This Second Thursday we were able to set up outside the Gallery for the first time this year. We have been urging other stores to stay open so people will have a variety of places to stroll around and visit. This effort has been rewarded with more participation, stores may be identified by the flying banner outside their shops.

The evening was warm and sunny so our live music by singer Tom Beck and our Wines of the Neighborhood with wine master, Leroy Schoot, were outside in the large parking lot beside the Gallery.

The wine expert, Leroy Schoot and pleased customer Eliza

The songs you love to hear, Tom Beck entertained us all evening.

We had set up several tables with chairs so people could sit down and enjoy their wine and and a variety of good food was on the menu provided by Malibu Hut.

Great food that is a little different

We also had a variety of appetizers brought in by members inside the Gallery. Several vendors joined us so we had a nice variety of hand made items to choose from.

Janis Powers displays some of her habd beaded items.

Carol Schoot always has a great variety of handmade items, herbs too.

It was a wonderful chance for folks to to socialize in a very relaxed atmosphere. From the Gallery location in the heart of town a person could walk to the Video Store and they now have an ice cream parlor and that was dessert for some of us. The Golden Frame and Photo shop was open and on the sidewalk with some art specials, the General Store offers a wide variety of items. If you headed east you could visit Beth Poirier in her Fiber Arts Studio where she was setting up two looms for weaving towels and scarves. There are several other fiber artists in that location too. The new book store offered some good buys. As the summer progresses there are sure to be more open doors for the 2nd Thursday Night event.

The Guild also signed on to the 13 Mile Yard Sale which is really closer to 140 miles, maps are available at Chambers and stores. We will have ours in the lot in back of the Gallery and hopefully we won’t have too much of a weather problem. A couple of donations have swelled our inventory so there will be lots of good buys and also there will be whatever the artists decide is no longer needed at home. June 13 and 14 are the dates and we invite you to swing by for a look. A portion of the proceeds from sales will be used for seed money for our upcoming Kimono show starting June 23. Several artists have been hard at work making Japanese inspired items. It will be informative and fun.