free downloadable stickers & earth hour!

Not to forget about Earth Hour Saturday evening! Click here to vote earth by turning off your lights for one hour - earth hour!

With earth love comes recycling and organization, and this week we lend you a helping hand - well, actually stickers, really - to help you organize your recycling materials. Since we are always confusing our own bins, we thought perhaps we weren’t alone in this department and fashioned these with the idea that they might help out. Download, print and stick them to the side/or top of your bins for easy reference. Click here (paper and glass) and here (newspaper and metal) to download.

On to the the fifth!

Every year the anniversary of this blog passes us by, don't know why, but we always seem to miss the exact day. But instead of looking back here, we look forward, now on to our fifth year, we look forward to more beautiful, more decayed and more handmade! Thank you for coming along, we hope to keep you coming back!

This image is of our favourites from our flickr we've collected slowly over time. Click here to view each one.

Call for Artists - Arts/Craft Show Listings! 2009

ONE OF A KIND SHOW - VANCOUVER

The folks at the One of a Kind Show & Sale, Vancouver are having a "Call for Submissions" for their show being held (for it's second round) this year at the Vancouver Convention Centre, October 8 - 11, 2009. The One of a Kind Vancouver is a shopping destination (show) with fashion shows, contests, seminars and some of North America’s finest artists and artisans! They are taking applications now. April 10, 2009 is their deadline. For more information: Visit oneofakindvancouver.com or email vancouver[at]oneofakindshow[dot]com.

AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL - (AltCraft) - SAN FRANCISCO



The American Craft Council is now accepting AltCraft applications for their show in San Francisco being held August 14 - 16. They'd really like to increase the presence of Canadian artisits (they just became eligible to participate this year!) Deadline for applications is Monday, April 27th, 2009, send submissions to altcraft[at]craftcouncil[dot]org or visit their website craftcouncil.org

THE RENEGADE CRAFT FAIR - LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO




2009 Renegade Craft Fair in Los Angeles! This year’s event will take place July 11 + 12 from 11am - 7pm, at the California Market Center. If you’re interested in applying to be a vendor, please read their FAQ and click here to apply. Applications will be accepted until May 1!



2009 Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco! This year’s event will take place July 18 + 19 from 11am - 7pm, at The Fort Mason’s Festival Pavillion If you’re interested in applying to be a vendor, please read their FAQ and click here to apply. Applications will be available until May 1.

Local Markets this weekend!

BLIM MONTHLY COMMUNITY MARKET


Blim a local community based art resource center has announced it's very First Monthly Main Street Community Market, supporting the unique independent creativity found in the Mount Pleasant community of Vancouver

Beginning in March, Blim will be presenting a monthly Main Street Community Market. The first Blim Community Market will take place at the Cambrian Hall on Main and 17th from 11–5 PM, and will be held consecutively on the last Sunday of every month.

The first community market will be this Sunday, March 29 from 11–5 PM, with over 30 vendors and additionally will feature a different live local music act each month, as well as hot food and beverages. Vendors include hand crafted edibles, fashion, jewellery, craft supplies, fine art, vintage clothing and jewellery, zines and records, and are not limited to crafts. There will be a focus on nurturing and promoting creative production in the community, both by cross-pollinating between different groups, and offering a forum for independent marketing. The live act this month is FINE MIST .

Some vendors this month include: basement sweet ( jewellery) basementsweet.com; Darwin Meyers ( vintage vinyl ); Rad Attack ( clothing ); Coco Cake Cupcakes/Coco Chow Fun Earrings (cococake.com and cocochowfun.com); Blim (clothing and accessories) blim.ca; It's Your Life ( jewellery) itsyourlifeshop.com; Re-up (jewellery) ReUp.etsy.com; No Fixed Address ( zines and books ) (solderandsons.com); District Thirty (jewellery) Districtthirty.com; Devon Gifford (hand made dolls and accessories); White Sky ( vintage clothing ); Laboratory Laboratoire (handmade crafts) (laboratorylaboratoire.com)

PORTOBELLO WEST MARKET

Handmade leather goods: belt buckles, pendants and bags from flightpathdesigns.etsy.com

The Portobello West Market opens its doors once again on March 28th and 29th, 2009 here in Vancouver to kick off the new season .

Portobello West fashion and Art market is open March to December at the Rocky Mountaineer Station, with $2 admission for the public (children 12 and under get in free!), on the last Sunday of the month from 12pm to 6pm.

top ten etsy vintage wedding items: march 26

{each photo links to its shop}

yes. now am stuck on chalkboards and typewriters (please, someone buy that chalkboard before i do: i do not need a chalkboard. i do not need a chalkboard. i do not need a chalkboard. i... )

why typewriters? for a clever guest book, of course... i read it somewhere... any readers have a link to typewriter as guest book? i don't care if it's been done, i love it. that and polaroids. love.

Special Guest Post: by Design is Mine

Bonjour! It's Summer from Design is Mine posting again. Have I mentioned that I am having a ton of fun guest blogging? I really am.

One of my favorite ways to spend my time has always been hanging around bookstores, but being a mum of two little ones, this now means always being led over to the children's section. Here I am almost always asked to flip through the same picture books over and over and over again. Usually, I find this to be somewhat of a chore, but recently I have been finding a large amount of beautiful kid's books that I truly enjoy looking at. As it turns out, many of my favorite artists (ones who are known for album art, posters, and prints) are now illustrating children's books, which I must say is quite a pleasant change from what I think of as the general boring book art.

Anyways, it is quite late here in Portland. I could really use a sweet good night story myself.

1. "All In A Day," illustrated by Nikki McClure, 2. "School Years," illustrated by S. Britt, 3. "Little Hoot," illustrated by Jen Corace, 4. "The Composer is Dead," illustrated by Carson Ellis, 5. "Where You Came From" and "When You Were Small," both illustrated by Julie Morstad, 6. "The Lonesome Puppy," illustrated by Yoshitomo Nara, 7. "My Family, My Journey," illustrated by Susie Ghahremani, 8. "The Octonauts," illustrated by Meomi, and 9. "There's No Such Thing as Ghosts!," illustrated by Emmanuelle Eeckhout.

2009 Pix(elated!) Awards

Claire Gipson: Mississippi State University, Gold Juror Award

Kate posted about the MSU winners 2009 Pix(elated!) awards this past evening which we sent out a call for submissions for a while back and we had to show a couple of our favorites here. Congrats to everyone! Click here to view all the works that made it into the show.

Jeff Gluck, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Silver Juror Award (this should be our Olympic logo)!

Christopher Sausto: Maryland Institute College of Art