Craft news: Learnapalooza, Brampton, July 21

Learnapalooza in Brampton, next weekend will have arts, crafts and music, including T.E.S.T.'s own JungleJewelry.

Events, Vender Calls and the Toronto Craft Alert

The Toronto Craft Alert writes one of our favorite blogs and is a great resource to artists, artisans, craftspeople, makers and buyers in and around Toronto. The bloggers are taking a well-earned break, a 6 month hiatus. We'll miss them while they are off-line, re-vamping the site. In the meanwhile, they are encouraging people to take full advange of the TCA forum as a way to communicate with one another.

Whenever we've been contacted by organizers of arts, crafts or vintage shows (both team members and not) we've been happy to pass on the information. Especially during the TCA hiatus, we at the T.E.S.T. blog would like to encourage anyone to let us know if you are looking for local hand-makers and vintage sellers. We will help get the word out to the Toronto Etsy Street Team and all readers of this blog, or our twitter feed or fans of our Facebook fan page.

Upcoming events include:











Art-oberfest at the Tranzac club - October 9th, 2010.
Please go to trinitypresents.weebly.com to download an application!
or contact us at trinitypresents@hotmail.com

Fashion and jewelry at Dorly Designs Fashion House (July – December 31, 2010). Send your link/web page/site and contact info to fashionhouse@dorlydesigns.com.



Haute par Periwinkle is offering shelf, clothing units and table space for rent at its new (2nd) Forest Hill store, contact info@periwinkleonbloor.com

Vender Call: Trinity Presents

Trinity presents is looking for local crafters and artists to participate in an arts and craft festival coming to Toronto this October. The application can be downloaded on their website or you can contact them at trinitypresents@hotmail.com for an application and more info.

Spring!

The Spring Equinox falls on March 20th or 21st every year. Join the T.E.S.T. team in celebrating spring. Buy yourself a little treat like this Silver Lining Cloud Brooch by OchaMilk!


The leaves are starting to bud! Wear the Wandering Leaf by spontaneousreality




Put twigs (hand-beaded, of course) in your hair with Twig Hand Beaded Leaves and Branch Headpiece by quirkybeauty. It's on sale!



Soon the tulips will sprout. Be ready with Tulip - Fused Glass Wire Wrapped Pendant by UrbanFusions.




Soon the blossoms will be out. Put the
Blossoms linocut - limited edition by minouette on your wall.




Wear blossoms in your hair with the Pure Hydi Headband by xoxocupcake





Or, wear this blossom-like necklace First Blush enamel pendant by TorchedStudio




Element4you has these Swarovski butterfly earrings





Looking for spring-like invites or announcements? Check out the Modern Floral SAVE THE DATE Digital Photo File (FLO2) by FostenDesigns


Start sporting
A Little Bit of Pink, one-of-a-kind necklace by hdunstan.




Or, if you're feeling downright tropical, after the winter, try Tropical Necklace by JungleJewelry




Wear blossoms on your ears with Pink ume kanzashi earrings by magpiecanada




What's more beautiful than Paris in the spring? Paris Pink by Melanie Hillier




Wear the Mi amor - Vintage Long Romantic Cluster Necklace by SolBijou for the TorontoEtsyTeam shop

Toronto Etsian Coffee Table Book Project

Toronto etsy seller and T.E.S.T. member junglejewelry (maker of the Copper wrapped Rose Quartz pendant shown) writes that she is looking for other Etsians who are interested on collaborating on a coffee table book filled with one page profiles of approximately 100 etsy shops. If you are interested, Brittany can be contacted through her shop at junglejewelry.etsy.com or at brittanymcbride [!at] rogers.com