TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles’ SPRING SALE ( Read more... )

Hi Everybody, if you live in Halifax, come and check this event out. As well as all the great stuff listed below we will selling tickets ($1 each) for 5 chances at winning 1 of 5 goody bags of zine and writing related stuff including donations by those tabling tomorrow. This is a fund raiser for the Anchor Archive Zine library ( Read more... )

It's REAL short notice but if anyone here fancies them handy with a pen and pencil there is a Comic Jam happening at Gus' Pub on North and Agricola tonight at 7pm, running until 11pm or so. Anyone 19+ is welcome to come out and draw with us. It's a monthly event so if you can't make it out tonight there's always next month.

Calling all knitters and crafters for a KNIT-A-THON ( Read more... )

8th Annual Halifax Zine and Record Fair (no admission being charged ( Read more... )

I used this tutorial as the inspiration to make this item today. It's a former cotton bed sheet with a tear in it that I decided to recycle into something more useful... a knitted bathmat!

The cat checking it out. He never misses a photo op:


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This is under the foodcraft area more than the handicraft area, but if anyone wants crabapples for jelly, my mom has a ton.  I can bring them to the Halifax Farmer's Market where I work, but I can't run them around to people; if you want them you have to come and see me at the Fox Hill Cheese House booth.

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Hey, does anyone know where I can get 1" buttons made? I have my own designs, I'm looking for a company that will print and buttonize them. I used to go with a guy in Vancouver but I'd like to try someone local....I'm looking for the standard $35ish/100 buttons.

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