We are very excited to have picked up Your Secret Admiral at the Austin Renegade! Your Secret Admiral is a Brooklyn-based artist, who specializes in handmade books, drawings, and paper goods. Most of her goods are environmentally friendly and are created from recycled, reused, repurposed, rescued, and reloved materials. We have some card packs and little weekly lists, but the jewel is the hand bound journals! Each book is is made from papers that are collected, assembled, folded, cut, and bound together. Many of them have vintage hardcovers as the cover for the journal. These one of a kind books are pure awesomeness!
We hope you are all having a happy holiday weekend!
Our current store feature is fellow TOSA artist Tim Willink of Windmill Woodworks. Tim’s wood shop is located just behind our wallpapered wall. He works with salvaged lumber from fences and barns. Many of the picture frames and birdhouses we have in the store are painted fun bright colors, but our favorite are the ones were the weathered wood is left in its original state. Tim crafts lots of other pieces besides what we have in the shop including benches and case pieces. (He is also known to do custom work if you ask nicely.) Check out some of his picture frames in our online showcase here: http://tomtecraft.bigcartel.com/
Hey, All! We brought new Berkley prints back with us from Austin. They are now in the store, so be sure to stop in to get first pick. (Personally, I think the Wonder Kittens are awesome!)
Tomte is pleased to welcome Portland jewelry artist and instructor Rebecca Melton to our jewelry line up! The pieces in her oddball line are hand crafted in steel, enamel, sterling and fine silvers. We are happy to have her!
Tomte is pleased to announce we will now be opened 7 days a week for your shopping convenience! Whoo-hoo!
Tomte will now be featuring one artist from our brick and mortar store in our new online shop! The artist will change out periodically. Our current artist is Kurt van Maarth from Swear Jar Design in honor of our ReadyMade feature!
We just got a package from Lauren Haupt! The little wings are back in stock! Yeah!
We just finished the new springy window display! Yeah!
Just in from Philly!
Sara Selepouchin draws awesome diagrams of our favorite things, and hand prints them on useful stuff.
We’re super big fans of her new heart shaped chocolate box diagram, which is just in time for Valentine’s day!
Anyway, she’s just sent us a fantastic selection of tea towels, coasters, placemats, and one of a kind prints.
Stop in and check them out!
