Sustainability Fair - February 10th @ the Hip Drip Cafe in Portland

We are very pleased to be a part of the first ever Sustainability Fair in Portland this Sunday. We

will be there talking up our new materials - sustainable design fiberboard (sdf) and milk paints - as well as peddling a selection of our brand new Earth-Friendly clock designs and recycled art. See you there!

Earth-Friendly Wall Clocks

As you may or may not know, we announced almost 7 months ago that we intended to focus on finding earth-friendly materials to make our wall clocks, home decor and art. Here are the first of our clock designs using sustainable design fiberboard (sdf) and milk paints, which are voc-free. I'm very excited about the richness of the new color palette and about all of the lovely color combinations I have yet to try.

And, just in case you think "earth-friendly" always means "expensive", I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to discover that the new clocks are just as reasonably priced, if not more affordable, than ever they were!

I'll be posting more in early February, too, so check out the one-of-a-kind clock section at infinityartsgallery.com for the latest updates.

"Orange With Ivy" earth-friendly pendulum wall clock - SOLD!

"New Tribe" earth-friendly pendulum wall clock - DETAILS (at infinityartsgallery.com)

"Spiral Groove" earth-friendly pendulum wall clock - DETAILS (at infinityartsgallery.com)

"Green Spin" earth-friendly pendulum wall clock - DETAILS (at infinityartsgallery.com)

"Woody" earth-friendly pendulum wall clock - DETAILS (at infinityartsgallery.com)

Mary & Cindy Block Clocks - Contemporary, Pendulum Wall Clocks

Without being too personally revealing, I would like to offer this post as a kind of gratitude-offering for the people I have been honored to creatively collaborate with recently and for all of the creative endeavors happening all around me.

This series is called the Mary & Cindy Block Clock Series. They are a collaboration between me (Mary) and my mother-in-law (Cynthia). She painted all of the pretty flowers, real and imaginary, on 3x3-inch squares. After living in a shoebox for over a year, I layed them out, designed, dreamed, painted and made them into block clocks. I'm happy with how they turned out - I think our unique forms of creative expression combine quite nicely into a wall clock. My mother-in-law, like all of the Potts clan, is creatively gifted and particularly gifted at painting and drawing. Her flowers and heart flowers! are absolutely dreamy.

There are 6 of them, each one-of-a-kind and $45 each. They are available at our etsy store and at our website, InfinityArtsGallery.com.

#1 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

#2 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

#3 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

#4 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

#5 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

#6 - Details (infinityartsgallery.com website)

Also, these designs are some of my first pendulum wall clocks made using 100% recycled sdf (sustainable design board) and non-voc milk paints. The flower blocks are painted using acrylic paints. I hope to post a separate blog about our earth-friendly new clocks very soon.

-Mary Preiser Potts

One Possible Scenario Resulting From 4 Inches of Snowfall In Portland (OR)

Snow Fort

We woke up Tuesday morning to the unusual sight of a snowy blanket covering everything and lighting up our usually cavernous house with the whitest of light. (Unusual because in Portland the thermometer hovers around 42 degrees from November - March/April.) It was going to be our first and possibly only snow day of the winter. Jonah had been talking for so long about how when it finally did snow, he was going to build a "snow fort". At first, the snow was so powdery that it would not be packed into a brick or even a proper snowball. Jonah waited patiently and impatiently for a while longer...

A few hours later, Jonah and Justin had several rows of trash can bricks going around an imperfectly elliptical fort (my design - Justin would have never made an imperfect ellipse). They worked until it was almost dark and then came in to build a fire and make dinner. All while I worked on clocks, watching them through the studio windows.

On Wednesday, it was my turn. I painted and worked on clocks in the morning and then after lunch, I was out there. We worked until past dark and past time for me to be preparing dinner. This photo was taken early in the afternoon. We still had a long way to go!
It was only by sheer determination of will overcoming such challenges as hunger, fatigue and darkness that the fort has anything resembling a roof.

Here's the bizarro snow sculpture from one angle looking like a lady in a large dress with a shawl covering her head. That's Benjamin our Border Collie, thrashing with a rock he's found. He feels no pain now - being a Flagstaff dog, the snow is euphoric - but later he'll be limping.

I wanted to put up one more photo from the front of the fort, but I can't get it to upload - perhaps I've reached my limit. So, that's it for now - Happy Weekend!