This
website is dedicated to my mom,
who at seventy can still bounce a softball off her bicep
and catch it in the air, something I have never been able
to do. Mom, your love of the outdoors is part of why I’m
as healthy and happy as I am today. I love you.
Thanks
to my daughters, Nell and Natalie,
who are amazing young women, partly because of and partly
in spite of me. Honey Bunnies, you inspire me to be worthy
of imitation—not an easy task! You have all my heart.
Thanks
to Phil Lebow,
Director of Technical Support Services, Otis College of
Art and Design, who helped me, a bungler with resin, resolve
some sticky issues. This total stranger designed and helped
build a major piece of equipment for me and mailed it
to me, trusting me to pay him. The kindness of strangers!
We need more people like him in the world.
Thanks
Loverboy, ex-Dododick, Señor Misterioso, Automatim.
Through the quarter century we’ve known each other
we’ve spent half of it not speaking, but you are
there when I need a friend. Thanks. And the other half
of the time, which we spent making up, has been fun too.
Thanks
Mikey,
the Stubborn Fuckin’ Irishman, storyteller, blackberry
aficionado, hero guy, old fuck, for all your help over
the years. You can always make me laugh.
Kim
Groff-Harrington
Sundance Mercantile
Eugene True Value Hardware
Sundance
Mercantile and Sweet Potato Pie
in Eugene were the first two places to buy my work when
I moved back to Eugene two years ago. I still think of
them as the places that supported me when times were tough.
The same with Kim Groff-Harrington, who
had no idea what a difference a ten-dollar bill sent in
the mail could make.
Jennifer
from Eugene True Value Hardware was also a great
support without realizing how important she was. Now you
know, gal! Thanks.
Thanks
to all the artists in Eugene and Seattle who helped me
begin my business and have loved and supported me:
Brandi
Crye Corona
Jennifer Fogerty-Gibson
Marilyn Kent
Michelle Chaves
Michelle Fokos
Sonia Telesco
Thanks
to Saturday Market
for providing a safe place for me to sell my wares when
I was suffering from agoraphobia (ironically, fear of
the marketplace). I love the Saturday Market community
and have made many good friends there. This is one of
the best-run organizations I’ve ever been involved
with!
Thanks
to my web maestra, Carrie Patten, whose
unique combination of creativity, technical savvy, and
patience made this site better than anything I could have
imagined!
Holden
& Co.
Holden
& Co. are our reps for the Pacific Northwest.
They rock! 
I have known Gail and Karen, mother and daughter, since
my two girls were young and liked to watch me order jewelry
from them for my store. When I was looking for a rep,
I looked them up and found them bigger and thriving. Karen
now has two daughters the same age mine were way back
when.
Busy
women already, Holden & Co. generously gave of their
time to help me improve my images and taught me how to
be more professional.
Thanks
to Gail, Karen, Anne, Jill, Emma, Leah and Patti! Love
you all!
We
are looking for representation in the rest of the USA
and world. Please contact us if you are a representative
and wish to add our line to your accounts.
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I
get by with a lot of help from my friends
I
think of this as a type of gift registry for my marriage
(I’m married to my art) and my baby shower (I give
birth to my art; it comes through me not from me). Let’s
make life one big blessingway!
Ruby
has been stony broke most of the time since she sold her
store and got into a car accident in ’99. We will
spare you the details as she finally got the back of her
hand surgically removed from her forehead and moved on.
As
a resourceress, Ruby has learned to ask for what she needs
and not stop at the first or second or umpteenth no. She
credits her time as a middle-class housewife for gifting
her the entitlement to believe she deserves help. Entitlement,
like PTSD and other things that can also be yucky, can
have a positive side.
Bastante!
What does Ruby need? How can you help make her life easier
so she can grow the business and take time to volunteer
and write for you?
Stamps,
regular and postcard. I love to send postcards!
Maybe you’ll get one from me. I like to send my
kids and friends care packages too, so big stamps in
odd amounts are great. They remind me of Norm from the
movie Fargo and his duck painting winning for three
cent stamp.
Cash
Cards from the following national or regional businesses:
Rings
& Things
Fire Mountain
Staples
Fred Meyer
St. Vincent De Paul
Gift
Certificates from local Eugene, OR businesses
Harlequin
Beads
Eugene Fastener
Anyone
on the Thank You list for saving bottlecaps*
Visit to Chiropractor (Rick Schwartz)
Prescription sunglasses (Margaret Foley, Rainbow Optics)
Vet where I get cat food and supplies like flea stuff:
West Eugene Animal Clinic
Direct
Cash
Checks
(payable to Ruby Colette)
Unless earmarked otherwise, will be spent on bills and
paying helpers with the business and with yard work
so Ruby can do the overall business, take the Food Preservation
Class so she can volunteer doing demos at the food bank.
*Whenever
you support one of the businesses that save me bottlecaps,
you are helping me too! So indulge yourself and your
friends. Let’s keep these businesses alive and
happy and let them know we appreciate them.
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