Tamara Stopinski, Jewelry Artist and Designer

Talulah’s Fancy founder and owner Tamara Stopinski has been creating and designing for over 25 years. With a love of all things creative her journey has taken her from her very first job working as a pottery studio design assistant to a full time jewelry designer and educator.

She has studied many mediums and design with area artists including Jim and Lois Kozlowski, Paul Taylor, Paxton Maffet and Alicia Fink as well she has traveled to learn with national artists such as Celie Fago, Barbara Becker Simon, Tonya Davidson, Robert Dancik, Stephanie Lee and Sherri Haab. Certified in the art and education of Precious Metal Clay Tamara is currently teaching at the Talulah’s Fancy and Friends studio. Contact her for more details.

Nicknamed Talulah many years ago by a close friend combined with her own whimsical nature conjured up the name Talulah’s Fancy –which represents her original line of women’s accessories, including jewelry and handbags. Her connection to the nature and its power to inspire, help her to incorporate the very basic components of semi-precious stones, precious metals as well as recycled elements, and a variety of textiles creating many layers to the designs represented by Talulah’s Fancy. Her work is always original and always one-of-a-kind.

Amy Colburn, Illustration

I graduated from the University of Dayton, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and a Major in Visual Communication Design with a Concentration in Illustration. I create functional fine art pieces by taking unique found items, such as old crates, rolling pins, or chairs, and I then paint a unique, one-of-a-kind detailed image on its surface, usually in a collage-style.

Also available at Talulah's Fancy & Friends are my line of Illustrated Alphabet Letter Plaques that can be hung on unique vintage-knob display boards to display any word, name or initials in any room. The theme of the alphabet is Vintage Farmhouse; each letter plaque features an original illustration depicting an item beginning with that letter. The store display allows you to arrange the letters in any configuration so you can see what they will look like hanging in your home. By collecting each of letters, you can keep changing the word you have displayed on your knob board at home.

Illustration is the art of storytelling through images. Each illustrated alphabet letter plaque is a story within a larger story (the theme). It is then up to you to tell YOUR individual story by using the plaques to display words & names!

~Amy Colburn

Adam and Sarah Spector

Adam and Sarah met whilst covered in clay at the New York State College for Ceramics at Alfred University. Adam's pottery making know how and Sarah's tile making and sculpture expertise led to a wonderful partnership in life and business. For the past 6 years they have been producing high quality handmade, hand-decorated pottery and have traveled across the country participating in 20 nationally juried art shows each year.

Their new body of work combines Adam’s pottery expertise and Sarah’s handmade tile skills. The result is a unique line of tableware and wall décor that they hand-form and decorate with their original designs and food safe glazes. Their pieces are suitable for the microwave, oven, and dishwasher.

Spector Studios is located at Adam & Sarah's home tucked away in the Bristol Hills. When they are not working hard in their studio or doing shows they are busy growing vegetables and hiking and paddling around the Finger Lakes region.

Lorrie Frear

My work is diverse and eclectic, ranging from graphic simplicity to expressive playfulness. I create work for friends, colleagues, clients, competitions, commissions, exhibitions and collaborations. The connection in all of my work is my love of the visual form of letters and words and their powerful expressive potential. It is this love of letters and words that led me to pursue Graphic Design as a profession.

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at RIT, where I also teach Calligraphy.

Drawing letters is one of my greatest pleasures. I like to make letters unique, playful and expressive. I also have a great passion for typefaces and typography. The result of these interests is work that combines hand-drawn letters and type. The old and new, past and present, expressive and systematic contrast and complement one another to tell a story.

In my business, Underwraps, I create distinctive and unique personal greetings and gift-wrapping to celebrate and commemorate special events. The act of gift-giving is made even more special when the presentation of a gift is coordinated with the event, and is memorable and meaningful to the giver and the recipient.

~Lorrie Frear

Kala Stein

Kala Stein is a clay artist from Canadice, NY. Her work spans the vast possibilities of clay from tile to pottery. While a ceramist at Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Kala made historical tile and taught tile making. Kala Received her BFA in ceramics from SUNY New Paltz and her MFA from Alfred University where she now teaches and makes her ceramic work full time.

Kala Received her BFA in ceramics from SUNY New Paltz and her MFA from Alfred University where she now teaches and makes her ceramic work full time.  Her tiles are featured in the Lark Publication 500 Tiles.

Relevant Vintage by EB Finds

An avid collector with a lifelong attraction to vintage, I never thought about why I loved vintage so much, until a friend who admired my style encouraged me to open an etsy shop.  As I began to source items for my business, I realized that my fascination and appreciation is due to several things. The thrill of the hunt has always been a factor.  When I find that piece that is just right, I never have to think twice.  I just know.   My inspiration grows with each purchase! It’s about the “look and feel”.  The quality materials that compose vintage jewelry, accessories and furniture often surpass contemporary products.

The texture, sparkle, pattern and color of vintage treasures offer an attention to detail that is hard to find today. Plus, I am fascinated by the fact that in today’s disposable society, these beauties have been around for 50 years or more! I am always over-dressed!  Although part of me envies girls with that jeans and tee simplicity, I’d much rather have that one stand-out piece, that little sparkle of formality, when you least expect it.  

Vintage accessories offer that originality that one of a kind piece that really gets you noticed. The past life of vintage goods captures my imagination. Where has it been?  Who wore it in its heyday?  How many cocktail parties has it seen?  When I am shopping an estate, my imagination runs wild! Incorporating vintage into your daily life is easier and more relevant than ever.  We now recognize the benefit of “Reuniting yesterday’s treasure with today” and incorporating vintage products into our daily lives.  Vintage statement pieces for yourself and your home are on trend, affordable and readily available from EB Finds.

~Elaine Barge

Robert Hutton

“I started painting around 1976. I studied under a man named Harold Clay once a week for a two hour class. I was with him for three years and after that I just worked at it on my own.  I liked painting old barns and landscapes.  I also like the sea, but that is a very difficult subject.  But, painting has been a very interesting and enjoyable pastime.”

~Bob Hutton

Deborah Bartlet

"I have dabbled in many artistic mediums since my youth (and still am!). Art is my passion and I am for the most part self taught. My inspiration for my watercolors, jewelry and drawings comes from my many years of treasure hunting and of the images of days gone by and of those yet to come.”

~Deborah Bartlet

Nancy Wiley

Nancy Wiley, a nationally recognized doll artist and painter, creates whimsical doll figures, figurative sculpture, mixed media pieces and paintings.

Over the years, her collections have been exhibited at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, the Muscatine Art Center in Iowa and many art galleries. Celebrity collectors, such as novelist Anne Rice, actors Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta and actress Demi Moore, have purchased her work privately.

In 2009, Wiley illustrated the classic tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland fusing several interests: doll-making, illustration and the story itself, which is her favorite. Photographs of character art dolls posed against vibrantly painted canvases served as the illustrations. Original Alice figures and other Wiley works were part of a 2010 exhibit at the esteemed National Museum of Play in Rochester. The Susan Quinlan Doll Museum in Santa Barbara, CA acquired several original Alice sets for their permanent collection in 2011. As a follow-up to her success with " Alice," Wiley is currently working on a Little Red Riding Hood project in a similar style.

Julianna Drumheller 

My goal as a potter is to bring my love of color, pattern and texture that I learned as a painter to a functional ceramic surface. In doing so, I create works of art that serve a practical purpose and can be used daily to enhance everyday rituals, such as drinking one’s morning coffee or setting a beautiful table. All of my work is hand thrown on a potter’s wheel. It is sturdy stoneware and can be used in the dishwasher, microwave and oven. It is important to me to create work that only functions well as its intended but also convenient to use.

The surface decorations seen on my pottery is achieved through a number of techniques such as slip-trailing, glaze-trailing, sgraffito, and using wax resist to isolate particular areas and layer glazes on top of others.

I learned many of these techniques at Turk Hill Craft School in Fairport, New York, and drew much of my inspiration from my schooling at Rochester Institute of technology, where I earned a BFA in painting. I use slip trailing to give a three– dimensional structure to the designs, and then draw patterns using glaze trailing bottles to fill outlines, brushing in larger areas to add a layer of visual texture to otherwise flat glaze surfaces.

It is my hope that my work will bring a fresh aesthetic quality to the home that welcomes it, and inspire an appreciation for beauty in the ordinary, everyday moments that make up so much of our lives.

~ Julianna Drumheller

Alicia Fink

Alicia was born in Ecuador and lives in Brockport NY with her husband Herb. After 28 years of teaching Spanish, Alicia retired from teaching in 1999. Shortly after she discovered jewelry making with Precious Metal Clay. Alicia has been certified as a PMC artisan by the PMC Guild and by PMC Connection. She has taken workshops under Celie Fago, Cece Wire, and Chris Darway, all outstanding Senior Teachers for the PMC Guild. And under Vera Lightstone, Senior Teacher for the PMC Connection. Much of Alicia’s inspiration comes from her Hispanic background and the Native and Hispanic cultures she found, admires and often visits in New Mexico.

Goff Creek Potters

Each piece is handcrafted – we never use molds at Goff Creek — using traditional wheel throwing and hand-building methods. Each item is an original work of art.

Our premium line of gardenware – inspired by classical architecture and story book gardens – includes flower pots, sculpture, bird baths, tile, finials, and toadhouses.  Each piece is handcrafted using traditional wheel throwing and hand-building methods. Mass production methods are never used.  Each item is an original work of art and no two are exactly the same. While our style is classic, the interpretation is modern, charming and often humorous. Sure to be a conversation piece in your garden for years to come. 

Our work is specifically designed to be frostproof, and has been tested to withstand Zone 5 winters (-10 degrees F) allowing sculpture to be left outdoors to be admired all year long. Enjoy the look of terra cotta without the disappointing frailty. The pieces of Goff Creek Pottery that grace your garden are destined to become family heirlooms.

Our specially formulated clay is fired to high temperatures, producing rich color and an antiqued patina usually seen only on vintage items that have weathered for years, plus durability that far outlasts terra cotta.

~Mary Lynn

Diane Rivers

Diane Rivers has been making decorative, yet functional birdhouses for 5 years.  These creations are adorned with antiques and unique accessories.  They are also made from recycled lumber or vintage furnishings that have not stood the test of time. Every one of these birdhouses are created for 1 of 15 different varieties of our Northeastern birds to nest in. That is, if you can bare to put them outside. Two National Magazines published articles in 2010 honoring her for her unique talent; Country Woman February/March issue and Mary Jane's Farm Magazine's October/November issue.

Diane owns a store in Wallace NY (Halfway between Avoca and Cohocton) where she displays at least 100 birdhouses at all times. Her wood shop is at the Wallace location where she can work and greet customers during the days she is open.

Rivers also creates spindle angels, wind chimes, paints Americana, makes primitive benches and shelving, and dabbles in antiques.

Cross My Heart ~ God Bless
Diane Rivers

Diane Hanna

I grew up, a girl of the farmy lands in Honeoye Falls, a small upstate New York town, where the winters were the colors of swirling snow and the summers were scented with deep blue lakes and deep green acres of corn. I grew up in a poetic land.

Images stir my imagination (so does wearing petticoats and stompy shoes), but I have spent most of my working life as a writer and an editor. Letting an image speak to me and through me is how a Story Picture is made. Mostly, I get very quiet and I listen hard.

The collection continues to grow. I hope that you find the ones that say what it is in your heart to say…to a loved one, to an old house or a summer cottage or a library, to a season, to yourself.

Thank you for reading them and responding to them. Thank you too for being the extraordinary person you are.

~Diane Hanna

Janet Zohorsky has a Bachelor and Master's degree in English Literature and is the author of Medieval Knights and Warriors. She has worked as an editor and writer in the newspaper and magazine industry for 15 years. Newly retired from her writing career, she has now expanded a longtime hobby of personal scrapbooking to a small business called Vintage Albums. Janet creates 6" x 6" photo albums in a vintage style using materials such as lace, buttons, jewelry, ribbon, ephemera, old postcards, metal detailing and antique-looking papers. Every album is unique and individually inspired. Her collections include Christmas, Halloween, Wedding, Baby, Girlfriends, Easter and Family, and have been sold in the Blue Orchid Studio in Yorkville, Illinois the last two years. She also accepts custom orders.

Sally Clinton

Originally heralding from Chicago, I have a varied background in the arts ranging from corporate design for fortune 500 companies to making found object sculptures after a day well spent in the woods. Currently living in Canadice with my husband, step daughter and menagerie of animals I now welcome nature as my current muse. I am deeply inspired by her relentless beauty finding her layers of color, form and texture to be the ultimate canvas to draw from.

I created the fairy plaques as a celebration of the ever changing seasons. There is one for each month of the year. All the elements which make each month unique are highlighted within the fairies wings and her surroundings. The poems, written by my sister, are intended to bring an added charm and window into their magical worlds.

With the flower/fauna plaques I tried to create a lively and playful snapshot of the millions of beautiful moments happening daily throughout the world amidst our vast forests and fields.

Anne Clements

Anne Clements has lived in Livonia, New York with her husband Rod for 34 years. She cares for two cats, and mini donkeys . Grandchildren sunsets, sunrise devotions, trees and Ireland are her passions.

Her love of Nature was fostered as a child by her Mother. Playing outside with the ever-changing colors, textures and smells gave her a way to use her energy and imagination. Watching thunderstorms with her Dad is a tradition she has passed on to her own children.

As a teen she dabbled in watercolor and admired her aunt’s oil paintings. While completing her Bachelor’s degree in 2005 at Empire State College, she studied the Reggio Emilia approach where children focus on different medias to explore the world around them. Her documentation of that study was done in photographs and text was displayed at Empire College in Rochester. Anne facilitates a Reggio inspired art studio at Annie’s Ark Child Care Center. She exposes children to drawing from life, clay sculpture, painting and collage representation.

Anne has always had a camera in her hands documenting family gatherings and the children at her child care center. She started using a digital camera on her fourth trip to Ireland. Her fascination with Ireland began in 1999 and she says, “I take the photos to savior because I miss it so much when I am not there.” She and her husband (of Irish decent ) have explored the Antrim Coast, Connemara, the Burren and the Donegal North West coast. Her dream is to go to Italy to see the Reggio Schools first hand and of course snap many photos of the Italian countryside. She will be returning to Ireland this fall.

Anne is a member of the Genesee Valley Council for the Arts and has had photos displayed at the Joy Gallery and Image City Gallery, the AAUW on East Ave. in Rochester, the Lederer Gallery at SUNY Geneseo ,Gallery 821 in Pittsford, NY and SUNY Empire College in Rochester.

Tim Mack

I have been a part time artist all my life. I sometimes feel it was even longer then that. I work out of my home in Rochester NY. I have what’s called a dinning room studio. I work mainly with color pencil and sometimes marker. My art has been described as being whimsical, colorful, exciting, and original. I draw a wide range of subjects which primarily come from my imagination. I have earned an associates degree in art which really means I had a lot of fun in college. I feel what I have learned about art and drawing is more self-taught.

Cheryl Thompson

I am a local Honeoye Falls artist and author. Eli's Rainbow is my first children's book cowritten and illustrated by one of my sons. I have been an educator for 30 years and currently teach at St John Fisher College.

My family has resided in Honeoye Falls for over 100 years and we are so proud of its art and heritage. I journal, write and create daily. My favorite mediums are collage and polymer clay. Handmade beads and amulets adorn my work. Found objects and scraps are a passion that add dimension. I enjoy showing in local venues. My profits support ABVI and Breast Cancer Awareness.

Color and texture are so important to me. I also like to connect to nature and the sea. Life brings so many opportunities to create and share. The options are endless. May you be inspired by the colors of life and what it brings to your senses.

After attending Columbus College of Art and Design, I was immediately qualified for work at an apple farm, a warehouse and a number of restaurants. I eventually found employment in a creative field, yet continued to create outside of work. I explored many mediums including woodworking, sewing, sculpting, painting and even ice carving. Above everything else I tried, I would always return to my passion for illustration.

My love for bright colors and whimsical shapes is always included in my drawings. My infatuation with architecture also makes an appearance more often than not. Adults and children alike enjoy my work, so I do my best to create pieces geared toward both.

I have been drawing since I could hold a crayon in my hand. It is my purest pleasure in life. I plan to continue until my last day.

Carla Coots-Rodriguez - Insight Photo

I have always been involved in, and interested in the arts. I grew up in a family of artists, craftsman, creators. I’ve taken pictures since childhood, and as an adult used 35mm cameras until 2006, when I started using Canon Digital SLRs. In High School my majors were Art and English. When I graduated from High School, in keeping with family tradition, I went into teaching. I have a Masters in Education from San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca. In the beginning of my career I taught general education students. For the past 20 plus years I have taught special education students, currently students with Autistic Spectrum disorders. My students are predominately visual learners, and I have had to create work systems, curriculum and materials that address their visual learning style. This has informed my photography as well. I enjoy photographing weddings, other events, portraits and my own personal subjects. I feel honored to photograph weddings and other special events, and be given the opportunity to participate in and document these milestones in people’s lives. I have taken classes, read about photography and the arts, attend and participate in openings and exhibits and take photographs often and anywhere.