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    Summertime, and what’s on the menu is berry, berry good | WHIDBEY RECIPES
    Summertime, and what’s on the menu is berry,...
    By Margaret Walton • July 15, 2010 8:00 am

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    Jewelery designer Paula Crevoshay will visit Linds Jewelry in Freeland on Friday
    Be … dazzled in Freeland by the ‘Queen...
    By Patricia Duff • July 13, 2010 6:17 pm

    Her training as a painter and sculptor served her well, now that she adorns the red carpet set.

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    Gary Shallock’s “The Dog House” will be on display at the show and sale next weekend.
    Artists’ group honors longtime member at annual show
    By Patricia Duff • July 10, 2010 8:00 am

    The artists of Whidbey Island have emerged from hunkering down in their studios during the rain-soaked winter and have resolved to hang it all up.

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    Vienna Canright and Margeaux Scholz are the 10-year-old designers who sell their Mar-Vie Jewels every Saturday at the Bayview Farmers Market.
    Young Whidbey Island entrepreneurs work for their love...
    By Patricia Duff • July 9, 2010 6:38 pm

    All the homeless dogs and cats of Whidbey Island will have a better chance because of two 10-year-old girls.
    Before Margeaux Scholz and Vienna Canright head into the fifth grade at the Whidbey Island Waldorf School, they’ve got some jewelry to sell for the Whidbey Animals’ Improvement Foundation.
    These savvy island girls began their philanthropic jewelry empire at the Bayview Farmers Market in April after they began making gemstone necklaces, bracelets and earrings this past winter. Margeaux’s grandmother, Ginger Schmidt, had provided her granddaughter and friend with some gem and glass beads to encourage a fun jewelry-making hobby. But then Margeaux told Schmidt she would like to sell what they were making at the market this summer and donate the proceeds to WAIF.
    “Being a life-long volunteer, I was thrilled to help her start,” Schmidt said. “She and Vienna started working, came up with their name, and I started buying the supplies.”
    The name is “Mar-Vie Jewels” (named after the young artisans) and to date the enterprise has collected $583 for the nonprofit foundation.
    The girls’ products range in price from about $5 to $30 and contain no plastic beads.
    Their design ideas are mainly spontaneous, but they do look for influences as well.
    “We mostly make things up as we go,” Margeaux said. “But we do get some ideas from catalogs, too.”
    They combine amethyst, garnet, carnelian, quartz crystal, jade, peridot, coral, turquoise and colorful glass beads to create an array of Mar-Vie designed pieces. Their line is tastefully colorful and attracts customers of all ages.
    The beads are bought at Music for the Eyes in Langley and at Bead World in Seattle, and however many pieces the girls sell each Saturday is the amount they know they’ll have to replace for the following week.
    “That’s so we always have the same amount to sell,” Vienna said.
    Recently, the Mar-Vie Jewels contingent were treated to a tour of the WAIF shelter after making their donation at the Coupeville facility.
    “We petted the dogs and cats and it was fun,” Margeaux said.
    After every market day, the girls count the money they make and write a note to WAIF with the day’s proceeds. They keep $10 each for themselves each week as an allowance.
    “I’m saving up for Greece,” Margeaux said, referring to a trip she is planning.
    A visit to the Mar-Vie booth this past week revealed a steady stream of customers who sometimes tell the sellers who will be wearing their jewels. One woman said a necklace will go back to Iceland with her, and another told the girls it was a gift.
    “They tell us they are giving them to their granddaughters and stuff,” Vienna said.
    Although the business is going well, neither Vienna nor Margeaux has any set plans to become the next Cartier. Vienna is a horse lover and will someday probably have something to do with animals. Margeaux pictures a life as an actress.
    But, for now, the girls said they want to encourage people to stop by Mar-Vie Jewels at the market because WAIF is just a good place, they said.
    All the homeless dogs and cats of Whidbey Island will have a better chance because of two 10-year-old girls.

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    20 Riverside plays at 4 p.m. Sunday
    Choochokam Arts gathers its stars today in Langley
    By Patricia Duff • July 9, 2010 6:31 pm

    It’s surely summer when artists line the streets of Langley.

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    Government’s tax on candy is an unsweetened mess | WHIDBEY RECIPES
    Government’s tax on candy is an unsweetened mess...
    By Margaret Walton • July 8, 2010 8:00 am

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    Cheryl Kamera's hand-dyed silk pieces are a sight to behold. Several of her wearable-art textiles will be at the 'Making Our Marks' show of the Whidbey Island Surface Design Association at Open Door Gallery this weekend.
    Surface Design artists create with an innovative spark
    By Patricia Duff • July 7, 2010 12:39 pm

    They are the weavers and the shakers who represent some of the most imaginative artists on Whidbey Island.

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    Crab season officially open
    Crab season officially open
    July 7, 2010 11:58 am

    Crab season opened at 7 a.m. Thursday, July 1 and will continue through Sept. 6, including Labor Day weekend.

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    Rainy Lindell works on a painting at a meeting of the Island Artists in Coupeville.
    Island Artists hold annual show in Coupeville under...
    By Patricia Duff • July 2, 2010 6:23 pm

    They’re going downtown with a new name, and a blank canvas is their oyster.

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    A young fourth of July reveler participates in the historic Maxwelton Community Independence Day Parade.
    A fabulous Fourth is in the stars for...
    By Patricia Duff • June 29, 2010 5:37 pm

    John Adams was right when, just before the Declaration of Independence was ratified, he predicted the auspicious day would be celebrated with gusto by all Americans.

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    Noted choreographer to visit Whidbey
    Noted choreographer to visit Whidbey
    June 28, 2010 6:20 pm

    Island Dance at Ken’s Korner in Clinton will offer a summer intensive with international choreographer and dancer Aaron Cash. Cash has worked onstage with dancer Mikhail Barysnikov and choreographer Twyla Tharp, and has toured as Cher’s lead dancer for 10 years.

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    Gerry Roberts
    Whidbey’s summer art season kicks off with ‘Spirit...
    By Patricia Duff • June 25, 2010 6:37 pm

    Island artists have echoed local musicians’ endeavors with their own artistic industriousness.

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    Piper Reva is a singer-songwriter who lives on Whidbey Island. She's been touring the region with her special brand of enchantment which she'll bring to the Langley Summer Concerts in September.
    Langley Summer Concerts come to the Shed
    By Patricia Duff • June 25, 2010 6:27 pm

    Music will waft on the late morning and afternoon air as Langley takes on the lighthearted spirit of summer.

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