Faryn Davis started making jewelry three years ago by accident. “I was working on shaping a larger resin piece and an interesting sculptural bit came off,” she says. “I put a hole in it and started wearing it as a necklace and people began asking me about it.”

Where to head now that the rain has let up and the sun is tempting you to indulge in an afternoon of
“me, me, me!” time?
Tell the office you’re taking care of some long-put-off dental work, then drive the “This is What Norway Must Look Like!” expressway (a.k.a. I-84) and spend three or four hours shopping in Hood River, Ore.
You’ll have an all-day smile when you return to your desk—promise!

In high school shop in Eagle Point, Ore., master clockmaker Ed Beacham spent a lot of time making boats to sail on the Rogue River. "The shop teacher wanted me to make something other than racing boats," Beacham says. "He told me my assignment would be to make a grandfather clock."

When artist Jamee Linton moved to Portland five years ago, she chose the Rose City without visiting it.

Most children build forts and hideouts in their backyards, but when blacksmith Alan Flashing was 13, he built a forge. ”I wanted to make my own knife blades,” he says. “So I built a forge in our garage and backyard.”

Seedy motels and a nonexistent street scene used to define this inner east gateway to downtown Portland, but the transformation of a former Travel Lodge into the hipster The Jupiter Hotel has helped turn this district into a worthy shopping outpost.

While Dane Wilson’s painting called Andy’s Island looks like trees reflected in water, it’s more complicated than that. The trees and their reflection are the barcodes of books about Andy Warhol.

While most people just see letters as a way to form words, book artist Malini Gupta sees them as art.