Bookbinding Workshop in Toronto’s 1st Post Office Museum!

Posted on May 11, 2017 by sproutspress

Join me at Toronto’s First Post Office (a working post office & museum!!) for an evening of bookbinding fun!

Learn how to make your own Hard Cover Coptic Journal with Carolyn of Sprouts Press Designs. We’ll cover the basics of bookbinding, go over the tools of the trade and then learn how to put it all together into a beautiful handcrafted journal.

What: Coptic Stitch Bookbinding Workshop
When: Thursday May 25, 6pm – 9pm
Where: Toronto’s First Post Office, 260 Adelaide St East, Toronto

Sound like fun? Go here to register!

Wunderkammer Show

Posted on May 9, 2017 by sproutspress

I’ll be part of a group show, Wunderkammer: The Cabinet of Curiosities, at the new Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery, running May 11 – 28! It’s the gallery’s first group art show, and my first art gallery show in many years. I’m really looking forward to it and hope you’ll join us at the opening (details below).

About the show:
“This art – or science art – show, is inspired by the Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosity, the immense, eccentric, encyclopedic natural history collections gathered by collectors since the Renaissance. Cabinets of Curiosities featured treasured zoological, botanical, anatomical, fossil and gem specimen, collected by early citizen scientists. WUNDERKAMMER features original sculptures, drawings, hand-bound books, prints, paintings, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery, generative and multimedia specimen of natural and unnatural history on all scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic.”

Where: Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery, 906 Queen St. W., Toronto
When: May 11 – 28, 2017. Opening reception is this saturday, May 13, 6pm – 10pm. RSVP here to attend the opening.

For more information, please see the gallery website here.

See you at the Wayzgoose!

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Wordless Wednesday 26.04.17

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The Wayzgoose!

Posted on April 24, 2017 by sproutspress

It’s the Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair this saturday!! If you can, take the trip out to Grimsby and join in the book & paper fun! Sprouts Press will be there along with many other talented book artists, paper makers, marblers, small presses and such!

When: Saturday April 29, 2017 9am – 5pm
Where: Grimbsy Public Art Gallery, 18 Carnegie Lane, Grimsby, Ontario

For more information, please see the event page here.

Take the House & Home Spring Decorating Quiz! Win a $500 Etsy Gift Card!!

Posted on April 20, 2017 by sproutspress

Here’s a fun thing: Etsy has collaborated with House & Home to create a spring decorating quiz and video – featuring many local makers’ products! (Sprouts Press included!!)

Take the quiz, watch the video and see if you can spot the Sprouts Press journal!! And while you’re at it, enter your quiz results to be entered in a contest to win a $500 Etsy gift card!! Woot!

Sound like fun? Take the quiz here. Contest closes June 6, 2017.

Wordless Wednesday 19.04.17

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See you at the Makeology Spring Craft Fair!

Posted on April 15, 2017 by sproutspress

It’s Sprouts Press’ first spring craft fair of the year! Makeology is today!

What: Makeology Spring Craft Fair
When: Saturday April 15, 2017 (today!) 11am – 5pm
Where: Hamilton Steam & Technology Museum, 900 Woodward Ave., Hamilton

For more information, please see show website here.

Bookbinding for Beginners

Posted on April 13, 2017 by sproutspress

It’s the start of a new space for the Toronto Etsy Street Team at 906 Queen Street West here in Toronto! And I’m so happy to share that I’ll be offering my Bookbinding Sampler Workshop for Beginners at this new space (formerly Graven Feather).

What: Bookbinding Sampler Workshop – Beginner
When: Saturday April 22, 2017 1pm – 4pm
Where: Toronto Etsy Street Team, 906 Queen St. W., Toronto

For more information and to register, please go here.

Studio Sunday

Posted on April 9, 2017 by sproutspress

Today in the studio it’s all business, no bookbinding. Instead, I’m newsletter-writing to share all the great events, workshops and news with folks, maybe like you, who love to hear about these sorts of things.

To get on this list, please register yourself here.