A real book! I think I would like it better if it was about crafting with your cat, but this is intriguing. I wonder what the projects are- a hair ball, maybe?

Seems like a good excuse to start hoarding cat hair, because “I might need it someday”.

Available [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2012/01/10/crafting-with-cat-hair/

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Hello 2012! Big sale happening right now on my webstore Butikofer Handmade Goods, and Etsy. Everything [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2012/01/09/january-sale/ Well, well, well. If it isn’t 2012.

I have to say that I had a really hard time with 2011. It just didn’t feel natural. Whenever I had to date something, I always had to think about it. I naturally wanted to write 2012. So here we are, right where we (me, anyway) are supposed to [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2012/01/01/a-new-year/ I am trying out a new blog format- the video blog! I thought it would be interesting to be able to talk about some of my past work, as I mentioned previosly, I am trying to purge and organize my studio, I have a lot of pieces that I have no idea what [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2011/12/21/stained-glass-dress/ Caninja was featured online at Toronto Life as one of the 10 picks for the Distillery Toronto Christmas Market! Cool beans! They spelled my name wrong but perhaps it’s easier to pronounce properly with this new spelling, so I think I might change it. Here is the article online.

I am in the trenches of cleaning out my basement and studio right now. I have reconciled to parting ways with a lot of my old projects, and the weirdness that I used to make and wear when I was a student designer. As a way of preservation and letting go, I will be blogging [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2011/12/08/coffee-filter-dress/

I will be here Friday and Saturday, selling most of what I have in stock. So if you are in Toronto, do come and check it out.

Open to the public. No admission!
Friday, December 2, 2011
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, December [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2011/11/30/fgi-sample-sale/ No matter how much I practise or how hard I try, I will never be able to sew as fast as this bottle of glue.

In the spirit of black friday and cyber monday,

Everything on Butikofer Handmade Goods is on sale this weekend starting Thursday and ending at the last breath of Monday.

20% off with the coupon code

PLUS

Everything you order will definitely arrive in time for Christmas [...]]]> http://butikofer.com/blog/2011/11/24/cyber-weekend-sale/

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

This took my breath away. I often see spellbinding flocks of birds along highway 400 north of Toronto. Nothing like this, though.