Meet
Kelly Kemp from Kemp Custom Confections…
First of all my name is Kelly Kemp. I
have been happily married for 18 years and have three teenage children. I
have recently left my everyday job to pursue Kemp Custom Confections
full- time, which is very scary. I have always worked in bakeries and loved to
try new things out in decorating and candy. I loved making treats for my
children's classrooms and birthdays,so I decided to try and make a business out
of it. This is my first year of business,so wish me luck!
I have never participated in the
Avant -Garde arts and craft shows,but look forward to meeting everyone and
working with all of the venders and customers.
My inspiration comes from
mostly seasonal flavors and colors. I love celebrating the holidays no matter
how small. Additionally,the customers
inspire meet to create new items every show. For example, I recently
added a sugar free line of products to my line.
My creative process occurs in
two ways. First I love growing local confectionary stores looking for new
products. Molds for suckers, new sprinkles,flavor gels, cupcake
papers,and the like send me in to fits of excitement. Secondly, I like to
challenge myself to create at least one new product every show I attend.
This process has helped me to build my repertoire for custom orders.
In five years I hope to have
purchased a store front to sell my products. I would also like to create
a mail order system for my products as well.
The main message behind my work is
celebrate with fun yummy treats!
Meet
Margot from Memories by Margot…
I am a newlywed to an amazing husband that is so
supportive of my business! I work full-time as a high school Spanish teacher,
and spend much of my time outside of work in my studio working on my personal
scrapbooking, but also on developing pre-made and custom made scrapbook pages
and albums for Memories by Margot.
Memories by Margot is the scrapbooking business born out
of my love for creating unique scrapbook pages that capture life's many
exciting moments. After gifting scrapbooks to friends and family, and
having produced scrapbooks of my own for over 12 years, I finally decided to
share the opportunity with others to have creative, unique, and personalized
pages that capture life's special moments.
I am relatively new to the craft-show circuit, so this
will be my 1st Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show. I am very
excited to be part of such a great show, and am very much looking forward to
participating in shows down the road!
I am most inspired by the events in my life that I
get to share with my family and friends! Attending weddings, family vacations,
new babies, holidays together, and the everyday fun we have together brings me
so much joy, and I love capturing these memories in my
scrapbooks! It’s my mission to provide this opportunity to others!
Though I have always been a scrapbooker, it wasn’t until
my husband and my close friends encouraged me to sell my work! When the people
closest to you are your biggest cheerleaders, it builds a confidence to launch
your own business!
The majority of my “creative process” is driven by the joy
that others get from the Memories by Margot pages and completed albums. My
favorite moments are getting a thank you e-mail or a message that somebody was
moved to tears by the gift of my work! It very much validates the time and
thought that goes into each page, and drives me to want to bring Memories by
Margot to more customers!
In five years, I would like to see my business have a
presence at even more craft shows, and I hope to find myself OVERWHELMED with
online orders. Though this business was started with the goal of supporting my
own hobby of scrapbooking, who wouldn’t want to have a successful and
profitable business?!?!
The message behind Memories by Margot pre-made and custom
made pages is to provide creative, unique, and personalized pages to capture
life’s precious moments at an affordable price. These pages make great gifts
when added to picture frames and shadow boxes!
Yvonne
Davis from Grasshoppin by Yvonne…
My name is Yvonne Davis and I am 37 yrs old. I grew up
between Thompson and Perry and currently live in Rock Creek. I enjoy
activities outside with nature like bike riding, canoeing creek hiking and
walking the beach. I love family/friend gatherings where we gather to
eat, share stories, laugh and play games.
This summer will be my second full year of vending shows but
this is my first Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show.
What inspires me to create is not always the same. Sometimes
ideas will just come to me and sometimes I will see something that will inspire
me to tweek it and make it my own. I have always been somewhat creative, it’s
just been hiding for awhile. What brought it out has been a conglomeration of
things. The big push to vend my creations was getting let go of my job...A
Blessing in disguise! My creative process is simply a Blessing from The Higher
Power.
I think my wood burning
and paintings are my talents. How I discovered wood burning is my ex-boyfriends
mother gave me hers and said “here, you do something with this". I found
some wood, borrowed my step dad’s sander and thought ok, now what do I
burn on this? I have always thought henna designs were so pretty so I
went on line and found some inspiration and away we went! The fairy paintings
came from an old Time magazine add from the 50's or so. This
beautiful lady standing on the edge of a cliff just taking in the glories of
the universe (well, that's how I interpreted it). I love fairly pictures so I thought
how cool would it be to get a tattoo of a fairy on a cliff side. I had a tattoo
artist draw me up one on paper (because I could not draw people) but I
didn't like it. Needless to say I didn't get the tattoo.
Years later, when I bought my house my friends threw me a
house warming party and brought a very large canvas and paints for all that
came to paint me an abstract. Each person was to do one stroke and then I would
have my friends and family's love with me in my home with this picture. It
turned out obnoxious! I felt bad to not have it hanging so I thought I would
use it to paint this fairy picture on. That is how I got started painting.
In five years, I am seeing myself having a store, possibly like
a local art co-op. The message behind my work is inspiration, beauty within
yourself, peace, love, caring, sharing...anything positive! Whatever kind of
good it makes you feel.
Meet
Lindsay Jean-Marie from LJM…
I’ve been designing and studying the art of crochet and
knit for over 10 years thanks to my artistic grandmother and mother.
My goal is
to design my knitwear collection to encourage women to express themselves with
one of-a-kind wearable art accessories.
With my unique open weave design, each
piece has been created to bring sophistication and sex appeal to all of the
confident professional women in the world.
My motto:
Beauty = Confidence
Confidence = Success
Women who are Confident wear Wearable Art Pieces
2014 Summit County Spring Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show
Saturday April 12th- 10:00am-5:00pm
Sunday April 13th- 11:00am-5:00pm
St. George's Fellowship Centre
3204 Ridgewood Rd.
Fairlawn, OH 44333
For more information, contact Becki Cooper, Event Coordinator
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