06/07/2026
We are so grateful to our community for donating art supplies and materials to us! When people walk into the store, they are amazed at how beautiful our items are. We can only take partial credit (we do love to organize), but most of the credit goes to the artists, family and loved ones of artists who reach out to us with supplies to donate.
If you’ve been in our store recently, you’ve probably seen the whimsical pastel sketch of purple flowers at our pastel station. This is the lovely work of Betsey Detwiler. Betsey was, among SO many other things, a gifted pastel artist. She lived a life giving to her community in so many ways, as an educator, a devoted family member, and book/toy store owner (, where I am almost every weekend).
Betsey attended to her pastels with so much care, that it was effortless to weave her supplies into our stock. You will see many of her handcrafted collections of colors still in tact on our shelves.
When you come in and pick out an item of Betsey’s, or any of our donor artists, you are carrying on their energy and work into your own practice.
Thank you Betsey and the Detwiler family. And thank you so much to Betsey’s pastel artist teacher, the one-and-only .
