Toronto Craft Alert

The Art of Selling – a workshop for crafters
with Mary Breen, owner of Wise Daughters Craft Market

• Are you talented with your hands but afraid to “pitch” your product?
• Are you at a loss as to how to price your wares?
• Do you really know your market?

This workshop is for people who want to break into the retail market, or expand sales.

Prepare yourself for the fall craft show season with new strategies for success.

After 18 months of operating Wise Daughters Craft Market (and constantly [...]

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8 week Plastique Fantastique at nanopod: Hybrid Studio!
Learn how to sculpt, make molds, carve, add pigments, found materials, sand and polish polyurethane resins.
6:30-9:30pm, 8 weeks, 1 evening per week
Starts Monday August 16th, $250pp includes all materials! ($100 deposit to hold space) 8 people max.

Participants will learn how to properly create open-face and two-part molds for casting Polyurethane resins.
How-to properly mix and pour resins, add pigments, embed various materials, different finishing/polishing
techniques and health and safety issues will be covered

Resource lists of local suppliers will be [...]

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Natural Dying Workshop
Calling all chemists, chefs, colourists, alchemists, magicians! Learn how to coax colour into your yarns and fibres the old fashioned way! Local and exotic foods and plants can be transformed into beautiful dyes with a wide range of colours. In this class you will learn the myriad of possibilities inherent in the art of “natural dying”. Students will get the opportunity to prepare fibres for dying, and then dye [...]

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Have you ever heard of wet felting?

Now is your chance to learn this amazing craft.

Explore the wonderful world of wet felting and learn how wool fibers bond together to make unique designs. Your finished product will be a felted flower and a 2-D felted piece of cloth that can be used as a wall hanging or sewn on a cushion.

COST: $55 (including materials)
Sunday, May 30 [...]

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Workshops at KOZO Studio for May & June 2010!

Introduction to Letterpress (max. 3 participants):

* Sat. May 15
* Sat. June 5
* Sun. June 6
* Sat. June 12

$90.00 + $4.50 GST
(All “Introduction to Letterpress” workshops take place from 9:30 am – 1 pm)

Letterpress 1 (max. 3 participants, must have Introduction to Letterpress or equivalent)

* May 16, 10 – 4:30 pm
* June 13, 10 – 4:30 pm

Covering registration and adding a second colour

Working Washi (max. 4 participants)
Explore the surface treatments of suminagashi (Japanese marbling), orizome (folded style [...]

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Join us at BLUEBIRD HANDMADE to felt five blossoms on a branch to brighten your room, or for mom on Mother’s Day.

Tuesday April 27th at 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $55

To register, please call 416 535 3232
Bluebird Handmade
986 Bathurst St.
info@bluebirdhandmade.com | www.bluebirdhandmade.com

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