I just finished the latest lookbook for our curated online market Poppytalk Handmade. The theme this month is Pop + Pop Art - things for Father's Day along with affordable art! Our cover page is a print called Perch by Boston artist, Leah Giberson. Click on the image above to launch full page, or click here to view too! (Also feel free to embed it to your blog and share - in fact we'd be stoked if you did)! Thanks for supporting handmade!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Our June Lookbook is Here!
I just finished the latest lookbook for our curated online market Poppytalk Handmade. The theme this month is Pop + Pop Art - things for Father's Day along with affordable art! Our cover page is a print called Perch by Boston artist, Leah Giberson. Click on the image above to launch full page, or click here to view too! (Also feel free to embed it to your blog and share - in fact we'd be stoked if you did)! Thanks for supporting handmade!
New Show: Karin Bubas
I've been a fan of Karin Bubas for quite some time. So it's always fun when she shows up on the scene with new works.
Opening reception: Thursday June 2, 6pm to 8pm
MONTE CLARK GALLERY
June 2 to July 2, 2011
2339 Granville Street | Vancouver BC V6H 3G4
monteclarkgallery.com | karinbubas.ca
Worthsy: How much is handmade really worth?
Jessika Hepburn, the new owner of Canadian blog, ohmyhandmade.com along with Zoe of A Quick Study are launching Worthsy today, as stated on their site, "it's a response to sites like Heartsy and Groupon that encourage purchasing handmade at low prices. There are so many opinions and questions in the handmade community about pricing and discounts of these sites, and they wanted to find out more". So they created Worthsy as an experiment to see. Each week they will feature one carefully curated, one of a kind, handmade item up for bidding with bids starting at wholesale price. Make the highest bid and it's yours! Click here to find out more!
Affordable Art (AM Edition): Vivienne Strauss
Vivienne is a self taught artist. She collects vintage ceramic poodles and is in constant search of the perfect black and white striped t-shirt. Vivienne shares a birthday with Billy the Kid, Bela Lugosi, Harpo Marx and Erte. She enjoys working in many mediums: watercolor, ink, oils, collage and embroidery to her repretoire. She does not have any formal training in the arts but does have a BA degree in Philosophy. She lives in upstate NY with her husband, artist Matte Stephens and their family of cats. See more of her work online:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/vivstrauss for watercolor paintings
http://www.etsy.com/shop/viviennedstrauss for oil paintings
http://www.etsy.com/shop/viviennestrauss for collage
website: http://www.vivienneart.blogspot.com
Old Age: Root & Ginger
By Jeannette Ordas of Everybody likes Sandwiches
Last year I took a little vacation to San Francisco and brought back with me a bottle of Root that I found at a specialty liquor store. Root is a Philadelphia liqueur brewed by Art in the Age, an artist collective that believes in "high quality work marked by fine craft and intellectual rigor". For a bit of history, root tea was made by Native Americans and the recipe was passed along to early American settlers. It had kick but when the Temperance Movement gained popularity and wanted to keep coal miners sober on the job, the non-alcoholic root beer we know today was born. Art in the Age wanted to go back and create a recipe based on the historical bevy and thus Root was born.
It's a blend of birch bark, wintergreen sugarcane, sassafras and a bunch of other wild roots and herbs. It's 80 proof and organic and has nothing in common with those sickly sweet root beer flavoured vodkas that are around today. While their website has a variety of recipes you can make, I've found the one that I like the best. Root and ginger. I used Fentimans ginger ale here, but good old Canada Dry also makes for a perfect summer sipper. But remember, this packs a powerful punch, so sip carefully!
Root and Ginger
2 oz Root
4 oz Ginger Beer
ice
lime wedge (optional)
Pour Root over ice and top with ginger beer. Stir. Garnish with a lime wedge, if desired.
Last year I took a little vacation to San Francisco and brought back with me a bottle of Root that I found at a specialty liquor store. Root is a Philadelphia liqueur brewed by Art in the Age, an artist collective that believes in "high quality work marked by fine craft and intellectual rigor". For a bit of history, root tea was made by Native Americans and the recipe was passed along to early American settlers. It had kick but when the Temperance Movement gained popularity and wanted to keep coal miners sober on the job, the non-alcoholic root beer we know today was born. Art in the Age wanted to go back and create a recipe based on the historical bevy and thus Root was born.
It's a blend of birch bark, wintergreen sugarcane, sassafras and a bunch of other wild roots and herbs. It's 80 proof and organic and has nothing in common with those sickly sweet root beer flavoured vodkas that are around today. While their website has a variety of recipes you can make, I've found the one that I like the best. Root and ginger. I used Fentimans ginger ale here, but good old Canada Dry also makes for a perfect summer sipper. But remember, this packs a powerful punch, so sip carefully!
Root and Ginger
2 oz Root
4 oz Ginger Beer
ice
lime wedge (optional)
Pour Root over ice and top with ginger beer. Stir. Garnish with a lime wedge, if desired.
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Vancouverite, foodie, crafty, freelance designer, Jeannette Ordas from the popular food blog, Everybody Likes Sandwiches joins us every Wednesday enticing us with her hearty and simple recipes!
Fun DIY: How to Make Paper Twine From Crepe Paper
Maize Hutton from Maize in Montana created a simple how-to on how to make paper twine from crepe paper! And it looks so fun to do! Get out the drill! (Via Project a Day).
Collecting Collections: Arranging
Contributor post by Lisa Congdon
Arranging collections in a display can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of collecting after the hunt is over. Nothing like realizing you have just enough of the thing you've been collecting to make a really cute little display on your credenza.
I've always obsessed over arranging things, and love this book that my dear friend Lorena gave to me a couple of years ago. It's called Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement . Design writer Leonard Koren discusses the principles that govern how we arrange things in three-dimensional compositions. The book is beautifully illustrated by Nathalie Du Pasquier .
Not so much a "how to" book as a theoretical perspective, the book is also an interesting discourse on composition for painters and illustrators.
Speaking of arranging things, I love this little shelf from Ferm Living called The Dorm . A modern take on an old fashioned knick-knack shelf!
Some people have a gift for arranging things in exquisite ways. I just love Holly Becker's armoire in her new home. Mostly, I love how she's managed to use it for storage but in a way that artfully showcases the beauty and interest of the objects in it.
Notice how Holly groups things that are alike: old books together, white porcelain together, newer books arranged by color. The visual impact is achieved by grouping these like things together, but alternating heights, colors, directionality, etc. {BTW, you can get Holly's gorgeous new decorating book here .}
What is your favorite tip for arranging things beautifully?
Lisa Congdon is an artist, author and prolific collector of old and unusual things, including bits of nature, and surrounds herself with these things in her home and studio. In 2010 she chronicled all of her collections in her Collection A Day 2010 Project. That project is now a book, published in March 2011.
Site: www.lisacongdon.com
Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lisacongdon
Arranging collections in a display can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of collecting after the hunt is over. Nothing like realizing you have just enough of the thing you've been collecting to make a really cute little display on your credenza.
I've always obsessed over arranging things, and love this book that my dear friend Lorena gave to me a couple of years ago. It's called Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement . Design writer Leonard Koren discusses the principles that govern how we arrange things in three-dimensional compositions. The book is beautifully illustrated by Nathalie Du Pasquier .
Not so much a "how to" book as a theoretical perspective, the book is also an interesting discourse on composition for painters and illustrators.
Speaking of arranging things, I love this little shelf from Ferm Living called The Dorm . A modern take on an old fashioned knick-knack shelf!
Some people have a gift for arranging things in exquisite ways. I just love Holly Becker's armoire in her new home. Mostly, I love how she's managed to use it for storage but in a way that artfully showcases the beauty and interest of the objects in it.
Notice how Holly groups things that are alike: old books together, white porcelain together, newer books arranged by color. The visual impact is achieved by grouping these like things together, but alternating heights, colors, directionality, etc. {BTW, you can get Holly's gorgeous new decorating book here .}
What is your favorite tip for arranging things beautifully?
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Lisa Congdon is an artist, author and prolific collector of old and unusual things, including bits of nature, and surrounds herself with these things in her home and studio. In 2010 she chronicled all of her collections in her Collection A Day 2010 Project. That project is now a book, published in March 2011.
Site: www.lisacongdon.com
Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lisacongdon
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