Holiday Sale and p:ear benefit

Studio Olivine is participating in a sale at Icon Tattoo Dec. 5th 12:00-8:00
I, along with the other participating artists have made donations to an auction for p:ear. p:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth, ages 15 to 24, through education, art and recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives. 

Come see us!
Icon Tattoo - 813 N. Russell Street (across from the White Eagle). 
Dec. 5th 12:00-8:00

Festivities will include performances by members of Flash Choir; food and beverage booths including the Voodoo Donuts van; Christmas carol singalongs; a cakewalk and piewalk to benefit p:ear; a gluten and sugar-free holiday cooking demonstration with Chef Abby of Abby's Table; beer, wine, and other holiday beverages alcoholic and un-; bicycle pedicab "sleigh" rides by PDX Pedicab, and many other delightful goings-on!

Save the Date! It's nearly time!

Hello everyone! It's that time of year again.

Studio Olivine's annual Sunday Best holiday sale is nearly here and we are really excited about this year's artists. We have some returning vendors and some amazing fresh faces, 20 in total.

The sale has been extended to 2 days this year by popular demand and we really hope to see you there! Come stock up on gifts for the Holiday season or just pick up some treasures for yourself. I honestly don't see how I will come home with a single penny. I want so many things that will be there that I'll be shopping as much as I am selling. I can barely wait!

At the event space at the Ace Hotel on 10th and Stark

Saturday, Nov. 28th from 11-7

and Sunday, Nov. 29th from 11-5.

Click on the image above and you'll be able to read all of the fine details. 

Also, read a whole lot more here at our sale blog:

Participants:

Anna Joyce Design
B Hive Designs
better late than never
Camamu Soap
E. Soule
Elisabeth Bentz
Gretchen Vaudt
Hadley Hutton
Hinged Strung Stitched
Honey & Milk
Jill Bliss
Lulu Dee
KeeganMeegan
Old School Stationers
PenFelt
Pigeon Toe Ceramics
Sara Barner
Satsuma Press
Studio Olivine
Tasi Designs

A little love for our furry friends

We are huge fans of the Pixie Project in Portland, and would like to send some love their way. 

From now, through November 11th, we will be donating 35% of all sales from our online webshop to them. 

A little about the Pixie Project:

The Pixie Project is a non-profit animal adoption center and supply store. Their mission is to help alleviate overcrowding at high-intake county shelters by taking adoptable animals and helping them find forever homes. Helping out the shelters means more animals get a second chance. 

The donation we will be making from your orders will go to help them keep doing what they do. Please join us in helping the Pixie Project and our sweet furry friends.

Go shopping!

Studio Photos!

Our shop was featured on Spacepdx. The photos were taken by the lovely Leah Verwey. 

Where there is a will.....

There is always a way. I tell you, sometimes I find myself in the craziest predicaments. Sometimes I go through great lengths to get orders completed and find that it is indeed very possible to hand dot every period on an invitation when the plate makers fail me, add color pencil in one little spot when the paper rubs off, and in this case....hand paint 12 pillow cases when the original plan didn't work out. 

This was truly one of my favorite orders of all time and a complete gem and highlight this year. I will post a complete detailed bit on all of the pieces from this order tomorrow. But for now, here is a photo of 3 of the 12 pillows I painted. I originally agreed to coordinate transferring my illustrations to these pillow cases via a much more conventional method, but when that fell through....and it was 2 days before the wedding, I decided to hand paint them. And thank goodness it all worked out because there were no extras in case of disaster.

 

Social Networking

I've moved into this world of social networking like a snail...a teeny tiny baby snail. I was the last to start a blog, the last to set up a Studio Olivine page on Facebook, and the last to join twitter...which is still a mystery to me. I assume one day I will understand twitter, but for now, I just "tweet" ever week or two out of some sort of unwritten obligation.

Every once in a while, I get excited about all of this modern day marketing. Like today, when I set up a fan page for the annual Sunday Best Holiday Sale that I host. I adore this sweet sale so talking about it always puts a little skip in my step.

So, without further adieu, I kindly ask you.... to be our Facebook fan!
AND to celebrate your being a fan, if you become a facebook fan and send me an email message (including your facebook username so I can verify you as a fan) to orders@studio-olivine.com by October 24th....I will send you a treat in the mail! Be sure to include your name and mailing address. That's right! No strings attached. Just my little way of saying that I appreciate you.

Please be sure to include your facebook username so I can verify that you have become a fan.
Sunday Best Holiday Sale
Studio Olivine

Sunday Best!

It's that time of year again! Our carefully curated sale is next month. We've invited our most talented friends to participate. You don't want to miss it! Check back often as I will be updating the blog regularly.

The photo above is of Elisabeth Bentz and I at the 2008 sale.

November 28th and 29th at the Ace Hotel event space in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

http://sundaybestholidaysale.blogspot.com/