Yep, you guessed it, here they are after they dropped off the warm goods. Dalis is wearing another of her fabulous scarves (and yes you can get one by contacting her at http://www.dancingleaffarm.com/). Now, I say THEY dressed me up, but in all honesty, it was Dalis who dressed me AND her wonderful husband Houston and he is wearing those ultra cool and hip plaid shorts! P.S. Despite the crappy weather that cancelled out much of the festival, it was still a surprisingly good event for me and in the course of the weekend, I was visited by lots of fabulous people. Thanks to all who came out and supported the event.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
CanalFest was cold & rainy....
Yep, you guessed it, here they are after they dropped off the warm goods. Dalis is wearing another of her fabulous scarves (and yes you can get one by contacting her at http://www.dancingleaffarm.com/). Now, I say THEY dressed me up, but in all honesty, it was Dalis who dressed me AND her wonderful husband Houston and he is wearing those ultra cool and hip plaid shorts! P.S. Despite the crappy weather that cancelled out much of the festival, it was still a surprisingly good event for me and in the course of the weekend, I was visited by lots of fabulous people. Thanks to all who came out and supported the event.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Mark your calendar....
Meadowbrook Arts has joined up with this festival as an art vendor, so come to Western Maryland to enjoy the festivities and new artwork that Mary has available! Plus listen to one of her favorite groups performing at this festival - Herb & Hanson. 12th Annual CanalFest/RailFest
September 25- 27, 2009 Canal Place Heritage Area - Cumberland, MD
Artisan and Food Vendor Booth Hours
Friday
5 PM - 9:30 PM
Saturday
10 AM - 7 PM
Sunday
10 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday
5 PM - 9:30 PM
Saturday
10 AM - 7 PM
Sunday
10 AM - 4:30 PM
Enjoy three fun-filled days of activities including train excursions, live music, children's activities, fireworks, canal boat tours, and more! Great food and traditional crafts are available for sale beginning Friday night. For more information call or email: Dominique Nabholz, Festival Coordinator (301) 724-3655 or dnabholz@canalplace.org
Schedule of Events*
Schedule of Events*
Friday 25th
The Hillbilly Gypsies 5:30PM
Cornmeal in the Kitchen 7PM
Fireworks Display 9PM
Fireworks Display 9PM
Saturday 26th
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Train Pull 9AM
Children's Activities 10AM-5PM 2:30PM 4PM
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Train Excursion 2PM
Herb & Hanson 2:30PM
Herb & Hanson 2:30PM
Bill Emerson & The Sweet Dixie Band 4PM
Halftime String 5:30PM
Halftime String 5:30PM
Band Ghost Tour 7:00PM
The Bridge 7:30PM
The Bridge 7:30PM
Sunday
Western Maryland Kidney Ride
- Cyclist Ride 9:30AM
- Family Ride 10AM
Children's Activities 10AM-4PM
Missy Raines & The New Hip 2 - 4 PM
*Subject to change
Missy Raines & The New Hip 2 - 4 PM
*Subject to change
Monday, July 27, 2009
Rescue Me show at AaCP meets Chibi & Orange
My daughter and I took a quick stab at cartoonish type painting/drawings on canvas yesterday. Left is Chibi Puppy by my daughter and right is Orange Kitti, by Macee (my new name given to me by friends). They go to Arts at Canal Place for the "Rescue Me” featured Artist show. Most paintings have part of the sale donated to our local animal shelters. Along with the normal show, there are these small cute paintings made by members or the public that are being donated so the proceeds will go also go to the Animal Shelter.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Road Trip to Lost River
It was time to add more inventory to Lost River Artisan Cooperative. Now available are cool copper rings, more earrings and necklaces and my newly designed 22's for $22! Since I was making this beautiful country ride, I decided to invite a few friends along. Dalis and Ceil were gracious enough to hang for the day, though we did leave another wonderful friend (Piver) behind that was out sick, sniff. Dalis and Ceil decided it was time to introduce their products (that consisted mainly of glass jewelry, but also included felted purses and "lambscapes"!) to the Lost River area. They were juried in while we ate lunch in "The General Store" next door. What yummy chicken tarragon salad sandwiches they had! MMMMM, my belly growls as I rethink the meal. 
Of course there had to be purchases, as well as installation of our work, because we like to support other artists' talents. We purchased yummy coffees, a tasty pecan pie jam and this fun textural large pot and serving dishes by Kathryn Kavanagh.
Here are the girls as they prepped their lovely work for sale. Sassy vixon jewelry for sale!
This is a cool old tractor that sits outside the Lost River building. What a beautiful location for the coop, nestled into the trees.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Art in the Park on Deep Creek Lake
I love this little festival. It's location is lovely, right on the bank of Deep Creek Lake and in front of the Discovery Center in the State Park. There are usually not a lot of vendors, it's a small festival, but it proves to be a wonderful, more personal experience and there is nature abound. Grand Daddy Long Legs usually find their way onto my inside walls, which is only appropriate considering my inspiration sometimes originates from them. The customers are usually super friendly and very supportive of my style of work, and this year included both jewelry and sculpture.
This lovely hottie with the WAY cool shades is Annie. She's chillin' during a great weekend of sales of her wonderful homemade paper art that includes journals, lamps, 2D originals and prints and even sculptural paper items!
Annie happened to have front row view of a major event happening in nature DURING the festival. It just so happened that in the past week, the park volunteers said that a colony of Wild Honey Bees were relocating queens. Apparently there can be 4 queens born of the original and they had already seen two be relocated. The third happened during the festival. It may be hard to see, but in the center of this photo is a darker area on the branch - sort of shadowed. This is where the bees were protectively swarming over the new queen as they began the relocation. Off to the left you can see peppery dots that indicate a large number of bees still in the air. One of our favorite vendors was directly under this unusual occurrence.
In the very center of this image you can see a vertical shading in the tree. This was the clump. At one point, almost the entire section dropped for the weight of the bees on the queen was tremendous. Of course the bees never touched ground as they fell, for they quickly gained flight and recovered the cluster. My camera couldn't zoom super close so you can't really get a gauge on how large this clump was from the image. It was a unique event to be seen by such a large group of people and as the volunteer explained... there aren't many Wild Honey Bees left in nature. It doesn't appear like much in such small photos, but it was quite the site to see so many bees taking flight over your head.
Another occurrence was going on at the same time.... ahem... the sale of many pieces of jewelry in my booth such as the new "cut-out" designs featured here! They were taking flight onto many a ears over the weekend!
Friday, May 22, 2009
New at Arts at Canal Place
Check out the new style of sterling silver earrings & necklaces I've created for the Arts at Canal Place. They are great for long hair and lightweight. I always use sterling silver earwires so they are safe for senstive ears and won't cause allergies in most people. They are longer and dangle on the ears to create that sexy summer look. The necklace is on a thick handmade neckwire and looks great against that summer tan! The earrings are currently only at the AaCP location, but the necklace you can find at both AaCP and Gifts Inn Boonsboro!
Squiggle Mops

Sterling Silver & Blue Lustre
Sterling Silver & Blue Lustre
Monday, April 20, 2009
Oh balls...... a packed weekend!
The weekend started off with me teaching the booth display class. It was a great success. Lots of time and energy went into this class to have it be over in a short 2 hours. I had a nice bunch of ladies attending on what turned out to be a beautiful weekend weather wise. They were all troopers to sit inside listening to me yap on and on when it was so gorgeous outside! Since it was so nice this weekend, I decided to meet up with two friends to travel to the Countryside Artisans Spring Studio Tour located in the foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain in rural Maryland.
I picked up some Golden London Pride (feeling like Spring and wanting to plant something) at Alden Farms. Mixed in with all the plants, David Therriault makes way cool garden type sculptures.
Passion leaked out of Tina Brown, from Morningstar Studio, as she spoke of oil spills of the past and how they affected nature, plants and animals. She was able to portray how she felt to the world through her abstract images and is pictured with my two friends, Olga and Pam. I had met her one time before and thought she was shy. Oh balls, she is a pistol!
One of my talented and wonderful friends, Dalis Davidson at Dancing Leaf Farm was also on the tour with her fabulous wool and jewelry stuffsesssss! I picked up some of her awesome dyed merino sheep wool roving. She has these fabulous kits to get you started on felting and my daughter and I already started to play. Sharp little needles! We don't have a clue what we are doing or what we are going to do with them, but we are making balls anyhow!
Oh balls, balls, balls!!!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Taking a break...
We took a break over Easter from work, school and art.
Yoki, our very loveable yellow lab, decided to get in on the art of dying Easter eggs. She had to be a part of the Easter egg hunt, finding more than just eggs that E. Bunny decided to drop on the ground at the cabin. 
A quick and always inspirational trip put us on the lake with our daughter and her new kayak.
She jumped right in and took off, even though it was quite chilly out. Would you believe we were the only ones crazy enough to play on a very cold wet body of water on Easter!?!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Dust Bunnies Be Gone for Easter
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Festival at Deep Creek Lake....
Arts in the Park
Come see our booth
Oakland MD - July 11 & 12, 2009
Hours: Sat. 10 - 5 and Sun. 11 - 4
301-334-6580
Garrett County Arts Council
http://www.garrettarts.com/programs.html
Come see our booth
Oakland MD - July 11 & 12, 2009
Hours: Sat. 10 - 5 and Sun. 11 - 4
301-334-6580
Garrett County Arts Council
http://www.garrettarts.com/programs.html
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Studio opens to the public.....
2009 Mountain MarylandArtists' Studio Tour
Participating Artists including Mary A. McCunn
Two weekends: Nov 7 & 8 10-5
Nov 14 & 15 10-5
Join Mary at her studio in Cresaptown, MD for a tour of her studio, refreshments and artwork for sale.
Come see her Fairbanks antique power hammer from the late 1880's!
For more information on this event and to receive a beautiful guide book with directions to all of the participating artists, contact the Allegany Arts Council at 301-777-2787 or visit their website http://www.alleganyartscouncil.org/ to learn more.
Labels:
earrings,
jewelry,
necklaces,
sculpture,
sculptures,
studio tour
Friday, March 20, 2009
Our third pairing for another show.....
December Show
by Mary A. McCunn & Jean Barnes Downs
Our third pairing together!
Arts at Canal Place - Featured Artists
November 30 - January 2, 2008
Opening Reception w/ refreshments: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Hours: 6 - 8 pm
Arts at Canal Place, Cumberland, MD
http://www.artsatcanalplace.com/
(301)777-8199
by Mary A. McCunn & Jean Barnes Downs
Our third pairing together!
Arts at Canal Place - Featured Artists
November 30 - January 2, 2008
Opening Reception w/ refreshments: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Hours: 6 - 8 pm
Arts at Canal Place, Cumberland, MD
http://www.artsatcanalplace.com/
(301)777-8199
Labels:
earrings,
exhibition,
gallery,
jewelry,
necklaces,
sculpture,
sculptures
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)