Meet, Hope + Joy collective..
Joy has been crafting for over 30 years making themed journals, 3-D scrapbook layouts, and mixed media art. Hope has always loved bling and pretty things and has been apparel oriented since she was 4 years old. Hope has always had a flair for fashion, and decided this year to take to doing more with her passion. Joy began her crafting journey with scrapbooking, and it evolved into being more art focused. Hope’s creation process for the jackets truly comes from a free artistic space where each piece is curated uniquely as ideas come to mind. Joy loves to be in her studio making anything. She gets inspired by many things and just loves to create. Creative play always has its rewards!
We are grateful for each day and opportunity, and we are trusting God to do what He wants with us and this business. Through our business, we strive for our customers to proudly share their faith and feel beautiful in the designs we create! Our goal is to spread hope, joy, and faith with every piece, and together with our customers make a difference.
Meet Brad M Coates from BMC Artworks…
The outdoors is my canvas. I love hiking in the woods. I love structures and buildings. My eye captures the subject and my imagination adds the detail. I want my creations to bring pleasure to the viewer...for the viewer to stop, take a moment and experience what I see. My medium is photography. I digitally enhance what I see using various tools. Nature is my inspiration and I love to share my interpretations. But … I do take an occasional twist to the industrial side. I specialize in taking a beautiful photograph and letting my creativity do the rest with color and detail.
Meet Maia Langlois from Fairy Teeth…
My Name is Maia Langlois I am a freelance illustrator and art lover and I started my small business Fairy Teeth Illustrations in order to kickstart myself about being serious about being a full time artist that hopefully one day I can support myself and my family with. Art is quite literally my biggest passion and I cannot imagine a world without it to the point where I now want to pursue it as my dream job! I went to school for my BFA in illustration and plan hopefully to succeed in further business ventures other than just freelance work within my community. Fairy teeth is a love child of hard work and growing passions for my craft and art pieces that I like to share with others. It's silly, macabre, cute, and whimsical like me as a person and I know it is a brand that reflects the wonder I felt when first discovering art. I've been making art literally my entire life, I even went to college for a degree for it! but the only other art fair I've ever been to was in 2021 at a Coventry art fair in Cleveland which was super fun. This will be my very first Avant-Garde Show and I'm super excited!
What inspires me to create is all the color and stories I can see and hear within our world. It makes me often think that that type of wonder and excitement that I personally feel should be shared more with the world, and that as long as I feel that love for creating through making my work all is right.
My grandmother when I was very young dabbled in all kinds of art which I was often put right by her side soaking it all up, I miss her every day but she gave me the greatest gift I could've ever asked for, a love for the arts. I discovered my talent when I was in the 2nd grade in my art class. I remember my teacher always looking at my work praising me for my talent and my parents kindling my obsession with drawing- I drew on everything from walls to napkins to desks everything I never had felt such peace doing anything else.
My creative process often starts with a vague idea that then I explore by writing down things I think surrounding it and are synonymous then to thumbnailing and always asking for feedback on how others view the idea, often I have a lot of iterations of something before I decide on what will be the final result.
Hopefully in five years of my business I will have a studio and a online site with steady income as well as many other business paths to get passive or active income from, I never want to find myself stagnant when I can discover more things to do creatively, maybe one day I could even have a storefront where i can sell my own and other creative peoples' work.
My work does not always have a message but I often think about what story can this pieve tell, sometimes of metamorphosis and inevitable change and sometimes of raw emotion and just simple expression.
my Instagram is @Fairy_Teeth_Illustrations feel free to check me out!
Meet Christine Barnie from The Nerdy Necklace Chick…
I'm a 40-yo mom of three amazing and spunky kids (5b, 7g, 9b) and one shelter dog who was 9 months old when I got her (16g). My degree is in environmental science with a focus on geology, so I love rocks and minerals! I grew up with a love for sci Fi and fantasy and other nerdy things.
How long have you been doing this for? I've been making jewelry for about four years now, but last month was my very first craft show.
The things I love! Finding beautiful beads of my favorite stones or my favorite books or sciencey things.
I received a necklace for my birthday one year from a small local seller and thought it looked like a fun thing to make, so I tried it and loved it! My favorite is shopping for new stone beads to add to my collection!
Ideas just come to me. Lol! My favorite is my solar system necklace. I spent months finding the right stones to fit the planets and sizing and spacing everything just right. But most of the time I just use a beautiful stone as a base and just play with it! In the next 5 years, I hopefully just see myself enjoying making jewelry and seeing my pieces out and about would be cool!
