With very few hours to explore in Portland, I headed out to meet up with my friend Susan Beal, who’s teaching a bead and button jewelry-making class this week at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) as part of their 1) “Summer of Making” program series. 2) I briefly stopped in at her classroom to to meet some lovely makers and look upon some beautiful samples of projects from Susan’s books (Button It Up and Bead Simple).
3) Beads and 4) buttons…I can’t get enough. This was my fix since I didn’t end up making it to one of my favorite stops, the Button Emporium and Ribbonry, before it closed this evening.
5) Thanks, Susan, for a West Coast Crafty shout-out earlier today!
6) After lunch, I was off to the bead store to pick up some supplies (it’s not all T-shirts with me!) for some birthday presents I’m working on. Then off to do some local thrift shopping before heading to Powell’s tonight! (I stumbled across founder Michael Powell’s star on the Portland “walk of fame,” below — the “Bookseller to the World.”)
[ Posted on July 20th, 2009 ]
