LazyGal!

LazyGal is... Handmade gift items by Martha Bishop. She makes re-fired art plates and mugs, felted wool pillows, scarves, blankets, and hats, also greeting cards, quilts, tee-shirts and usually a couple new kinds of things each season. She uses recycled materials and is based out of Williamston, MI. She has a booth at regional art fairs. Her fabric art is now mostly on a custom basis, so feel free to email her at martha@lazygal.com or call her at 517-347-1689. (The photos here aren't always of available items, but they give an idea of the types of things she creates.)

Art Format Update! As of Nov. 2011, Martha is excited about a new mode of expression! ...Re-fired ceramics! She gleans thrift-stores for plates, cups and saucers then applies her hand-drawn decals to them and re-fires them in her kilns. See what you think! Re-fired ceramic is food and dishwasher safe. Photos below show examples. (She still has greeting cards and some fabric art, which she'll bring to upcoming shows, and does custom fabric pieces on request.)

Fall/Winter Shows 2011: •November 19: 13th Annual "Ridge Fine Art & Handmade Wares Show," Ferndale, MI; 10am-5pm; Drayton Ave. Presb. Church, 2441 Pinecrest, 248-398-8107. •December 4: Ann Arbor Artists' Collective "Gift Fest"; 10am-4pm; Pittsfield Grange Hall, 3337 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd, 734-272-2901.

Summer Schedule 2011: •East Lansing Art Fair, June 21-22; •Leland, July 9; •Nub's Nob, July 13; •CSA Frankfort, July 27; •Traverse City (NMU), July 30; •Sutton's Bay, Aug. 6-7. •E. Lansing Folk Arts Festival, Aug. 13. (We'll be living up north in our vintage trailer most of July/Aug! The kids will have a booth for their stencil-painted t-shirts at CSA and Sutton's Bay, but the shirts will be at the other shows, too.)

Featured in "Sweater Surgery" Book! Lazygal has a photo on the back cover and a "recipe" inside the 2008 book "Sweater Surgery," a colorful, hipster hardcover projects book. (Click to see it/order it on Amazon.)

Online Ordering... If you see something you like here (or on these photo sheets), email LazyGal. She can email you pics of items that are similar to your request, or "I'd love to make you something special."

LazyGal is also... the name of a quilting technique.

Pillows, $55 ea.