Toronto Craft Alert

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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We are new upscale clothing and accessory designer boutique for Men and Women looking for Fashion Designers, Jewelers, Milliners and Artisans.

We understand that fashion retail is an expensive business.  So we are offering an excellent opportunity for new, upcoming, and veteran Designers to establish, expand or relocate their business in the trendy Queen Street East neighbourhood of Leslieville.

Fixtures, shelving, racks, store design, utilities, sales terminal, advertising, Staff, and upkeep are all included in your rent.  No Commission or annoying “extras” are taken from your sales.  Designers keep 100% of [...]

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March Class Schedule

8 week jewellery making classes will be starting on:

* Monday March 15th, 2010 (Into/intermed Fabrication)
* Thursday March 25th, 2010 (Inro/Intermed enameling)
* Wednesday March 30th, 2010 (Intro/Intermed Casting)

1 day jewellery making workshops will be on:

* Saturday March 6th, 2010 (Ring Workshop)
* Saturday March, 13th, 2010 (Enameling Workshop)
* Saturday March 20th, 2010 (Pendant Workshop)
* Sunday March 21th, 2010 (Enameling Workshop)
* Saturday March 27th, 2010 (Incorporating Goldsmithing Techniques into Beaded Work)
* Saturday March 28th, 2010 (Ring Workshop)

For more information, [...]

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MARCH WORKSHOPS AT WISE DAUGHTERS

Streetknit
Tues, March 9, 7 – 9 pm

Drop in to the first of these monthly knit nights to support Streetknit, a voluntary organization which supplies warm woolies to Toronto’s homeless population.

Raucous Resin
Part one, March 3, 7 – 9 pm
Part two, March 10, 7 – 8:30 pm

Billi Jo Cox will show you how to embed almost anything in resin to create jewellery that really makes a personal statement! $65 includes all materials.

Encaustic Mixed Media Collage
Level 1, March 27, 10 – 5
Level [...]

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Is it that time already? Yes, it sure is and we’re so excited!

THE 2010 SPRING PREVIEW OF NEW INVENTORY FROM THE JUICY BEAD LADIES

Date: Saturday February 26, 10:30am – 3:30pm
Location: That Bead Lady, 390 Davis Drive in Newmarket

You don’t think we were resting on our laurels all winter, now do you?
We scoured dusty warehouses, dug around in damp basements, and racked up the kilometres searching the vault for vintage lucite beads

OK, so they’re not really in vaults, but sometimes they [...]

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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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