Over 60 years ago Timmins, Ontario resident and avid hiker Archie Chenier happened across an unusual sight in the woods: an eight-storey high pile of delicately balanced boulders. While no one can say for sure precisely how the boulders got … Continue reading Archie’s Rock Day Thread (Oct. 11)
Lauren Harpster is a bead crafter/designer who works with French beading techniques. These techniques are used to craft flowers and plants out of glass seed beads and wire. The results can be as realistic or as fantastical as you like … Continue reading A Lauren Harpster Day Thread
And now, a history of Canadian artists with #1 hits on America’s Billboard Hot 100 chart. Assuming, of course, that Wikipedia’s wholly unsourced “List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones by Canadian artists” page is accurate: First song by a Canadian to … Continue reading Canada vs. The Billboard Hot 100 Night Thread
Otto and Theta were sentient computer-y thingies on TV Ontario’s educational/literary/sci-fi/mystery/how-many-genres-can-you-count kids’ program Read All About It that aired from 1979 to 1982(? 1981? 1983? Sources vary on the dates.). Otto was a dot matrix printer. Theta was a computer … Continue reading Otto and Theta’s Day Thread
Duck MacDonald is a character in Daniel MacIvor’s 2004 dark comedy Wilby Wonderful, set in the fictional small island town of Wilby in the Canadian Maritimes. The movie follows an ensemble of characters trying to sort out their lives over … Continue reading A Duck MacDonald Night Thread
Forming in London, Ontario in 1989, The Gandharvas made a small splash in the Canadian alternative music scene with The First Day of Spring, a single from their debut album A Soap Bubble and Inertia, released in 1993. For a … Continue reading The First Day Thread of Spring Brought To You By The Gandharvas
In 1914 a young crystal cutter named William John Hughes quit his job at Roden Brothers Ltd., a Toronto silversmith and crystal company. Having learned his trade there, Hughes started the W.J. Hughes Corn Flower Company to produce glass pieces … Continue reading It’s a Corn Flower Glass Day Thread
Hello residents of The Avocado. I promised these recipes to Merve in yesterday’s day thread, so rather than make a massively long post in an OT that gets buried, I’ve published a separate post. Anyone who wants to is welcome … Continue reading Nanaimo Bar Recipes
Howdy do once again, Craftocados. Whatcha makin’? This week, we talk about crafting and finding success and having that success bite you firmly on the butt. I’ve been following the saga of The Blue Brick Crafts, a small scale Toronto … Continue reading The Craftocado – When Success Attacks
Hello hello, fellow crafty denizens of The Avocado. It’s been *mumble* months since we checked in with each other. It’s my fault, I just plain dropped the ball. I’ve been busy, and my wrist was giving me problems, and I … Continue reading The Return of The Craftocado
Howdy do, Craftocados! As always: Whatcha makin’? This week I’m spotlighting one of my favourite cross stitch designers, Pyro Dog Pins. She sells her patterns on Etsy. Many of her patterns are movies worked up as classic-style samplers, among other … Continue reading The Craftocado: Designer Spotlight: Pyro Dog Pins
Hello, Craftocados! Apologies for missing posting the last thread, I’ve been busy and scattered, as I always get at this time of year. I just plain forgot. Yay, me! And I’m posting a day early this week because I won’t … Continue reading The Craftocado: Of Dolls and Memories
As always… Whatcha makin‘? Alright, let’s get our pop culture nerd on today. We are The Avocado, after all. Where have you seen crafting in pop culture? The header image is Stars Hollow’s knitathon in season seven of Gilmore Girls, … Continue reading The Craftocado: Crafting in Pop Culture
Hello and how are you, Craftocados? As always… Whatcha makin’? Today we talk tools. I love my tools. Both of the hardware store type and the crafting type. Do you have tools specific to your crafts that you enjoy? Do … Continue reading The Craftocado: Tools of the Trade
Howdy, fellow Craftocados! Apologies for missing last week, I spent all day Thursday thinking it was Wednesday. Upon reflection, I think we’ll be going to an every-two-weeks schedule for Craftocado posts. Week to week, I often don’t have much to … Continue reading The Craftocado: Trends, Fads, and the Cycle of Fashion
Hello hello, Craftocados. As always, first of all… Whatcha makin’? What are your plans for the new year? Are you the type who plans projects ahead and sets goals for what you want to get done over the next year? … Continue reading The Craftocado – New Year, New Projects
Howdy, everyone! As always, first and foremost: Whatcha makin’? This week, I’m going to talk about something I have encountered many times in my crafting life: snobbery and general negativity. It infects every single crafting endeavour I have ever undertaken. … Continue reading The Craftocado: Hell is Other People
First and foremost: Whatcha makin’? Today I have chosen to spotlight one of my favourite designers… UK designer Alan Dart, who specializes in knitted toys. His designs are highly detailed and often whimsical, and I adore his patterns. His patterns … Continue reading The Craftocado: Designer Spotlight: Alan Dart
Happy Thursday, Craftocados! First and foremost: Whatcha makin’ this week? Our discussion this week is about crafting and gifting. Many of you made things for Giftmas, or are up to your eyeballs in trying to have things done for the … Continue reading The Craftocado – Gifting
Hello, fellow crafters! Welcome to the first installment of The Craftocado, a space for us crafty types to talk about… well… crafty things. Things you make. Things you’ve made in the past. Things you’ll make in the future. Things you … Continue reading The Craftocado: The Craftening
Hello, trivia buffs! So you may have noticed that I’ve been something of an absentee leader for a while now. Just a confluence of life events making me forgetful. I am hereby abdicating my Trivia Tournament throne. We have two … Continue reading Trivia Tournament Stuff
