Crafternoon Tea
Crafternoon Tea - 5th edition, Leslieville 11 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday November 29th (11am - 5pm)
Location: Queen Street East Presb. Church, 947 Queen Street East at Carlaw...just 2 short blocks West of Pape/Nathalie-Roze & Co (N-R's shop/studio) in spunky Leslieville.
Crafternoon Tea is a crafty/fashion market and how-to hive that's been running twice a year in various East-End locations since 2005.
This laidback event showcases 25-30 local indie makers, plus a DIY demo zone and a yummy charity tea-area (with a psychic!) & a fab raffle too.
Expect to find all kinds of quirky-cool crafty goodness - just in time for the holidaze!
Participating vendors offer up a medley of handcrafted goodies, including creatively recycled gifts, one-of-a-kind wearables and accessories, natural soaps & beauty products, unusual knits, greeting cards, soft toys, gourmet edibles, baby merch, funky holiday decorations and oodles of other treats.
Wallet-friendly bonus: most items are priced well under $50 - lots below $20.
Shopping at Crafternoon Tea is your way to support local talent, while buying fantastic & eco-friendly gifts.
Buy Handmade! Buy Local!!
Local vendors include:
- slo * simply. by amanda * needles to say * 2-mile jewellery *
- paper muse * consider arson * gnarled branch * jacob rolfe *
- house of hsueh * cha cha * anneke garnette *
- joy apparel * dreaming tree * creepy christine *
- pms cookies * a heart apart * girl can create *
- nathalie-roze * soap scum * white lotus * sally girl *
- ann lorraine * (& other talented guests)...
Sweet Charity: Cash generated via raffle ticket sales and the English tea service will this year benefit two neighbourhood non-profit agencies: the Woodgreen Community Centre and the Red Door (women's) Shelter.
Admission is by donation of art supplies, toiletries or $1.00 (for the targeted charities)
To date, Crafternoon Tea has raised nearly $6K for charity.
