Join me and other artist at Running with Scissors for a open studio day and art sale! From the event webpage:

Bursting with new art works to buy and open studios to explore, Running With Scissors invites you and yours to our SPRING open studios event April 30th. With Mother’s Day and other spring holidays and events right around the corner (yeah, you need a gift for mom NEXT WEEK!) why not choose something made locally, by hand and in the space they actually made it!

FREE event and open for ONE DAY ONLY .
250 Anderson Street
Portland, ME
scissorsart@gwi.net for more info

Over 40 artists welcome you into their creative homes and share with you their work, their gifts and their community.

Also, CHOCOLATES! – We are thrilled to be collaborating with Christopher Hastings Confections – the crafts award-winning, Maine-made and inspired chocolates and candies, using local ingredients and small-batch artisan techniques. We draw our inspiration from the rich food history and taste traditions of Maine to produce stunningly delicious and truly decadent confections that put a little bit of Maine into every tasty bite.

As small-batch artisans — we don’t make hundreds of chocolates every week, like those ‘big box’ candy shops. Instead we artfully hand-craft fifty or so of each of our chocolates at a time, keeping a regular menu of our most popular chocolates while sprinkling in a seasonal assortment of confections and chocolates we create specifically based on the availability of quality local ingredients.

Because we are small-batch, we’re incredibly nimble — and welcome special orders or requests. If you have a special someone to woo, an upcoming corporate or personal special event, or run a business catering to those seeking the very best tastes the great state of Maine has to offer, we’d love to work with you to make your life more delicious.” handpainted

Spring is also nothing without the FLOWERS, right? So we are bringing in a guest floral artist to pair with our ceramic artists offering you truly unique floral arrangements and gifts that mom, or any loved one will treasure. Pre-order flowers for Mothers Day or buy an arrangement to take home that day. Limited number available.