El Interior Newsletter
1009 West Lynn,
Austin (512) 474-8680
www.elinterior.com
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September
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In This Issue:
- What's
New In The Store This Month
- Artist Spotlight:
Reynaldo Santiago & Eduardo Lugo
- Collector's Corner: Featuring
Candy Becker & Peggy Pickle
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September Special
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Travel to Oaxaca,
Mexico, with Marcia & Charlie
 January
23-31, 2009, experience the essence and
diversity of Oaxaca’s art, culture, architecture
and cuisine by joining us on a tour led by Marcia Lucas & Charlie Tesar.
Based in the colonial gem of Oaxaca City,
this tour will give you a profoundly intimate
look into village life that remains rooted to the traditions of the land. Meet
folk artists that Marcia has worked with for over 25 years, explore pre-Columbian and
colonial treasures, and savor the unique tastes and music of Oaxaca. Deposit Deadline: Nov. 15th
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OAXACAN TOUR
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 Mariachi Fiesta!
Join us for an
evening of fun & mariachi music on Friday,
October 17th, from 7:00 - 9:00. Enjoy the
evening air for an outside fiesta featuring a
full mariachi band from 7:30 - 8:30. Don't miss
the party!
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Marcia's Minute
How refreshing and delicious those cooler days
and nights felt last week! Fall is truly in the
air.
I hope you enjoyed your summer; I had a
wonderful one filled with lots of travel,
including visits with my daughters and their
families in Southern and Northern California.
Late July found me in Oaxaca enjoying the
verdant mountains and valleys of this year’s
particularly glorious rainy season. I went on a
buying trip and I was also leading my first “La
Sirena Tour”, A Oaxacan Power Journey, a
very adventurous trip with 9 other women up into
the mountains to meet with some amazing
curanderos, traditional healers. As the week
progressed I learned many new things as well as
shared my knowledge of Oaxaca and her culture
and people. I fell even more deeply in love with
Oaxaca, my gratitude and appreciation for the
indigenous people and their sustainable
lifestyle grew even stronger.
I found this new role of “guide” suited me and I
wanted to do another trip; so Charlie, my
husband, and I are going to be leading a trip in
late January! See the link below for more
information. Please contact Amy with questions
and get your deposits in, we expect this trip to
fill rapidly.
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ABOUT OAXACAN TOUR
Saludos,
Marcia Lucas
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Monthly Drawing!
Each month we will be holding a
drawing for our email subscribers for a $50
gift certificate, so watch for it - next
month you might see your name!
This month's winner is
Christine Aubrey
Do you know someone who loves
folk art? Email
amy@elinterior.com & we'll send them a copy of
this email and enter them into the drawing!
As a bonus, you'll also get your name entered twice
in next month's drawing! |
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What's New In The Store
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You will want to come in to see all of the beautiful
new fashions that have arrived from Mexico so far.
Incredible embroidered blouses, San Antonino blouses
& dresses, and more!
We'll have even MORE new
arrivals, including folk art, arriving within the
next couple of weeks, so be sure to stop by!
CLICK HERE TO SEE NEW ITEMS
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September Artist Spotlight: Reynaldo Santiago |
Master carver Reynaldo Santiago's pieces are
wonderfully expressive, and have a delightful
primitive quality about them. Painted in great
detail to give each piece a personality that shines
through its wooden visage, Reynaldo's work has an
earthy, authentic quality about it.
CLICK HERE TO SEE
WORKS BY REYNALDO SANTIAGO |
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Collector's Corner: Small Spaces |
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 Featuring
the spaces of Candy Becker & Peggy Pickle/Don
Cook
Folk Art Collectors have
all different styles, which is why we'd like to
show you these two smaller spaces this month.
These collectors incorporate their love of folk
art into thoroughly charming, although
completely different, spaces with different
styles.
CLICK HERE TO TOUR BOTH SPACES |
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Bonus Art Spotlight: Multi-Colored Papel Picado by
Artist Eduardo Lugo |
Beyond the
usual declaration that a local fiesta is in
progress, these multi-colored papel picado
decorations-- bright Mexican paper flags--are pure
works of art with roots in the Mexico's ancient
cultures.
CLICK HERE TO SEE
PAPEL PICADO BY EDUARDO LUGO |
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September's
Special
RECEIVE 10% OFF
YOUR ENTIRE PURCHASE UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER WITH
THIS COUPON!*
Print this coupon to receive 10% off your entire
purchase - INCLUDING SALE ITEMS - now until the end
of this month!
Phone orders accepted!
CLICK HERE
FOR COUPON
*Offer does not apply to previous purchases or
purchase of gift certificates |
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El Interior Mailbag
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I loved the collector's corner. What a
trip! Keep up the good work.
-Kay Nunn
Loved the home of Merry Wheaton. I have
been shopping in your store for many years, and
have purchase many coconut masks which I
collect.
-Sandee White I LOVE your Newsletter!
-Stacey Abel
Thank you so much for your compliments! We
really try every month to come up with a
newsletter that is fun as well as informative,
and it can be a lot of hard work. Your
encouragement means the world to us!
Amy
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Show us your project or
collection! We'd love to feature YOU in an
upcoming issue, so email us a project that you've
done using our textiles, oilcloth, or your folk art
collection, at
amy@elinterior.com.
Also, we'd love to get your
comments or questions, so submit them to the
El Interior Mailbag to be featured in future
issues of our newsletters! |
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