Final People's Market for 2008 - maybe?

What a spectacular day to have a outdoor market! I loved every minute of being outside. I loved seeing my old friends again - I haven't been to the market for 4 weeks now with bad weather and the passing of my Father. So it was great to be back in the selling mode!
The People's Market is going to do or are considering doing a Market/Boutique Selling opportunity at the Intermodal Hub between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That would be so great! And a good location also - All the Trax lines and Bus lines go there and it is right next to the Gateway Mall! It should be great.
Remember you can always email me a special order request! A nice "love note" beaded necklace with your own words and penmanship forever saved on beautiful hand rolled paper beads! What a great gift.
And don't forget the big sale at the South Towne Expo Center on Nov 14-15-16th. Several of the People's Market vendors will have their items for sale at this show; Family Gift Show!

I think it is fall for sure now! Have you see those Leaves? Wow!

Fall Colors necklace:

Bible pages bead necklace:

Ok, I'm back! Deaths in any one's family is always disruptive but I must go on, that's what Dad would want, even though it feels odd and empty somehow. Thank you to all my family and friends, it was so great to see EVERYONE! All my Dad's sisters made it to the funeral as did most all relatives of my Mother (who passed away March of 2006). My niece Lisa, (http://www.2sure.blogspot.com/) gave an amazing tribute to my Father using entries she quoted from his journal. Lisa, will you be willing to publish that tribute so I can read it often? Please!

I will be at the Salt Lake Family Christmas Gift Show at the South Towne Expo Center on Nov. 14, 15 and 16th. Look for Bowenwright Crafts and come by and say hello. I'll have both the "Elegant and the Earthy" lines there. My niece, Kriselle with Embracelets Jewelry will help with providing jewelry for the Elegant line. She also does jewelry for those who are into the "Twilight" book series. If you have read the books, you know what jewelry I am talking about. And she is the master crafter of stunning bling - Swarovski is her middle name!

I do the Earthy line with the recycled paper beads and the scrap cloth bead necklaces, bracelets and earrings, the whole "Saving the Earth one bead at a time" line.

So in other words, something for everyone at GREAT prices!

I will be at the party for the People's Market this Saturday the 25th of Oct! This was such an exciting Market to be a part of! I can't wait until next year! And I can't wait to see my new friends made over the summer!

But don't think there won't be any jewelry until next summer - check in often and I am planning to put "how to do it" hints on my new up-coming Paper Bead blog and I use winter as my mass production time so that is when there are a lot more choices!

I've loaded up my eBay store with several new necklace/earring sets made of recycled paper, take a minute and click on my eBay link in the right column of this blog! See you later!

First Snow, Oct 2008

I couldn't believe it when I woke up this morning - SNOW! We have been waiting all weekend for this horrible snow and it seemed like everyone around us was getting rain or snow. We've had very little rain but this morning, finally the snow. I was rather glad I decided not to go to the People's Market. Not only busy with Dad's funeral (on Oct 18th) but trying to get my house back to semi-workable order while Terry builds my enlarged office space. We finished tearing down the rest of the shelves in the new office area and then hung those old shelves in my bedroom so I at least have space to work on jewelry until the new place is finished! Hooray! I have a bedroom back again!
I sounds like tons of relatives will be coming into town next weekend for Dad's funeral. What a tribute to him. All of his sisters are trying hard to get here. Please weather, don't go funky again next weekend! Please!

And Kyle... I will definitely be to the People's Market End-of-Season party! Sounds great!
What a great summer, I can't wait for next year!

But, don't forget the Family Christmas Show at the South Towne Expo Center November 14, 15 and 16th! The Soy Candles Ladies will be there also! You want your room to smell beautiful when you step gracefully into it wrapped in beautiful, hand-rolled recycled paper bead jewelry don't you???

I Honor the Memory of my Father, Ross Bowen

My niece with my Dad the summer of 2008.

My father just passed away the other day, after a long, long battle with Parkinson's.

This guy was a man's man. Big, strong and very handsome.

He could do everything; hunting, fishing, camping, doll mending, wire hanger maker for Barbie doll clothes, and getter of 7-up for a sore throat after tonsil removal. He just seemed to be able to do everything! He even knew how to carve a potato for me to use as a paint stamp when I was in first grade! I always new I wanted a husband who could do everything like my Dad.

Dad rarely sat around lazing, until he got Parkinson's. He always did what he called "puttering",

constantly working on something or other.

He taught me how to ride a motorcycle, he taught me how to shoot a gun. He taught me to keep trying and never give up. The only thing I ever saw take him down was this ugly Parkinson's and even then he never really gave in. He worked in his yard right up to at least two hours before his death. He rode his stationary bike every day. He read every day.

AND, he loved to travel around in a car and see new sites. He always loved to car travel. He got me in more predicaments with my car while trying to show me things as I drove him around the last couple of summers - like the memorable drive down the Richfield canal road - in a CAMRY!

OR, up and over the mountain from Fishlake to where in the heck I don't know - in a CAMRY! (he said it was a good road when he went over it on his 4-wheeler!) And he'd laugh when I'd get scared and begin to scream: "I can't drive here!" He'd say "Take it slow, you can do it".

But my best memory?

I was so lucky to have worked for Eastern Airlines up until they folded in 1989. They gave free flight benefits to parents of employees. My gift to my Dad was to make the opportunity to travel something that my Mother could no longer say no to. He could not get her to travel and lamented about it many times to me. But she had to use the free tickets I gave her at least once or risk hurting my feelings! Right? She went on that first plane trip and, well, the travel bug bit Mom hard and both my Dad and Mom went EVERYWHERE after that first time!

But the dearest gift I gave my Dad (and my Dad gave back to me) was a trip by car to Alaska in September of 1990. After I was laid off from Eastern Airlines, I went back to school to get a Biology degree. I found I had about four weeks with nothing to do after summer quarter until fall quarter started and my Dad had mentioned several times earlier that he just could not get Mom to drive with him from Utah to Alaska. (She had a bad back and didn't feel up to that long of a car ride). So I and my husband cooked up a plan that my Dad would not be able to refuse - I told him that I needed a couple of more hours of credit in order to graduate and they didn't have a class I could take, but my advisor agreed to give me those two hours of credit if I wanted to go and take pictures of ecological things that I could use when teaching Biology. "So, how about if he and I went to Alaska, camped out along the way and took pictures so I could get those hours of credit?" He fell for it. And we began to plan.

Then my Mom, with seeing our excitement, decided she would go after all because she could stretch out on the back seat and I could help switch off driving with Dad. "But", she said, "we had to stay in motels as often as possible."

I had absolutely no money at that time (jobless and paying for college, my husband just starting a second career and teenage boy at home), so Mom said if I would agree to stay in motels then they would pay for all the hotels and food but I'd have to buy my own souvenirs! What a deal! And off we went. That trip has to be one of the most wonderful memories in my life. It took us 7 days to drive to Alaska, 7 days sightseeing around Alaska and 7 days to get back home. We drove an average of 500 miles per day. I can't even remember how many total miles we traveled!

I had never before in my life had my parents all to myself and I'll never forget it. But I'll especially never forget the walks with my Dad in the evenings while Mom rested on her motel bed.

I feel sorry for all the rest of you because my Dad was the best ever! Bye Dad, Love you.

Laying Low this last weekend

I guess I'm extra tired! Lots of fairs and festivals lately so I took this weekend off and rested and didn't go to the People's Market on Oct.5. So what happens?... A NEWS CHANNEL WAS THERE TAKING PICTURES and I saw the People's Market myself on the news Sunday night! Even an interview with Mr. Turner! Dangit, the wrong Sunday to stay home! It was great weather even though the weather people predicted possible rain that morning! Oh well, the season is running down and I have to gear up for the Nov 14,15,16 Family Christmas Show at the South Towne Expo Center. I have a lot of beads to string to get enough for the show!
I have a new email address just for business stuff, special orders, etc: operations@bowenwright.com So if you missed me at the People's Market, email with your ideas or order and I'll get it mailed out to you!