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)

Craftin' Carnival

Like, Whoa. WTS Creatures has been jet setting around the globe and making more of your favorite plush creatures. "Busy" is the word i'm looking for. The one(1). The two(2). and it don't stop.

The past weekend was Denver's very first "Craftin' Carnival". WTS Creatures was lucky enough to join in on this nice event filled with laughter, free cotton candy and many people eating free cotton candy. Lets go to the slides to get a feeling of what was experienced:

the glorious signage proudly displayed on Work Brite's exterior.

Denise getting ready to tell anyone who will listen about WTS Creatures. Notice our new handmade banner? Yeah its new and we made it.

The view of the room. A small but eclectic group of crafty crafters and artists.

Different angle of the room. Here you see Zshanna Kristoff (next to the women in black). A very nice person and talented artist. She draws animals, ladys and hands very well. To the left you can see the delicious free cotton candy.

Free cotton candy and the ladyz who make it.

Cate and Caryn in Cowboy Boots with Cotton Candy.

We were between the free cotton candy and a both that sold middle school kids art. All the kids showed up to see their art and then noticed the free cotton candy. It was all over from there. This picture doesn't do the the mayhem or mob action justice that overcame the cotton candy machine. I saw one small girl eat 9 cotton candy cones. Her mouth was crusted with blue sugar. I think she has diabetes now:(

Anyway. WTS Creatures had a great time! We met new and interesting people and artists as usual and we got to see children gorge themselves on spun sugar. Till next time. Beep Boop Bop Bee Boop.

Awwwwww:)

As you may or may not know, WTS Creatures started off by doing only custom work. We brought to life the drawings of children.....actually only 2 children. Eventually we created our own cast of characters and "the rest is history".

Denise and I are always quick to say that we do custom work when ever we are doing "business". Unfortunately, it seems that, regardless of the enthusiasm that people express about a custom endeavor they never go thru with it.

Until now!

In the past couple months we've been brought a couple collaborative projects from friends and more recently a new friend.

We met Jeffrey and his family: Amy and Sandoval at the last Project Hello. Jeffrey was impressed with our designs and jumped at the chance for us to create something personal for him. He actually drew up a creature design for us right there. It. was. Awesome.

Jeffrey wanted us to make a cactus monster for his son, Sandoval. According to these specifications:

This is what we made:

And this is Sandoval with his new cactus monster:

I know, right?

Thank you Jeffrey for this wonderful opportunity. Hopefully we can get more people to come to us with there custom designs.

In other custom news: We are making 5 more Buster Bear designs for Alex Bradley Cohen out of Chicago. Here's the pile of patterns that need sewing:

We have some other custom designs and a couple new designs that you can look forward to very soon.

Have Fun!

Project Hello 2011 recap

June 25th 2011 will go down in history as one of the most fun times in Denver EVER! Project Hello at Redline gallery was such a great time! The gallery was the perfect place to have such a fantastic event. And there was so much to see and do! Project Hello out did itself this year, can't wait till next year!

So for those of you who missed it, this is a little recap somethin' somethin' of all that went down.

represent represent!

So as you may or may not know, Denise and I made our largest creature to date for this event. We enlarged dear old Finch here to over 7x his regular size! For our part of the "introduction" theme of Project Hello, we introduced people to giant Finch and took their pictures with him. The pictures were printed and given to the people as a gift so they could never forget Finch, WTS or Project Hello.

There were a lot of great creatives who turned out some awesome "interactivities." Fun for the whole family (note family in picture)

There were poets and story tellers with words to listen to...

...things to color with new friends, Block printed shirts made right in front of you...

...comic books being drawn as you watched and group art projects(behind dude)...

..as well as live music. And thats only half of it!

I apologize for not being able to truly justify how fun Project Hello was in the above photos. That being said here are some of our most favorite images that we took. (click to enlarge)

Denise and I printed well over 70 pictures, which, for the most, were taken home by some very happy customers. We look forward to Project Hello next year and hopefully we'll be a part of it again. Now that we have a knack for the giant plushie we'll have to figure out how we can out do ourselves.

Have Fun!

- Denise and Ricardo

WTS is Larger Than Life

First things first, Project Hello is this Saturday from noon - 7pm at Redline Gallery. WTS will be there and we hope you will be there too.

With that being said, Here's a little sneak peak at what we've been working on for this year's installment of Project Hello.

We had some 72 sq feet of giant creature pattern printed up and then took it home, traced it onto over 11 yards of fabric, cut it out and pinned it together.

Then we set up our dueling sewing machines and got to work stitching this bad beast together.

Then I (Denise) got clever and decided to wear the skin of our very large creature ... trying to get an idea of what it'd look like stuffed ... with a human. Everyone keeps asking us, "how much stuffing did it take to stuff that thing?" and the answer is, not very much at all. In fact, our giant creature is pretty light weight considering it's size.

We built a chicken wire frame and covered it with 1 inch thick batting ... it feels nice and soft, and yet it's hollow for the most part.

The whole of making a giant creature has been more like constructing a building or performing surgery more than it has been like making a creature, like we usually do. It's not quite finished just yet so if you want to see the finished creature you'll have to come to Project Hello and meet it,and get your picture taken with it, and have a good time.

In other news, WTS Creatures was commissioned to work with artist, Buster Bear, out of Chicago. He submitted the following sketch.

And Ricardo turned out the following WTS+Buster Bear Creature

I'm going to let those photos do the talking (it's pretty great, huh?)
Whereever you may be in the world, keep your eyes peeled for WTS creatures. You never know when they'll start turning up in your neighborhood ... perhaps in the form of a custom creature, or one of our many classic designs ... or maybe A GIANT CREATURE DANCING IN THE STREETS!

Hope to see you all this Saturday at Project Hello. Until then, Goodbye!

There and Back Again

Last week was most exciting for us two WTS Creature makers.

First of all we took a road trip out to Seattle.



We were there for only a day and a half, but while we were there we met some great Seattle crafters and got brought up to speed on the craft scene out west. The hotel we were staying at was right next door to a little craft shop called "Shmancy". We spent some time in there chatting and checking out all of the great plush work that filled the store. If you are a fan of plush, art, crafty goodness or just all around fun, we highly suggest you take a peak at their website: www.schmancytoys.com, and if you are ever in Seattle take a minute to drop by and say hello.

Of course, nothing beats home though. We got back to Denver and our first order of business has been to get our creatures back out to all of our friends and fans where they belong. Keep your eyes peeled because, soon, very soon, the newest, latest and greatest installment of WTS Creatures will be up in our Etsy store ... and as usual, in stores around town.

Also, if you haven't heard, WTS Creatures will be at Project Hello again, and this year we're doing it real big. Please say hello on June 25, 2011 at RedLine in Denver, and check out the Project Hello blog and facebook page for updates and a list of all of the great artists you'll see at this year's show.



If you want to see some great art before project hello, go check out the microclimates exhibition.




We went to the opening night events at the super ordinary gallery, and as you can see from the picture, it was awesome.Rob Mack and Samuel Schimek have done it again.

That's all from this corner of the world. WTS Forever!