growing the herbs for the products and had a massage studio. I am currently looking for my new place to “land” and living in Sebastopol but have studio space in Petaluma and Santa Rosa for Massage and outcalls in Sonoma County
More about Plant Passions:
I use all of my products in my massage practice and bring the Organic Spa to you!
My company name was chosen because I have a degree in Horticulture but have always had a “Hand” in the Healing Arts. Thus the combination of my plants, products and healing arts combines my Plant Passions.
5.28.12 Douglas De Vivo
What products do you make?:
I sell handmade personal altars. They’re made from recycled oak flooring, old book covers and bits of discarded collages All the products are discards from making and framing my collages. The altars are a wonderful use of my waste material with a positive message.
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite altars are my latest, which incorporate old lacquerware still very impractical but still exciting.
Where do you live?:
I live in Jenner. I enjoy living in a small community by the ocean.
What are you passionate about?:
My first love is my main profession as a collage artist. The work is made from old books, papers, magazines, technical manuals, school work and anything else I can find from the 1950’s and before. There is something in old paper that speaks to me.
The collages themselves are multilayered. The top is usually something light, fun, and colorful, but as you start to look your perspective changes. A more intense subject comes out below the surface and then there’s the layers below that. You can spend lots of time going into them, reading and looking and never see it all. I have pieces that I have had up in my house for fifteen years and will still see new images.
My latest series of collages that I’ve created are mandalas. They bring you into the art and keep you moving around and going deeper into the artwork.
5.21.12 Claudia Del Rio
What products do you make?:
Primarily crocheted items, everything from jewelry to stuffed animals. I love the versatility of crocheting; it is so great to see how a design in paper becomes something tangible with yarn, cotton and a crochet hook..
What is your favorite item?:
I really love the first doll that I made. I still have it with me. However as soon as I am done with a project, that one becomes my favorite item. I put a lot of passion and love into each item that I create, and I am relieved that the sentiment is reflected in each and every one of my items.
Where do you live?:
I live in Santa Rosa. My husband and I moved to this area last August. Before that we were living in Santiago, Chile (where I am originally from) for a few months and before that in Southern California. This time in Northern California has been great. There is so much to do around here, beautiful parks, the coast, and so many little towns to visit. There is inspiration everywhere.
What are you passionate about?:
Good food, wine, craft stores, beautiful fabrics. I grew up surrounded by fabrics because my mother is a seamstress and my brother and I had most of our clothes made by her when we were children. She was always creating a little something for us with scraps of fabrics or with what she had on hand; I still have some pen cases that she made for me. I hope to one day be as creative as her. She is my big inspiration and she and my husband are probably my biggest fans. I am in a constant state of creativity. Creativity has many different ways to be expressed, it could be trying a new recipe with my husband, drawing my next new toy, or painting. It is in everything we do.
Primarily crocheted items, everything from jewelry to stuffed animals. I love the versatility of crocheting; it is so great to see how a design in paper becomes something tangible with yarn, cotton and a crochet hook..
What is your favorite item?:
I really love the first doll that I made. I still have it with me. However as soon as I am done with a project, that one becomes my favorite item. I put a lot of passion and love into each item that I create, and I am relieved that the sentiment is reflected in each and every one of my items.
Where do you live?:
I live in Santa Rosa. My husband and I moved to this area last August. Before that we were living in Santiago, Chile (where I am originally from) for a few months and before that in Southern California. This time in Northern California has been great. There is so much to do around here, beautiful parks, the coast, and so many little towns to visit. There is inspiration everywhere.
What are you passionate about?:
Good food, wine, craft stores, beautiful fabrics. I grew up surrounded by fabrics because my mother is a seamstress and my brother and I had most of our clothes made by her when we were children. She was always creating a little something for us with scraps of fabrics or with what she had on hand; I still have some pen cases that she made for me. I hope to one day be as creative as her. She is my big inspiration and she and my husband are probably my biggest fans. I am in a constant state of creativity. Creativity has many different ways to be expressed, it could be trying a new recipe with my husband, drawing my next new toy, or painting. It is in everything we do.
5.14.12 Adriann Saslow
What products do you make?:
Jewelry & Upcycled Treasure. Finding funky old things at thrift stores and turning them into something fabulous and new is wonderful.
What is your favorite item?:
I loved the first yarn wreath I made so much I kept it. Who knows what my new favorite will be next week? Fortunately, I consider it my duty to wear jewelry I’ve made, so whenever I come out with something gorgeous I HAVE to have one.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, easy biking distance from downtown. I just put side baskets on my bike and I’m really excited. I’ve been in Sonoma County for 10 years.
What are you passionate about?:
I love to create. It almost doesn’t matter what the medium is. I want to cook, bake bread, grow plants, paint the front door (purple, teal, & gold), make jewelry, knit, make anything. I’m constantly doing, doing, doing. My husband and my cats are my balance, they remind me to breathe.
Jewelry & Upcycled Treasure. Finding funky old things at thrift stores and turning them into something fabulous and new is wonderful.
What is your favorite item?:
I loved the first yarn wreath I made so much I kept it. Who knows what my new favorite will be next week? Fortunately, I consider it my duty to wear jewelry I’ve made, so whenever I come out with something gorgeous I HAVE to have one.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, easy biking distance from downtown. I just put side baskets on my bike and I’m really excited. I’ve been in Sonoma County for 10 years.
What are you passionate about?:
I love to create. It almost doesn’t matter what the medium is. I want to cook, bake bread, grow plants, paint the front door (purple, teal, & gold), make jewelry, knit, make anything. I’m constantly doing, doing, doing. My husband and my cats are my balance, they remind me to breathe.
5.7.12 Rebecca Valentine
What products do you make?:
I am an herbalist with a sense of humor, so, I make potions with natural (and often organic) ingredients that can make you laugh. The Valentine Organics line includes Share Spray; Stench Quencher; Cutie-cle Oil; Pegleg Aftershave; Pirate Pits Deodorant. In beta product stage: Shibiddy-doo Spray (a zesty, feisty, perky citrus perfume) and Wine & Roses Face Spritzer (real wine, all the time).
What is your favorite item?:
That’s like asking a mom which kid is her favorite! But, if I were on a deserted island, and only one bottle of my potions washed ashore, I’d probably go with Share Spray- it has a lot of good vibes and was created for the Share Fair (and it’s a Share Exchange exclusive at this point). Of course, if I were on a deserted island that actually was not deserted, and if there were any chance that buccaneers would show up, I would want to have my Pegleg Aftershave, Pirate Pits’ Deodorant & Rum-flavored Pirate Picks handy. (all perfect gifts for Father’s Day as well!)
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa.
What are you passionate about?:
With a last name like Valentine, you’d think I would have an interesting answer- hmmm…can someone else answer this for me? I like Pina Coladas and walking in the rain- no, sorry, that’s a lyric from a bad song. I am passionate about the Share Exchange and the Made Local Marketplace – so incredible to have such a beacon of positive transition in our community! I love: doing trash audits; listening to good music and/or really insightful, irreverent humorists & political commentarians; getting body scrubs; blowing bubbles; coming up with fun ideas for products; connecting people to other people to make a better spider’s web; swimming in the eco-sustainable world-view stream; eating toffee, figs and cold pasta salad.
Favorite current quotes:
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do…How would I be? What would I do? -R. Buckminster Fuller
I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you’re not me. -The Rutles
Green buildings don’t cost more; they ARE more. -Eric Corey Freed
I am an herbalist with a sense of humor, so, I make potions with natural (and often organic) ingredients that can make you laugh. The Valentine Organics line includes Share Spray; Stench Quencher; Cutie-cle Oil; Pegleg Aftershave; Pirate Pits Deodorant. In beta product stage: Shibiddy-doo Spray (a zesty, feisty, perky citrus perfume) and Wine & Roses Face Spritzer (real wine, all the time).
What is your favorite item?:
That’s like asking a mom which kid is her favorite! But, if I were on a deserted island, and only one bottle of my potions washed ashore, I’d probably go with Share Spray- it has a lot of good vibes and was created for the Share Fair (and it’s a Share Exchange exclusive at this point). Of course, if I were on a deserted island that actually was not deserted, and if there were any chance that buccaneers would show up, I would want to have my Pegleg Aftershave, Pirate Pits’ Deodorant & Rum-flavored Pirate Picks handy. (all perfect gifts for Father’s Day as well!)
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa.
What are you passionate about?:
With a last name like Valentine, you’d think I would have an interesting answer- hmmm…can someone else answer this for me? I like Pina Coladas and walking in the rain- no, sorry, that’s a lyric from a bad song. I am passionate about the Share Exchange and the Made Local Marketplace – so incredible to have such a beacon of positive transition in our community! I love: doing trash audits; listening to good music and/or really insightful, irreverent humorists & political commentarians; getting body scrubs; blowing bubbles; coming up with fun ideas for products; connecting people to other people to make a better spider’s web; swimming in the eco-sustainable world-view stream; eating toffee, figs and cold pasta salad.
Favorite current quotes:
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do…How would I be? What would I do? -R. Buckminster Fuller
I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you’re not me. -The Rutles
Green buildings don’t cost more; they ARE more. -Eric Corey Freed
4.30.12 Jessica Buickerood
What products do you make?:
I make notecards, stationery and screen printed items- t-shirts, towels and placemats.
What is your favorite item?:
I love my recipe notecards! I create these from linoleum block prints and include a recipe inside each card. The cards are perforated so once used, the recipe can be torn off and kept to use over and over again.
Where do you live?:
I live in the JC Neighborhood in Santa Rosa and have lived in Sonoma County for ten years.
What are you passionate about?:
I am passionate about my family and spending time with family and friends. I love having fun and making beautiful things! I enjoy making art and crafts, especially if it is functional. I try to make things that are useful and also attractive to look at. It brings me so much pleasure when I know that someone likes something I make and wants to share it with others.
I make notecards, stationery and screen printed items- t-shirts, towels and placemats.
What is your favorite item?:
I love my recipe notecards! I create these from linoleum block prints and include a recipe inside each card. The cards are perforated so once used, the recipe can be torn off and kept to use over and over again.
Where do you live?:
I live in the JC Neighborhood in Santa Rosa and have lived in Sonoma County for ten years.
What are you passionate about?:
I am passionate about my family and spending time with family and friends. I love having fun and making beautiful things! I enjoy making art and crafts, especially if it is functional. I try to make things that are useful and also attractive to look at. It brings me so much pleasure when I know that someone likes something I make and wants to share it with others.
4.23.12 Laura Gonzalez
What products do you make?:
Necklaces, bracelets, rings, candles, magnets as well as children’s jewelry
What is your favorite item?:
My new favorite item are my rings, they are so fun to make! When it comes to jewelry I feel that variety is important, these come in many different colors, shapes and sizes.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, I am native to Sonoma County!
What are you passionate about?:
I love creating, that is my passion. I believe that when we find a way to express what we are most passionate about in life and enjoy ourselves in the process, it makes everything more enjoyable.
Necklaces, bracelets, rings, candles, magnets as well as children’s jewelry
What is your favorite item?:
My new favorite item are my rings, they are so fun to make! When it comes to jewelry I feel that variety is important, these come in many different colors, shapes and sizes.
Where do you live?:
Santa Rosa, I am native to Sonoma County!
What are you passionate about?:
I love creating, that is my passion. I believe that when we find a way to express what we are most passionate about in life and enjoy ourselves in the process, it makes everything more enjoyable.
4.16.12 Evan Koch
What products do you make?:
I make a few different flavors. The current batch is my personal favorite of my pesto repertoire, Spicy Thai Chili-Lime pesto with a mixture of nuts (almonds, peanuts, cashews). I am also a board game designer and have designed several board games. My two best designs, Zurround (an abstract strategy game similar to GO and a rival to Blokus) and Word Race (a variation on Scrabble with deeper strategic sophistication).
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite pesto flavor is the Spicy Thai Chili-Lime and by far my best boardgame design is Zurround (Zurround was written up in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Press Democrat). My most successful pesto flavor is “Spicy Thai Cashew” which is slightly different from the flavor listed above and has won over a dozen awards including the 2009 “Best of Show” award at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair.
Where do you live?:
I live in the Larkfield area of Santa Rosa. I have lived in Sonoma county for over 20 years and Santa Rosa for 6 years.
What are you passionate about?:
I am absolutely fascinated by board games, which is part of why I am designing and trying to market my own. I also am passionate about FUSION CUISINE, which is a style of food preparation that combines aspects of 2 or more ethnicities into a dish, for example my pestos listed above are part
Thai and part Italian.
I love weight lifting and although I had to take a break from it due to a minor injury I enjoy the fact that despite my creativity and intelligence I also enjoy having far above average physical strength.
I am fascinated by certain aspects of Astronomy. In fact later in the same day that I am typing this I am meeting with the local astonomy society to propose a discussion of the possibility of life on other worlds, which I am hoping will be a Share Exchange event.
I love the Share Exchange itself and what it stands for as well as many of the wonderful people who have helped make it possible!j
I make a few different flavors. The current batch is my personal favorite of my pesto repertoire, Spicy Thai Chili-Lime pesto with a mixture of nuts (almonds, peanuts, cashews). I am also a board game designer and have designed several board games. My two best designs, Zurround (an abstract strategy game similar to GO and a rival to Blokus) and Word Race (a variation on Scrabble with deeper strategic sophistication).
What is your favorite item?:
My favorite pesto flavor is the Spicy Thai Chili-Lime and by far my best boardgame design is Zurround (Zurround was written up in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Press Democrat). My most successful pesto flavor is “Spicy Thai Cashew” which is slightly different from the flavor listed above and has won over a dozen awards including the 2009 “Best of Show” award at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair.
Where do you live?:
I live in the Larkfield area of Santa Rosa. I have lived in Sonoma county for over 20 years and Santa Rosa for 6 years.
What are you passionate about?:
I am absolutely fascinated by board games, which is part of why I am designing and trying to market my own. I also am passionate about FUSION CUISINE, which is a style of food preparation that combines aspects of 2 or more ethnicities into a dish, for example my pestos listed above are part
Thai and part Italian.
I love weight lifting and although I had to take a break from it due to a minor injury I enjoy the fact that despite my creativity and intelligence I also enjoy having far above average physical strength.
I am fascinated by certain aspects of Astronomy. In fact later in the same day that I am typing this I am meeting with the local astonomy society to propose a discussion of the possibility of life on other worlds, which I am hoping will be a Share Exchange event.
I love the Share Exchange itself and what it stands for as well as many of the wonderful people who have helped make it possible!j
4.9.12 Pam Dale
What products do you make?:
Handwoven articles - I currently sell scarves, shawls, expanding to include tea and dish towels, baby blankets, and other hand woven items I’m playing with.
What is your favorite item?:
Currently, I really like the results of the bamboo and Tencel Handwoven scarves. The intricate patterns combined with the very soft hand and nice drape.
Where do you live?:
I’ve lived on the east side of Santa Rosa in our current home for 19 years. Have lived in Sonoma County since 1978.
What are you passionate about?:
I really am enjoying getting some of the ideas in my head into designs. I enjoy sharing what I know, helping other folks to learn to weave and explore it as a creative outlet. I love playing with different fiber, colors and weave structures. Sometimes they work the way I envision – sometimes they don’t…always a great exploration. I am passionate about continuing to expand in other directions and outlets for my creative artistic notions and creating a more sustainable work & living space as I explore.
Handwoven articles - I currently sell scarves, shawls, expanding to include tea and dish towels, baby blankets, and other hand woven items I’m playing with.
What is your favorite item?:
Currently, I really like the results of the bamboo and Tencel Handwoven scarves. The intricate patterns combined with the very soft hand and nice drape.
Where do you live?:
I’ve lived on the east side of Santa Rosa in our current home for 19 years. Have lived in Sonoma County since 1978.
What are you passionate about?:
I really am enjoying getting some of the ideas in my head into designs. I enjoy sharing what I know, helping other folks to learn to weave and explore it as a creative outlet. I love playing with different fiber, colors and weave structures. Sometimes they work the way I envision – sometimes they don’t…always a great exploration. I am passionate about continuing to expand in other directions and outlets for my creative artistic notions and creating a more sustainable work & living space as I explore.
4.2.12 Christine Culver
What products do you make?:
Earrings, pendants, upcycled patches, recycled bicycle spoke bracelets, hand screened cards
What is your favorite item?:
I’d have to say the bracelets are my favorite. I love making bracelets from old stainless steel bicycle spokes. It’s like they have a past history. Who knows how many miles they have traveled and how many adventures they have made possible?
Where do you live?:
I live in the Santa Rosa Junior College neighborhood. I’ve lived in Sonoma County for over 24 years and can’t think of any place in this world I’d rather live.
What are you passionate about?:
I’ve been a bicycle girl since I was 18 and plan on pedaling ‘till I take my last breath. Bicycles are amazing beasts, tools, equipment...friends. I’m a lucky girl to have discovered the love of bikes so many years ago.
Earrings, pendants, upcycled patches, recycled bicycle spoke bracelets, hand screened cards
What is your favorite item?:
I’d have to say the bracelets are my favorite. I love making bracelets from old stainless steel bicycle spokes. It’s like they have a past history. Who knows how many miles they have traveled and how many adventures they have made possible?
Where do you live?:
I live in the Santa Rosa Junior College neighborhood. I’ve lived in Sonoma County for over 24 years and can’t think of any place in this world I’d rather live.
What are you passionate about?:
I’ve been a bicycle girl since I was 18 and plan on pedaling ‘till I take my last breath. Bicycles are amazing beasts, tools, equipment...friends. I’m a lucky girl to have discovered the love of bikes so many years ago.
