Decatur Arts Festival • This Weekend!

This weekend Cath and I will be busy tramping around the Decatur Arts Festival. We'll stroll around the hundreds of artist tents while gulping cold beer and gobbling down funnel cake and gyros. Sounds pretty heavenly/fattening doesn't it?

We hope you guys can join us. If you are planning to be there, drop us a line and we'd love to meet up!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

LL

Decatur Arts Festival

As mentioned in an earlier post, we attended the Decatur Arts Festival (20th annual!) last weekend and it did not disappoint. The 150 tents were chock-a-block with fantastic artwork, the funnel cake was delicious, and the live music gets better and better every year.

In the photo below, Lauren is checking out Liz Williams' abstracts. A number of her works are also available at the local Boswell Gallery.


A view of the tents on the west side of the bandstand.


Artist Maurice Cook always paints next to his booth at the festival. He was the poster artist for the 2006 festival and is a local favorite.


I love Signe Grushovenko's paintings. If I didn't spend all my hard-earned cash on clothes I would have plunked down the $15o for a small painting. Click here to see some more of his artwork.


This stilt walker is at the festival every year and she's got skills! She'll spend all day up on those stilts without tiring and has a number of costume changes (she's a very fashion forward stilt walker, which I highly approve of).


Below is a close-up of Felix Berroa's tent. I think he's one of the best artists in the show. For those of you local Atlantans that missed him last weekend, you can visit his tent at the upcoming VA Highland Summerfest.


Lauren purchased some great earrings from jeweler Dolores Fawkes. She hadn't put on earrings that day and these matched her outfit, so we decided her buying them was meant to be.


So there you have it. The 2008 Decatur Arts Festival in a nutshell.

I can't wait until next year's festival. Luckily the Decatur Book Festival is only three months away - it's just like the arts festival, but instead of art there's books, and most importantly, there will be funnel cake!

CL

Gallery Exhibition Opening Wear

Tuesday night was the opening of the Decatur Arts Festival Fine Arts Exhibition. I always love going to the opening every year because the show never disappoints (great, affordable, local works of art) and it provides the perfect excuse to get a little dressed up.

Our outfits in the photos below are what we deemed to be gallery-exhibition-opening appropriate. Some might find our style too dressy for a relatively laid-back event, but until we get invited to the annual Costume Institute Gala, we'll take advantage of every chance we get to dress up.

Lauren is wearing a J.Crew dress, H&M jewelry and Nine West heels (not shown).

I'm wearing a dress from H&M, Anne Klein watch and shoes by Vera Wang from Kohls.

You can purchase these shoes here.

CL

Anne Finley Jewelry

Oooooo shiny! That's how I judge the extent of my desire for a piece of jewelry. Luckily Cath introduced me to Anne's gorgeous jewelry a few years ago at the Decatur Arts Festival and it's not just shiny, it's also handmade, well-crafted and so reasonably priced (reasons quickly spotted by Cath- the thoughtful consumer).
I know the photos are a bit fuzzy (we're still figuring out this hand-me-down camera). The top photo shows the silver cuff and pinkie ring I picked up at jewelry party she was having at a friend's house. The bottom photo shows a close-up of the ring, which is actually square instead of circular. The sides of the square hug my finger quite nicely... a perfect fit!
If you guys are in town at the end of May (Memorial Day Weekend), you have to stop by the Decatur Arts Festival. Anne and about 200 other extremely talented artist will be hawking their wares. Anne also has a website, though at the moment it just highlights one line of her jewelry. Keep your eyes peeled! I let you know when all of her stuff is up for grabs on the site.


LL