Toronto Zoo Fundraising Project

I have a couple of ads up currently on the TCA website. For those that do not know the TCA is the Toronto Craft Alert. The greatest invention since carbohydrates. I can't get enough of checking it out to see what is coming up next in my city in the world of art and craft.

This past summer I went on a field trip to the zoo with the clients I work with. I took a little detour into the gift shop and found a wonderful skein of camel hair yarn. Yummy, yummy, yummy. I am still saving it for something special. It looks so good as it is I may never knit it up. Anyway, while heading home from the zoo by public transit (a 2 hour plus trip) it occurred to me that the zoo could be making their own yarn. The yarn I bought was from an animal far, far away. We have our own animals! I contacted the zoo right away and proposed that the fibre be collected and processed so that people can knit it up into wonderful things to be donated back to the zoo so they can sell them for profit. Three months later I finally got a reply and was told that this is a possibility. I may be able to get my hands on that animal hair after all! So I am putting together a project team so we can tackle this together.

Spoonflower, It's a New Drug.

Yellow Scallops by Wonderfluff

(now a part of my fabric collection)

Yeah, like totally man. I'm diggin' Spoonflower. We can all be textile designers thanks to this cool site. I ordered some fabric off Etsy from the shop Wonderfluff who gives credit to Spoonflower for being the printer of this artist's design. Being the curious crafter that I am I had to check out Spoonflower's site for myself. How can I resist a name like Spoonflower?Sounds like heroin to me. I could be right. I can't stop myself from looking at all of the amazing designs that artists from around the world have submitted either for sale or for pure eye candy. Page after page of enticing designs.

J'aime Montreal!

Old Montreal

I visited Montreal for the first time ever and my family fell in love.

Pop Montreal is an annual music and art festival that I was invited to attend by the Puces Poporganizers. Puces Pop occurred on the last weekend of the festival and it was a rad 2-day craftavaganza. I was honored to be there among such talented artists.

Here are some photos from the trip. You gotta go!

Here I am selling my little heart out.

My hunny after a big breakfast at Cora's

My son standing in front of a street mural.