Third Annual Holiday Open House

Come shop the Third Annual Holiday Open House of professional artists and artisan handmade items hosted by Kimberly English Art. Below is a list of vendors who will be participating:

A Whole New Light: Handmade soy candles, warming oils, sassy stitcheries, and home decor

Annette Devitt of Home Coming Art Studio: Hand woven scarves, fiber art, & watercolor paintings

Diane Driessen: Handmade paper collage

Frog Ocean Honey, LLC: Local honey, lip balms, & soaps

Gail Scuderi: Handmade ceramics & mosaics

Kimberly English: Original acrylic paintings, photography, Christmas ornaments, archival prints, aluminum metal prints, greeting cards, tote bags, drinking coasters, pillows, and much more!

Leslie Walker: Knitted gloves, hats, handmade handbags, and rings from antique silverware

Skeffington Thomas: Handmade ceramics

*Preordered 2020 Salem County Farmlands Calendars will be available for pick up during the Holiday Open House.
Order yours before NOVEMBER 24th at: bit.ly/2020SCFC

Holiday Open House

This weekend, December 1 & 2 from 10AM - 5PM, come shop the Second Annual Holiday Open House of artisan handmade items hosted by Kimberly English Art. Below is a list of vendors who will be participating:

A Whole New Light: Hand poured candles since 1995. Products include soy candles, warming oils, sassy stitchery, and home decor.

Annette Devitt of Home Coming Art Studio: Hand woven scarves.

Happy Goats Soap Co.: Handmade soap made from south jersey goats milk, lips balms, shampoo bars, conditioning hair spray, natural deodorant, and more.

Leslie Walker: Handmade pocketbooks - large and small bucket bags and a cross body bags - using repurposed harness leather reins for straps and reclaimed designer fabrics, hand knitted hats, and fingerless gloves, as well as, handmade jewelry from vintage 1940 silverware.

Kimberly English Art: original acrylic paintings, photography, Christmas ornaments, archival prints, aluminum metal prints, greeting cards, tote bags, drinking coasters, pillows, necklaces, hand towels and much more!

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Event Review: Bast Brother's Spring Festival

This past Saturday I participated in the Bast Brothers Garden Center's Spring Festival. It was a beautiful day with the best weather you could hope for in April! I wanted to have ample time to setup so I arrived around 6:30AM and began unloading my truck. I setup my Pro Panels and print bins then was able to start unloading my inventory before needing to park.

Since I practiced my setup at home in my garage, it was breeze to hang up the metal and framed prints. I referenced pictures I took from my practice run. I was really glad that I took the time to figure out where everything would go because I feel like that is one of the most difficult parts!

Before the event started I had some time to walk around inside the greenhouse and met some really great vendors. Marion of KakeMi 90 Second Cake was so sweet and we talked about ideas of how to enhance her setup and new products ideas. I also talked with Kristin of Milkmaid Paperie about her awesome products and how important a story is for customers to connect with our artwork.

The event was very well attended! There was a constant flow of people throughout the greenhouse the entire day. I met a lot of great people who have not seen my work before and had conversations about custom paintings or products. I look forward to bringing those ideas to life!

Since I was doing the event solo, I didn't have time to walk around but I was lucky to have a couple of friends stop by to allow me a break to go to the bathroom, which was greatly appreciated! Below are some pictures from my practice as well as the day of the event. Enjoy!

Practice Setup

Practice Setup

Practice Setup

Practice Setup

Holiday Open House

In 6 short weeks, join me for my first Holiday Open House! A collection of artistic and luxurious, handmade home products for a unique shopping experience!

I will have original artwork, prints, framed prints, pillows and greeting cards available. Preordered 2018 Salem County Farmlands Calendars will be available for pick up.

Janice Chassier will offer her handmade ceramics. Including: mugs, bowls, soap dispensers, serving platters and more!

A Whole New Light will have handmade soy candles and warming oils.

Handmade and painted bowl fillers for your home decoating needs.

Happy Goats Soap Company will have handmade soaps.

2018 Salem County Farmlands Calendar

The Salem County Farmlands Calendar is a collection of photographs by Kimberly English featuring the farmers and farmland of Salem County. $5 of each calendar sold will be donated to the Woodstown Future Farmer's of America Program. A great holiday gift that gives back to our farming community!

Featuring: Coleman Brothers Farms of Elmer, English Farms of Aldine, Wilson Brother's Farms of Daretown, and Spring Brook Farms of Pittsgrove.
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Calendars are only available through preordering. Orders will be taken until November 20th. Calendars will be available for free local pick up at my Holiday Open House December 2-3, 2017. For non-local customers, please choose your shipping option at checkout.

If you are a Salem County farmer that would like to have their operations and/or land photographed to be included in next year's calendar, please email me at: kimberlydenglish@gmail.com

License Plate Art

This year for Christmas I opted to make meaningful gifts. They all turned out great but this one by far is my favorite. My brother, Brandon, is a crew member for NHRA's Professional Funny Car Driver, Courtney Force. He travels 30 weeks out of the year across the United States doing what he loves: racing. I decided to make a board honoring the states he has lived in since he has planted his roots in Indiana.

One day this idea came to me when I was at a flea market (my most favorite thing to do next to my art). The NJ plate came from a moving sale down the street from me, the North Carolina plate was given to me by a nice lady on a Facebook yard sale site when I posted an "in search of", and the Ohio and Indiana plates came from Cowtown.

I chose a 16" x 48" pine board from Home Depot which my mom, an extraordinary wood finisher, gel stained for me. (Check out mom's blog by clicking here). I opted for the classic quote about home because there really is no place like New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio or Indiana. Brandon enjoyed it and will be taking it home eventually as this is the first year he flew home instead of driving. Until then, I get to admire it a little longer.