FORKS ARTISAN CREATING TWILIGHT ITEMS

Forks-based artisan Bonny Dunker is creating and selling a wide variety of Twilight-related items, ranging from a skeleton-key, pink-ribbon bookmark to Twilight-themed buttons to which she adds clever phrases and vampire type.

Dunker said many of her products are inspired by passages in the four-book, Forks- and LaPush-set Twilight series written by author Stephenie Meyer.

“I try to encourage people to create art and photography, anything that’s connected,” she said of the growing market for Twilight-themed items on the Internet and in local stores. “I’m surprised there aren’t more people doing this.”

Her button themes include: “Somewhere Under the Rainbow Vampires Hunt,” “Forks - Where Rain is A Way of Life,” and a play on the fictitious diving cliff at LaPush author Meyer mentions, a theme she calls “Werewolf Swimming Hole.”

Dunker first heard about the Twilight books, she said, in 2006 when the first waves of Twilight fans began taking trips to the West End. “People were coming here, and most of us didn’t know what they were talking about,” she said of her meetings with Twilight fans at the summertime-run Forks Open Aire Market.

She sees an opening in the Twilight trade for wood carvers and other artisans. “This town has so many talented people,” she said.

The Twilight artisan’s father Claude Crocker made and sold pop-can whirly gigs on the West End, she said.

Dunker has lived in Forks for 19 years, and is active in the Rainforest Players. She is a graduate of Peninsula College, where she studies art and English.
She’s also the author of the children’s book “An Almost True Tale of Three Pigs & A Wolf,” which she self-published in 2000 employing Olympic Graphic Arts in Forks as her printer.

Look for Dunker’s products at Dazzled by Twilight and other stores in town, and on her Web site at www.Z3universe.com.