Starting this week Tomte has new winter hours. Tuesdays are now reserved as a gnome play day and the store will be closed. Happy Tuesdays!
New Hours:
Monday 11-6pm
Tuesday closed
Wednesday – Saturday 11-6pm
Sunday 12-5pm
Tomte. Modern Craft
a showcase for awesome craftiness.
The 2010 Art by Craft exhibition opens tonight!
The Denver Handmade Alliance presents Art by Craft, a celebration of craft-based works in a fine art setting.
Opening Reception Friday October 15th 7pm-10pm
Location: Events Space at 1490 Delgany
Food available at the Deluxe food truck and beverages from Izze
Live music from Crows, Vultures, Bulls (members of Matson Jones)
Interactive crochet tagging station from the Ladies Fancywork Society
Crafted based activities for all ages in the Idea Box at MCA Denver
The Museum of Contempory Art has two exhibitions opening that same night, Isca Greenfield-Sanders and Robert Gober. http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/exhibitions
Regular Exhibit hours:
Thursday – Sunday 12pm-4pm October 15th – 30th
+ Saturday October 30th (Closing Reception/Craft Market) 10am-6pm
Art by Craft Market Saturday October 30th, 10am-6pm
MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany
Featuring the work of 30 plus local crafters for sale
FREE admission as part of the MCA Denver’s Family Free Day
The first 50 people in the door get a swag bag full of goodies from local crafters
Crafted based activities for all ages in the Idea Box at MCA Denver
Tomte is the drop site for swag bag donations! The swag bags are a great opportunity to market your wares to market attendees, even if you were not selected as a vendor. If you donate something to the swag bags you can also include 50 of your business cards to go into every swag bag. Please drop off all swag bag donations no later than Monday October 25th.
Exciting news: Baby Head planters by local artist Micheal McDowell are back in stock! We are always super happy to have these around, so hurry in to snatch yours before we claim them all for ourselves! (The planters currently available come with air plants and not the plants pictured.)
Don’t be put off by the film crew. We are open today. Come hang out in the store with us and watch the spectacle.
There is just something about letterpress. We are drawn to the hand crafted feel of letter press cards. The weight of history when seeing an actual letterpress machine in person. And the letters! You can carry a small piece of that history around with you. *sigh*
Belt buckle and money clip by Steel Toe Studios. Letterpress necklaces by She’s Crafty Handmade. Available in store.
New In Store: Leah Duncan pillows! Yippee!
UPDATE: These are now available in our online store: click here.
Fancy Tiger’s Holiday Handmade vendor applications are due today! Awesome crafty peps now is your chance! Click here.
Fall is in the air. In our crafty retailing world that means late nights and extra goings on. Not that we are complaining. We live for this time of year. Orders are coming in as Tomte is receiving new crafty goodness every day. Orders are going out as Brett stocks crafty boutiques with Vital gear and local businesses with their own custom gear. We are on the edge. On the edge of all sorts of happy things.
We are on the beginning of planning for Tomte’s one year birthday. Perhaps the first Saturday in November? Brett will brew a special Tomte beer for the event. Some gnomes will be felted, for our gnome army is to take over the world. Also, there is some exciting news that we will officially announce at that time. All good things.
We look forward to sharing the holiday season with you.
(Michael McDowell made Tomte a special batch of terrarium gnomes. These are now available at our B&M store.)
The Horseshoe Craft and Flea is this Saturday, October 2nd in the Berkeley/Tennyson neighborhood. We are excited about this new market in Denver, so definitely check it out!
Tomte is now carrying Steel Toe Studios out of Seattle! We have bike cog belt buckles and bottle openers, as well as leather belt straps.