Kid Culture Creates - Workshops

We're now in our second month of our Kid Culture Creates workshop series
and I'm happy to share our August schedule as well as some photos of from our workshops so far!

To sign your kid up for classes, please contact Kid Culture @ 416 859 9006
or email kidcultureboutique@gmail.com

         

  

photos from kidculture.facebook

Photos from Kid Culture Facebook + Leikey Instagram

401 Artisans Marketplace

If you're thinking of giving one-of-a-kind gifts this year

but that's about as far as you got, 

come support local artisans at the 401 Artisans Marketplace 

Thursday Dec. 8th to Sunday Dec. 11th.

Preview of good things to come! - click image to enlarge

You'll find a bevy of gifts for everyone, even those hard-to-please people - you know who you are.... Edibles and jewelry, housewares and apparel, accessories and artwork. There are literally hundreds or gift ideas to fit your budget.

As the OOAK Toronto Show comes to a close this weekend, 401 Richmond West opens it's doors, to the craft-hunrgy public, for their 19th annual Holiday Marketplace.

Free admission for everyone! We want you to spend those dolla dollas on the artisans!

About/Vendors/ Times - click image to enlarge

We're open for business Dec 8th through to Sunday Dec. 11th. Join us on Saturday especially because we're holding a raffle hosted by 100 Mile Finds to win an amazing gift basket filled with handmade goodies from artisans participating in the show! The lucky winner will receive one of my Fox Stuffies along with many many other fancy treats!

Also happening on Dec. 10th & 11th is City of Craft at the Theatre Centre on Queen West.
So if you're in the city for either show, make sure you hit up both to find that special gift or unique piece for yourself.

Hurry up and get your indie-holiday shopping on!

"You are what you eat"

As I was digging through the old "drafts" folder on here, I noticed I never bothered to post this. 

So here you go.  A collection of tiny paper illustrations/cut outs, some with fancy food holes. 

© Leikey Designs 2010. All rights reserved.

parchment

ring-a-ding ding

Photos of my 3 submissions for the Lark Books 500 Rings edition.
The three mediums I enjoy working with the most...

Fox Knot

Wool, wire; Wet and needle felted

3.5cm x 2.5cm x 3cm

(of course I made a fox, I basically had to)

Gold 'n Chain

Metallic gold thread; Crochet

2cm x .5cm

(Crochet sewing thread, stitched into a chain)

Paper Ballerina

Cut paper

8.5cm x 4.5cm

(inspired by a recent costume party outfit and the influential work from the Star Alliance short,  Elsa Mora and Rob Ryan)

Photography by the handsome and talented Owen Deveney

Thank you to Owen for lighting and capturing my work, The Public Butter  in Toronto for the wood jointed hand model and the various artists that helped inspire these pieces.

cut it out

Kyoko Hashimoto