November 30, 2011 – 12:05 am
We’ve been keeping really busy and it feels good. Passion projects are the most effective way of staying motivated in other areas of life, and our involvement with Miracle Thieves is definitely a fueling passion.
As their curator, I’ve sourced over 30 new artists to join the consignment boutique just in time for the holidays. Since I usually call on Craig for installation help, we decided to make most of the fixtures and merchandise the space under The Uncarved Block to beef up our “space making” profile.
Here’s a sneak peak.
The final reveal is on Saturday December 3. Come and check it out in person and do all of your holiday shopping local and handmade.
The good hustle never ends.
November 29, 2011 – 11:42 pm
Our tables have made it into the press thanks to Miracle Thieves and Art&Drinks, but the current issue of NOW Magazine features our very first press appearance – faces and everything!
A gigantic thank-you to the wonderful Stefania Yarhi of Textstyles for thinking of us. We told her about our best gifts (both gifted and received) and what’s on our wishlist this holiday.
Here are some other shots she took of us at White Squirrel. Read the interview here.
Much love to the good Toronto hustlers. On the grind together, we rise together. See you up there very soon.
November 28, 2011 – 1:05 am
We made this table for the lovely Catherine Mangosing and are honoured to be one of the first furniture purchases for her new Toronto home.
Her request was a live-edge wooden table top on steel legs. We jumped at the occasion as it gave us the opportunity to work with materials we’ve been itching for.
Hand-planed and oiled, we were pleased to see the colour variations and elegantly rustic characteristics of the ash slab come to life.
Check out Catherine’s blog. And stay tuned, because she’s up to exciting things that you’ll want to be a part of, for sure.
***Picture provided by Catherine
November 28, 2011 – 12:36 am
Our good friend Clint, of Sunview Consulting, had us make this giant custom mirror for him.
The wood was salvaged from renovations he had done in his loft space.
It stands 7 feet high and 4.5 feet wide – there is not another mirror like it.
We kept the wood as is, perfectly imperfect.
November 24, 2011 – 1:53 am
We’ve improved our original mustache cookie cutter and made cute baggies for them.
Want one? We made them just for you.
Drying Staches
Cookie Cutter Packaging
We try to make things cute so that you'll like us.
Et Voila
Available for purchase this Saturday November 26th at Miracle Thieves for Mustache Rides – a Movember Fundraiser.
Proceeds will go towards prostate cancer research. So get one and bake cookies for a cause.
November 24, 2011 – 1:30 am
Biking down Brunswick Avenue this past summer, I noticed a house renovating their windows. Their old ones were beautifully aged and wooden. I wasn’t sure what we’d do with them but I insisted Craig come meet me immediately with the car and we took as many as we could.
One day, playing around with black paint, I decided to paint one side of the window and see if we could potentially turn it into a “sigego” surface. It worked & looked great.
After forgetting our plan to revive the rest of the windows, Tiffany of Miracle Thieves asked if we could make them a sandwich board, giving us perfect opportunity to use and showcase our trash treasures.
We made these for them today. Now passer-by-ers can stay in the know of what’s going on at their ever evolving space. Go to Miracle Thieves and see our sandwich board in action. Or ask us to make you a window sigego board and we’ll make you one with love.
November 20, 2011 – 9:59 am
We get really excited when Relative Space purges because it means we get to experiment with beautiful engineered wood samples.
We have boxes and boxes and boxes of 2×3 samples in a rainbow of wood finishes and thought it could be cool to lay them all out and make a table top. Here’s our first attempt with the wenge samples. The grains of wenge are so varying and graphic, I could stare at this table all day.
November 15, 2011 – 11:40 am
Craig is growing a mustache for Movember so our brains are filled with mustache dreams.
Result = handmade mustache cookie cutters.
We’re not using a mould, so each one will be a little different from the last. All proceeds from sales during the month of November are going to Movember (i.e. prostate cancer research). SO ORDER ONE! $10 each for this month only.
We’re gifting this one to our near&dear friend, Julie Kim, who’s starting up a baking business called “Straight Goods”. Stay tuned, it’s going to be delicious! She’s brainstorming mustache cookie designs to sell at our Movember Fundraiser that we’re hosting a Miracle Thieves on Nov. 26th.
Come out to the fundraiser. Buy a cookie cutter and support fundraising initiatives for good causes.
November 14, 2011 – 10:16 pm
Our friends at Sunview Consulting (and Little Room) asked us to make them white boards.
So we did.
And they’re much prettier than your average white board. Who wouldn’t want to brainstorm on these?
November 14, 2011 – 9:15 pm
We were asked to make a giant cork board for a new client. Her mom started a daycare and she wanted to gift her a big surprise. We were happy to take part, especially since it gave us an excuse to make something we’ve been meaning to make anyways.
We took wooden architectural molding. Made our own frame. Affixed cork sheets to a backing. Painted it all white and BAM! A bigasscorkboard.
Now, what to do with the scraps?
