Toronto Craft Alert

Tea Time by - luz -, on Flickr

Having Tealish – my favourite tea spot – down the street from me is one of the things I am missing about Toronto, and I was happy to receive their most recent newsletter about growing and brewing herbal teas in my inbox.   One of the things I am loving about our new Hamilton digs is watching plants and flowers reveal their identities one by one in our front and backyard (oh, [...]

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Next weekend (Sat. June 21st) TCA will be doing outreach at the BIG on Bloor Festival alongside a whole bunch of neat-o arts & community groups and craft businesses (Table K18 in the block from Ossington to Shaw). We’ll have some cute new TCA merch for sale, are offering a bookbinding activity courtesy of Nightjar Books at around 5pm, and have teamed up with the kids of Streetknit to present a Community Blanket Making activity and chat about housing issues from 2-3pm.

Knitters & other yarnsmiths take [...]

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Felted Tea Cozy
Saturday May 31th, 2008
2:00-5:00pm
$65 per class, includes materials

Phoenix Arts Group provides a variety of classes for children and adults. The programs bring therapeutic benefits through artistic exercises that make use of four main modalities: painting, handwork, drawing & modeling. We also provide Corporate Art Based events, Parties and other group events that are both fun and educational.

Contact:
Kathie Young
416-304-0647
33 Harbour Square

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In this edition of Crafty Business, Laura-Jean offers some tips on how to think outside the box when applying for jobs where grey suits and cubicles are not part of the picture.

I recently posted a job listing, and got a flurry of applications. I was surprised by how many of them were very “by the books” applications, like you might be taught in school. For a creative job like this, I just skipped over them, and when one applicant asked for [...]

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If this retail concept proposed by Michelle of MaRGie Jewellery Studio sounds up your alley, please contact her at michelle@margiejewellery.com.

I’d like to open a retail store (my preference is Queen/Spadina area but I could be convinced otherwise) where approx. 4 other artists/crafters work out of. There would be a gallery space for selling artists work but mainly the store would be class focused. All the artists would have their own SEPARATELY functioning business but would share in rent, insurance (?), [...]

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i spent a belated mother’s day weekend with my own mom. i took her to the cherry blossom high tea at the knit cafe, and re-learned to knit. this time i am going continental-style, since it looks like it’s much quicker than english style. any one out there with experience in both? tips on advantages/disadvantages?as part of the Toronto Craft Alert’s goal to galvanize the city’s craft community, we’d like to get a bit of a discussion going. discuss any crafty topic you like… we’ll [...]

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