one of a kind show and sale | Sprouts Press

If you follow my blog, you may remember that I mentioned being a participant in this year’s One of a Kind Spring Show & Sale. Well, the show is just around the corner so I figured it would be fun to host a contest. One lucky person will win a pair of free tickets!! That sounds like fun, right?

How to enter:

On facebook ‘like’ Sprouts Press and share this photo (found in my feed) for one entry.
On twitter, ‘follow’ Sprouts Press and retweet this photo (also in my feed) for another entry.
Contest ends March 11 and the winner will be announced March 12!

And if you don’t win the contest, don’t worry I’ve still got you covered. Just click here for a discount on eTickets you can purchase online for $11 (as opposed to $14 at the door).

The show runs from March 26 – 30th at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto. For more info visit the One of a Kind Show website.

I’ll be at the show with my hand bound books, in the Etsy section at booth K20G.
Hope to see you there!

In my last post I talked about how wintertime pulls me outside for a bit, and then pushes me back inside once I’ve had enough. While a nice cup of tea is always something I look forward to after a day spent outside, it’s not all. For me, being outdoors helps to clarify my ideas, of which I have too many. Sometimes I cannot focus on one long enough to achieve it before being overrun with the next idea or three. So when it’s time to go back in, I look forward to writing down my more-polished ideas, (I say more-polished because, of course, they will change several times more).

And then the real fun begins: pulling out the possible materials and seeing what fits the bill, what is the right colour, texture, pattern and thickness for my ideas. Of course, I’m talking about paper! So, please, bear with me while I share some of my favourite photos of my stacks of handmade paper.

This is a mix of the lot; mumble-jumble, mish-mash, all mixed up. While I don’t make paper too much anymore, I always used to use pigments rather than dyes, for more vibrant colours.

These papers were an experiment: hosta paper (yes, I hacked off and chopped up my parent’s hosta garden to make them into paper. Thanks Mom and Dad!) There’s some pine needle paper and then on top my lovely cotton & abaca black-blue super sparkle paper. I’m almost out of all three, so I choose my projects carefully these days.

I have many now because I’m in full production mode as I’m participating in the One of a Kind Spring Show & Sale in March of this year. This is my first year for this show and I’m pretty excited to be in the Etsy Section! I’ll be posting more on this adventure leading up to it, I’m sure there’ll be a few interesting things to talk about!