OjaiStyle Sneak Peek: New Tegan Hope Jewelry

Hot off the presses! Tegan Hope has been hard at work creating her new line of jewelry shown exclusively on OjaiStyle. Her new work is gorgeous to say the least. She has new pieces with gold, rare gemstones and handmade silver pendants. For anyone looking for a unique, one of a kind, special holiday gift you will certainly want to check out Tegan's new works. They will be available on OjaiStyle on Monday, December 8, 2008.

OjaiStyle Artist Linda Taylor Exhibits Mixed Media Monotypes and Collagraphs

OjaiStyle's Linda Taylor will be exhibiting mixed media monotypes and collagraphs in a solo show at the Buenaventura Gallery from Dec. 9- Jan. 4, 2009.

The gallery is located at 700 E. Santa Clara., Ventura, Ca. The gallery is open from 12-5, Tuesdays through Saturdays. The artist will host a reception on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 4-7 p.m. Information about the gallery can be found at www.buenaventuragallery.org or by calling 805 648 1235.

Linda's work can be seen at www.ojaistudioartists.com or at www.ojai-style.com.

Her work is currently represented by the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles.

Win the Puffy Heart Key Chain!

OjaiStyle has been selected by The Giveaway and here is your chance to win the Puffy Heart Key Chain by A. Newman. Here is how to enter!


By A. Newman. Silver/pewter, glass, colors: red clear, soft pink iridescent, white abalone shell iridescent (shown), lavender iridescent, each heart is unique. Lead-free. 1 1/2" w x 3" total length with ring


OjaiStyle is a fabulous site online that features artists from Southern California's Ojai. It was founded by Katrina Rice Schmidt and Anne Smith back in 2007 to help promote Ojai's amazing artists and sell their beautiful creations. OjaiStyle has so many gorgeous products to choose from: fine art, pottery, jewelry, and hand blown glass items. Every product on OjaiStyle helps you get to know the artists better, you can feel their creativity when you see their art.

And the Puffy Heart Keyring is so beautiful and unique. I love how you can see the work and thought put into it, that it was made by a person. (I've said it before and I'll say it again, handmade products are the best) It has such a warmth that you can't get from factory products. And the texture it has is such a fabulous, unique touch that just makes it stand out. I would really love to see Adrianna Newman (the Puffy Heart Keyring artist) in action. She has added so much life to this piece! I would really enjoy seeing her thought process as she works. All of her pieces have that beautiful, artistic touch. Love them!

OjaiStyle is definitely a great site to go to, to not only help support people (not corporations), but also to get some stunningly beautiful pieces that you will love for years to come. :)


Rules to Enter:

1. Head on over to Ojai Style---> http://www.ojaistyle.net/
2. Pick your favorite item (not giveaway item)
3. Come back here and comment in the official entry form below the extra entries section on what you chose
4. Leave an extra comment in the official entry form for any extra entries (Please leave blog url if you have my button on your blog or wrote a post)

Note: If a second winner has to be chosen, that winner will be chosen based on the most creative, detailed comment!
Also Note: Add me to your safe list or else your winning notice could end up in your Junk Mail folder! babylyons (at) live (dot) com

OSA Tour 6th Stop Cindy Pitou Burton Photography

We had so much fun visiting Cindy Pitou Burton's photography studio. Many of Cindy's friends from New York were there and it was bussling with art lovers. Below are some Cindy's new works that will be featured on OjaiStyle.

We love the bearded iris but of course the matilija poppy has a special place in our heart. I bought a tiny piece of one of Cindy's poppy's.

More of Cindy's works. Perfect kitchen art.

Posing in front of her gorgeous photography.

OSA Tour Stop Number 5 Shahastra's Fine Art

I must have been getting tired because I only took three pictures at Shahastra's Yurt -- and two of them are the same picture.

To mix things up a bit I put in a picture of Shahastra's warm and gracious husband Zubin Levy -- a great artist too.

This is a new piece from Shahastra's 'Earth Prayer's' collection. Good energy.

OSA Tour Number 4: Linda Taylor Print Maker

After our great visit with Teal Rowe, we headed off to print maker

Linda Taylor's Spotted Dog Studio.
Linda is a real animal lover. See below for the cutest picture of the tour.


We got a chance to see her lovely new works.

This one would be perfect in my family room.

Tools of the trade.

Linda's press and the beautiful unframed works all available on Ojaistyle.
Arum Lilies and Purple Iris (both would be perfect in my living room).

This is Fuzzy Taylor. Linda's two ducks abandoned her and she is now living in the art studio.

I am hoping for some duck inspired art soon!

OSA Tour 3rd Stop Teal Rowe Glass

We stopped by to see the stylish and talented glass designer Teal Rowe. Her studio looks like it is out of a catalog! She welcomed us at the door with a hug and a warm smile.

Here are her glass vessels in every color. You can see her adorable perfume bottles at the bottom (which yes I purchased).

Beautiful stained glass in the entry.

I had to take another picture of the fern. Mine don't look like this and I live the woods.
Unique glass fan Teal created.

Glass bead earrings in every color (available on OjaiStyle)

OSA Tour: Stop 2 Ruth Farnham's Studio

Our second stop was Ruth Farnham's studio near downtown Ojai. Many of you may recognize 'Wandering Path' the 12-panel, 3-part folding screen in rust, orange and brown hues, oil / canvasboard / wood.
Ruth has changed the wood color which we all agreed

really brings out the orange and rust colors. Love it!

I was really drawn to this piece which would be perfect above Katrina's fireplace.

Love this work from 1972.

Here is 'Mosiac' on the tour

Fine Art from the Ojai Studio Artists Tour: Stop 1

Katrina and I started our 2008 Ojai Studio Artist tour at Bernadette DiPietro's Bamboo Cottage Studio.

Bernadette created these lovely pins for the tour --and of course we both bought one.

Maybe Bernadette will sell these on OjaiStyle!

Here is Bernadette's batik 'Temple of Juno with Prickly Pears' now framed.

Vibrant paper.

Many of you may remember Bernadette's lovely chickens Yin and Yang. I have an update on them but will blog about that later. We loved talking to Bernadette but had so much art to see, we headed out around the corner to Ruth Farnhams studio.

OSA + OjaiStyle = Great Day!

What a wonderful day we had in Ojai! Below are the pictures we took with many of the OjaiStyle artists on tour this weekend. It was an great experience to see the talent and inspriation at each artists' studio. Below are some "candid" pictures of Anne and Katrina with OjaiStyle artists! For some reason I posed on the right in each picture but one. Yes Katrina is wearing Tegan Hope and Lupe Razo jewelry.

Katrina, Cindy Pitou Burton and Anne

Katrina, Katie Van Horne and Anne

Katrina, Ruth Farnham and Anne

Anne, Bernadette DiPietro and Katrina

Katrina, Teal Rowe and Anne

Katrina, Linda Tayor and Anne

Katrina, Shahastra and Anne