Wicked Love - CFW/African Sand/Stankin Studio/Terra Treasures
We have a real treat in store for our readers this week here in the Wicked Love house. Wow….that sounds like fun. Wicked Love house? Hmmmm…Wickedly Chic reader and advertiser, Cynthia Fardan has presented our readers with some amazing sites that she designed and is involved with.
I asked the smart and savvy Cynthia to tell us how she got started with her design site, CFW Designs and she tells us, “I started creating web sites using code when I pressed the HTML button of a drag & drop site and could not take it back. Since, I did not have a job at that time, this time was given to me to keep my mind occupied and focused, the internet became my classroom. I learned everything I needed to finish that now non-existent drag & drop site. I learned site design, development, hosting and other information that is need to get the site onto search engines. I am still learning and have come to realize that the key to this whole learning anything online is a proper search. I am known to the people around me as The Queen of Search.”
Fardan continues, “As I progressed in my obsession of learning to create a site, a stained glass artist who happens to be my sister, Angela Smith, needed a site to display her passion. That was the beginning of my beautiful African Sand Stained Glass relationship. There is a gift for everyone and everything is brilliant, colorful glass. I am attracted to how the daylight and the night light seems to make each piece look different throughout the day. I would like to have one of every piece that Angie labors over. My collection is growing little by little.” Angela’s art has been featured in many places including the Maryland Historical Society and HGTV.
“One of our artist friends, who needed to display his work for the world to view, is Derrick Johnson of Stankin Studio. As long as I have known him, he has been creating something FUNKY. Make it funky, make it funky! My daughter still has one of his clocks from 1990, which is one of his original hand painted metal D’anTell clocks. It is still keeping good time. The clock was given to my daughter, Nia, for assisting him at the Fells Point Festival in Baltimore, Maryland in 1990 where we were all vendors that year. In designing Derrick’s site as with all of the sites that are created, I try to project the personality and to highlight the artistic gifts of the artist. This also means that each site is a work of art.”
Sorry Derrick, I would be remiss if I left out your bold slogan, “Do You Shmell Shumpthin? 10 Times Funkier than Doo Doo.” Mr. Johnson provides his discerning customers with wonderful options such as this colorful “throne” for all of their toileting needs. If you are looking for a thoughtful gift for a special recipient, I would give Stankin Studio a thorough look.
Cynthia Fardan’s own artwork is brilliantly highlighted in her Terra Treasures site. As she likes to tell it, “In the beginning, there was clay and from that clay evolved Terra Treasures. Our grandfather had a farm and we, as children, spent a lot of time on the farm playing outside. The clay became part of our play. Everyday! There is no smell sweeter then the smell of wet earth. Mixing, making and baking mud pies in the sun, what fun! It was not until college that the clay came back into our lives. In 1991, Terra Treasures was born. Terra meaning earth and Treasures because the clay is one of the gifts that comes from the earth. Hence the name Terra Treasures, Gifts from the Earth. Today, Terra Treasures not only showcases our artwork but also other talented artists.”
What a great group of artists! Whether you are looking for a gift or something unique for your own home, start your shopping right here.
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