The Toronto Etsy Street Team is holding their annual marketplace, spring craft and vintage show at the 918 Bathurst Centre on June 1. Featuring 40+ team members and their handmade wares and vintage finds.

Toronto, Ontario April 17, 2013

On Saturday June 1st the Toronto Etsy Street Team (TEST) is holding its 4th Annual Springtime Marketplace in the 918 Bathurst Centre, just north of Bloor on Bathurst, in the heart of the Annex.

This year the TEST Springtime Marketplace is bigger and better than ever! Along with our handmade vendors, you can peruse great vintage finds, enjoy music from our live DJ, and take part in one of a series of FREE craft workshops. The Marketplace will be followed by a cocktail reception offering refreshments, a cash bar, a charity raffle, a special tea-infused cocktail workshop and a chance to mingle and chat with the members of TEST. The show features 40+ TEST makers and vintage sellers and includes; one of a kind jewelry, art, fashions (both new and vintage), toys, handmade body care items and baked goods. See the show website for more details: http://www.shopcats.ca

Spend a fun spring afternoon checking out these talented handmakers’ wares, support local artists in your community, enjoy the hunt for the perfect vintage item.

Admission is free.
Location: 918 Bathurst
Date and time: Saturday, June 1, from 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
Reception to follow at 6:00 PM.

Etsy is the largest on-line marketplace for hand-made goods, vintage products and craft supplies. Toronto is home to TEST, the more than 600 member-strong Toronto Etsy Street Team. Between them they have a vast array of handmade jewellery, fine art, contemporary craft, indie fashion, accessories, eco-friendly bath and beauty items, handmade food and vintage finds.

Keep an on their blog for upcoming events:

http://torontoetsystreetteam.blogspot.com/

p.s. if you do sell on Etsy and are in Toronto, you should apply to our team! Just find us on the teams forum on Etsy, and press the 'apply to team' button. This is a great way of meeting fellow crafty Torontonians.  

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I use water-based block printing ink. You can get it at any art supply store. Oil-based block-printing ink would also work, but clean-up can involve solvents (which aren't really good for your health or the environment, so I avoid them). Since I used a screen to apply the ink to the leaf, I could also have used silk-screening ink, but it doesn't reproduce as well when you turn around an try to print a leaf.

This certainly isn't the only way to do this... but it did work well for me.

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I'd like to share a couple of recent linocuts:



Despite the opinion of some people around here (i.e. this apartment) there's a colony of white squirrels in Toronto's Trinity-Bellwood Park! I know. I've seen them, This is a portrait of one of them, climbing head-down a maple tree, along with the words "Legendary White Squirrel of Trinity-Bellwoods", which I carved in reverse, in lino, and printed in dark, silver-bronze, with redish-pink eyes, on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Each print is 8.5 inches (21.6 cm) wide and 14 inches (35.6 cm) tall. It's sort of become a running joke to question the reality of the white squirrels of Trinity-Bellwoods, but they are well documented. You can google it. They even have a street, White Squirrel Way, and a café named after them.

The lettering (fantastical "Legendary", outlined white "White Squirrel" with large bushy-tail like swirls, and the more formal and stylized "Trinity-Bellwoods") reflects the nature of the words.



This is my lino block print of a chipmunk, printed in bronze and black ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 7.25 inches by 12.5 inches (18.5 cm by 31.5 cm), in an edition of 10. Colours slightly variable.

This little guy is based on a photograph (by my better half). One of the resident cottage chipmunks really made this gesture. I couldn't resist adding a thought caption.

Thanks! I found this one for free, so maybe you could find one too.

Thanks starrgazer! That's great. Loving seeing more printmakers!