Please join me at SCRAP‘s 8th annual Holiday Bazaar! My vendor space will feature jewelry and picture frames, with a focus towards bold colors, Mexican folk art, and misunderstood monsters. This is the only show I am participating this holiday season, so take advantage of this chance to pick up my quirky works of functional art. All handmade, all one of a kind. (Of course, my Etsy shop is open year round!)
This is my third year participating in the bazaar, and I am consistently amazed with the variety of items for sale. There are 25 vendors vendors this year. Trilliam Artisans will also have a presence at the bazaar.
All items in the bazaar are made from at least 75% recycled materials.
Shop locally! Support local artisans! Pick up unique holiday gifts that you won’t find anywhere else.
SCRAP (School and Community Recycling Action Program)
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009
Time: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Address: 2915 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. Portland, OR 97212
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Outside of the varnish, these are 100% recycled materials. I started with paper grocery bags. These were cut into long strips, folded, then looped to the size of a bracelet. The one on the left used cereal box cardboard as a base.
They each got about three layers of paper mache, then had to dry for about a week. In the meantime I cut up a tattoo magazine for decoupage.
Once they were dry, I decorated them with the magazine clippings. Several layers of varnish (and even more drying time!) they are ready to go.
These will be for sale at SCRAP’s holiday bazaar this Saturday December 19th.
I’ve been clipping pictures out of magazines to put in the picture frames I’ve been putting together for the SCRAP Holiday Bazaar (Saturday December 19th from 11am – 5pm), and this one fits so well I could see someone buying it and not changing out the photo.
Rescued frame was re-painted then embellished with the bottle caps I was selling as magnets at the Halloween bazaar.
Think I should make more of these!
Since I keep teasing people with pictures and exclamations of how good these cookies are, I figured I should at least share the recipe. With the amount of butter it contains, they are not “healthy”, but between the whole wheat flour and the Scottish oatmeal, you’ll get your fiber! The whey replaces white sugar, and per the leaflet from Tillamook, whey is supposed to bring “tenderness” to cookies.
These are especially good with milk. (Or soy milk, as the case may be.)
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup Tillamook whey powder (I don’t know where you can buy this outside of the gift shop)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla (Use the pure vanilla – none of that artificial nonsense)
1-1/2 cups wheat flour (Bob’s Red Mill!)
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons Vietnamese cinnamon (The type of cinnamon you use makes a big difference. Costco has it for a really good price.)
3 cups uncooked Scottish Oatmeal (Again, Bob’s Red Mill!)
At least one teaspoon zest from a Clementine mandarin orange. I think more is better.
Prep
Heat oven to 350°F. In small bowl, blend together flour, baking soda, and cinnamon. In large bowl, beat butter, brown sugar, and whey powder with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in eggs and vanilla until mixture is even creamier. Gradually add flour mixture; mix well with a wooden spoon. Add oats and orange zest; mix well.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. Use metal spatula to move cookies to wire rack for cooling. Once cooled completely, serve or store.
I froze some of the dough to use for baking later, and hopefully that will work out well.
Bought a package of whey at the Tillamook Cheese Factory the other weekend to try baking with it. The first batch was hazelnut spice, which were pretty good, even though I had to sub out a few ingredients since I didn’t want to go back to the store.
This batch is in the oven, and it uses whole wheat flour, scottish oatmeal, and whey as the "exotic" ingredients. Hopefully they will turn out well.
(We have a dozen eggs that are the end of their shelf life, so I am baking and cooking a lot this weekend.)
I’ve been working on bracelets and brooches this week to get ready for the Holiday Bazaar at SCRAP on December 19th. This will be my third time participating in this event, and historically smaller items sell better.
These are made from leather and vinyl scraps as well as button box findings and miscellaneous hardware. I am very pleased with the leather flower pins. My hole punch has really come in handy this week! Glad to finally find a use for the little buckles that have been hanging out in my notions box for years.
