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IT CAME FROM THE FORUM: Janet Morton, Carving for Beginners, Bazaar of the Bizarre Vendor Call

jen — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:29:52 +0000

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Janet Morton Unravelling: things are not as they used to be

via tara-b:

Janet Morton at *QueenSpecific

Canadian fibre art hero Janet Morton has a fantastic knitted installation up right now in the *QueenSpecific window on Queen Street West, right next to Dufflet Pastries. Why not grab a hot [...]

GET SCHOOLED: Seminars at Lee Valley (Winter/Spring 2011)

jen — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:30:19 +0000

Ok, nerdy/pathetic confession (you can expect a lot of these in the new TCA!): I occasionally drop by the downtown Lee Valley store to pick up woodworking hardware for my sweetie, and I like to pretend that I’m in there for my own dude-like purposes. Of course there are plenty of lady-woodworkers, plus non woodworking reasons to be at Lee Valley, but for some reason I feel extra hardcore while I’m there and find some extra strut in my step when I exit on to [...]

EXHIBITION: Out of Hand (May 6-14, reception: May 6)

rosalyn — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:58:55 +0000

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CRAFTY BIZ: Two Toques Design at IDS10 (January 21-24)

jen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:49:21 +0000

My husband Mike Kennedy will be showing at the Interior Design Show this year, and I wanted to invite you all out to check out his truly fine (If I do say so myself) work in Studio North, Limited Edition Booth SN-34. I have been living under a solid blanket of wood dust, huddling under our duvet to keep warm while the apartment airs out after another round of oiling & varnishing, and plugging my ears while the thickness planer roars as he’s been preparing over the past couple of months, [...]

CRAFTY BIZ: Business & Passion on Fine Woodworking

jen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:41:40 +0000

The author, Adam King

Today my husband, who is a custom furniture maker, sent me this piece from a section on FineWoodworking.com called “Reflections from the workshops”. In it a woodworker muses about where he went wrong trying to start a woodworking biz from a conventional business standpoint. Despite its title, “This secret cost me $20,000, but I’ll let you have it for free.” I didn’t find that it provided a concrete answer to a dilemma that many of us face – how to make our life’s passion financially [...]