Marblehead.Works Welcomes The Crazy Candy Lady!

We are excited to welcome aboard The Crazy Candy Lady who aims to provide a magical experience and capture the unique spirit of Marblehead.

Summer Fun Seashore Sweet Collection

Marblehead.Works will be offering a wide variety of unique candy gift collections curated by The Crazy Candy Lady that will be perfect for all your gift giving needs, whether you would like to send a sweet Mother's Day gift, summer camp care package to your child, or a get well gift to a loved one.

Super Sweet Camper Care Package

Our gourmet candy collections will be the perfect choice for all special occasions and holidays.

For the young and young at heart, The Crazy Candy Lady delights the child in everyone. 

Marblehead.Works Welcomes Artist Susan J Schrader!

We are excited to be welcoming artist Susan J Schrader to our family of artisans and small businesses who exemplify the best that Marblehead has to offer! Marblehead.Works, launching May 19th, will offer an online shopping portal that will showcase a curated selection of the finest wares from Marblehead's local artisans and businesses. Visit us online or follow us on Facebook

Pink Sandy Dance 

Susan J Schrader Artist Statement

My work is about life. About release. About letting go. About giving oneself up to what life has to offer: happiness, love, friendship, wonderment, grasping/releasing.  My paintings show my love of drawing! I draw very organically with the India ink on the blank canvas and see what creatures will come to life. Then I begin to add my color – I’m in love with bright, vibrant colors and loads of detail — dots upon dots! My paintings are about life and love and friendships. They are about relationships within yourself as well as with other people and moments in life.

       I Love You More Than All the Stars #2

 I communicate emotions through the simplicity of my quirky, little figures. These creatures live amongst themselves on their own or together in a moment in time. How they themselves interact with each other upon the surface of the canvas invites us to perhaps ponder how we feel when we are faced with a moment in our own lives that brings us connection to someone or something.

          Soaring Night Skies

I enjoy the work of Chagall, Alice Neel, Matisse, Cy Twombly, Giacometti and Quentin Blake to name a few. Each of these artist focuses on the importance of drawing, composition and emotion. Their use of color, texture and line build towards a single snapshot of our world.

My drawings/paintings on canvas are created intuitively and organically. There is no pre-drawing or pre-conceived ideas. My paintings are about mark-making and the activity that happens right on the surface of the canvas. There is hardly any depth or implied perspective.  It is created with drawings done in India ink, and painted with acrylic paints, varnishes and textured mediums. I hand made the wooden stretcher. The cotton canvas is of high quality and has been prepared with many layers of gesso ground. Most paintings are framed with a handmade painted or varnished frame.

      Dancing Down The Slopes

My work is about plunging into the moment with my pen nib and ink. My method relies on my reaction to the first figure that finds his/her way onto the surface of the canvas. I am aware of both the positive and negative spaces as I am drawing and how these spaces relate to the marks and the development of textures and color. The spontaneous gestures and movements of the figures allows the viewer to see their own connections to themselves or to another.

Marblehead.Works Welcomes Aboard Shipshape!

Whale Collection

We are excited to welcome Shipshape, one of Marblehead's flagship nautical gift boutiques, to Marblehead.Works! Shipshape describes itself as offering the "uncommonly nautical with unexpected necessities" which fits in perfectly with our goal of bringing the best of Marblehead to you.

Starfish Collection

Shipshape has been described as a "sailor's dream".  This shop features local artisans and New England made gifts.

Shipshape's nautical home decor brings the feel of the beach into your home and is perfect for styling any room in your house into a seaside getaway. Marblehead.Works will offer a curated selection of Shipshape's art, decorative accents, lighting, pillows, rugs and model sailboats that will help bring the beachy feel to your home. 

Seaside Collection

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Marblehead.Works, showcasing our products to customers who are drawn to items reflecting a love of the Ocean” says Carol Moore, Owner of Shipshape. “Their passion and dedication to supporting our Town’s local economy and helping to reach customers beyond our town limits, is admirable.” 

Marblehead.Works Welcomes Aboard Patsy Kane!

Marblehead.Works is thrilled to welcome Patsy Kane's nautically inspired jewelry to our offerings!

Working from her Marblehead Studio in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and inspired by the coast, Patsy Kane hopes her jewelry brings you a "bit of salt air, fair winds, sand and sunshine".

Summer Bracelets

These Summer bracelets are reminiscent of the rope bracelets worn all summer in days gone by.  These nylon cord Summer bracelets, handmade in her studio, come in a variety of colors and fasten with a working marine grade stainless steel or solid brass shackle, so you can take them on and off (if you want to!).

Marblehead Starfish Pendant

Patsy Kane's exclusive Marblehead Starfish pendant is a sweet little starfishie! Designed in our studio and cast in sterling silver - made with pride in New England!

Pendant comes with a sterling silver cable chain with three sizes to choose from, or, with a 16" sterling silver omega chain.

Monkey Fist Earring

Monkey Fist knots were originally tied around a weighted object and used as the end of a heaving line on sailing ships. Patsy Kane's Monkey Fist Knot Earrings, constructed out of nylon cord knots on a base metal post, are available in six perfect colors to compliment your nautical style! Each pair comes packaged in our round silver tin. 






Marblehead.Works, an online boutique showcasing a curated selection of the finest wares from our coastal town's artisans and local businesses, will launch May 19th.

Marblehead Hollyhock Garden - Northshore Home - Spring 2016

You can’t miss them. Drive by the Marblehead home of Pam and Paul Dougovito in July and you’ll notice the usual display of patriotic bunting, but that’s not what stops traffic. What causes the skid marks when passersby throw on the brakes is the megadose of hollyhocks beyond your wildest dreams. Imagine nine-foot spires touching the skies. Line those spikes with dozens of big, open-faced blooms in an otherworldly color range. And then multiply the whole shebang times 200 or more. Rumor has it that Marblehead was once rife with hollyhocks, but scant evidence remains except the wallop of towering blossom spires in the Dougovito front yard.

Pam admits that she didn’t see the hollyhocks coming. Sure, the house had the vestiges of some perennials in evidence when the realtor showed it off on Memorial Day of 1993. When they closed on the shoreline house in August, maybe seven or eight hollyhocks were in the picture. But coming from a hollyhock-deprived background, Pam didn’t really recognize the plants. Growing up in Ohio, she thought she’d been exposed to all aspects of gardening by the “sergeant general” of the local garden club (who came around to each home to perform white-gloved inspections and critiques), but hollyhocks were not part of the local agenda. For all those reasons, the hollyhocks took the Dougovitos by complete surprise when they began to spruce up and feed the front yard.

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Marblehead Hollyhock Garden - Northshore Home - Spring 2016