Toronto Craft Alert

Dear Shoppers,

Come to our SPRING SALE at 918 Bathurst: Culture, Arts, Media & Education Centre.
When: Saturday, April 17th
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: 918 Bathurst Street (One block north of Bloor Street)

Items for Sale:
• Antique remnants from Buddhist Temple
• Quality furniture
• Vintage clothing
• Toys
• and more!

918 Bathurst is a new centre supporting culture, arts, media and education. We support academic, artistic, health, personal and professional career programming with an emphasis on personal development.

For more information regarding the Spring Sale, please visit our website

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ABSOLUTELY VINTAGE SALE
Saturday April 17, from 10am-5pm

Carefully collected by fabulous Ontario estates, we offer an impressive assortment of men’s and women’s clothing from the 1890’s to the 1970’s!

The sale also includes antique costume jewelry, accessories, furnishings, and textiles, etc!

Gadabout, Angela McCool, and Eclectisaurus, combine their considerable inventories to make this a not to be missed sale.

Located in the Toronto Heritage Maple Cottage at 62 Laing Street. Click here for map.

Directions: The Queen east street car stops at Laing (2 [...]

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We wrap up our Design Week coverage with 2010 Come Up to My Room, the Gladstone Hotel’s contribution to Toronto International Design Festival.

Those of you who read our coverage of Radiant Dark and IDS know the drill:  Check out some lovely photos from photographer Danijela Pruginic (clicking here for more images & clicking on the images for artist info), and below you’ll find a review of the show from writer Adam Gorley.  We’d love to hear your feedback on these posts – whether [...]

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Here is the second installment of our coverage of the Toronto International Design Festival. After enjoying MADE’s Radiant Dark show, photographer Danijela Pruginic and writer Adam Gorley checked out the 2010 Interior Design Show, Canada’s largest contemporary design event which features 300 exhibitors, quite a different design animal.  Those of you who missed the show will appreciate these visual highlights by Danijela (more in the flickr set) and be sure to scroll down for a review by Adam.  Click on the photos for designer info.

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This is the first installment of our coverage of 3 of the major events happening this week as part of Toronto International Design Festival: Radiant Dark, Come Up to My Room, and the Interior Design Show.

We attended the opening for MADE’s Radiant Dark: Assets & Values in thematically-appropriate Commerce Court on Wednesday night, where photographer Danijela Pruginic and writer Adam Gorley captured the mood and imagery of this always-inspiring event.   It is on until Sunday January 24 so there is still time to [...]

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Attention dumpster divers & curbside scavengers: Jelena of Poppyseed Creative Living has shared a furniture painting tutorial with us, perfect for those pieces that have a great shape but are not in such great shape.

Re-painted sideboard table by Poppyseed Creative Living

::::Furniture painting tutorial::::

No matter how easy a job may seem, if you want to do it right you will need to put some effort into it. The same goes for painting. The secret lies in good preparation. Make sure that you work with quality tools, starting with paint, [...]

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