The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

I love a good craft show. I love to see the art and the crafts. Today was the annual Thieves Market at the Iowa memorial Union, in Iowa City, Iowa. BTW Iowa Hawkeyes 12-0 will be playing for the Big 10 championship tonight-GO HAWKS!

 Parking is always an adventure and the construction folks were probably very tired of the traffic generated by this big arts and crafts show.

 This was my very favorite booth at the show. These are vintage trees from the 30s and the artists filled them up with all kinds of old timey goodness.

 Unfortunately they were waaaay out of my price range, selling for around $250 each. But they were awesome! I'm going to keep my out for a tree like this!

 There was a good crowd, the IMU is a really large place so moving around was easy! So many great pieces of art. A few too many pottery folks in my opinion, but each one had something unique to offer.

Lots of jewelry, and lots of photographic art too. It's officially that time of year!

Thieves Market

Today DD and I went to the Thieves Market at the Iowa memorial Union. Lots of ART(see capital letters art) and not so much craft. I really was overwhelmed with all the jewelry & pottery.Here's a link to their video. U of I fine arts council

The pottery was all so beautiful. I am amazed at all the wonderful colors and techniques.

Tons of jewelry was for sale. Everything from little plastic beads, to crocheted wire, sterling silver, pounded copper, gold, brass, leather, all natural, man-made, if you can name a medium, I bet there was some kind of jewelry made of it. Personally I can only look at jewelry for just so long but DD...she's wild for the stuff. I also noticed that I can't take pictures of jewelry-it comes out looking like boxes of foreign stuff.

There was also a lot of really wonderful artwork too. This artist used almost all paper  and bits of wood for her work

These mosaics were BEAUTIFUL! They were clay tiles of all shapes, with sayings and profound poetry on some. Then put together with really gorgeous textured tiles. Very expensive, but very nice to look at!

I loved this name, Jubilant acrylics. It was true too-her art was very jubilant!

Isn't this pretty art too? Original oil paintings. Big bucks, I suppose you already knew that?

This was really different pottery. They had these wonderful fanciful dragons, and other critters coming out of the containers-mugs, eggs, piggy banks-very unique and well crafted.

I wasn't really a fan of this artist, I was just surprised at the price tag.

There was so much to see! Makes me feel all cultured now!