Liz Strausz is the artist and owner of Blue Heron Artworks in Seattle, Washington. She's married to her husband, who is very supportive of her business by letting Liz take over a portion of the garage. She has three wonderful children in middle, high school and college who have been her inspiration for playing with art.
Liz has always loved color ever since she was small. It began with the 64 crayon box where she would sort and arrange the crayons in pleasing patterns. With each new creative medium she would try, colors and pattern always attracted and made her happy. Liz's journey of creating of functional art included sewing her own clothes in middle and high school, knitting sweaters and mittens in college, creating custom baby quilts for all her friends babies, designing paper patterned ink prints, making clay wall tile for her kitchen with her kids, beading necklaces and earrings, and tie dyeing at her Unitarian Univeralist family camp. The tie dyeing was so gratifying because of the infinite possibilities of combining colors and creating serendipitous patterns. The Seattle Seahawks are her inspiration for her "Happy Hawks Fan" line of scarves. |
Individually hand dyeing scarves give Liz a way to play with colors and patterns. A business was born when her friends told her they wanted to buy her scarves. The first scarf she created called "Vincent's Garden" she sold right off her neck at church.
The Scarf Party Fundraiser idea came about to help support her best friend, Lisa, raise funds for Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Lisa's daughter, Katrina, has been living with Crohn's since 5th grade. This is a tough disease to live with especially as a child. The scarf party was so fun and gratifying that she decided to offer these parties to anyone who wants to raise funds for their charity of choice.
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