Lori's Off-Site Links:

Crazy Green Studios Blog: updated images and announcements, plus random musings, inspirations, rants and horn tooting.
Crazy Green Studios on Facebook
Contact Lori: lori 'at' crazygreenstudios.com


Friends - please visit, either virtually or in person, these fabulous folks who are all artists in one form or another:

Pottery/Ceramics:
Empty Bowls - ceramic artists helping fight hunger
Hinckley Pottery - gallery home for works by Jill Hinckley, and ongoing classes in clay in Washington DC
heather tinnaro ceramics - Asheville potter Heather Tinnaro's website
Kyle Carpenter: A Potter's Journal - blog site for Asheville potter Kyle Carpenter
Mudfire Studios & Gallery - 'An open playground for imaginative adults!' Decatur, GA
Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts - classes, workshops, community & private studio rentals in Asheville
Melting Mountain Pottery - website for Asheville potter Joey Sheehan
ClaySpace Co-op - cooperative clay studio and gallery located in the historic River Arts District in Asheville
Smoking Turtle Studio - Raku and horsehair pottery artist Les Powell, Asheville NC
Artist Wrangler - Support services for artists, Dawn Dalto owner
Dawn Dalto - Asheville based ceramic artist
Patty Bilbro - Asheville ceramic artist
Vasefinder - Classical American Studio Ceramics
World Art Directory - a human edited guide to art and artist information on the Web, is designed to bring together those who love art with those who create it

Other Great Finds in East West Asheville:
444 Gallery Cafe - great eats and art & craft by local artists
Harvest Records - new & used cd, vinyl & dvd shop
Custom Boutique for Her and Home - one of the coolest shops around, great clothes, beautiful home furnishings and accessories
A Touch of Glass - glass, stained glass, classes in glass - go see it!
The Admiral - serving the most inventive and eclectic food in West Asheville
Izzy's Coffee Den WEST- this will be the newest addition to our neighborhood - coming Spring 2009!!
Ship to Shore - private studio & storefront for Asheville designer Brooke Priddy
Steebo Designs - one-of-a-kind metal reincarnations created by Stefan "Steebo" Bonitz
Asheville BookWorks - a community resource for print and book arts located in West Asheville, North Carolina.
Blue Barnhouse - a letterpress & design studio where everything they make is crafted by hand with the time-tested methods of letterpress printing


Words & Music:
Big Fat Art Cloth - musings of a textile artist/art therapist, interviews with other artists
Gwen Hughes - the 'love child of Peggy Lee & Muddy Waters'
Andalucid - 'enlightening writing from Andalucia'
Laura Powers - art/music
Christine Kane - Christine Kane's Blog: 'be creative. be conscious. be courageous.'

Photography:
Bark Photography - unique portrait photography; barkphotography.com/not yer usual pet photography (and she does humans, too!)
Fred Shively - Flickr photo-stream for Andalucia based photographer Fred Shively
Doug Green - location photographer specializing in weddings

Chocolate (yes, it warrants it's own category):
French Broad Chocolates - artisan chocolates made with love in Asheville, and now available in person at the newly opened French Broad Chocolate Lounge in downtown Asheville!!!
Short Street Cakes - ok, more than chocolate, although their vegan chocolate cupcakes are worth getting into this category.


Relaxation:
Sensibilities Spa - Asheville spa and store offering all sorts of soothing treatments and take-home treats.
Sparrow Spa - located in the Hilton at Biltmore Park, so you can fully pamper yourself - exquisite spa services, organic products, Asheville grown and owned!
Bittersweet Cottages - the Asheville romantic getaway of your dreams! Luxurious mountain retreat with the city at your feet!

Design:
MG Palermo - M. Gina Palermo, artist & designer
Sustainable Websites - sustainable, green web hosting
ioDesigns - great graphics, design & illustration in West Asheville

Performance:
LinDel Sandlin - actor, singer, voiceover artist, comedienne, poet

Asheville FunStuff:
River District Artists - Artists, studios and events in Asheville's River Arts District
AshevilleNow.com - Your home for everything Asheville!
Asheville Purple Pages - eclectic resource for all sorts of things