Phoenix Obsidian Designs

05/12/2025

Several weeks ago Dr. Susan "Arizona" Gleason experienced a bilateral stroke. She passed away on May 5th.

Sister Janet and nephew Tom are working on continuing her educational interests and starting to set up the Gvtradingpost on Shopify to continue making items for sale available to the public. In the days to come, some items will be featured on the Grass Valley Trading Post page and can be purchased by direct messages.

Your love and support are appreciated during this time of transition.

03/14/2025

For those of you at the Society for California Archaeology meetings, we are not attending this year. Unfortunately each time the meetings have been in the San Francisco area, we have ended up in the red. Therefore we aren’t there this year but will be at the Great Basin Anthropology meetings in Reno and at the SCA meetings next year.

09/25/2024

Busy making up a new batch of arrowheads to get ready for the Gem and Mineral Show in Grass Valley next weekend. Susan will be demonstrating and giving classes all weekend during the show. We will be bringing flintknapping supplies and educational items for sale there as well as jewelry and animal parts.

07/13/2024

Don't forget, coming up soon....

06/21/2024

As I’ve been going through my merchandise there have been a few things that I’ve found that are now broken. So before tossing them I figured that I’d offer them to you guys here because they are good artifact curation breakage examples. These are some Emu Egg Beads that are broken. Currently there are three of them but there may be a few more. If you’d like them, just send me a note here on Facebook because I’m offering them to you just for the price of shipping. There just is too much personal labour involved to just throw them in the trash can.

03/08/2024

All Setup and starting to sell at the Society of California Archaeology meetings in Riverside. If you’re in the area, please drop by. What you see is all we brought, so buy it quick. If you want something in particular, feel free to order because just as this show - Shipping will be Free. The competition that we are holding is simple - find a Lancet and you’ll get a Free slightly damaged Button. Come by and say hi!!

02/26/2024

Our next vending event will be the Society of California Archaeology meetings. These will be held in Riverside, California from March 7-10. We will be setup in the Book Room with primarily our educational materials, flintknapping supplies, jewelry and animal parts. Feel free to let us know if there is something you’d like us to bring. The book room is open to the general public.

10/19/2023

We are all setup and selling at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference in Bend, Oregon. The conference runs until the end of the week. If you’re in the region, drop on by. We are in the convention center portion of the Riverhouse on the Deschutes.

07/26/2023

If you want to place a bid, please post on the Trading Post page.

Finished the next big basket and we’re gonna put it up here for auction. It is 12” across at the bottom and close to 17” across at the top. It is a little more than four inches deep. It starts with a leather patch in the bottom from Morea Designs. It took Susan a bit over 50 hours to make this piece. We will start the auction at $100 and it will end next Wednesday at 5 PM. Shipping will be an additional $15 unless you make other arrangements. If this piece does not sell in this auction, it will be available for $250 at a future show. Make your bid now!!