Meet some of our Artisans

Dinah combines her extensive knowledge of herbology with her philosophy of naturopathy to create a unique line of natural skin care products. Her interest began while living in Nigeria, West Africa, where she learned of the healing ability of shea butter from the local tribes people. After returning to the States, she began creating and refining her own recipes for skin care products using nurturing goats milk, soothing shea butter, healing herbs, and fragrant essential oils. Whether she is milking her goats, mixing and cutting bars of French-milled soaps, or researching information on essential oils, Dinah's intentions remain the same- to offer her clients the purest skin care products anywhere.

Over 20 years ago, Lynn moved with her husband to West Virginia seeking and finding a healthy, nurturing environment in which to raise their four children. Here her education in stained glass artwork blended with her admiration of the local tradition of quilting and her deep love of nature. Her beautiful stained glass creations include unique quilt squares in all the traditional quilting patterns, lamps with exquisitely wrought floral designs, and vibrant sun-catchers you will want to scatter on every window in your house to capture and reflect the sunlight in a rainbow of colors.

Sherry loves expressing her creative nature in many ways including nail sculpting and floral design, but stained glass artistry has always been her true passion. Her original designs capture an imaginative Victorian flare, reflextive of the charming, southern belle personality of this talented artist. Her signature line of angels delights her customers with their whimsical spirit, each piece exclusive and unique. Feel blessed, feel protected, surround yourself with angels!

Out of her workshop with Puffy her pug dog curled at her feet, Pat sits totally absorbed in her creation of fused glass jewelry. Carefully cutting delicate pieces of colorful glass, layering one piece upon another, until the perfect design she envisioned now lies before her ready to be fired in the kiln. Then out of the fire come her magnificent creations - necklaces and earrings of iridescent opals that pulsate with life, peacock feather blues and greens intertwined upon each other, or flames of flickering range dancing on a midnight black background. Each piece is a dramatic statement of inspired beauty, unique and personal, created by the artist within the artist.

Ninety years old and full of life, Nora beyond any doubt embodies the strong spirit of West Virginian women. Her hands are gnarled from years of hand work, pulling weeds in her garden, running wet laundry through the wringer washer, and carrying in wood for the fire; all of it just a part of life. However nowadays, true to tradition, her hands still are always busy but now the picture is more restful as she sits crocheting beautiful piece of fall day or a warm scarf to cushion you against a bitter winter wind. All, when they are from Nora, are truly gifts from the heart.

Born and raised in West Virginia, Charlotte and Mary love telling the story how after a hard grueling day as a masonry, their father would come home from work and relax by kicking off his shoes and sitting down with ......no, not the TV......no, not a cold beer......but yes, with his favorite pair of crocheting hooks! Hospitalized for fifteen months at the age of 7 with a broken hip, his nurses taught him crocheting to keep him occupied and out of trouble. Years later, with hands roughened by the weather and scarred by hard work, his joy was to sit down with a skein of soft yarn and patiently teach his two little girls how to crochet. Now, as a country tradition, Charlotte and Mary have passed crocheting on to their own daughters. Their favorites and sure to be yours are exquisitely soft cuddly baby blankets (even they can't resist occasionally tucking one away for their own future grandchildren).

After years of repetitive work on a factory assembly line, Jim longs to do something creative with his hands and found his niche with laser woodworking. He had a fine appreciation for all different woods, the fragrance of cedar, the beautiful grain of oak, but his favorite is a wood found locally called second growth poplar. Each piece of this wood is unique as it is colored different hues of purple, green, and red dependant on the tree's uptake of various minerals contained in the soil. Searching through stacks of wood at local sawmills, Jim carefully hand selects each piece, judging its rightness for the particular piece he is crafting. Traditional cedar Native American feathers, framed historical portraits, and jigsaw bowls all reflect Jim's fine craftsmanship.