Handmade Festival

Website: http://www.handmadefestival.ca

Info from the website:
The Handmade collective, headed by Leia Beland-Rawson, Heather Hargraves and Natalie Wu has been working endlessly putting this amazing event together, and we are overwhelmed by the response from not just the crafting community but the community at large.

Our intention with this festival is to provide a venue for everyone creating anything by hand, to share skills and learn from one another in a free and interactive environment.

This festival and the workshops are available to any skill level, and most workshops are all ages, so please bring your kids!

Now doesn't that sound like something you just can't miss???

Visit the website!
Sign up for workshops!
Enjoy the Handmade Festival!

Free CPR - Scouting for Life

International Online Tracking - Local Post Office List

This is a GREAT list at TooSis' blog.

International Online Tracking - Local Post Office List

They are links to post offices in lots of countries - just in case you ever need to contact any of them. Neat eh? And interesting just to browse around, too. :)

100 Years of Girl Guides!!

Today was the Launch!

to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Guides in Canada!!


So we were at Casa Loma with our Girl Guides.


What a great event!


HUNDREDS of members of Girl Guides - from Sparks and Brownies, to Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers as well as their Leaders, then add some Trefoil Guild members and other adult members who came to celebrate!!


GREAT DAY!!!

Wednesday Wonder - Make a Clear Purse Handle

I've been looking for a clear purse handle to make one more of my ennadoolf purses.

Clear purse handles are not easy to find.

And then I found this tutorial! to make my own!

I may just try it. :D Thank so much to Jezze for posting the tutorial!

Featured in a blog!

Check out the Forest City Crafters!

They did a feature on ~ moi!

Be sure to come back and leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Teams on Tuesday - Meet the Teams

Team ESST has great crafting supplies in member shops. Search the tag team esst on etsy for some great patterns and supplies.

Shop the Etsy Vintage Team during the White Sale from January 10th through January 17th. Search the tag vmteamwhitesale on etsy.

Don't forget the grannies on etsy! Search the tag wwwg team to find some great buys from the shops of the Wild Wise and Witty Grandmamas of Etsy.

Locally, the Forest City Crafters have a wide variety of shops ~ drop on by to check them out. Click for a list of shops to visit.

Here is a link to the Flickr album showing off the great knits of the Etsyknitters team. Search the tag etsyknitters team to purchase some of these fine knits.

Another team keen on fibre and all you can create with it is the EtsyFAST team - Fibre Artists of Etsy! Search the tag etsyfast team to drool over all those fibre-y wonders.

Be sure to visit Etsy Canada as well! Wonderful artisans from coast to coast in this great country!

The above etsy teams brought to you by yours truly and my etsy shops:

ennadoolf.etsy.com

PatternsAndSuch.etsy.com

and

VintageAndSuch.etsy.com

Fair Isle Tam - completed!

The Fair Isle Tam is completed!

:)

I am kind of pleased with how the colours turned out.

You may recall, this is my first attempt at Fair Isle knitting.


In fact, it was my first New Year's resolution to learn it!

Of course, I got a head start on this project back in November when Patons' blog had a KAL (knit-a-long).

Um, there are a couple of boo boos in this finished tam.

Nothing that will impact the wearing of it, of course.


Just cosmetic.

If you're on facebook, come on over and comment if you see what the boo boos are!

Be sure to become a fan of my page while you're there. :)

Super Powers

If you could have a super power, what would it be?


There's a tv show on where Julia Dimon travels to Bogotá Columbia and during this episode she says that the super power she would most like to have is language. I agree! I would love to know any language that is needed to communicate whereever I am in, and in whatever country!

Before I was five, I spoke Dutch fluently and then lost most of it when I learned English. Luckily I can still understand a lot of it! I took the obligatory French in elementary and high school and even a little bit in college. High school offered German and Latin so I took those too. Looking back, its too bad they didn't offer Spanish - "dos cervesa por favor" will only take you so far!

What super power would YOU like to have?

Happy New Year!

A happy New Year! Grant that I

May bring no tear to any eye

When this New Year in time shall end

Let it be said I've played the friend,

Have lived and loved and labored here,

And made of it a happy year.

~ Edgar Guest

and be sure to visit oldcrowfarm's shop for the above and other great vintage items.

What's your New Year's Resolution? Mine is Fair Isle knitting

What's your New Year's resolution for 2010?

Last year I decided to learn to knit socks.
And I did!
And I made pedicure socks for lots of women on my Christmas List.

...as I was knitting them, I realized I'd like to learn Fair Isle knitting. That's the one where you knit with multiple colours all at once and end up with a lovely design in your finished item.

Back in November, I found a Knit-A-Long (kal) for Fair Isle knitting and thought I'd join ... even though I'd already decided that learning this would be my 2010 New Years resolution. The photo shows the yarn colours I chose from my stash. I thought I'd learn Fair Isle knitting early. LOL Not so much!


I got side-tracked, so I guess it's still my 2010 New Year's resolution!!

See?

I'm just at the point where I add the new colour.

And I panicked and stopped.

And then I got totally side-tracked by everything else I was working on.

So, this is my New Year's resolution: To learn Fair Isle knitting.

What's your New Year's Resolution for 2010?

Finding Time ... and Making Time

As I rush about trying to get everything done that needs to be done this month, I noticed this on a calendar...

You will never find time for anything.

If you want time, you must make it.

– Charles Bixton

Hope everyone is getting everything done that they want done - and making the time to do it all.

Teams on Tuesday - yes, a few days late! LOL

I missed my Teams on Tuesday post this week!

But, no worries, I'll simply refer you to a post over at (the unofficial) Etsy Business Blog!

A great post about Team ESST, and if you look real hard, you may even find ME since my shop, PatternsAndSuch is a member of that team! :)

Happy Tuesday, er, um, Thursday!

My Ribbons are here!

How fun to come home from vacation and find a box in amongst the bills and sales flyers (and Christmas cards!) in my mail!

It is from one of the weekly giveaways at ctpubblog.com and I'm so excited!

New projects will have to wait until the new year though - a wee bit too much to work on between now and then!!

While you're waiting to see my new creations, why not take at look at those already completed and available at ennadoolf.etsy.com

THANKS to ctpubblog!!!

Wednesday Wonder - a cute knitting comic