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Christmas Market

It was a perfect weather day for the Christmas market at Graceway Gourmet yesterday. Our table was dressed in the holiday spirit with pine wreaths and capeze shell ornaments in addition to the usual goodies.

A good showing of vendors brought nice variety for shoppers.

Lucie Winton Stubbs and Emma Halliday at their tables.

Melissa Willcocks of Orion Creations shared a table with Paradise Arts Ceramics.

Sara Kauffman was all smiles in her elf outfit for the Middle Caicos Co-Op table.

Chrystel Loyer Kendrew had made beautiful handmade cards with her photographs especially for the holiday season.

Atelys Handcrafted jewelry was a very popular table, anything in her collections would have made for a special stocking surprise. The whole day was great fun, so good to see so many creative people under the same tent with everyone was in the holiday spirit! Shoppers should feel great about choosing local products made by local people and the vendors should feel good about a portion of proceeds benefiting local charities (this market went to the Kidney Foundation).

Happy Thanksgiving

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We hosted 17 friends at Fleur de Lys and had a fabulous time. My bestie from high school is here for the long weekend, so nice catching up after too many years! A great holiday to remind us to . . . .

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New Work and Artist Reception at Framing Grace Gallery

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Get your Black Friday fix at Framing Grace Gallery! There will be a welcome reception tomorrow evening for recently arrived to Provo oil painter Charlotte Readhead in addition to new work from many resident gallery artists. I will be debuting my first sculpture series; “Drift”:

Drift No. 4 base 6″dia x 37″h

Drift No. 1 base 6″ dia x 21″h

Drift No. 2 base 6″dia x 27″h

Drift No. 3 base 6″ x 29″h

Drift No. 5 base 5″dia x 16″h

Drift No. 6 base 5″dia x 20″h

Drift No. 7 base 6″ dia x 41″h

I also have a hot off the press abstract waterscape painting that will be shown for the first time in public (pictured below). Please join us from 6-8pm for martinis, meet the artists, and holiday cheer! The Regent Village will be aglow with holiday lights and Flowers by Environmental Arts will have open doors for the celebration so there will be plenty of lovely around to look at! We hope to see you there!

Waterscape 36″w x 50″h x 3″d

UPDATE!

A few images from the evening!

Neighboring Environmental Arts Flower Shop filled with goodies and heavenly scents for the holidays.

The gallery reception was even better attended than expected, there were moments when crossing the room simply wasn’t an option! So nice to have so many people come out in support of our local art community, the room was absolutely abuzz with conversation.

Many thanks to all my friends who came to show their support!

Congratulations to Joelle and Neil on their beautiful new space and wonderful location in the Regent Village and many thanks for hosting such a great evening at the gallery!

Halloween at Fleur de Lys Villa

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After three years of participating in Leeward’s Halloween trick or treating, Fleur de Lys Villa finally made it on the map! The last couple of years we disappointingly watched little ghouls and goblins pass us by, despite the lantern lit drive and open front door. Looks like the Leeward neighborhood’s Halloween spirit and reputation has grown, and Sandpiper Avenue’s in particular. The most trick or treaters in years passed tallied around 25, we delighted to see that number triple this year!

So much fun to have the streets full of costumed kids laughing, “boo!”-ing eachother, holding hands or bound in big groups in anticipation of an unexpected fright from any direction.

Our ghost did a great job of welcoming everyone at the gates!

Our first trick or treaters (pictured above) arrived around 5pm, receiving big handfuls of treats as I recalled the weeks worth of leftover candy in years past. I soon wished I had not been so generous as I looked into our fast emptying bowl! I had to resort to giving away plastic spiders from the decor while waiting for candy reinforcements! The back up supply arrived just in the nick of time as a few clever kids had figured out how to open the front gates. Our final trick or treater, miss adorable below, had just missed the last treat by seconds, but she was kind enough to share her bag of goodies with us instead!