Sunday, December 16, 2007

Christmas and Then Some

So much today! So we'll just do a photo essay:




Here are folks enjoying themselves at the Chrismas Bazaar in the front gallery room. We're going to do this every year. Puppies and rubber boots welcome! The gifts you can buy may be fancy, but the attitudes aren't. We've got pottery Japanese fanciers would kill for -- at out-here prices -- and a selection of soaps that smell so delicious you almost want to eat it. Fancy hats knitted while you watch (order your color). And gourmet snickerdoodles.







Folks were starting to say "Me first!" to be the first one on the table in the fancy new massage room in Diana's healing center (at the end of the brand new peach-colored hallway). But looks like Cleo beat 'em to it. This is the rare and esoteric massage method known as "Elevator butt."















As the evening comes on, those chandeliers really start to showup. And look at our poinsettas!

Sarah Grafstrom draws for the raffle, with kidlet help. DonnaLynn Olson won the Christmas Douglas fir, donate by Home Depot, with ornaments from Cathy Hart. Matt Winter got the massage, and Texan Dean the chocolate basket. Proceeds of the raffle went to Messy Palletes and the New Hope Food Bank.

And finally, the Christmas Ghost appeared.

(Or does Donna's camera just have a really long lag time?)

Monday, November 26, 2007

Spread the Joy

PLEASE let our blogger know about upcoming art projects at the gallery. Places, times, photo ops, it's all welcome (Donna says she can still run the blog IF people let her know about their great projects).

Even if you're just working on a project that will contribute to the arts on the west end, don't be shy!

Call 963 2935 with your information and dates.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Xmas Tree Raffle


Come down and buy your $1.00 raffle ticket ($5.00 for 6) for the Three Sisters Christmas Tree! A big, beautiful, fresh tree, covered with decorations, as well as gift baskets and presents, will be raffled off at the Lighthouse Massage Open House, Saturday, December 15 (time still pending). Come buy tickets at the big green building at the west end of Clallam Bay, or call 360 963 2854 for information and times. (Proceeds go to the New Hope Food Bank and Messy Pallettes Art Group).
(Left) Sarah Grafstrom decorating the tree. Don't miss the open house on the 15th!

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Happy Hoko Carrot


First of all, Happy Harvest Season -- from our own little Hoko Valley Native, the beloved Hung Carrot, posing proudly in the Wall Of Wood Root in front of the back gallery.

Monday, October 15, 2007

We need a blogger!

Hi -- Donna Barr just doesn't have a moment to do this blog any more. She's up to HERE with her own career, and has to concentrate on it.

Anybody else want to volunteer?

Friday, September 21, 2007

Veggies Galore


Slip Point's Scott Alan brought in veggies from his Startup garden in eastern Washington, and distributed them in the area, including at the gallery.
Terry and Jane Hielman are organizing a co-op and buyer's club at the gallery. Four stock members ($150.00) provide a base for buying new products.
Future deliveries will be from an organic produce and food company that allows group orders as low as $40.00. Co-op members do not need to be stock members to buy order food.
(Above) Terry minds the beautiful produce. Check out the lemon cucumbers! Don't be afraid to try new things. It's all good for you and your family.

Diana is working like a crazed pony, getting the new healing room ready.
She's rubbing gold paint on over the rough-plastered dark-blue walls.
A Tiffany lamp glows in the white ceiling.
Sue says it will be ready in two weeks.
Jane says "Ha!"
Well, it IS a lot of work, and Diana and Sue are both just slammed, especially Diana's Lighthouse Massage.
(left) The electric fire place. Cozy!

Friday, July 20, 2007

Don't Fear The Rain

Okay, so it's raining fit to melt our hair up here.

But that just makes the trees more beautiful! And it's one more reason to come down and feel at home in Clallam Bay's biggest living room.

New feature: Dancercize with Rebecca! 8:00 am, every Thursday. Come get revved up for your day. Get that blood pumping and you won't even feel the rain.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Party Time



Loose Gravel whooped it up for a happy audience in our gallery/front all at Saturday, July 14th, during the 2007 Clallam Bay-Sekiu Fun Days. Members of the bluegrass band include Barney Munger, banjo and vocals; Scott Jameson, mandolin and vocals; Spider Wright, bass and harmonica and Dick Martin, guitar and vocals.
Jane and Terry got out on the dance floor and showed us how they dance Down Under!
A guy from Tacoma showed up looking for another band of the same name that plays blues.
We need blues, rock, and anybody else who wants to come down and party in the biggest living room in Clallam Bay. Remember the number: 360 963 2854. Our audience are good tippers!

Friday, July 13, 2007

Too Busy for Photos

Nobody remembered to take photos, Wednesday, July 12 at the first Clallam Bay Farmer's Market. We were having too much fun!

A few vendors showed up to enjoy the big low-lit front hall. With the temperature over 90 degrees outside, everybody who came in to visit reacted like vampires -- "Oh, it's so nice and cool and dark in here!"

For sale were potted flowers, fresh produce, quilts and smoked salmon. Not a lot, but everybody enjoyed themselves.

The party got started when Sarah Grafstrom -- Sue's daughter -- showed up to play her guitar. She started out with a great cover of Man Of Constant Sorrow. Sue Zalokar delighted everyone with covers of Janice Joplin and Bread favorites.

Diana went down and jumped in the river. When she told Donna to go jump in the river, too, Donna did it. Nice and cool!

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Produce Market on the 4th.






Jane Hielman takes payment from a slightly confused Isaac Blanton, while his mother Mary Jane laughs, July 4, 2007.

The new produce market, at the Three Sisters of Clallam Gallery, is open from 11-4, summer 7 days a week. On Wednesdays, the gallery farmer's market is open noon to 7 pm; all local producers welcome. Phone for after-hours pickup or other details: 963 2854.

Organic is coming -- new shipments will be placed according to demand.

Donna here: the watermelon we got was sweet and juicy.

And I told them they'd need more watermelons on the fourth! They were all gone by 11:00.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Produce Lovely

Hi, Donna, here -- (blogmaster for the gallery and produce market).

I was the first customer at the produce market today. Really fresh stuff, and at the best prices in the area.

They only had three watermelons. It's the 4th tomorrow, so I grabbed one. Dan can't eat 'em, but for once I'm going to have enough watermelon to put seeds in my ears -- and share with beach neighbors at Neah Bay Fireworks tomorrow.

They only have two watermelon left, so if you want 'em, GET 'em!

Monday, July 2, 2007

Fresh Produce, and Crafts

Starting July 4th, the Abundance Fruits and Vegetables market will open at the gallery. 11-6, Wednesday through Sunday.

The produce is being shipped from Seattle, but there will be locally-produced lettuces and greens. We're hoping more people will bring in more produce from the area.

We can't sell eggs or cheese, BUT --

If you want to sell animal products, Wednesdays will be Farmers' Markets, from noon to 7:00. We're looking for local crafts, stuff and food. Vendors will be responsible for their own products, including food. Buyers will have to be aware these are local products, and make their own decisions -- although local eggs and cheese have had a pretty good run as clean, organic and darn tasty.

We're looking for local fresh honey. If you're lucky enough to have those mite-resistant 19th-century Caucasian feral bees that are spreading over the peninsula, this is the market for your sweet product!

Call 360 963 2854 for details.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Big Root


Donna photographed this massive spruce root at Jerry's rentals.

It's out in the weather. It needs to be cared for and turned into the art it deserves to be.

It will be expensive as raw material, but using it for art will more than pay for it.

(Donna: Can you see what Charles Forlines would do with it?).

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Drumming Along

We've put in a handsome new stove. Oh, it's so nice and warm! This is on one end of the gallery hall. We have the biggest living room in Clallam Bay.



We've had a drumming instructor here for three classes.

Sue is sitting in a rocking chair and pounding out a samba rhythm by the stove.




Bob Fisher's dad did a very German panel of the characters from Goethe's Faust. Bob also has a panel of the Four Horsemen. Sue calls it the "Panel of the Apocalypse."

The First Annual Plant Show on the 10th was a big hit. In 2008, it will be the Wildflower Show.

The back part of the house is becoming a home. Now Sue's got a bedroom she can lock up with the cat. Yes, Cleo is sticking around -- especially since five pounds of cat food were purchased for her. Drew -- Diana's son -- calls her "Tinkerbell."

"Does Cleo have her own chair?" we were asked.

"Cleo has all the chairs!"

There's an awesome double-paned window waiting to go up in the hall.

"It's a process," says Sue.

Sue's been living in a fifth wheel kindly loaned her by Kathleen Haney. Looks like it will be finding a buyer, soon.

Friday, June 1, 2007

Three Sisters Features

We have so many neat features in the building. Full Photo Stream


One of them is Cleo, the Gallery Cat. She belongs to the neighbor, but she's voted herself an official position as gallery greeter. She shows up about once a month. If you're lucky, you'll get to meet her. If we have a party, you'll meet her for sure!


This hallway, that leads back to what will become the treatment rooms, is framed with decorative edging we got from the old Woody's restaurant -- the same place that gave us the rootball. That peach paint? Another serendipitous discovery from Parker Paint's back room. Everything's just coming together.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Three Sisters of Clallam Gallery and Healing Center Opens!



On May 26, 2007, "Horizon," the totem pole Charles Forlines has been working on for two years, was dedicated at our opening here in Clallam Bay. That's Charles with Quileute Valley School Superintendent Frank Hanson. Full Photo Stream

Gallery owners -- that's us, Sue Heiny and Diana Goplen -- were excited Charles honored us with this incredible artwork.

This place was transformed from the former Bay Hardware and Supply building. It took a lot of work, but we refinished the floors, rebuilt walls, and painted with gallons of paint we got from the back room at Parker Paints in PA (or, as Diana says, "Five gallon, five dollah!") . That's why the building is that bright green.

The building -- now named "Wilma," because that's the way she wants it -- will be the center of the arts and healing scene in the west end community (no brag, just fact), as well as providing hostel space for visiting artists. We have so much community support, and so many neat things have showed up to give this gallery its character.



The "Flintstone" door and window frames, the giant rootball that came from the former Woody's Restaurant, the chandeliers, the paint, the huge amount of just plain work -- it all came from this hard-working, talented, wonderful community, out here on the West End.

We started the day with a Starving Artists Sale. It was so great seeing all those tables representing our local artists' community, with everything from paintings to jewelry to fancy homemade soap.

The seven-foot-tall totem pole is carved from cedar, its post representing a family of dolphins. The eagle's wings show a man and a woman's face, with abalone inlaid eyes. The eagle's claws are carved from Brazilian coca bola wood. Charles said each claw took him an entire day to carve, the wood was so hard.



Superintendent of Lapush Schools Frank Hanson helped Charles raise the totem pole. It was exciting!



The Quilleute drummers sang a song of dedication -- and then a table song for the community potluck. Drummer Russell Woodruff said about Forlines, “This man is a builder, he's a fixer, he's a welder. He can fix anything. He's fixed this community.”



The Quilleute wrapped Forlines in an honor blanket. That means a lot up here.



Then Forlines presented us with one!



The party went on into the late hours, to the rousing rhythms of bluegrass band Loose Gravel. Sara Grafstrom, Sue's daughter, was crazy dancing!

“It ended up being a girls' party,” said Joan Fabian, who was visiting to show her Roshi healing technique. “Everybody was downstairs playing hide-and-seek in the dark.”

Friday, May 4, 2007

First Floor Finish

The refinished floor at the Three Sisters of Clallam Art and Healing Center, in Clallam Bay, gets its first coat of varnish.

Forlines Feather Art

Charlie Forlines has created a new kind of carving.

Delicate, light-weight feathers hand-carved from cedar. The incised feather-lines show wonderful hand-control.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Grand Opening

Yes, it's happening at last --

The Three Sisters of Clallam Gallery is opening.

10:00, Saturday, May 26, at the old Bay Supply Hardware, Highway 112, Clallam Bay.

It's the big green building on the left as you leave town going west (toward Sekiu).

Charlie Forlines completion of his two-year totem pole project will be unveiled. Starving Artist Sale and Community Potluck and music to follow.

And we will be celebrating Diana's 50th birthday! Come on down after the Sekiu Fly-in and breakfast at the airport in the morning.

Call 963 2854 for more information.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Charlie's Arch

Charles Forlines, Amazing local carver, with the arch he constructed as an entry to the future treatment rooms.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Our First Pictures

Main Show Room

Here is Susan, in the main room of the Green Building.

The walls have been painted, the floors prepared for sanding, and the Big Root Wall is up.

We're new at this.

This is our first post. We're not even typing it. We're paying somebody to do it.

Soon to come:

Information about and updating about The Green Building status in Clallam Bay.

Pictures from the beginning of the renovation to wherever we are now.

ART! And how to buy it. Too many amazing West End artists!

Stay tuned.