Back to school sale
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008
This weekend (the 30th and 31st) we have some things on sale in the shop. All clothing is 10% off, notebooks 30%, cards and jewelry 20% and more. Stop by why don’t you!?
Lil’ Biz!!!!!
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008
As you may know we’re helping to put on Puces POP this year and as a warm up for the fair Puces is putting on Lil’ Biz a small business seminar for self-employed crafters and artists. The seminar will take place on September 20th at the Mile-End Library and costs only $30! For $30 you get 4 different talks and a light lunch here at the shop. The workshops are listed below, if you’re interested in signing up please do so soon as spaces are filling up, email puces.pop@gmail.com Subject: Lil’ Biz.
DIY Business and “The Man”
Dan LaCroix-Accountant
Learn what it means to work for your self from freelance accountant and financial advisor Dan LaCroix whose clientele includes many non-profits and local artists (like CKUT and POP Montreal!) He’ll also be discussing some of the laws related to working for your self and how you can work them to your advantage (stick it to the man! …sort of).
Documenting Your Work- Digital Photography
Erik Osberg- Photographer
Photographer Erik Osberg will be teaching you how to make your work look its best. Participants can expect an overview of the various aspects of documentation, attention being paid to digital technology.
Get Known
Peggy Burns- Drawn & Quarterly Publicist
Learn how to present yourself to the media with Peggy Burns the woman behind representing graphic novel publishing house Drawn & Quarterly. Peggy will teach you tips on self-promotion as well as the importance of putting together a proper press release with examples.
Art, Craft & the Internet
Sara Guindon & Sam Purdy- Artist duo behind Pin Pals
The Pin Pals will share the secrets the their online success. Topics discussed will include merchandising, self-promotion and marketing tools, using Etsy services, online shop appearance and keeping things interesting for the shopper. This workshop is not to be missed by anyone starting out with online sales or looking to increase the sales of their existing online shop.
We’re open and happier than ever!
Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008
We’re so happy with the move and with how the shop turned out. Stop by to admire the hard work it took to turn an old tarot card place in our new cozy shop. New things from The Small Object and Little Otsu in store.
5403 Ave du Parc, beside Phonopolis!
Our new home
Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2008
We’re working hard to be open by this Tuesday the 5th of August. We just finished installing some beautiful wall decor by local artist Tyler K. Rauman. Everything is coming together and we are still hopeful to open on time.
The new address is 5403 Ave du Parc.
We’re Moving!
Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008
At the end of this month we’re moving our shop up the street about 10 doors. We’re moving in beside our lovely frinds at Phonopolis into a smaller cozier space. We’ll be closing up shop for only a few days, reopening the first week of August. We’re planning one more CLOTHING SWAP before we leave once the store is all empty, more details on that soon.
It’s here!! Pomme-Pomme this weekend!
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008
Be sure to come out to the Pomme-Pomme Craft and Zine Fair this weekend. We’ve worked hard with Drawn and Quarterly to bring you a unique crafty fair this summer. The fair is being held st La Sala Rossa on Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th from 10-4 each day and admission is free. There’s going to be some really special vendors including Supayana, PinPals and REPRODEPOT FABRICS!!! That’s right kids, the best online fabric store is coming to you which means cute fabricy goodness with no shipping.
In addition to the fair there will also be a great closing show on Sunday night with Shapes and Sizes, Elfin Saddle and Brave Radar some of the city’s finest. Tickets for that show are $6 in advance (available at Phonopolis or at the fair) or $8 at the door.
See you all there!!!!
Need Vintage Shoes?
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Who doesn’t. Be at Atelier Woodenapples tomorrow (Thursday the 26th) at 6pm for a Chatte Bottee Vintage Shoe Sale Party! The lovely ladies from Chatte Bottee will bring a plentiful collection of vintage shoes for sale and set them up in the shop then you go crazy while drinking wine and eating snacks.
See you there!
We are 1!
Posted on Thursday, June 5, 2008
Come help us celebrate our very first birthday tomorrow night! We’ll be having a group show of all the lovely artists who’ve shown here over the past year as well as a cakewalk and brewskies.
7pm to 11pm Friday the 6th
See you tomorrow! Puces Pop!
Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008
We’ll be at Puces Pop all day tomorrow but the store will still be open.
Come by and check out the 65 amazing crafters, artists and designers that will be there. I’ve also heard that the polish food is not to be missed. Yum!
Saturday May 31st 11-8pm followed by late night BINGO!
105 St. Viateur Ouest (church basement)
Vote for Katie (and Elif)!
Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008
Design Sponge is having their their annual design scolarship and our friend Katie Jung has entered and is a finalist. The weavings which she did with Elif Saydam are finalist #5 so go here and vote for them so they can win lots-o-cash and maybe they’ll buy you a soda. To see more work click here.
11 Days Left!!!
Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2008
There’s just 11 days left to sign up for Pomme-Pomme Craft and Zine Fair. This is the fair that we’re putting on with Drawn and Quarterly this summer at Sala Rossa.
If you’d like to sign up email us with all the info listed in the FAQ section of our blog www.pommepommefair.blogspot.com
Also please enjoy this beautiful new poster designed by the lovely and talented Julia Rothman.
Wool Pods
Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008
Come stop by the store tomorrow evening for felt-y fun. Farha Dharshi is displaying some of her beautiful felted vessels in a show titled Wool Pods/Gousses de Laine. The vernissage starts at 7pm and Indyish will be selling $2 beer.
Farha will also be teaching a felting workshop on May 18th here at the workshop. The cost of the class is $35 and includes all the supplies. Sign up now!
Sale!!Sale!!Sale!!
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008
Today through Sunday we have a lovely little table full of goodies that are 20% off. Notebooks, plush, felt kits, pin cushions, seasonal items and more. Come have a looksy!
We’ll have some exciting Pomme-Pomme news coming up soon for any of you who are always on the look out for great fabric. More on that later.
Rent a Gocco
Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We’re going to start renting our Gocco printer. If you’ve always wanted to try a Gocco but didn’t want to make the financial commitment this is a great way to test it out. You will need to provide your own screens , light bulbs and inks, contact us for info on where to order those from.
Basic rental will cost $8/hour and a half hour intro to using the machine will be an additional $15.
Honey Flower on CBC
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008
If you’ve ever tried Honey Flower’s body products then you know how lovely they are, equally lovely is Angela the gal who makes them.
Recently Angela got together with Geeta from CBC’s Go Green and filmed a segment at our shop about making your own natural house hold cleansers. You can watch the video here.
Be sure to catch the second video on the 6 o’clock news on Monday where she gives away a few of her secrets teaching you to make some bath and body products.
Spring has sprung, kinda
Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008
Though it may not feel like spring outside quite yet spring has sprung at Atelier Woodenapples. Have a peek at some spring-y things we have in shop. Think positive and eventually all this snow will melt.
Pomme-Pomme Craft and Zine Fair
Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Exciting exciting news!
Myself and Tom Devlin from Drawn and Quarterly will be hosting a craft and zine fair this summer at Sala Rossa on July 12th and 13th. We’re now accepting submissions so if you’re crafty please send us all your info. All the details can be found on our blog. The evening of the 12th we’ll also be having a show at Sala, bands TBA.
Get crafting!
Clothing Swap: part deux! Saturday March 8th.
Posted on Monday, March 3, 2008
Your clothing trash is someone else’s clothing treasure! Bring one or more bags filled to the brim with the following: mid-western mom jeans, souvenir tees, ruffled polyester blouses, Noel Gallagher-inspired toggle coats, and any other items of clothing you can unearth from the depths of your closet. Please, no high-heeled galoshes or undies. We have standards!
Noon: Drop off your clothes: We’ll sort through everything and sort it by item.
1pm: Come back and choose your new picks!
Bring a bag of clothes you’re ready to get rid of and go home with all kinds of new goodies. We propose a Pay What You Can swap fee, any donations and left over clothing going to the Mile End Mission.
globe and tiny owls
Posted on Saturday, March 1, 2008
Brace yourself cuteness fans! The tiny owls from craftpaca.etsy.com“>Craftpaca are back, along with some new friends.
New from Craftpaca we’ve got grumpy cats and plump squirrels.
Also as some of you may have noticed we got a great little article written about us in today’s Globe and Mail. Which you can see here…
amy-gm-march-1.pdf
Phonopolis and their Blog
Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008
If you live in this neighbourhood then you probably already know about Phonopolis. If not here’s the lowdown…
Phonopolis is a great little record shop a few doors from us that specializes in Indie and Experimental Rock, Jazz, International music and Classic Blues (but if you want the new Jay-Z they have that too!).
The shop was opened by Nathan Gage, a music enthusiast with a record collection that would bring some grown men or women to their knees and musician playing bass in Shapes and Sizes. Other members of Shapes and Sizes include Caila Thompson-Hannant who sews beautiful clothes that are sold here at Woodenapples, Rory Seydel, my husband and Jon Crellin a super drummer.
Here’s a lovely picture of Nathan driving the old tour van.
You can catch S&S playing an instore at Phonopolis with Cryptacize next month. Which brings us the other super thing about Phonopolis, the instores. Cramming as many kids as you can into a basement to listen to amazing music has a way of bringing people together. So if you haven’t stopped by yet stroll on over to 5403A ave du Parc and then stop by here to say “hi, thanks for telling me about that great record store!” and show me the new music you got.
If you don’t live in Montreal or have no interest in going out in the snow you can still read the Phonopolis blog on which Nathan writes record reviews, talks about instores, and has a list of all the show tickets they’re currently selling.
All of the Love That I Had Felt
Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008
This Friday evening please come to our Vernissage for Casey Woodfine.
As always there will be cuppy cakes and brews!
See you there,
Cute Crochet Valentines
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008
I found this great idea for Valentines on the Purl Bee website.
Maybe we’ll try this out at the Valentines Card Workshop on the 7th!
Love is in the air
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008
It’s time to brave the snow, wind & hail to get out there and find something for that special someone (even if it’s yourself or your cat). Here are some ideas of great Valentine’s gifts in the shop.
We’ll also be having a Valentines card making workshop on the 7th, it’s $20 and you can make as many cards as you like.
DesignSponge
Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008
We got a lovely mention on DesignSponge today.
It features our new Gocco books which are now available on our Etsy.
In case you haven’t seen it
Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008
Just in case you have yet to watch the 8 minute clip from the Handmade Nation documentary. We just got an update on the project which will include a book as well, we can’t wait.
We’ve already contacted them about making sure Montreal gets to see it.
Smoking Lily and Gocco
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008
After pulling teeth with DHL our beautiful Smoking Lily package finally got into our hands and now we can pass the goods onto you. As mentioned in the last posts it includes some of their amazing silk teacozies, the Rowan Downa wrist bags, more of those super soft long sleeves you kids love so much ans some great new wallets.
For those of you from the west coast I needn’t explain the overwhelming popularity of Smoking Lily but here’s a little background for those of you thinking “Smoking who?”.
Smoking Lily was created by Trish and Julie in 1995. They were sharing a three-bedroom house in Victoria, BC and needed a third room-mate to cover the rent. Lily was invented and the spare room became a sewing and printing room. In the summer of 1995 they began selling printed silk scarves at an outdoor market. The prints of insects, flies, or antique chairs were a big hit and came to epitomize the Smoking Lily look. This repulsion/attraction aesthetic has become a recurring theme in their work. Trish and Julie decided they needed to rent a store on a miniscule budget. The store they found measures only 44 square feet.
In 2002, Smoking Lily opened a second (slightly larger) store at 3634 Main Street in Vancouver. Thanks to the wonderful neighbours and to Glenda’s management, Main and 21st is a great place to be.
Trish’s staff now includes Angelica, Nicole, Alex, Cara, Laura and Steph on the production front, Nora and Glenda helming the two Lily stores, and quite a few other brave and strong girls/women (featured regularly in the Weekly Updates) who contribute their energy and vision to Smoking Lily. Cutting, sewing, and silk screening are all done in-house. Julie has moved on to other endeavours.
(side note: this photo is of the Vancouver store on Main Street and the door just to the right was our old apartment, it’s a small crafty world)
Another fun announcement this week is that we recieved a Gocco printer from Felt Cafe in Japan and now we can do tons more printed items in store. I’ll add pictures soon of what we’ve done so far.
www.smokinglily.com
www.feltcafe.etsy.com
This just in!
Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2007
This week we recieved a big box of beautiful ceramics from Horn Of Plenty in BC. They sent us a mix of accessories, like the brooches pictured as well as some adorable cups, mugs, bowls and a fantastic tea pot. Come have a peek!
Open for your shopping enjoyment
Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007
If you’re like us then you still might have a few last minutes thing to pick up. Why go downtown when you can come here? Our holiday hours are…
Today (Sat) 11-7pm
Sunday 11-6pm
We’ll be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas, not doubt sitting at home drinking endless amounts of SoyNog.
Then starting boxing day and lasting a week EVERYTHING IN THE STORE WILL BE 15% OFF!you lucky devils. Some other items will have special prices on top of that. Balls of yarn buy 2 get one free, special prices on everyone’s favorite tiny owls from Craftpaca and anyone who signs up for one of our January workshops and pays in advance will get 20% off.
Last but not least a box of fabulous new items from Smoking Lily will be arriving early next week, just in time for the 15% off sale. Included are some beautiful new tea cozys, wallets and wristlets, come have a peek and save a few dollars.
She’s so lovely
Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007
Today you get an introduction to the lovely Serah-Marie. Anyone stopping by the shop on a Tuesday or anyone who’s taken one of the many workshops she’s taught here has already had the pleasure.
Aside from working and teaching at Woodenapples she’s also the editor of Worn Fashion Journal a local Montreal magazine interested in exploring fashion not trends, a fiber artist and a crafty zine publisher. She’s a busy lady and the store wouldn’t be the same without her.
Get to know Serah-Marie by taking one of her “Intro to the Sewing Machine” classes in January.
www.wornjournal.com
We took the handmade pledge
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007
Atelier Woodenapples fill be featured in an interview with our Amy Johnson in The Gazette (fashion section) tomorrow talking about The Handmade Pledge. You can learn more about it by reading the interview or going to www.buyhandmade.org.
Crafter Spotlight- Craftpaca
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007
Today we’re going to profile one of our best-selling crafters, Craftpaca. Julie Hollifield is lives in Bloomington, Indiana (soon to be relocating to New York) where she designs and creates beautiful hand silkscreened plush. Her tiny owls are our #1 selling item in the store, people can’t get enough of them as soon as they arrive they sell out.
Her obsession with birds has hit the right cord with shoppers, not only at Atelier Woodenapples but on her Etsy site as well where she has been interviewed as a “Featured Seller” and has made over 900 sales.
Julie earned a degree in Fashion Design from The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles in 2004 and then moved to Indiana to explore nature and crafting, while receiving a degree in Apparel Merchandising and Business.
We wish her well on her move and can’t wait to see what she crafts up in the new year.
craftpaca.blogspot.com
www.craftpaca.com