Well, as you can see from the time since the last post on this blog that I'm awesome at keeping this blog up to date.
So, I won't be making any more posts on this blog after today, I'll be only posting on my Facebook page and my Twitter feed.
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Just wanted to say thanks to 100 Mile Finds for a mention in their latest newsletter that featured the Barns Art Market that I'm participating in tomorrow! Thanks 100 Mile Finds! Here's a link to the newsletter:
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So with the Movies and Makers show just past(thanks to all those who came out!), I'm looking to the future and what I see on the horizon is my next show, the Barns Art Market. The market takes place regularly throughout the spring, summer and fall and is paired with the farmers market at the Wychwood Art Barns. I'll be participating in 3 of the events throughout this year. The dates I will be there are:
May 26, August 18 and October 20.
The market runs from 9am until 3pm each of those days.The Wychwood Art Barns are located just west of St.Clair W and Bathurst St in Toronto, ON.
For more information, please visit the shows website.
The next show I'll be attending is the Movies and Makers show on Saturday May 5 at the Fox Theatre in Toronto. I'll have both my jewellery and watches at this show which is in an amazing little movie theatre way down at the far end of Queen St E in the Beach. The show is running from 11am until 5:30pm that day.
Lisa, the organizer of the show, has also recently upped a blog post about my work which you can find on the show's website here. There are also links to all of the other vendors that will be at the show. Hope to see you there!
Just a quick post to let you know that the new watches that I have been preparing from the One of a Kind Show are now all posted on my website. Some or all of these may appear in my Etsy shop by tomorrow or it may have to wait until the show has finished.
I also have posted three new watches from my ongoing collaboration with Hugh from MoviesinHaiku. These will also be available at the One of a Kind Show.
Speaking of the show, I'll be setting up my booth tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning and probably into the afternoon. The show opens Wednesday, pop by my booth(D-45) and say hi, maybe take a look at some of the watches while you're there ;)
Here's a couple more photos of some of the new pieces:
I'm happy to announce that I'm able to give away a total of 5 pairs of tickets to this years show, a pair of tickets for each winner. The names were drawn at random by my wife from a hat my son wears...its all very official. Here are the winners:
El Lum
Rachel Headley
Sari Colt
Cheryl Andrews-Morreale
Stef Raab
I'll be contacting each of you by end of the day tomorrow with the details on how to get your tickets. Congratulations!
Well, there just a little over a week to go until the Spring One of a Kind Show here in Toronto and methinks there are many people such as myself who are doing some last minute scrambling. It seems no matter how much planning and prep work you do, there are always things being finished right up until the last minute.
I started doing my planning, prep, ordering, designing and all those things that go into making my watches way back at the beginning of January, but alas, I'm still clambering all the way to the end. It always feels like heartbreak whenever there's a piece left unfinished, knowing that if I hadn't watched that TV show I could have gotten it done. No use beating myself up about it because I'm going to have more watches than I've ever had a show before, all for your viewing pleasure. Here are a couple of quick snaps of some new work. If you've been following me on Twitter, you may have seen a couple of my new designs already.
First one is a quartz watch with one of my new niobium dials, I'll have other watches with niobium dials(ie. different vibrant colours and designs) at the show. Second watch is one of my new skeletonized watches with an oxidized sterling silver dial. To see all my latest designs, please come out to the show, my booth number is D-45. I'll also have them posted to my website soon.I'm still running my ticket giveaway for the show, so check out my other blog post to see all the entry details. Coming up very shortly I'll be posting a tweet, that if you retweet it, you'll get entered into my contest, this will be the last way to enter my giveaway other than the ways listed in my other post. The draw for the tickets will be happen this Saturday, so time's running out to enter.
Well, I'm sure with all the work that I have remaining; this will probably be my last blog post before the show. I'll be tweeting and blogging from the show floor as well, so stay tuned for those and I hope to see you there. Please stop by and say hello!
I haven't been posting as much as I normally would about my preparations for the upcoming Spring One of a Kind show, so to break the drought I thought I'd post a couple quick snapshots of one of the new watches I've finished for the show.
In one of my previous blogs about the show, I posted a 3D render of one of the dials that I am making. Here is the finished product which I'll have at the show:
This watch is stainless steel with a PVD coating and a sterling silver dial which has cutouts so you can see through to the skeletonized movement behind it.I will have many other new watch designs at the show including some with niobium dials which I'm really happy with. It's nice to finally have some vibrant colour on my dials and to also have it happen in such a unique way. I'll post some picture or two about these in my next blog post before the show.
I'll also have photos of all the watches I will have at the show, posted before the show on my website and probably also on Etsy.
I'm also still running my ticket giveaway, so if you want to win free tickets to come to the show, please visit this page to enter. Winning a pair of tickets could potentially save you $28 if you would have purchased a pair of tickets at the door to the show.
Time to get back to work, please come by my booth at the show and say hello, its booth # D45. See you there!
As the Spring One of a Kind Show is approaching very quickly I thought I would run my ticket giveaway contest again. This time I have more tickets up for grabs and different ways to enter the contest. Each winner will recieve one pair of tickets for the show. Here's how to enter:
- leave on comment on this blog post about your favourite part or your most memorable experience at the One of a Kind Show
- leave a comment on this post on my Facebook page about your favourite part or your most memorable experience at the One of a Kind Show
- 'Like' this post on my Facebook page
- 'Like' my page on Facebook
So doing any of these things will give you an entry into the giveaway. You can do all of them and get up to four entries in the giveaway. As the OOAK gets closer I will be opening up additional ways to enter, so keep checking my blog and my facebook page for updates! The draw will be happening on Saturday March 24, 2012 at 8pm EST which is the final weekend before the show. Thanks for entering and good luck!
I've donated one of my watches to the Queen West Artcrawl for their Artgives event which supports the arts in Toronto. They are hosting an evening at Gallery 345 where there will be an art auction conducted by David Silcox of Sotheby’s Canada and live performaces by Juno Award winner Jane Bunnett.
This event is happening March 19, 2012 from 6-9pm. Please visit the QWAC Artgives website for all the details and to purchase tickets. Please help to support the arts in our community!
If you would like more information about Queen West Artcrawl as a charity, please visit this website.
The timepiece I've donated is one of my Large Stainless Steel Watches with Daedalian Dial # 1 (pictured below). If you'd like more information about this particular watch, please follow this link to my website. My watch is part of the fundraiser's silent auction. To make a bid and possibly win this watch, click here.
The Spring One of a Kind show is just around the corner, so I thought I'd write a little post about it and the types of watches I'm preparing for the show.
The show is at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada starting on March 28, 2012 and running through April 1, 2012. Please check the OOAK website for all the details regarding directions and show times. If you wanted to get discounted tickets, you can order them online and use the code in the image below to save some money.
- There were many requests for skeletonized watches and so I'm trying to have three different watches with 3 different skeletonized movements with 3 different dials. The designs I have come up with are quite different from each other, so I hope there's something for everyone while still staying within design aesthetic that I enjoy. Here's a a 3D computer image teaser of one of the dials:
- I'm making more watches with my friend and collaborator Hugh. The other two watches I made with him, grabbed the attention of quite a few people, so look for something new there as well.
- Lastly, it wasn't a requested item but something I was researching before the Xmas OOAK show, a new metal for my dials called niobium. Niobium is a metallic element, number 41 on the periodic table and has one property which I find to be wonderful. Run electricity through it and it turns all sorts of crazy colours. Like this:
I also don't know why I enjoy packaging materials so much, but I do, and it drove me to get new bags made for my watches. So if you purchase one of my pieces, you'll get to carry it away in one of these bad boys:
So there has been lots of things happening in my workshop to prepare for the coming show and I'm very excited about all the possibilites that these new processes are opening. I'll be posting more to the blog as the show approaches, so stay tuned!
Oh, and of course I would be remiss without mentioning my little guy who may make some things not happen, so if there are a couple watches that don't make it to the show, you can blame it on this guy:
A huge thanks goes out to Susan and Shirley of 100 Mile Finds for featuring my watches on thier blog! Check out the post here:
http://100milefinds.blogspot.com/2012/02/wilk-watchworks.html
100 Mile Finds is a great way to find local artisans, craftspeople, and all sorts of interesting small businesses in your area. Check it out here:
Thanks again Susan and Shirley!
I recently got accepted to have a listing/shop on 100milefinds.com and was found by another Canadian small business, Polar Stones, who wrote a nice little post about my work. They make whiskey stones to keep your drinks cool without diluting them. Thanks Polar Stones and 100 Mile Finds!
Find my shop on 100 Mile Finds here
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What a whirlwind 2011 was...I blinked and it was over! There have been a huge amount of changes for my business and for myself personally.
This past year was the first time that I partcipated in both the Spring and Christmas One of a Kind shows. Preparing for these shows was an insane amount of work, especially since it was the first full year of the launch of my watches. I have had some watches at shows in previous years, but they were prototypes, not like what I was showing in 2011. It was also the first year for my stainless steel watches, which I'm happy to say were well received. I also did a few other shows this past year, here's a list of all the shows I was at:
- Christmas One of a Kind Show
- Artscape Artbarns Holiday Market
- Movies & Makers Art & Craft Show
I hope to have more shows added to the roster for this coming year, but we'll have to wait and see which shows I get accepted to. I'll let you know as soon as I know!
This past year also saw my work featured in a number of articles from different websites. Thank you so much to those people who featured my work. Here is a list of some of the places I found which posted about my work:
- Support Canadian Made Interview
- Work Live Play Cafe One of a Kind Show Article
- My collaborator Hugh of Moviesinhaiku on his blog
The other major happening in my life this past year was the arrival of my son! It's been so amazing seeing him grow and develop. Here's a couple photos of him, one from the beginning of last year and one just a couple days ago.
I think 2012 is going to be just as full as 2011 was, both on the Dad side and also on the creating side. I have lots of plans for the watches for this year and I'll be blogging about my progress and process. I'm very excited about the possibilites that some of the new materials I'm using will open up, but I'm not going to spoil any of the surprises about them. If you do want a little sneak peak, look at the On the Horizon section of my website.
I'm also planning on another series of blogs about some of the people I meet at shows and thier work and continuing my series about the different parts of watches. Will I have enough time to do it all? No idea. Guess you'll have to stay tuned. One thing is for certain though, my next show! It;'s the Spring one of a Kind show which starts March 28. More on that to come.
Wishing all the best to you in 2012!
