EARTHEN, PLASTERS, PAINTS & FLOORS

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Get your hands and feet dirty making and applying earthen paints, plasters and floors during this Earthen plasters, paints & floors three-day workshop. You’ll work with base and finish, interior and exterior plasters. You’ll apply natural paints, pour an earthen floor, and learn about lime plasters and the use of art made from earth materials. A tour of a finished natural home concludes the workshop, when you’ll
also be given detailed instructions and recipes for using the techniques you’ve learned at the workshop in your own home.

HOLIDAY BIKE DRIVE

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Every December, the Community Cycling Center distributes refurbished bikes, new helmets and bike-safety education to children in low-income families via its Holiday Bike drive. The program serves 3- to 9-year-olds enrolled by a school, church or family service agency in the program. For most of the children who receive a bike, it’s the first bike they’ve ever owned. You can help by donating a bike you no longer need.

SHOP HOOD RIVER

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Image Where to head now that the rain has let up and the sun is tempting you to indulge in an afternoon of
“me, me, me!” time?
Tell the office you’re taking care of some long-put-off dental work, then drive the “This is What Norway Must Look Like!” expressway (a.k.a. I-84) and spend three or four hours shopping in Hood River, Ore.
You’ll have an all-day smile when you return to your desk—promise!

 

One Man’s Detailed Interpretation of Time

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Image In high school shop in Eagle Point, Ore., master clockmaker Ed Beacham spent a lot of time making boats to sail on the Rogue River. “The shop teacher wanted me to make something other than racing boats,” Beacham says. “He told me my assignment would be to make a grandfather clock.”

 

Ed Beacham

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Image In high school shop in Eagle Point, Ore., master clockmaker Ed Beacham spent a lot of time making boats to sail on the Rogue River. “The shop teacher wanted me to make something other than racing boats,” Beacham says. “He told me my assignment would be to make a grandfather clock.”

 

Jamee Linton

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Image When artist Jamee Linton moved to Portland five years ago, she chose the Rose City without visiting it.

 

Designing with Fire

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Image Most children build forts and hideouts in their backyards, but when blacksmith Alan Flashing was 13, he built a forge. ”I wanted to make my own knife blades,” he says. “So I built a forge in our garage and backyard.”

 

Alan Flashing

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Image Most children build forts and hideouts in their backyards, but when blacksmith Alan Flashing was 13, he built a forge. ”I wanted to make my own knife blades,” he says. “So I built a forge in our garage and backyard.”