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Posted by on 02 24th, 2010 | 1 CommentThe dust has settled (I had lots of projects with Time Limits *gasp*). Now that I have time and freedom again to make anything I want, I’m a bit flustered. Partly it’s from eating too much chocolate. I become very driven, excited and energetic, but can’t seem to focus as well as usual. So this week I’m doing a chocolate...
Read More Sartorialist Book Giveaway Winner
Posted by on 01 30th, 2010 | 7 CommentsI know I said I’d draw the winner yesterday, but I have a bad cold, wah wah wah, and it’s affected my name-drawing hand. So here we go now. Drum roll, please………….. (Mike draws the name without his contact lenses in)…and the winner of the Sartorialist book is Londontheatre! Please contact me with your...
Read More The Sartorialist Book giveaway
Posted by on 01 22nd, 2010 | 2 CommentsWe have a winner of the horse changepurse contest. Please picture a squirrel doing a tiny drumroll…Makiko!
You are a one in 13 girl! Everyone else, thanks for playing. You’ll have another chance at a win next week when I’ll be giving away a brand new, uncracked copy of The Sartorialist. In case you don’t know, it’s...
Read More Free Bonspiel Changepurse Giveaway
Posted by on 01 16th, 2010 | 4 CommentsSo I’m starting a mailing list. If you’d like to be on it, shoot me a message thru etsy, twitter (I’m bonspiel) or just yell really loud with your email and I’ll add you. You could also post here but maybe don’t post your email, I think you’ll get spammed (by people other than me) if you do that.
I’ll be...
Read More New direction for the new year
Posted by on 01 8th, 2010 | 1 CommentHey people!
I thought I’d broadcast my thoughts about Bonspiel’s new direction. I tend to think nobody would really be interested, but thanks to your many correspondences about the Doctor bag alone, I realize I have information you might want!
Ever since I opened my shop on Etsy (three plus years ago!) I have been struggling to put my energy...
Read More The christmas craft show rundown
Posted by on 11 8th, 2009 | 2 CommentsOne of the things you could fondle in person!Here’s the schedule of local craft shows I’m going to be doing this Xmas shopping season, for you Victorians who wish to buy things from me in person. Those of you who live elsewhere, please note that during the following dates my Etsy shop and my Artfire shop will both be closed, and although...
Read More Ever wish you were Mugatu?
Posted by on 11 5th, 2009 | 1 CommentFor hallowe’en we threw a house party and I dressed up as Mugatu, from Zoolander. It came together really easily. The hair was the part I was most worried about, and I found a perfect “flapper wig” for 7 bucks at Value Village that was already blonde and parted in the middle with tight curls. At first I thought I could hairspray...
Read More I am in hell right now
Posted by on 09 24th, 2009 | 11 Commentsthis is me, only better.and it is runny, smells like dirt and spinach, and is army green. I’m sitting here with a plastic bag over my head, dripping cold green water down the back of my neck and sometimes in front of my ears. Oh, hang on a minute…there, I made myself a toilet paper choker. And I’ll just shove a toilet paper pompom...
Read More I am in love.
Posted by on 09 12th, 2009 | No CommentsLast night I fell in love. We met in a neighbourhood yard, next to the apple tree, where Mike and I went to photograph my brother’s band (Town and Country) for promotional purposes. The moment I saw it I thought “what a cutie pie”–then volunteered to hold it so it wouldn’t get wet or dirty in the grass. It settled into...
Read More Antichrist Supperstar
Posted by on 09 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments
So yesterday I found out that Mike got two free tickets to go see Marilyn Manson at our local mega-arena. We walked down there from our house, and got our seats (over on the side/front– good view of the band, not so good sound) in time to hear the opening band, Die Mannequin (word Toronto!), play about five songs. They were really entertaining–first...
Read More Altered Perception
Posted by on 08 24th, 2009 | 2 CommentsIn one of the least fun ways possible, I am undergoing an experiment in altered perception. Dancing all night and taking psychotropic drugs was so 2000! I don’t do that anymore, because I have moved on to an adventure in deprivation. I’m in the middle of a ‘flu that has rendered me unable to smell or taste anything. I think it’s...
Read More Hungry Hungry Hummers
Posted by on 05 14th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Hungry Hungry Hummers from ellen box on Vimeo.
Mike discovered this hummingbird nest in our tumbledown garage. There is a lot of ivy invading it, coming through the ceiling and hanging down inside; the egg-cup-sized nest is firmly cemented to it. It’s a fairly sheltered spot, and at stepladder height, so Mike took this footage of the mother...
Read More My new greenhouse
Posted by on 04 30th, 2009 | 4 CommentsI decided to turn my geodesic cupcake dome that I was using for the outdoor market last summer into a greenhouse. My most excellent, supportive parents helped me out with a new, proper Caravan market tent–magnificently generic, bright white and well made, it will create a comforting and roomy shopping environment for the market this summer. ...
Read More My Big Fat Local Indie Craft Sale
Posted by on 04 20th, 2009 | 2 CommentsNot really mine–it belonged to all of us. It was spearheaded by Gabrielle and Vanessa. “Spearheaded”, what does that even mean?–they organized it and took responsibility for its promotion and success. It was called the T’winkle market and ran on Saturday, for the one day only, in this previously invisible huge space...
Read More Plastic ladies and a lot of ugly fabric
Posted by on 04 18th, 2009 | No CommentsI have been getting ready for summer market season, kicking off tomorrow (saturday) with a one-day indoor market in chinatown. I’m very excited about playing store, meeting customers and making whacks of dough. I ordered four white half-mannequins, the kind with no head, arms nor legs, and only the front half. They arrived all nested in...
Read More Bonspiel Product Line Expanding into Clothing
Posted by on 04 10th, 2009 | No CommentsMany of my friends, as well as I, have been dealing with end-of-winter blues. Everyone seems surprised by this phenomenon, because the days are getting longer, there are cute flowers popping up all over (here on west coast Canada, anyways) and there’s No Reason to Feel Unhappy. But I’m also just getting over a long bout of influenza...
Read More Recycled Bedsheet Shirt
Posted by on 03 19th, 2009 | No Comments
one of a kind top made of a vintage sheet
I’ve made a design prototype of my new angelic top out of an old bedsheet. Actually it was a duvet cover, so nobody ever slept *on* it. I spotted it at the thrift shop, inspected it and saw that it was like new (it had flat braid all around the edges, that stuff usually looks really bad with any wear...
Read More thinking about clothing again…
Posted by on 03 17th, 2009 | No CommentsI want to make clothes! I want to make gorgeous, sensual, jaw-dropping frothy silk and linen creations! I’ve been drooling over the Prada spring shifts, all wrinkly and soft and tiny. I think this project has to start with the fabric–fabric that is fine and soft, natural fiber, strong and durable. That looks good wrinkled and mussed. ...
Read More Brand New Bonspiel Site Goes Live!
Posted by on 03 12th, 2009 | No CommentsBonspiel has had a website for a few years now, I cobbled it together in a pirated program I had, and it was nice looking and had all its bits and pieces, but didn’t function in terms of searchability. It was also a pain in the butt to update all the time, as i wanted it to reflect the ever-changing carousel of products I was creating and putting...
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