Elegant Decay at the Flea Market

"Elegant Decay by Martha" now has its own space at the Readstown Flea Market. The new booth is located right next to the original booth "Paperworks by Karen & Martha".

The Elegant Decay booth will carry more of the oddball and offbeat items that I love to create.

Baby doll art and objects, along with the strange and macabre...I've got it. Vintage pin up girl art and advertising items. Hand made greeting cards and unusual items. Check it out!

Crazy Frank's Readstown Flea Market Store #1 Vendor #89 Highway 131, downtown next to the church in Readstown, Wisconsin.

Things Are Great!

lots of fun and new items coming out of my studio. Sales at all of my venues are doing well. Life is good!

Hot and Buggy

Super hot temperatures and constant rain mean lots of gnats and biting flies in our Hollow. But it's nice and cool in my studio and I'm getting lots of new artwork done.

Ready For a Busy Tourist Season

Elegant Decay is ready for summer and ready all the tourists that visit our Driftless Area.

The Planted Tree in Prairie du Chien, WI has many, many of my items and new artwork and antiques are brought in every month.

The Paisley Star in Boscobel has a beautiful display wall of my artwork and is also selling my greeting cards New items are added frequently.

And "Paperworks by Karen and Martha" located in the Readstown Flea Market is absotootly packed with stuff. Karen and I are refilling the space as fast as things sell!

Customer Appreciation Day, April 13

"Paperworks by Karen and Martha", locatedin Readstown, Wisconsin on Hwy 131, will be offering 20% off every single item in TWO booths on Saturday, April 13. Karen and I will be volunteering that day, see you there! 10am - 5pm

Paperworks by Karen and Martha

"Paperworks" is a collaboration between rural Gays Mills artist, Karen Riddet, and myself. We both work with paper to create our art and knew that our pieces would complement each other.

Karen is selling her beautiful quilling, or paper filigree. It's an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Karen has been involved in the arts most of her life, with an associate degree in art. Her work has transitioned over the years from acrylic painting to creating hand made 1/12th scale miniatures and now to quilling.

I will be selling my vintage dressmaker's pattern art, paper doll collages, vintage paper artwork and my photography. My Elegant Decay art is the process of deconstructing and reconstructing to create something new and beautiful out of something old and discarded. I only started doing artwork in 2014, after retiring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Karen and I will also be selling antiques, collectibles and curiosities.

Our stall,Vendor #88, is at "Crazy Frank's Readstown Flea Market Located on Hwy. 131.

Open Wednesday - Sunday, from 10 am - 5 pm.

An Amazing Year

It's been an amazing year for Elegant Decay by Martha, but it's not over yet! December promises to be a busy time with new artwork and donations being made to several local fundraisers. I'm also in in the talking stages of a new venture with another local artist. Stay tuned!