Kid's Trunk Show at the WorkRoom

the workroom
1340 Queen Street West
Sunday August 17

12-5pm 15 local vendors selling handmade goodies. A wonderful assortment of
treasures for the youngsters in your life (or in you)... everything from
crocheted ice cream cones, illustrated colouring books, play capes, party invitations and ‘on the go’ change mats. Have a watercolour portrait done on the spot or decorate your own delicious cupcake at the cupcake decorating station.
DEBBIE ARRUDA
ANGELUNE DES LAURIERS
SHANNON GERARD
GIRL NUMBER TWENTY
GRANDMA INDUSTRIES
TANIA HOWELLS
ELLA KOHLMANN
MEGHAN KRAATZ
LEILABUG TOYS
LUNULE
OLD WESTON HOME FOR WANDERING BEARS
OPERATION SOCK MONKEY
PATOUCHE
ZEESY POWERS
VINTAGE PAPER PARADE

YoGA QuEEn
1273A Queen Street West
12-4pm: Drop in to make Yoga Crowns & Wish Flags or to participate
in Yoga Games and Songs. Activities will rotate every half hour.

shoP GirLs
1342 Queen Street West
1 day sale on Lino Baby clothing for children
1pm: Sock Monkey Making workshop with Operation Sock Monkey
Learn to make a cute sock monkey and benefit a worthy cause,
“Clowns without Borders”. Donate your sock monkey at the end
of the workshop or pay $15 to take your new friend home.

What's New?

I am not sure whether I should mesh my art projects and my craft projects but for the sake of time and pure excitement for this month’s Home Sweet Home house wares-themed market on Poppytalk Handmade, here goes!

My decals for kids are included in this month’s Poppytalk Handmade Market (July 7 through August 6)! Peruse my stall here or all the super-crafty items in the market here. I was going to try to choose some favorites but all of the work deserves a peek!

In the months to come, I will be setting up shop at Hoopla, a mother and baby focused market. I will have more decals, my “on the go change mat” that was included in Making Stuff for Kids, and flip chair for kids that has 2 heights and can be used a small table, chair, bookshelf, and game table (depending on the finish you choose).




















On the art front, I will do an installation for Relative Space and Floorworks (365 Dupont, Toronto) from November 17th until February 13, 2009. I was also selected for the proposal stage conceptualization for public art at a transit station on Toronto’s new streetcar line along St. Clair Avenue so I am riding the streetcar and thinking about shelters and transparency!

Gladstone Hotel/CUTMR 08

Gladstone Hotel/CUTMR 08, originally uploaded by lunule365.

night photo

More Palm of the Hand

I love it, I hate it, it's swell...

tonight is the last night of installation...i am looking forward to finishing...one more day of cutting and then synthetic grass on Wednesday and some time to breathe...

Progress

So far things are going slowly but I am happy with the results. Installation starts on Sunday so my time is dwindling. I love the pressure I hate the pressure.

Palm of the hand nature

Ok. Feeling better about this now. I want to explore in a 2-d way, "constructed" nature, in the vaguely pleasing way that we veil the trappings of contemporary life in nature or in the 'form' of nature--cellular trees, camouflage, resin cast stumps of wood, and in the 2-d world, wood-grain mac tac, fabrics, and auto detailing vinyl, waterfalls in the east river (that is a bit more high tech), terrariums, we are copying nature as we are losing nature...just need to decide which drawing looks the best. Thinking about ikebana and astroturf.

Breathtaking

Taking a break from trees with trees. From Flavorpill by way of Ministry of Type (where you can watch the animation) by way of Fubiz from the Japanese design firm WOW10.

The artwork is by Shun Kawakami, Illustration, Suibokuga, Drawing by Tadashi Ura and the photography by Taisuke Koyama.

Still imagery at Artless

Friday

Decided not to drive out to buy the vinyl until I had a design that I actually liked! Here is today...still need to think. Next week will be the vinyl excursion.

It is important to have enough...

but not too much. Having one of these weeks. I think that I just need to buy the vinyl and start to cut and things will work themselves out.

Silkscreening on rug did not work very well but paint did which is a bit of a relief because it is much easier for me to do. I just have to decide whether acrylic or spray paint. More experiments.

help!

Small change

or, just playing around...

Or, this...

Or, this one...

New project...my head hurts!

Windows....After nature...

How it looks...