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Bamboo Tile Pendant

Tutorial by Victoria M.

Victoria Is one of our newest team members at My City Artisans and she has decided to share with our Bloggers her Step-by-Step Tutorial on Bamboo Tile Pendant making.

This tutorial comes as a .Pdf file.

It contains 13 pages of illustrated instructions.

To View, click the picture below and it will take you there.

Enjoy!

Your Work Space

Your sanctuary...

Even very fabulous artist need an equally fabulous workspace, right? So what makes your workspace a wonderful area for you to be creative in? Every workspace should be functional (because if its not, what’s the point?) and every space is as unique as the artist themselves. What works and feels

Vendors Collage Tree
from My city Artisans

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Sneak peek at my daughter’s Christmas gift

I am terrible at keeping secrets. Since I can’t show my 9 year old daughter one of her Christmas gifts …. I’ve decided to share it pretty much with everyone else.

That’s how bad I am, I have to let it out! Every year, I try very hard to find a special gift for my kids, something meaningful and different. This year I found it at a local craft show.


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Believe in handmadeMy City Artisans Christmas badge.

My City Artisans supports all Artisans and their handmade Arts & Crafts.
That’s why we have designed this image.

You can find it on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/Mycityartisans

Share on your Facebook timeline/wall and “LIKE” for extra support.



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Crochet Wire Necklace

If you happened to see us on Rogers TV “Daytime Show” last week, you probably noticed that the three of us were wearing jewelry that we designed and made.

Lucy was wearing a glass-fused pendant she made at “Ceramics Canada” a couple of months ago.  I was wearing the magazine rolled pendant necklace that we featured last month.  Natasha was sporting the crochet necklace that we decided to attempt this time around.

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Magazine Paper Roll ProjectSo, here we go. Back in February, you may remember a FB
post that Natasha put up for a magazine rolled bowl...

Ana and I thought how neat it looked, we just had to give it a try. With Earth Day (or week) celebrations coming up this April, we figured why not attempt to

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Fab FascinatorsThe upcoming wedding season prompted Ana & I to try our hand at creating
some of our own headgear stylish enough to flaunt in public.

We gathered all our supplies and committed to not having to buy anything new for the project.
let’s use up what we had on hand. I already had two visions in mind, one formal and another more casual. Actually I envisioned a beach themed event, wanting to use some sand dollars & shells I’d found on last summer’s beach vacation.

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Don't wait till culture days
To me there is nothing more fun and relaxing

than to get together with friends and create.

But sometimes routine gets in the way
and I seem not to find the time to do it.

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Facts About Soy Candles

In keeping with Earth friendly and

eco-conscious products this month,

In keeping with Earth friendly and eco-conscious products this mont, we wanted to share this post from one of our My City Artisans member, Claire of HomeSpun Dazzle, owner & creator of hand poured soy candles.

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Necklace From Recycled Magazines
Like Lucy mentioned on our previous post I couldn't

resist  making some jewelry out the rolls of recycled magazines…It was difficult not to fall in love with them. The colors of the rolls are just gorgeous. Here is my final product.

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I'm Lucy, nice to meet you!
You’ve already met Ana a few posts back, now
allow me to introduce myself.

I’m Lucy, and while I don’t have the same artistic background that she has, being part of MCA has allowed me to explore different creative avenues that I’d long put on the back burner once life got busy.


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Why did we start My City Artisans?

A little bit about myself….

I just committed to my partners and friends to take over the blog..so the first thing I would like to do is to introduce myself. 

Despite having formal training in something far from creative, like law (in Venezuela)…I have always been a

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March Break Project For Kids

Another super cute project that you can add to the grab bag are these super cute finger puppets from “Stinkymom”. Easy to make and sure to please and surprise the little ones. Specially since 

March Break Craft Ideas

March Break is almost here…

Whether you are going to travel far or near chances are you are going to spend some time in your car, plane, train…or even waiting in a restaurant to be served. Plan entertainment for those occasions.

Here are some little ideas that most likely are going to give you some minutes or sometime

Amy's Boutique

After making many cute ‘girlie’ things for her daughters, Amy Collins was encouraged

by her family and friends to turn her talent into a business. Taking their advice,

she opened Amy’s Bowtique in September 2009, she says.

Professional looking pictures at home

Just like Kayla from “Wahm” mentioned on her blog “a good picture can make or break a sale”… It is worth it to take some time and get a good picture of your product. After all you put a lot of effort and most

Join Us At Beans And Babes

BEANS & BABES CAFE is a great place to relax and bring your kids.  The children’s play

The meaning of handmade.

This past Sunday we attended the “Whitby Bakes for Japan”. The event was great and raised $3200 along with over 1000 origami cranes made. We were there trying to make as many origami cranes


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Smarties at 1:30am time to work!

It’s 1:30am, and I am eating a box of colourful smarties while I am working. What this means is that

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