{"id":37,"date":"2008-06-07T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortheloveofjewels.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/06\/07\/contemporary-crafts-market-the-best-of-the-west\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T22:51:00","slug":"contemporary-crafts-market-the-best-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/2008\/06\/07\/contemporary-crafts-market-the-best-of-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Crafts Market: The Best of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/SEsWPg8uu6I\/AAAAAAAABDw\/Fl4Ax79Md-w\/s1600-h\/santamonica1.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/SEsWPg8uu6I\/AAAAAAAABDw\/Fl4Ax79Md-w\/s200\/santamonica1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/SEsV68_sKWI\/AAAAAAAABDo\/yMICHj023bg\/s1600-h\/CynthiaDowns.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/SEsV68_sKWI\/AAAAAAAABDo\/yMICHj023bg\/s200\/CynthiaDowns.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Cynthia Downs<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/SEsVoZqFxhI\/AAAAAAAABDg\/Prr86sld1FE\/s1600-h\/MaryDarwall.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ExLR4o6iRZo\/SEsVoZqFxhI\/AAAAAAAABDg\/Prr86sld1FE\/s200\/MaryDarwall.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Mary Darwall <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporarycraftsmarket.com\/index.html\">Contemporary Crafts Market <\/a>returned to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 23rd season this weekend as the West Coast\u2019s premiere event for one-of-a-kind functional and decorative crafts. Over 250 artists exhibited their juried work including jewelry designers working in enamel, fibers, knotting and weaving to various gold and silversmiths of exceptional quality. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Most of the designers I met were gracious and wonderful about discussing their work and processes, though three vendors actually shooed me away saying that they didn&#8217;t want me to take photos of their designs. VERY WEIRD if you ask me. Why, I wondered, would someone AT A SHOW, not want publicity on their work? Maybe someone out there can comment and educate me on this strange behavior.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">But otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the best the west has to offer. A few of my favorites included the wire woven cuffs by <a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiadowns.com\/\">Cynthia Downs<\/a>, the elaborate seed bead pieces by <a href=\"http:\/\/marydarwall.com\/\">Mary Darwall<\/a>, the gold and silver fused cuffs and rings by <a href=\"http:\/\/marneryan.com\/\">Marne Ryan <\/a>and the glass and silver designs by <a href=\"http:\/\/antelman.com\/\">Alison Antelman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/amyfaust.com\/\">Amy Faust<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">I hope the economy and gas prices didn&#8217;t put a damper on the crowds. These talented designers deserve great success!<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Thanks for stopping by!<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Sally<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">A blog showcasing accomplished jewelry designers.<br \/>\nFor artisan jewelry go to:  www.naked-jewelry.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Downs Mary Darwall The Contemporary Crafts Market returned to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 23rd season this weekend as the West Coast\u2019s premiere event for one-of-a-kind functional and decorative crafts. Over 250 artists exhibited their juried work including jewelry designers working in enamel, fibers, knotting and weaving to various gold and silversmiths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10,36,41,88,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/fortheloveofjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}