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?)

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.

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!

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.

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?

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!