Thursday Night Remodel Series

  Starting tomorrow night we will be hosting our Thursday Night Remodel Series - Kitchens and Bathrooms for 4 consecutive Thursday nights. Cost is $10 per night or $35 for the whole series! That is the simple boring explanation.
  But that doesn't begin to describe it! We are going to be learning skills, in a hands-on workshop, that will allow our students to confidently remodel their own kitchens and bathrooms or even go out and start their own small business, doing that for others. (I know I said WE will learning. I never quit learning or honing my skills so I'm it to learn, too) Now, I'm not talking about tearing out tile and counter tops and dragging in heavy materials to rebuild an entire kitchen. I'm not talking about spending thousands of dollars. I'm talking about showing our students how to use a relatively inexpensive product to refresh and and renew existing fixtures to give them a new life!
  I mean, have you seen this? My kitchen sink:

  Now I hear someone say, "But I've used paint before, I know what it can do." Yeah. I said that, too. You just have to see what I'm talking about! That's why we are offering this class at such a low rate for the first series. This is the only time we will ever be offering this series for that price!
  Come and join us for the Thursday night Series. If Thursdays don't work for you, let me know and we will try to schedule something that does!

Our first class was.....AWESOME!

We had our very first class at Rowanwood Plaster Paint Academy yesterday ! It was just SO SO SO GREAT! We had five students join us at the Academy plus a BUNCH more through the magic of Facebook LIVE! We worked on a kitchen vanity that will go in to Harveson House here at Rowanwood and the transformation was amazing!
 From this

To this

in under 3 hours!  With our Thursday Night Remodel Series starting this week, we will be giving students hands on experience! The 4- part Kitchen and Bathroom series is just $35 for the whole series or $10 per night if you want to go a la carte . That fee will cover the cost of materials, we just want to share this with everyone who wants to learn!

   I have so much to get done before Thursday but I will try to check in here soon!

   Bye for now!

Christmas, Academy, Plaster Paint and more...

The Academy building arrived as promised and we went to work!

The building looked a little great! Well built and just what we wanted. But once it was leveled it was up to us to make it part of the castle!  We have been working on insulating and wiring and plumbing, oh my! By the time we hold our first class on January 6th, it will be ready to go!

One the same day that the building arrived a friend called for us to come get something he wanted us to have:

This cool old tool box is just the thing we need in the Academy to store supplies! It needs a bit of cleaning but I think it will look awesome!

Christmas time is upon us as well. Christmas has always been the holiday I look forward to the most. To me, it's not about a specific religion, it's about remembering that we are the family of man, and taking time to show that appreciation for others. Of course, we at Rowanwood don't go in for the commercial shopping aspect of it. The kids will get a few surprises from Santa, but for all of us this is the time of year that we scurry off to our private work areas to make surprises for each other. And then we all come together to work on whatever project we are making for family and friends this year. In years past we have done kitchen gift baskets, coconut oil cosmetics, Rowanwood ugli dolls, and Journal sets. This year is still a surprise!

Our Plaster Paint is now available here at Rowanwood and on our website and at two locations in Lincoln and Prairie Grove! I want to thank our friends at Vintage on the Square and High on the Hog for carrying our paint in their stores!

So it is busy around here, but it's a good problem to have! 

Happy Holidays y'all!

c

Well, now it's December again! New Building, new ventures...

   TODAY we are awaiting the arrival of our NEW BUILDING! We have a 12x30 building on the road right now, headed our way! It will be the beginning of the Rowanwood Plaster Paint Academy! We will be getting moved in and set up and by January first, we plan to be holding regular classes and workshops! Many of those classes will be based around Plaster Paint, to show the many, many ways it can be used, but also we are asking some other local instructors and artisans to come teach us new skills.
    I will post some pictures of the Rowanwood Plaster Paint Academy as soon as I have some.
WE ARE SO EXCITED!!

Albuquerque was AWESOME! and other topics.....

Wow! We had such a good time at Vintage Market Days in Albuquerque! We met so many new people and sold a few things, too. After the awesome show we took a side trip to Santa Fe and met even more talented artists and craftsmen! It was such a beautiful place and we had to leave too soon!

Our little booth at VMD.

So, I got home and started trying to catch up on the fun at Rowanwood. I checked the crop in the field and determined we had no time to waste! Our Black Amber Sorghum was ready for harvest! So off to the field with our cane knives we went.

Then we had to press the juice from the cane and boil our syrup. We have a very small crop this year and we are doing it all by hand.  I had to find the right equipment but thankfully the local flea market saved the day.

And finally we got our syrup.

So the fun never ends at Rowanwood. We have several shows coming up in Arkansas and Oklahoma in the next couple of months. Check our homepage at rowanwoodart.com for Show Dates!

Loves! Carol

I just can't find time!!!

How do all of these people, do all of these fantastic things, and still find time to blog about them? We have been doing great and wonderful things here at Rowanwood, which is exactly why I haven't had time to blog!

We have done to Vintage shows this spring and we are currently getting ready to go to ALBUQUERQUE in August for a vintage Market Days show there. Dark Steel has been producing some fantastic knives and I have been up-cycling furniture around the clock. What is up-cycling? Here I'll show you:

See? Not Just recycled, UP-CYCLED!

I have a theory. I think a lot of people would like to have original art in their homes, or even just high end furnishings, but they just can't afford extras. So I try to make every piece of furniture that I find (usually on it's way to the dump) into an affordable, usable work of art.

But I digress.... That is one of the many reasons that i have been too busy to blog. We also had a wedding in the family, our annual BBQ was a BLAST and we have been doing so many improvements to Rowanwood! OH! and garden and sorghum crop.....All in all, Rowanwood is just looking great this year.

What would help out the most with my time management is MORE MEMBERS of our little family. We really, really, really want to share our resources with other artists and if those artists helped us load stuff to take to shows, or took pictures.......See how that works? We can all do better if we work together.

Come see us at Rowanwood. Contact us at rowanwoodart@gmail.com

Spring has Sprung

After hibernating all winter, the inhabitants of Rowanwood are starting to cautiously stick our noses out our doors. We have all been busy, busy - working on our various projects.  A couple of upcoming vintage shows have us all a-twitter as we work our little artistic hearts out to make fun things to share with others!

A few new items from Dark Steel and he has plenty more coming!

And I have been re-purposing and upcycling vintage funrniture.
So many projects have been taking shape that it is just not possible to list them all.  But you can see some of them at High on the Hog Vintage Market and Junk At Horton Farms in May.
  I hope we see you there!