Slackity Slack

This week has been a busy one and has me feeling a little burnt out which in turn leads to me slacking off on my crafty blog posts. I promise to catch up next week but for now I'm just going to share with you this fab musician Sondre Lerche that I discovered by pure accident this week. Enjoy!

Handmade Canada!

If you don't live in Toronto, but are still looking to buy local with in your own province or city then why not checkout the Trans-Canada Etsy Team. In my book their blog is the best place to start your search for local Canadian artists/crafters that sell their handmade goodies on etsy. So head on over to the TCET's blog and let your mouse do the walking and I bet you'll be done your holiday shopping in no time!

Handmade Toronto!

Looking for places in Toronto were you can buy handmade this holiday season (or year round!). Well, look no further this list below will lead you to a plethora of stores stock to the brim with fabulous handmade treasures!

*I'll be updating this list with more stores as I find them, If I've missed any let me know!*

Frock - 97 Roncevalles Ave
Propaganda - 686 Yonge St
Natalie Rose & Co. - 1015 Queen St East
Shop Girls - 1342 Queen St West
The Devils Workshop - 955 Queen St West, Unit 112
Fresh Collective - 692 Queen St West
Heart On Your Sleeve - 61a Bellevue Ave (Kensington Market)
The Rage - 13 Kensington Ave (Kensington Market)
Freedom Clothing Collective - 939 Bloor St West
Fresh Baked Goods - 274 Augusta Ave (Kensington Market)
Good Catch General Store - 1556 Queen St West
Model Citizen - 279 Augusta Ave (Kensington Market)
Made You Look - 1273 Queen St West
The Paper Place - 887 Queen St West
Case Goods Warehouse - 55 Mill Street, Building #74
Token - 888 Queen St W
Kid Icarus - 75 Nassau Street
Distill - 55 Mill Street #47
Made - 867 Dundas St W
Trove - 791 Bathurst Street /2264 Bloot St W
Preloved - New Location - 881 Queen St W
Red Pegasus - 628 College St
The Purple Thumb - 1887 Queen Street East

There's No I In Team!

Vegan Team Etsy made it on to The front page of etsy and we're the first team to be featured on The Storques new column Featured Etsy Team. Go Team Go! I also have to send out a special shoutout to our fearless Vegan Team Etsy leader Molly over @ Emmas K9 Kitchen. Thanks for all your hard work!

Resolution 6

So far so good with the resolutions, lol. I made these mix media collages the other day. Not sure what I'll call them, or what I'll do with them. I was thinking maybe magnets or maybe I'll use them in a larger project. Click the photo for a larger view! I pasted the collages on the metal bottoms and tops of frozen juice cans!

p.s - Only 1 day left to vote on ESOTY.

Resolutions 2008

These are the resolutions I'm going to try to stick to this year...

• Do a craft show.
• Find a Indie Toronto store to carry my stuff.
  
• Send samples of my work to be in The Sampler And The Modish Monthly Giveaway.
• Start My Vegan Fashion Blog. (I'm on Indipublic so add me!)
• Learn to master using resin and find a kind that doesn't stink to high hell.
  
• Work more on my mix media collages.
  
• Visit the Etsy Labs in New York.
• Go to Vegas with friends to see the lights, have some fun and eat some Vegan donuts.
  
• Post some of my own craft tutorials on Cut Out + Keep & Threadbanger.
• Learn how to do web design.
• Get more involved in the Toronto crafting community.
• Enter fredflare.com's Next Big Thing.
• Do more thrift shopping.
• See more bands I like live.
  
• Learn to play my guitar.
• Eat better - More raw foods, less bread.
• Start running and do that 5K with my sister.
• Spend more time with my friends and family.
  
• Keep my apt clean (get rid of clutter) and be more organized.
• Ride my bike more in the warm weather and get over my fear of main streets. Queen St. scares the bejebus out of me!

Favorite Sites of 2007

My fav sites that I discovered in 2007...

• She Does The City
• Threadbanger
• Indiepublic - add me here.
• Cut Out + Keep - add me here.
• We Love Etsy - add me here
• Ety's Storque
• Buy Handmade
• Craft:
• City of Craft
• Modish & Modish: The Shoppe
• Poppytalk Handmade
• Indie Parade

Holiday Greetings

Looking for this years holiday card? Well then look no further because etsy's where it's at! Stay away from those boring and generic mall and drug store greeting cards and delight your friends with a card that can double as a beautiful art piece. I've posted two of my fav cards that I've found so far on etsy. They're both design by the lovely stationary shop Two Guitars.

Count Down

11 Days Until City Of Craft!

Extra Extra!

My lovely new friend Amy of Sunshine City Lassie featured me on her blog yesterday! We did a little trade last week and she sent me three pairs of fab earrings. I'll have to post some photo's of them soon but until then make sure you checkout her etsy shop aka SunshineCityLassie and her blog! Again Thanx for the Shout Out Amy!

New New New!

What is new you ask well just shift your eyes on over the the right where you'll find all my links and other fun stuff and you also find the new Etsy Must Have section. You'll find it sitting snuggly between My Stuff and November's HAL. Can you guess what the Etsy Must Have section is ??? That's right it's where I'll be featuring an item from an etsy shop daily that I think should be on your handmade must have list!

Lets Give Them Something To Talk About

More holiday gift ideas!

Take A Picture It Lasts Longer

Looking for holiday gift ideas? Well I just stumbled onto this fab photoblog site that allows crafter's to submit pictures of their handmade goodies for the web world to see. Each photo includes a link to where you can buy these goodies, so go click on over to Indie Parade and get some holiday gift ideas. And you better hurry because there is only 47 days left untill xmas and all....