Toronto Craft Alert

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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Soy candles by Amy’s Place

Crafternoon Tea was the very first craft show I sold at in Toronto, and as someone who loves tea, tea-related treats, and customers with a geniune appreciation for handmade works, it was a great experience for me. Now in its 7th year, CT is still bringing sweet treats and handmade holiday goodness to the east end. Read on for details, and check out the poster at the bottom for a primer on independent holiday shows happening all over [...]

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Kensington Market is the place to be December 3rd if you are in the market (har har) for handmade awesomeness. Veteran craft & design purveyors Kid Icarus will be hosting a craft fair with a stellar looking line up at College and Bellevue, and just down the street, the newish and adorable Nook Collective will be throwing their own craft & design party at their Holiday Sale (also on December 10th). Check out their cute posters and see you there!

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