Exhibitors at
Goods from the Woods 2009

Exhibitors at the 'Up-North' Marketplace & Green Living Celebration included the following artists and craftspersons:

A Fanciful Vision. Silk and wool with natural dyes including birch bark, madder root and indigo using Japanese Shibori resist techniques.

Andrew Kringen Designs. Original, functional, and decorative designs combining wood inlay and laminated wood as cutting boards, boxes, jewelry boxes and other items.

Arrowhead Toboggan & Sled Company. Classic toboggans and child sleds handcrafted from native woods.

Art Kraft Wood Products. Hand-crafted, classic style vessels and vases from native exotic woods.

Bar Bell Bee Ranch. Pure local basswood honey.

Baskets by Trisch. Baskets woven from cane, ash, reed and grass

Bemidji Millworks. Custom paneling, flooring, interior trim, millwork, exterior siding. Profile.

Bent Willow Furniture. Willow furniture and special willow accessories and items. Profile.

Boondock Enterprises. Jams and jellies from the forest.

Born in the Bush. Lake wild rice, pure maple syrup, and honey.

Brian's Wood Art. Intarsia in exotic hardwoods.

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

Carving by Gen. Hand crafted figures such as castles, people, and animals.

Clough's Wooden Bird Art. Hand carved birds from songbirds to eagles and from three inches to three feet tall by master carver. Pieces placed with customers worldwide.

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

Custom Creations. Rustic furniture and other items. Cabinetry. Profile.

Custom Woodwork. Wood canoes and rowboats.

D.S. Dangler. Hand crafted cedar jiggle sticks.

DB Pens. Handturned wood writing pens with high-quality platings. Specializes in burl woods.

David Towley Woodworking. Hand turned functional objects in fine hardwoods.

David Stollbrack Woodson Creations. Log benches, bed frames, coat racks, and other items.

Ethnic Creations. Handcrafted home decor and wearable items.

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

Final Form. Jewelry from driftwood.

Fireplace Lifestyles. Wood pellets, woodburning fireplaces/inserts/boilers, natural log mantels, solar/wind energy, and sun domes.

Grittner Chip Carving. Chip carving in the style that uses geometric shapes, in combination, to produce intricate designs on wooden plates, boxes, and other decorative objects. Best of Show 2008.

Gilley's Naturals. Natural care products.

Heartwood Arts. Decorative and functional handcrafted wood plaques, boxes, and other items with a unique and individually done nature/wildlife design.

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

Indian River Woodshop. Driftwood duck sculptures, carved benches and end tables, and canoe shelves and tables.

Irv's Magic. Two illustrated books about Irv, a fish learning to cope with what you've been given by LaPalma Anderson: Irv's Magic Lips and Irv's Magic Burble. Greeting cards to go with the books.

Jim's Boatworks. Boats, strip-built boats, and canoe paddles.

Karen's Kountry Krafts. Pine cones, dried flowers, and other natural fill presented in birch baskets and unique settings.

Karen's Pottery. Pottery with "upnorth" leaves, driftwood, pine cones, bark, and berries.

Krantz Wood Sales. Carving wood and wood for specialty products. Profile.

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. Design and build unique, one-of-a-kind pieces of rustic furniture as well as fireplace mantels, stairway railings, and whatever your imagination can create.

M'lou Brubaker, Jeweler. Jewelry designs featuring animals and plants of the northwoods from silver, gold and find hardwoods.

Maple Ridge Woodworks. Design and make high-quality wooden bowls, lamps, shades and other items carefully turned from solid pieces of the finest regionally grown hardwoods and highlighting the natural beauty of the wood. Each piece is unique.

Mascconomo Forestry. Author of The Wild Garden.

Minnesota GreenStar. Standards and certification program for green design, building and remodeling.

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry. Information on Minnesota forests.

Mystery in Wood. One-of-a-kind puzzles / treasurer boxes made from a single piece of wood.

Nature & Judi Carlson. Flower / fern pounded art made into home decor including pillows, valances, and wall hangings. Profile.

North 40 Hardwoods. Cutting boards, mantels, custom custs, carving wood, and other items.

North Central Reforestation. Tree seedlings for reforestation as well as individually bagged for weddings, business promotions, etc.

North Country Trail Association. Nation's longest hiking trail.

Ojibwe Art. Handmade Ojibwe faceless dolls from deerskin and buffalo/horse hair.

Oly's Custom Woodburning. Custom, handburned game boards, plaques, boxes, trays, table tops and other items.

One At A Time. Hand crafted cutting boards from maple and birch, native hardwood flooring and paneling, and custom cabinetry. Profile.

Prairie Harvest. Pure basswood honey, beeswax and natural botanical candles and luminaries, salve, honey, oatmeal soap, and gift boxes.

Red Lake Nation Foods. Handcrafted birch bark baskets, lake wild rice and berry jams.

RiverWood Designs. Unique handcrafted tables, headboards, footstools, hall trees, benches, and other items. Relief carving in table tops including unique fishing scenes.

Ronning's Lake Carvings. Custom, hand-routed lake carving plaques and tables in solid wood.

Rustic by Design. Wood furniture and rustic natural form wood furniture using hand toolds and old world joinery.

Saw It In Minnesota. Chain saw statues, furniture, railings and mantles.

Scott Carving. Carved wood figures including Christmas items.

Squeedunk. Voyageur collection of rustic furniture including many of the details inspired by the grand canoes of the fur trade era - end tables, wine stewards, chairs and settees, dining tables, bar stools, sofas, mirrors, beds, lamps, coat racks, children's furniture, accessories and special order pieces. Voyageur kayaks and canoes. Finely crafted G&M guitars.

Studio 1201. Original woodcut art prints.

Sunny Day Earth Solutions. Solar services, assessments, and installations. Thermal and electric. Line of green living products.

Sweetgrass Trading Company. Beaded quill work on leather, beaded dragonflies, beaded hair barrettes with deerskin backing, and jewelry.

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

Timber Farm Canoe. Cedar strip canoes and laminated paddles. Best of Show 2008.

Timbers Edge Resources. Antler carvings, wood and antler carvings, and carving tools/books/supplies.

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

Touch of Orange Cleaners. Orange cleaners.

Trailside Birch Products. Birch twig wreaths, birch bark furniture and frames, carvings, fishing lures, and decoys.

True North FSC Certification Program. Information on the group certification program for forestland owners and primary / secondary forest products manufacturers.

True North Woods. Forest-based building, furniture, and home decor products produced from northern Minnesota wood species.

Von's Gifts. Moving sand pictures made with two glass panes, two colors of sand, and pine/oak frames.

Wilderness Designs. Decorative mirrors with wood burned designs on the frames.

Wood to Life. Handmade painted wood carvings with base of Lake Superior driftwood.

WoodSpirit Gallery. Hand crafted black ash baskets, birch bark makakoon and boxes, spoons and bowls, cradleboards. Birch bark canoes, tobogganes, showshoes and shrink boxes. Hand harvested wild rice.

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