Gift Shop of Galleywinter Arts

The Gift Shop of Galleywinter Arts is open!

Creative folks of all sorts seem to be attracted to the little piece of heaven found at Galleywinter. The creation of the Gift Shop is a celebration of the meaning and connection that local artists have found in Galleywinter. See examples of their art work below and read more about the artists of Galleywinter here.

Discoveries and experiences while trail riding, camping or just puttering around horseback warranted documentation so suitable journals and pommel bags were created. Adorning the horse is an age-old tradition and still alive today - ala the buckaroos of the sagebrush basin, the Mongolians and Tibetans, among many other horsepeoples. We love to carry on this tradition in our own way with beautiful gear, jewelry, and arts.

Journals

If you love to write, or would like to cultivate this lovely personal practice, it helps to have a journal that invites you to it, that wants to be touched. Handwriting on paper with a pen or pencil feeds the senses and helps us remember better what we've written down. Journals are like a "bucket" for catching the stream of creative awareness that flows when you're with a horse - hanging out or riding out.

In the office, Gail suggests clients pause, notice, and record their food choices, energy levels and thoughts, a food journal was welcome. At Galleywinter we needed a small and durable pommel bag journal for our trail rides. Then we needed a "pocket" journal, small enough to fit in any pocket and able to hold a pencil. We wanted a horsemanship journal as beautiful and well -made as our horses. We also needed a full size writers' journal for open ended reflective writing, one of the best and cheapest self-referred therapies there is. We made them all and use them with great pleasure! Galleywinter Arts' handmade journals were born!

Nothing but the finest papers are used for covers and inside pages. All are sewn with linen thread in great colors.

Horsemanship journals are letterpress printed with a Horse of Life design painted by Gail's mother, Edith Todter. This lovely image has graced Galleywinter t-shirts for many years.

"Thank you so much for the beautiful horse journal. I'm going to use it for recording special moments with my new little rescue horse."

The prices for the hand-sewn journals are:
Pocket Journals 3 x 4" $ 10
Writer's Journal 8.5 x 11 $28

Letterpress Printed Horse of Life Journals:
3 sections 5.5 x 7.5" $25

Bindings on letter press journals.

Putting pen to paper is great therapy.

Artists and writers journals in great colors.

Sterling Silver Jewelry

Rain, the silversmith behind Blue Mountain Silver, believes that jewelry is a source of connection to and a reminder of our inner strength and beauty. Jewelry is both a tool of revelry and delight, as well as armor for hard days.

Rain started Blue Mountain Silver in April of 2023, and she seeks to capture a feeling of wonderment that she calls 'presence' in her work.

Rain uses sterling silver for all of her pieces and most often turquoise stones for her pieces, but others make appearances. See more of Rain's work at BlueMountainSilver.com

Contact:

Rain Sabin

BlueMtnSilver@gmail.com

(434) 466-3250

In a rather divine way
Rain is a student of the horse.
(and she likes to make jewelry in divine shapes of silver, turquoise, and more.)
To me, her feather ring signifies the lightness I like to feel with my horses - and in myself.

- Gail Todter

Hickory Bark

Hickory emphasizes the strength and enduring characteristics of one’s natural abilities as they are used and developed. Creations from hickory bark are wonderful to wear with their unique beauty, figure, and toughness.

Bark cuffs If you love wood, its grain, and imperfections, then Wear it!! These cuffs made from hickory bark are all different, beautiful, and extremely durable. Gail makes these cuffs and wears hers all the time - for working with the horses or dressing up for dinner out.

Bark clips are really fun on the journals to mark your place - and provide a nice bit of beauty in your day. They also work great on a collar or to close a scarf.

Bark containers made of white birch called Makukoonse were used by numerous Eastern Woodland tribes - Ojibwe, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Seneca, and Mohawk. We are using these as a model for our pine and hickory bark containers. They have a snug-fitting wood lid with a leather pull. Very durable, and great in your saddle bag, glove box, or purse for supplements, medicinals, needles, thread, or other small items.

Spider Slates

Dabney's spider slates are completely unique and tailored to nature lovers. Her art is created using a real spider web that has been sprayed down on a piece of slate.

The first thing customers ask is, "Did you paint this? It looks just like a real spider web." Dabney tells them, "No, it looks real because it is real." Dabney sprays the slate with unique polyurethane blend to protect the web and make the art piece durable.

Dabney's work invites touch, and people are often drawn to it.

Dabney does her best to make sure the spiders who are kind enough to lend her their web are not hurt, and she lets the spiders go so that they can weave other webs for her. All of the webs Dabney is selling are from spiders around her house, and it takes all summer to collect them. Dabney's work can be displayed at your home on a stand, near a window or on a display table.

Prices:

$12 for small coaster sized webs

$25-$40 for middle sized webs

$60 for big ones.

Handspun Yarn

Gail loves to spin fleeces into yarn that has a lot of texture, color and character.

You'll find natural creams, greys, browns and blacks that knit into amazingly beautiful wear-on-the-farm or anywhere sweaters. Local growers provide wonderful fleeces for handspinning. Romney and romney crosses, coopworth, alpaca all end up as gorgeous handspun yarns.

Market/computer bag woven of Galleywinter fibers made by Laurie Gunderson