Sweet William Market

Sweet William Market was this past Saturday and it was a beautiful day. Held in Stapleton, It seems we really lucked out with the weather. The previous markets fell on some swelteringly hot days.

The day was a bit slow but we met some good people and the creatures were played with by packs of rabidly fun children on numerous occasions. Good times. Now on to the pictures.

Here is a great shot of Denise modeling in our new tent set up. Notice the keen handmade "WTS" banner thwarting the suns rays behind her. Although you can not tell in this picture, the table display, to the left, sports some fancy baskets "overflowing" with Sumis and LockJaws. Plus the "WTS Tower" is look particularly smashing. The "piece de resistance" is the brand new "WTS Cubby-Comb", (I just made that name up..right now)! Let's go in for a closer look.

Ah, The "WTS Cubby-Comb". Where to begin? Well, its made from only the finest cardboard concrete tubing mold and lovingly spray painted with only the finest colors. Everything is held together with shiny wing nuts, washers and bolts. A lot of people were asking us about it and that is no lie. The "Cubby-Comb" needs a little fine tuning but its function and appeal are straight A's. WTS might become cardboard cabinet makers yet!
Come see us next weekend: October 1st, at the Horseshoe Handmade Market to gaze upon the new "WTS Cubby-Comb" and to say Hi. Its the last Horseshoe of the season so come on out!

Sweet Williams Market - September 24th: 9am - 2pm

Sweet Williams market is this weekend! You should totally come out, 'cause its gonna be totally awesome! We've been telling everyone at Sweet Williams all about you guys so you gotta make it out. There's gonna be food and music and WTS CREATURES! (cue guitar solo)

The 1. The 2 and it don't stop.

Whoa! Long time no see. Things have been all sorts of crazy in the world of WTS Creatures. You may or may not have notice that our Etsy store is on "vacation". Currently we have all of our stock in actual stores: Tomte Craft, a pop-up shop in Stapleton and Mod Livin(but only till this weekend!). Denise and I are in the midst of creating more of your favorite plushies so we can get the Etsy store back up and running. We are also unveiling a new line of creatures! But I'll get into that a little later.

The craft season is upon us and we're waiting to hear back from a couple art/ craft fairs still. Hopefully we can get out there so we can see all your happy smiling faces!

This past Saturday was a beautiful warm Denver day. The perfect day to go visit our friends at Tomte Craft! Crystal and Beth showed off the new dye printed shirts they're making which are very cool and very limited. We talked world travels, crafts and the crazy things you can find in rural America.

From Tomte we head over to the this:

This was the first Horseshoe Market of the season. The next one is in August. WTS Creatures will be doing it in October. Brett from Tomte Craft/ Vital Industries was there as well as a lot of other familiar faces. Familiar faces like Roxanne from Paisley Bird! We hadn't seen her since Christmas time so it was nice to catch up. Check out her sweet hand fired glass jewelry and night lights.

Jennifer Ghormley(below right) was also there. We hadn't seen her since the Winter months either. Horseshoe was like a reunion of sorts. It was great! From the looks of this picture you'd never guess that it was 85 degrees out...you know?........cause they're so cool.....Right? Right? Anyway. Make sure you check out the next Horseshoe Market on August 6th.

So I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in the last post from way back in April but WTS Creatures are stepping into the pet toy arena! Dog and cat toys will be added to the list of plushie wares we create and you better believe they're true to WTS style.

From top to bottom: StarChild, Uno and Sugar. Made with durable, washable materials, triple stitched at the seems and have a squeeker inside for dog to be entertained eternally! The unveiling of these new toys will be this Thursday, May 12 at the launch of Create Denver Week. From 7pm-10pm at the Spire Building come hang out with us and other creatives as they also unleash their new wares at the Opening Night Celebration of New Ideas! This event is to introduce our new things to the public so we won't be selling our toys per say. There is going to be a lot of awesome and creative things going on this weekend so GET INTO IT.

And thats not all, later this summer WTS Creatures is going to be "teaching" a Plush Creatures 101 "class" at the SUPER OUT OF THE ORDINARY KIDS SUMMER WERKSHOPS! Tran Wills of Fabric Lab and Super Ordinary Gallery fame, asked us to be a part of this awesome endeavor. Thanks Tran! We are very excited about this.

If you live in Denver please come visit us at the Spire Building this Thursday and Friday! Plus follow the links of our creatively inspiration friends.

And remember: Have FUN!

-Ricardo

Beep!

Everyone I'd like to introduce you to Beep. There is much discussion on what he/ she truly is but there is no denying how awesome Beep is.

There is also no denying that Beep has two heads and some short noodlie legs.

Beep was made for our friend Scott because without him WTS Creature wouldn't be here today.

This is Scott and Beep together at last. Happy birthday Scott.

Right now Beep is one of my favorite creatures! I'm so happy how it turned out that there will definitely be more. Beep might have cousin's or siblings with names like "Boop" and "Brrrring". The sky is the limit!! I don't know but i'm stoked on it. Hooray for Beep!!

Protype

We're messing with some new and exciting ideas here at WTS Creatures.
This is an idea that I've had on my mind for a while: luchador pillows!
Introducing "Star Del Face"! I made his head especially large because when it sews up it basically shrinks.
This one has a mustache and crazy beady eyes. To me he turned out more French than Spanish and his head is kinda wonky. I don't mind the wonk but there's a time and a place. Regardless, so far so good.
Making perfectly round pillows is a bit tricky. I'm gonna go some more tweaks and tests before we push this out into the market. Expect more crazy luchador pillows like this. Have fun!
luv Ricardo

4th of July

On the morning of the 4th of July WTS Creatures participated in the City Park Esplanade Fresh Market. The market is every sunday but the crafty portion of it is only ever 1st Sunday of the Month. Count on us being there for August and September.
The morning started out a bit chilly and overcast but ended up quite pleasant. Fortunately the rains didn't come till the evening.
The lovely Denise Teele standing by ready to answer any questions and sign autographs from eager customers.

We've built up out little friends in new and exciting colors and fabric that will soon appear on your etsy page.
This is our new an improved Strongman, definitely a crowd favorite. He is wearing a clean pair of tighty-whiteys and has a new style of mustache. I really like the way this guy turned out so you'll be seeing more of those wonderful underpants.
Unfortunately the market was only from 9 - 1pm so we didn't get a lot of time to meet as many people as we would have liked. Regardless it was a pleasant day and we got to meet more of our crafty peers from the Denver area. Check out Xoxi(So-She) Craft she makes awesome proper plush dolls, octopi and bags. Also get into the fantastic knit stylings of Knitschmidt she's magic with the knitting needles.

Next Big Thing.

This is the next project we're working towards. Check it out and tell your friends.

-Denise and Ricardo

OMG! WTS is on tha scene!

Welcome to the first blog post for WTS Creatures! Amazing isn't it? I know...right?..Who knew?

Its Wednesday night and we've been crafting all week. WTS Creatures is getting ready for Denver's "Crafty Ballyhoo."

We are super excited to hangout with other inspired crafters all day Saturday. Word on the street is there's a crazy cake making contest, a cake walk and a latte' pouring contest! Plus swag bags and crafty how-tos. Did we mention its free? Its going to be INSANITY PEPPERS!!! (thats a good thing)

You can expect the bestest, most cutestest, cuddle-friendly, baby-lovin, fun-huggin', party-pluggin', rug-cuttin' creatures on display for y'all. As well as some of the hip to the hippity hip hop you don't stop stationary woodblock printed handmade envelopedy boogedy beat.

Hope to see you there!!

Denise & Ricardo