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  • Two more images June 2026

    Two more images June 2026

    And the official winning names are… (drum roll please)…

    Oregon Rainbow Connection (A) and Oregon Rowena Spring* (B). And Kara from @gilded_green on Insta gets a free small card of choice at any market she catches me at for helping me name the first one! (I’ll be tagging her on Insta tomorrow, Tuesday 6/16.)

    * ETA 6/17/26 – I changed my mind at the last minute on this one, from Oregon Spring TO Rowena Spring, because “Oregon Spring” felt too grandiose, and would prevent me from using it for any other image in the future that might better capture that title. So, Rowena spring, showing the beautiful wild lupin and arrow balsamroot in bloom. Apologies for any confusion!

    Photo showing a color photo notecard with a view looking northeast from Menucha Retreat center in Oregon of a rainbow beaming into a white cloud over the Columbia gorge against a blue sky.
    Oregon Rainbow Connection (A)
    Photo of a color photo notecard (labeled B) showing a lovely view from Rowena Point outside of Mosier, Oregon overlooking rolling hills covered in blue and yhellow wildlfowers. (Lupin and Arrowroot.)
    Rowena Spring (B)
    Colorful promo graphic with green middle on yellow about the Solstice Market June 20th from 12-5 pm at the Multnomah French Quarter 3518 SW Multnomah Blvd in Portland featuring Photograbee.
    Solstice Market Promo June 2026

    Everyone else gets $2 off any single small card (not in a set of 3) if you correctly tell me the winning name for Card A with the rainbow in person (without looking at the label on the back first!) at The Solstice Market coming up next Saturday June 20th at the Multnomah French Quarter 3518 SW Multnomah Blvd in Portland 12-5 pm. (Free admission, family-friendly, lots of food and crafts to be had!) And don’t miss our overflow location at Local Collective 7830 SW 35th just across the street and up one block with even more great artists and vendors! Definitely catch both spots!

    For those not following me on social media, you missed out on my plea for help naming these two images. I was struggling for unknown reasons -I’m normally pretty good at picking names. Not this time!

    I’m considering them to be part of my Scenics lineup (Line C) as I consider them to be gotten while traveling versus while studying bees and flowers in my neighborhood or garden more closely. Though yes, Oregon Spring features flowers. But they are our native wildflowers (blue Lupin and yellow arrow balsamroot aka “Oregon Sunflower”) viewed from Rowena Point out near Mosier off I-84 east of Portland in 2011.

    The rainbow appeared as if by magic at the end of a long rainy weekend of music making at the Menucha Retreat Center just as the faculty concert was starting. Everyone else headed into the concert (rightly so), but I saw the sun break out below the cloud layer just then too, so I chased the light over to this view and voila! A rainbow beaming down right over the Columbia River as I looked northeast from the campus. (Cue choir of angels.)

    Yeah, I was late to the concert and caught heck for it, but can you blame me? This is NOT photoshopped! Just lightly color-enhanced. It was this magical in person. (Menucha Retreat Center is on the old highway overlooking I-84 and the Gorge just west of Vista House at Crown Point for those familiar with the area. You can get to the old highway out of Troutdale, just east of Portland. You won’t see this from I-84, which puts you below the cliffside.)

    Okay, back to bees-ness. I’m out of hummingbirds~! And need to print some larger Oregon Rainbow Connections! See you soon, hopefully! (In cooler weather too, phew.) – Jan Mon 6/15/26

    Photo showing two color photo notecards one above the other. The top one shows a rainbow beaming down into a white cloud over the Columbia Gorge as viewed looking northweast from Menucha Retreat Center in 2010. The second shows blue and yellow native wildflowers from Rowena Point outside of Mosier, Oregon 2011.

  • A teaser of prints to come…March 2026

    Although my new customers love the prints I’ve been offering for the last six months, I’m getting a few repeat customers now. And thought I’d freshen things up a bit by adding a few new images.

    Including my first new Scenic shot that is not Multnomah Falls, smile. (Yes, we love my frozen falls shots but variety is nice too!)

    Photo of a print of a close-up photo of Mt St Helens in the summer 2024. It's partly snow-covered in soft sunlight. View is south into the dome.
    Mt St Helens close

    I have many many more where these came from, I just lack the time to process and produce everything yet. But I’m squeezing it in as I can.

    These will first be available to buy in person at the April Radical Harvest Market in SE Portland. And on eBay if I can get my stuff together!

    Dueling coneflower prints in salmon, peach and orange hues.
    Colorful coneflowers 2025

    I’m also breaking in a new printer as my trusty old one finally spit out her parts, forcing my hand. And am back in touch with my old friend, fine art printer Jim Dittmer of JDA Creative Color. (He came to see me at the last Spot Market 3/14-15.) He hasn’t retired, he just closed his storefront in inner southeast Portland making me think so! Nope! Still going strong out in Gresham, just east of Portland. Check him out if you need any fine art scanning or printing done. He really knows his stuff, along with his son Matt.

    I’m printing up to 8×10 myself still at home, but hope to have larger fine art prints and posters with Jim’s help soon. (No dates set yet, but for sure by this Christmas.)

    Shot of a colorful mix of joyful prints - a due of bright orange california poppies on top of a macro of a honey bee in a yellow flower on top of a black printer.
    Colorful mix coming

    Ciao for now – Jan 3/23/26

  • Rising costs in 2026

    Alas, I just ran my numbers from my eBay sales tonight (12/31/25), and yikes, I’ve eaten a LOT of shipping costs! What you all may not know is the average cost to me has been from $5-$8 USD~! (All domestic US shipping so far – I have to sell more before eBay will let me graduate to shipping internationally. I’ll get there slowly!) And it’s not getting any cheaper, sigh.

    Between that and eBay’s steep fees, I’ve eaten a lot of costs, and it’s not sustainable. Yet, I know everyone is struggling too. And yes, I know about other platforms. I will slowly check them out as I can, but right now, eBay best suits my needs as a disabled artist. (I can’t meet much “demand” yet.)

    I will either raise my prices enough to cover the shipping costs better, OR stop offering free shipping on any new listings after this in 2026 sorry. I have to. The numbers don’t pencil out otherwise.

    I know, I don’t compete with the much more affordably mass-produced cards some others are offering on eBay. Remember, mine are handmade by myself, the artist and photographer, with my own photographs. I’m literally personally mounting every photo on every single notecard. It’s rather painstaking, despite how simple it looks. But people sometimes gasp when they see them in person, seriously.

    The colors and detail are so crisp, I’ve had people pay me more than asking price at some shows which is encouraging. But, if you knew how little I was making on eBay, you’d probably suggest I both raise my prices AND charge shipping!

    But I will do either one, or the other, not both, to keep things as affordable as possible while not losing my shirt in the process.

    I also just launched a new coupon code for 10% off to help at checkout starting 12:01 a.m. PST on January 1st: NEWBEE10OFF. (That would read “newbee10off” in lower case, but I think you have to keep it in upper. I just wanted to clarify the difference between the number 10 and the word “off”.) It’s good through January 31, 2026.

  • More markets in 2026 already!

    More markets in 2026 already!

    Fry me for an oyster, I thought surely everyone would take a long nap after the holidays like all good hard working bees, and probably not rustle up any markets until like March but boy was I wrong! And how, smile.

    I’m now already booked for TWO markets, in January and February 2026 respectively. I’ve added these to my Show Schedule page, but I’ll list them here too in case anyone is actually reading this blog. Be sure to follow me on any of my socials below for latest updates at all times – sometimes there are last minute changes or corrections.

    I’m laughing as I type this – I thought I’d probably do hardly any craft shows or markets as I was slowly spinning things up last July 2025. (I was left stranded at my last show in 2011 right before I stopped walking in January 2012 from my EDS onset cascade.) Boy was I wrong! Lol. Silly Jan – this is Portland! Home of the super creative and crafty folk. (Including me.)

    Find me next at:

    • Radical Harvest Craft Faire Sat/Sun 1/10 and 1/11 from 12-5 pm at Allgood Brewing Co 2425 SE 35th Pl, Portland, OR 97214. Free entry, food, drinks, crafts, clothing swap and fun. Bring the kids!
    • Spot Market Valentine’s Day weekend Sat/Sun 2/14 and 2/15 back in the Lloyd Center (details TBD). Likely 12-5 Saturday, 12-5 Sunday as usual but I’ll update once we know. Also free, kid-friendly, with complimentary beverages (wine and jamaica tea) and an hourly raffle. This market is always fun.

    I seriously did not expect to be doing regular markets, but since finding so many indoors and doing so well so far, I’m managing. I don’t need a tent for these, and I’ve found a way to wrangle a couple of small tables that are sufficient for my needs.

    Yes, I’m always completely wrecked after, but, that’s my life with EDS. I could lie in bed, or I can get up and bust a move and meet all you great folks instead. I much prefer the latter, since I’m gonna be in pain either way. (Yes, I have to recover from the latter to be sure. I don’t share that bit, it’s pretty boring – I lie moaning in bed, struggling to re-arrange all my bones back into their proper upright positions. Tray tables are much easier, I promise.)

    A la prochaine. Jan 12/30/25 (Happy New Year!)

  • Winter markets I’m attending 2025

    I just hatched an Upcoming Shows page to share my growing winter market schedule with you all as I suddenly started to get booked up! (I had to do some juggling for a minute as some of the markets collided with each other, phew!) Keep up with the latest news always on all my socials here:

    Anyway, in case you don’t find that page, know that you can catch me THIS weekend,Saturday December 6th at Woodmere Elementary School for their Winter Bazaar 11-5. Located at 7900 SE Duke, Portland, OR 97206. Free, we have warm refreshments and a raffle and a scavenger hunt too! Park in front of the school off Duke, enter in the middle, and find loads of super crafty and talented artists and vendors in the cafeteria, and ALSO in the gym! (Don’t forget the gym! – I’ll be just left of the gym entrance after you enter.) I’ll be debuting my first 5″x7″ prints too ($10 each), thanks to the kind staff at Art Supply Store (formerly I’ve Been Framed) on SE Foster who helped me find proper packaging. (Thank you!) Come and see!

    Then I’ll be at the Clackamas County Gleaners Christmas Bazaar NEXT Saturday Dec 13th, from 10-4 pm 13821 Fir Street, Oregon City, OR 97045 (just off 213)*. Free, not sure if there’s a raffle, but pretty sure we’ll have refreshments. Dress warm, it’s in their unheated warehouse where they sort all the gleaned food they save for hungry families in the area. This is an amazing program that literally saves tons of perfectly good food from grocery stores that would otherwise be tossed. I’ve seen it, and it’s amazing. (I’m picky, and don’t like anything too old, and I was blown away by what they saved back in 2019! If you live in the area, you should check them out.)

    *Note this is a change to the previous address I had (I just caught the update on Facebook! Eek! It was 13895 before, and now I have to update all my marketing materials, sigh.) Onward…

    Then, last but not least (for now), on Sunday 12/14 12-5 pm I’ll be at the Spot Market in the old GAP store space in the Lloyd Center Mall next to Macy’s on the second (middle) level. (Not at the east end by Marshall’s as my flyer mistakenly read, sorry, my bad!) They have killer refreshments (wine and hibiscus tea) and an hourly raffle for all shoppers that buy something. The Food Court 5000 may come through once or twice too – they’re a dedicated bunch of joyful mall walkers who start up in the 3rd level food court and cruise around the whole mall with loud jazzy music!

    There’s lots going on at the Lloyd Center that whole weekend, so don’t be too distracted, and forget to stop by and see us! :)

    a colorful floor plan showing the Spot market in the old GAP store location next to Macy's in the Lloyd Center
    Find the Spot Market by Macy’s on the second (middle) level of the mall

    Hope to see you here or there! Jan – December 5, 2025

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