An Arts & Crafts Vancouver Weekend

Emily Carr's Legendary Student Art Sale
Emily Carr University
Concourse Gallery, North Building
Friday, November 27 from noon-8pm
Saturday, November 28 from noon-5pm
Sunday, November 29 from noon-5pm
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
Vancouver, B.C.

Choose from a wide variety of original paintings, photographs, prints, ceramics, sculpture, wearable works, artists books and more. This is your opportunity to purchase creations from Emily Carr's up-and-coming artists and designers. Over 100 artists will be represented at this once-a-year event!



Toque Craft Sale at Western Front
Friday, November 27: 6pm - 9pm
Saturday, November 28: 11am - 5pm
Western Front
303 East 8th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C.
front.bc.ca

Look for local favourites like Cabin + Cub and Crooked Walker.

A Spring Handmade Market

Apfelstrudel
If you're in the Toronto area the weekend of May 16th, and you're wanting to check out an awesome handmade market, there's an event happening on Saturday, May 16th at The Gladstone Hotel. Debra Norton of Vintage Paper Parade along with other Toronto-based Etsians are hosting A Spring Handmade Market!

Mr. Sköna
Sartoria
Lee Meszaros
Snap & Tumble
Vintage Paper Parade

Indie I do, Coco Cake Cupcakes & Cake and Lemonade

If you're in the Vancouver area this weekend, and are planning a wedding, the Indie I Do is a fun alternative wedding show happening Saturday, January 17th at Vancouver's Heritage Hall. Featuring 30 local independent, alternative wedding vendors, including fashion, handmade accessories, letterpress, photographers and one of our favorite pastimes, cupcakes! Coco Cake Cupcakes will be hosting a cupcake bar there, along with their sister company, Cake and Lemonade, a super 8 wedding films company I posted about this past summer. Other vendors include Sunlit Letterpress, It's Your Life (Vintage accessories, japanese fabric), The Mustache Press and more!

Saturday, January 17th, 2009
11am - 6pm
Heritage Hall
3102 Main Street
Vancouver British Columbia

the royal bison craft & art fair - edmonton

Another fun looking fair, this time in northern Alberta (old stomping grounds) at the The Royal Bison Craft and Art Fair, running November 29 and 30th at the Old Strathcona Famer's Market (8426 Gateway Blvd), Edmonton, Alberta. (10 - 5 pm). Look for the works from artists such as Amanda Woodward who's selling her cute puff puff ornaments along with her Twelve Days of Christmas prints.

second storie indie market - rochester, ny

There looks like a great market this weekend if you're in the Rochester, New York area. The Second Storie} Indie Market (filled with many of our favorite artists and designers from the northeast and beyond) opens November 29 & 30 at the Visual Studies Workshop. There will be a band, hot cider and good times to be had.

Second Storie} Indie Market
VIisual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, New York 14607

One of a Kind Show - Vancouver

This weekend was the first ever One of a Kind Show here in Vancouver so I took a trip down to check it out. I was suprised not only how big it was, but also at the participation from crafters and artists south of the border. There was representation as far south as New Orleans, but the majority came from the Pacific Northwest.

Seattle-based Leif Holland from Square Room Gallery.




Beautiful ceramics from Emily Carr University of Art & Design


Various artists represented by redtruckgallery.com out of New Orleans.


Organic cotton-based baby accessories and clothing from Victoria's Dress Me Up.

Some fun things were floating about the booth shared by Regional Assembly of Text, Blim and Malaspina Printers. (All items shown from Regional Assembly of Text - apologies for the blurry photos here - it was so crowded in that little booth - it was nearly impossible to take any photos). Note: Malaspina Printers had some beautiful prints and to be honest I felt strange to take pictures there - but they are having a Winter Print Festival this coming Thursday, Nov. 27th from 6 - 8pm. They are located on Granville Island at 1555 Duranleau Street. malaspinaprintmakers.com.


And finally our purchases, a "Matters of Importance" chalkboard from Regional Assembly of Text and a Typewriter pillow" from Track and Field designs.

Treatzone Preview at Renegade SF

Oh the Renegade is coming to San Francisco (the 1st annual) this weekend and I've got a sneak peek from the folks at Treatzone today. This is their first big craft fair, and they're bringing some new items with them like their "Gilded and Gelded" gocco prints over watercolor (gotta love those), button trios made from vintage wrapping paper and sheet music, vintage alphabet buttons, and puzzlers--upcycled toys with the original art replaced with mini-collages from vintage papers and they will also be bringing all of the stationery and prints they currently sell on Etsy. And they are also going to do a nice little re-cap of the fair for us here which we should have for you Monday if you're like us, want to see it all!

blog: treatzone.com
etsy: treatzone.etsy.com
flickr: flickr.com/photos/sandy_c

Renegade madness part 2!

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All right - so Saturday ended so soggy and wet - it continued to storm all night, but thankfully cleared up by the morning. When we got everybody out of bed and loaded up for the fair, it was nice and cool and hazy. There were a few showers, early on, but nothing major, thankfully! Ok, enough about the weather, I'm starting to sound like my Granddaddy - (my bones were aching, too!)

Sunday seemed to bring just as many if not more crowds than Saturday and people were still running around checking out the stalls after 7pm! I was one of those crazies, trying to see everything while taking turns manning the booth and keeping track of the baby and dog with Mr. ab. So here's the 2nd installment of neat stalls and interesting stuff. Oh, and I want to send out a super apology to Pistachio Press (www.pistachiopress.com) for not getting a chance to stop by and say hi!

somethingshidinginhere




You have to love the display case - genius! And all the work fits in so nicely - where do you start - the hearts, the logs, or the wishbones? (or acorns or rock candy!) It was all witty and smart and delightful.

Bird and Banner




They had great cards and had the most lovely antique handkerchiefs that were silkscreened with sweet phrases like "home sweet home", "hi there" , and "when this you see think of me" . Their booth was so very nice and homey with the handkerchiefs hanging and blowing in the breeze.

Shared booth of Gavin and Lily) and my imaginary boyfriend




Beautiful jewelry at Gavin and Lily, and super fun faux bois pillows, deer pillows, note cards and totes from my imaginary boyfriend.

The Pinpals



Great cross stitched pins and outstanding puppets and tees!

Domestic Construction




They have the tea cup chandelier that was featured a few days ago -
and also sell individual teacup hanging lights and very smart little
dresses and tops. (the manneqin had on a paper mache' diving bell!)

Funcupcake




Great notecards and tee shirts and totes - with speakers, walrus, polar bear, and penguins! heck yes!

Owly shadow puppets




Fantastic. Seriously - we all need shadow puppets right now. now!

Cakehouse




Lovely pillows, napkins, and place mats - using recycled fabric.

Beacon Bookmarks




Very clever wooden bookmarks - read books not blogs! ha! My favorite bookmark said "analog".

Whew! I think it was close to 8:30 by the time we finally got the last few loads out - the pool looked much different without 200- ish stalls!




Thanks so much to Jan for having me as a guest - I had a great time! Now it's time to dig out from under the mess and get back to work!
Thanks again - Hope to see you all at Renegade Brooklyn 09!

Katherine
kg + ab
kg + ab etsy shop

Editors Note: Thank you Katherine!

Renegade Craft Fair Brooklyn - Day 1: covered by Katherine of kg & ab

The day started out super hot. By the time the fair opened at 11am we had all already broken out in a major sweat. I can't begin to explain how hot it was. We were dousing the dog and baby with water to keep them cool! After a busy, hot morning/early afternoon, I left our table to Mr. AB and decided to check out the rest of the goings on - in search of great booths and great stuff. I was very excited to browse the fair and meet some fellow crafters (especially fellow poppytalkhandmade marketeers) Here are a few stalls that caught my eye:

Dear Birthday (www.dearbirthday.wordpress.com) - they make very sweet underpants and tops and accessories. The work was so very nice - the fabrics are unique and the colors are great - and their stall was super well put together. Their burlap sign is impressive -(complete with a unicorn) and they even had a changing room to try things on.



Sycamore Street Press (www.sycamorestreetpress.com) had a fantastic set up and incredible paper goods. Smaller items were displayed in milk glass containers and pyrex and she used vintage suitcases to show items as well. The cards and paper goods are in the sweetest pinks, greens,browns - so very nice! You have to check out the photo mattes, too.




So then it began to sprinkle (notice how the photos have that pre-rain haze?), and right as I am talking to Sycamore Street Press about paper goods at fairs in the rain (what a pain that must be), it starts pouring. Wouldn't you know it. I run back to our stall - where we were trapped for about 2 and a half hours in the rain and lightning and thunder and flooding. Super Maggie was across from us and they kept having to push on their tent top to keep the water from collecting and sagging the tent. A super few donned ponchos and were browsing (maybe three people), but most everyone totally huddled in a tent and waited it out. It was crazy. Our stall totally flooded - at one point we had about two inches of water in it. Needless to say, by the time the downpour eased up most all had either already taken off, or were in the process.

down our "row" - you can see the rain drops!


Coco, our kg + ab mascot with our piles of junk that had to come out from under our table when our booth flooded! It was so crazy.


I will be back tomorrow with a (hopefully) much drier report, and (definitely) more artists and stalls! Only two stalls today! geesh!

Katherine
kg + ab
kg + ab etsy shop