If you love scented candles, then you’re going to love today’s maker – Country Cabin Candles & Soaps makes high quality candles and soaps with over 50 scents to choose from. What started as a love of candles and fragrances grew into a successful local business. If you missed last weeks article, you can read about our last maker here. Tell us about Country Cabin Candles & Soaps. CCCS was born back in April 2011 from my love of candles and fragrances. As an avid candle burner, I was always on the hunt for a candle that burned nicely......
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If you’re looking for a beautiful farmhouse sign for your home, look no further – Yorkshire Creations will have what you’re looking for and if not, Kate will bring your idea to life! She has made statement pieces with fonts, bold patterns with nature themed shapes and quite a few holiday signs. If you missed last weeks article, you can read our last Maker Monday: Granny Bird Designs here. Tell us a bit about Yorkshire Creations. Yorkshire Creations truly is a labour of love. It’s still in the growing process and I love seeing it flourish. It’s based on bringing peoples farmhouse sign......
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If you had a chance to check out the Makers North Spring Show earlier this month then you may have seen today’s maker, Granny Bird Designs. Laura-Leigh creates beautiful artwork that has been featured in print publications and art shows over the last few years. Her art is inspired by her own personal growth and innermost journey and each piece is original. If you missed last weeks article, you can read our last Maker Monday: BananaBug Babies here. Tell us a bit about Granny Bird Designs. As an artist, I seek to inspire not only myself, but the world in......
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It’s Monday again so it’s time to introduce you to another talented local maker! If you missed our last Maker Monday interview with SOS Botanicals, you can find that here. Today we want to introduce you to Jessica, the maker behind forEver Baby&Kids. forEver Baby&Kids offers high quality, affordable hair accessories and bowties for newborns, babies, toddlers, kids, teens, and adults. Tell us a bit about forEver Baby Designs. forEver Baby&Kids is a brand that creates high quality, affordable, vegan hair accessories and bow ties for babies, kids, and adults. Each hair accessory has the option of coming on a......
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Mondays are quickly becoming our favourite days of the week! I love meeting all of these amazing makers and getting a peak into their creative processes. Last week we shared our interview with Jessica, the maker behind forEver Baby&Kids and you can read that here. Today we’re introducing you to the maker behind BananaBug Babies, Danielle. Danielle has been making adorable children’s clothing and accessories since 2007. Tell us a bit about BananaBug Babies. My name is Danielle Teixeira, and I’m the founder and creator at BananaBug Babies. I run my business from home here in Sudbury. I sew......
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We are in week three of our Maker Monday series and we’re excited to introduce you to our third maker, Sarah of SOS Botanicals. Sarah makes plant based skin care products and aims to do this with zero waste. She has lines of face serums, soaps, body balms, meditation oils, bath bombs and so much more. We spoke to Sarah about how she got started with SOS Botanicals and her plans for the future. Tell us a bit about SOS Botanicals. SOS Botanicals was created to give Sudburians an affordable alternative to self-care products that are packaged in plastic......
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In case you missed it – last week we launched our Maker Monday series and shared an interview with textile artist Gillian Schultze. Today we spoke with visual artist Sydney Rose. Sydney creates primarily collages that tell stories of human behaviours and habits. Most recently, she was featured in a mini-doc on CBC Arts where she talked about her art and creative process. Tell us a bit about your art. My art is playful. It’s surreal yet familiar. It asks questions and tells stories of who and what we are as human beings – our behaviours, beliefs, histories and......
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We say this a lot, but Sudbury is so full of talented people and we love to highlight them so today we’re introducing a new series: Maker Monday! Each Monday we will share an interview with a local maker and give you some insight into their design process and tips for any makers out there looking to start selling their own artwork. For the first Maker Monday, we spoke with textile artist Gillian Schultze. Gillian creates pieces that look like acrylic paintings but are created using fabrics, threads as well as paints and dyes. This past weekend her first......
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I love seeing beautiful photos and paintings of my favourite city but these beautiful local scenes painted on leaves are definitely the most unique. We’re a huge fan of Alex’s work and when we met her at a brunch over the holidays, we knew we needed to find out more about her art and her creative process. Tell us a bit about A.L. Creatives? What is Al Creatives and how did it start? A.L. Creatives started as a name and instagram page to showcase my various forms of art and design. I like to do a variety of different......
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