Toronto Craft Alert

I was lurking the upcoming Erotic Arts and Craft Show‘s website the other day and was pretty blown away by some of the work that will be featured this year. Big ups to Come As You Are for making this event happen annually for the past six years!

The 6th Annual Erotic Arts and Crafts Show
at the Gladstone Hotel
February 11th, 2012

Every year at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Come As You Are hosts Canada’s only Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair. Since their opening [...]

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City of Craft & the workroom‘s annual Valentines & junk sale is here again! Here’s where crafty folk with great taste purge their supplies, vintage clothing and goodies, and other delightful wares alongside their own handmade works. Details below and beautiful bunnies above by Selena Wong.

City of Craft & the workroom present
The Love & Rummage Trunk Show 4
Sunday February 5, 2012
Noon-5pm
the workroom
1340 Queen Street West
http://www.cityofcraft.com/2012/loveandrummage/index.html

Show your love with local, handmade wares.

Free Gift [...]

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Zine haul from the last XPACE zine fair. Photo by Fiona Smyth, courtesy of her blog, The Wilding.

Zines make great stocking stuffers! Spread the zine gospel this holiday season by buying a heap of them at XPACE’s zine fair this coming weekend, and gift them to your friends and family. The fair will have handmade items, prints and other great stuff, too.

2ND ANNUAL XPACE ZINE FAIR
Saturday December 17, 2011, 12pm-6pm
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington [...]

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I mentioned this workshop briefly earlier this week, but thought I’d let you all know in more detail what myself & my pal Day will be going over in our DIY gift wrapping workshop at City of Craft tomorrow (!).

Bohemian Wrapsody
With Jen and Day
Saturday December 10th, 2011 – 4:00pm-6:00pm
At City of Craft 2011
The Theatre Centre , 1087 Queen Street West

Found some amazing, made-by-hand gifts for your special someones at City of Craft? Don’t dull your giftly treasures [...]

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Vendor Hooray at Handmade Holiday 2011

With new jobs, school finals & running a giant show among the things keeping us up at night this holiday season, TCA has not had the chance to put together a list of holiday shows for y’all to sink your teeth in to.  Luckily several major local news sources have been doing the job for us, and with a doozy craft fair weekend coming up in a couple of days I wanted to share [...]

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In my biased (though I like to think educated) opinion, City of Craft gets better and better each year. To wit, the 2011 show, coming up this weekend (!) features:

• An awesome new space (thanks Thrush Holmes Empire!) to house an expanded rosters of 55 hand-picked vendors of art, housewares, apparel, jewellery accessories, wood work, ceramics, textiles, handmade supplies, paper goods, children’s wares and more hailing from from Montreal, Philadelphia, Rochester, Pittsburgh and (mostly) The GTA & Southern Ontario. Visit [...]
  

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