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Calgary Maker Faire Oct 28 and 29, 2017. Update: Caleb Kraft of Make Magazine shot this video from the LEXM booth * on October 29, starring Kat McLean and me doing all the talking. *Video: If you don't use Facebook, use this link to see lots of videos from Calgary, at makezine.com . To find LEXM, scroll down to video #13 - you will see Cam Farn's huge red-headed sculpture appear behind the presenter. Calgary Maker Faire was a lot of fun - hundreds of makers offering show and tell, and loads of hands on opportunities. Might sound crazy, but I think already know what work I want to show in the LEXM booth in 2018 :) Images: top row, L to R - Reinhold Pinter, Christine Pedersen, Cam Farn. Bottom row, L to R - Jeff de Boer, Cory Barkman. October 28/29, 2017: I will be demonstrating chasing and repoussé as part of the LEXM team of master makers and emerging artists. We will have an exhibition of one of a kind works, commission pieces (with thanks to our won...

Celebrating National Clay Week 2017, new cookbook The Crafted Dish goes on sale online at thecrafteddish.com Canadian Thanksgiving - a perfect day to dish up a new cookbook benefiting thestop.org , an organization that works on many aspects of food security and building community. The Crafted Dish is full of recipes submitted by clay artists, with the food served on their gorgeous hand-made dishes. Creating the book was a zero-cost project, with all of the work done by a fantastic team of volunteers, lead by Carole Epp (she of the excellent clay web-site musingaboutmud.com ). Go SEE some of the recipes - if only the Instagram feed was scratch and sniff... My contribution to the crafted dish is a gluten-free nut butter cookie recipe (hint: if you don’t tell anyone it’s gluten free, they won’t care, they’re good cookies). I offer a grateful nod to all the other cookie recipes I have ever read because I modified and substituted, and went through lots of trial and crumbly erro...