Portland 2010 Lovespoon....And The Winner Is.....
The winner for this year's Left Coast Eisteddfod Lovespoon is Kathy Bushman of Milwaukie, Oregon!
Kathy is an AmeriCymru member and purchased her winning ticket at this year's Night of the Living Bards event in Portland, Oregon. "I've never won anything in my life and this is so beautiful, I can't believe it's mine! Thank you so much and thank you so much to the artists who made this!"
This is the second year for the Left Coast Eisteddfod and the Left Coast Eisteddfod Lovespoon, a custom started by artist David Western of British Columbia, who was joined this year by artist Laura Jenkins-Gorun , of Ohio. David has been a well-known lovespoon carver for many years, his work has been commissioned all over the world and appears in museum collections, including St. Fagans in Wales, he teaches carving and is the author of Fine Art of Carving Lovespoons .
We very gratefully thank David and Laura for their very great contribution to the Left Coast Eisteddfod, for their hard work and their incredible, incomparable art.
This Year's Spoon
Congratulations, Kathy! Lovely work to have and hold! Enjoy!
Not that I know of.....please feel free
Did someone send this to Ninnau?
Kathy,There are obviously many jealous people out there wishing they were in your shoes! But I am so happy you love the lovespoon as much as we do.
Congratualtions (she said, grudgingly)! I thought I had slipped Ceri enough $$ in Portland to insure MY ticket would be drawn! LOL! Oh, well.Seriously--it is a gorgeous spoon--I'm glad someone who appreciates it won it! (Again.)But, for the record, *I* would *really* appreciate it next year!Mona--no sour grapes here, nope...they just turned to whine!
Congratulations Kathy!I won last year and still can't believe it, It, too, is the first thing I ever won. It is a real treasure to be passed down.Howard
Congratulations, Kathy! Enjoy!
Congratulations Kathy! (having seen that unique piece of genius up close - i'm most jealous!)