Anniversary Gifts for 11th through 25th Year from Carolina Creations

11th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
 Jewelry ... we have jewelry for both her AND him - by MANY designers

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12th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Pearls

 More jewelry


13th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Textiles - Great bags - jackets too!

14th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Gold



15th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Crystal, Glass or Watch

16th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Silver

17th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Furniture

18th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Porcelain

19th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Bronze

21st WEDDING ANNIVERSARYBrass

Brass door knocker - great for anniversary - what a pear (pair!)

22nd WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Copper

Art for the garden.



24th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Music- Created by a musician these windchimes are perfectly tuned!

25th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Silver

Right Brain ad for Mercedes Benz

Saw this beautiful ad for Mercedes Benz.... don't exactly know what it has to do with the car but the art work is great.

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/mercedes_benz_left_brain_right_brain_paint

That's what I love about what we do for a living. We are surrounded by color, creativity, thinking out of the box, and surrounded by people who, if they are not right brained themselves, appreciate what right brained people create.

jan francoeur

Gyotaku by David Denick

Gyo = Fish Taku = Impression
Pronounced "GEE - OH - TAH - KOO"

"Gyotaku" is the ancient Japanese folk art of painting fish. The first Gyotaku were created to preserve the true record and size of species caught by Japanese anglers as far back as 1862.

Our friend David Denick just brought us some nice pieces!

Since these are created by painting real fish you can see that he's been successful in catching some BIG ones!

For sizes and prices.

Carolina Creations in Print

Always appreciate publications including us!

Thanks New Bern Magazine.

A New Layer of Bark

I was reading a friends blog and she talked about adding a new layer of bark each year. What a great way to think about our lives!

Each year we learn, experience, grow. Or hope we do anyway!

My last years growth consisted of learning patience from my bike accident and surrender to whatever happens from Michael's news. A lot of last year was out of my control which is something I don't like. Not that I'm a control freak, I've given up control on a lot of things, and say we do the best we can.

But I do like to see what's coming.

We've got a series of shows to go to this month and next, have a workshop with Dan at our studio, have artwalks, a much needed vacation then all the usual things we do throughout the year. All those things I can see coming, but what else is in the horizon?

All I can say is, I hope that the bark we grow this year is not very thick.


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Anniversary Gifts for 1st through 10th Anniversary from Carolina Creations

The other day a fellow came in looking for a seventh anniversary gift - copper - and wondered if we had anything? He went away with the PERFECT gift! So I thought it would be fun to do a blog post about ideas we have.

1st WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Paper or Clock
Prints
Original Paintings

Well the paper part of this we have LOTS!!  Prints or paintings by myself (Jan Francoeur) or one of our gallery artists.
Or a paper mache sculpture - we have customers that have collections of these sculptures. We have a large variety - click here.

And we have some beautiful as well as funky clocks.

See more clocks!

2nd WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Cotton

For this one we're thinking out of the box a little - how about a painting of a cotton field?

3rd WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Glass

For this anniversary we hit the ball out of the park. We have literally hundreds of gifts! Shown here are just a couple of our favorites. See some more by clicking here!
 

4th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Flowers or Silk
We have beautiful hand woven, hand dyed silk scarves.
Or

Beautiful blown glass flowers that can be in a vase or in your yard (purchase four of course!)

5th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Wood - Beautiful jewelry boxes or a fabulous table!

6th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Iron - This Promise Cross is the perfect anniversary gift for the 6th anniversary (or any for that matter!). Click here for more info.

7th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Copper
Ahhhhhhhhh, this one is amazing.

A copper mobile with 7 leaves!! Can be hung inside or out! Click here. We also have beautiful copper jewelry and garden stakes.

8th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Bronze - Wedding/Anniversary bells More Info

9th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Pottery

Lots more to choose from....

10th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Aluminum - A beautiful family sculpture click here.

A new use for your soda cans! Recycled aluminum jewelry Earrings and bracelets too!

Bird Sculptures Just In!!

Two of our favorite artists, Jim and Tori Mullan, create fabulous, whimsical bird sculptures. They carve the birds and creatures then use found objects to mount them on and to decorate them with.

One of our customers said they once saw one on a seed can but has never been able to find one again, so we kept asking and we got a couple today!!

Since they use antique seed cans, they can't find them very often. Very cool.

 

Here is a link to our website page that shows everything we have from them in stock.

Click here.

6th Annual Valentine Card Benefit

Here are some of my favorite cards that the kids made this year. $3 each. ALL proceeds go to the Craven County Schools Art Program.

 

 

Cards are on display and on sale through Valentines Day, February 14. Most of the cards are blank on the inside so can be used for other occasions as well. Stock up for the year and help fund the schools arts programs!