Exhibitors at
Goods from the Woods 2010
'UpNorth Arts and Crafts Marketplace & Living Green Celebration

Saturday, 18 September 2010, 9am to 4pm
at IRA Civic Center, Grand Rapids, MN

Exhibitors to date at the 'Up-North' Arts and Crafts Marketplace & Green Living Celebration include the following artists and artisans:

Any Place Garden Art. Garden art in the form of leaves and fountains created by embossing concrete with various vegetation and stones. Each piece is painted and weatherproofed.

Art Kraft Wood Products. Elegant, hand-carved, classic style turned vessels and vases from segmented native exotic woods. 

Bar Bell Bee Ranch. Pure local basswood honey and beeswax.

Bent Willow Furniture. Willow furniture and willow home and garden accessories and items.

Boondock Enterprises. Wild berry jams, jellies and syrups. Herbal mixes and teas.

Born in the Bush. Maple syrup, maple coated nuts, wild rice, and pottery.

Brian's Wood Art. Intarsia in exotic hardwoods including ornaments.

Cabin Creations - Snowshoe Furniture. Handmade snowshoes, firewood racks, footstools, magazine racks, and other items from black/white ash and laced rawhide/nylon.

Carvings by GEN. Original carvings of hollow whimsy houses, unique human figures, animals and fish. Hand drawn and painted note cards. Carving books with designs by Gen.

Creative Sawmilling & Products. Handcrafted log furniture including tables and bar tops. Fireplace mantels. Home decor items including wall hangings and clocks. Special order custom work. Also custom sawing with band saw and edging services, and custom sawing with slabber mill up to 44" wide. Custom finishing of products.

Custom Creations. High-quality, solid wood furniture and cabinetry from rustic to contemporary using handcrafted construction methods, local woods, and sustainable practices.

DB Pens. Hand-turned wood writing pens with high-quality platings. Cosmetic mirrors. Business card holders.

DS Dangler. Handcrafted cedar jig sticks and ice rods.

Everything Earth Art Studio. Wood art in sculpture, furniture, vessels, wall hangings and jewelry.

Fireplace Lifestyles, Inc. Wood pellets; log mantels; wood burning fireplaces, stoves, cooking stoves, inserts, boilers; solar and wind energy; and syndromes.

Frontier Cabinetry. Cabinets and lumber from reclaimed barnwood.

Fur Armor. Beaver fur hats, mitts, blankets, and other items.

Gilley's Nature. Natural care products: bath and body, lotion bars and balms, herbal remedies, baby and children's products.

Ginger Wild. Pure, scented soy wax candles, cold pressed soaps, lotions, and linen sprays.

Grittner Chip Carving. Chip carving geometric shapes in plates, boxes, and other decorative objects. Best of Show 2009.

Hand Crafted Wood Products by MKH. Bowls, jewelry boxes,lamps and trivets.

Heartwood Arts. Decorative and functional handcrafted wood plaques, boxes, etc. with wood burning by hand. Unique, individually done in a nature/wildlife design.

Heim-Made. Hand picked, lake, wood processed wild rice. Natural made lotions and soaps.

Jim Pagel Rockers. Hand crafted rockers in cherry and walnut.

Karen's Pottery. Pottery inspired by nature and the North Woods. Functional and decorative incorporating leaves, bark berries, etc.

Krantz Wood Supply. Carving wood, wood for specialty products such a ovals and bark-on-wood, and walking sticks.

Lay Turnings & Cards. Turned bowls, vases, ornaments and other items. Handmade greeting cards.

Lily Winter Jewelry. Jewelry designed from wood and metal.

Log-On by Sterriker. Handcrafted wood furniture and gifts from cedar, birch, ash, oak and maple using as much of the log as possible to show unique end grain patterns and the natural beauty of each log edge.

Minnesota Makings. Paintings of forest scenes.

Minnesota's Own Calendars. Calendars feature the best of Minnesota photographers and sites and include events and information for tourists and local alike.

Mystery In Wood. Puzzle/treasurer boxes made from a single piece of wood. Each box is one-of-a-kind hand crafted and made from unique woods. Boxes may be used as jewelry boxes, banks, desk organizers or for many other uses.

NLT Enterprises. Unique, rustic bird houses and feeders from local red cedar.

North Country Trail Association. Nation's longest hiking trail that stretches from New York to North Dakota.

Northwoods Sleigh Co. Handcrafted wooden sleights with horses, reindeer and small Tomtems (dolls). Handcrafted wooden trays in several sizes.

Ojibwe Art. Handcrafted Ojibwe dolls from deer hide and buffalo/horse hair by Ojibwe Elder whose art is in many national and international collections including the Smithsonian. Handcrafted dream catchers and deer/moose hide pouches.

One-at-a-Time. Hand crafted cutting  boards from birch and maple, native hardwood flooring and paneling, and custom cabinetry.

Products of Northern Minnesota. Hand carved birds from songbirds to eagles and from three inched to three feet tall by master carver. Pieces placed with customers worldwide.

Rajala Lumber & Millwork Company. Retail and wholesale paneling, flooring, millwork, veneer, components, and lumber. Specialize in twelve northern Minnesota wood species and hard-to-get long and wide product. Custom services.

RiverWood Designs. Custom log furniture with quality craftsmanship and design: wine tables to coffee tables, relief carvings, original northwoods gift items.

Ronning's Lake Carvings. Scale-model lake map carvings in traditional plaques or on bark-edged plaques, ovals or custom tables. The carving process is free handed on solid hardwoods.

Scott Carving. Carved wood figures and Christmas items.

Sunny Day Earth Solutions. Line of ECO-friendly, energy efficient, green living products. LED lights. Solar thermal products, assessments and installations.

Sweetgrass Trading Company. Leather beaded bags using traditional Native American stitching. Dragonfly pins of glass and beads. Etched shell jewelry.

The Wooden Feathers. Carved decoys and songbirds. Turned bowls and jewelry. Feather pins.

Timbers Edge Resources. Antler carvings and wood and antler carvings. Tools, books, and suppliers for carving.

TimberSweet Maple Syrup. Pure 100% maple syrup, maple candy other maple products, and applies.

True North Certified Forest Products Network. A Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody (COC) group certification program for producers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of forest-based products that assures that products bearing the FSC label come from well managed forests.

True North Woods. A certification brand that assures the product purchased is composed of materials harvested from the world-class forests of Minnesota and reflects the unique traits of our diverse and sustainably managed natural forests and our shared traditions of craftsmanship.

V-Neck Designs. Fused, handcrafted glass pendents.

Viking Log Furniture. Log furniture and accessories for the home and cabin including chairs, stools, beds, vanities, dining room, kitchen cabinets, futons , and pool tables.

Wood to Life. Handmade painted wood carvings with base of Lake Superior driftwood. Wild rice and syrups.

Wood Spirit. Hand gathered and crafted black ash baskets, birch bark makakoon, toboggans, snowshoes, bark and bentwood boxes, hand crafted bowls/spoons/cups, corn brooms, willow baskets.

Woodturning by Jer. Lathe-turned objects of art from wood.

Food Vendors. North Star Women's Club. Schuster's Concessions. Snack Shack. Up North Kettle Corn.

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