Unusual Gift Ideas

Pearl “Charm” Bracelet

Rebecca McNerney
7” Bracelet
White freshwater pearls drop like charms from hand cast sterling silver beads closing with a square toggle clasp.
A great holiday gift idea from Environmental Realists. Primarily self-taught, Rebecca focuses on the textural differences between the smooth pearls and the textured, oxidized metal.  Her designs are very simple and bring out the intrinsic beauty of the materials.  This white freshwater pearl bracelet is no exception.  Different patterns grace the sterling silver beads above each dangling pearl.  This design is available in different colored pearls, and in other lengths.

Patchwork Tapestry – Harvest

34”x9.5” Fabric, cloth fragments
 Hand-sewn three dimensional fabric collage depicting a harvest.

A great holiday gift idea from El Picaflor. The term “arpillera” means a rough, course fabric.  It derives from an old Chilean tradition of using old remnants of fabric to make hand-sewn appliqués. These patchwork tapestries are made by a co-op of women in Peru and they tell stories of life. This one shows the typical Andean harvest.  Variations in color and textures are natural to this item and make it unique. Hanger not included.

Candlesticks

Isa Cooley, Axel Soldwedel
10″, 12″, 14″, 16″ Steel

A great holiday gift from Eisenart Innovations. Candlesticks with votive insert. Each piece is handcrafted from steel with a polished rust patina which varies the appearance of each design and is painted with a polyurethane finish  to protect the surface.

10″,  $24.00
12″,  $30.00
14″,  $36.00
16″,  $42.00

Angeby Runic Cross

Deanne Mckeown-Sedona, AZ

Sterling silver  1 3/4”x3/4”

A great holiday gift idea from Isadora. The foremost carver of ancient runes on stone was Asmund, who worked in Viking Sweden between 1025 and 1050 AD. His intricate carving on the Angeby stone reads:”" Ragnfrid had this stone erected in Memory of Bjorn, God and God’s Mother rest his soul. He fell in Estland(England)” This runic stone is found in the Uppland region of central Sweden.   This cross comes with a historical information card. A collection of crosses created by Byron and Deanne McKeown, created from their historical research on crosses and rosaries worldwide. Cast in sterling silver, gold, vermeil, semi-precious and precious stones, these designs are exclusive to the McKeown Galleries.

Before The Wheel

Sedona Artist Erin Lofton
A great holiday gift idea from Verdigris Gallery. Collaged texture mediums with inks, pencil & powders on stretched cotton canvas. This is a painting about our ancestors and their dreams. Erin feels the ancient ones had abstract visions of the future and recorded their dreamtime on the walls of sacred caves. These visions coupled with celestial visitations brought about the quantum leaps for civilization, like the wheel.

The Carousel

Musical Carousel
10” in diameter  Musical Carousel
A great holiday gift idea from Sedona Music Boxes. Made to scale with a real velvet canopy roof and other deluxe details. Brand new spotlights shine down from beneath the velvet roof. Includes 15 Christmas carols and 15 all time classics. A different song is played each time the item is turned on or the random access button is pushed. UL listed A/C adapter included.

Truth

Douglas Edward Andrews
14×18 inches
“Truth” Cathedral Rock, Sedona AZ. Giclee available.

A great holiday gift idea from Point of Sedona. Douglas Edward Andrews captures the beauty of Sedona’s red rock country, famous Cathedral Rock.  Andrews, well known to the southwest, has been painting in Sedona for 30 years.