Maker Stories
FETCH IDEAS
Born in Brazil and relocated to Canada, product designer and artisan Clarice Duarte has been creating for over 30 years. Her mediums span from pape...
Bud & Blossom
Hey!My name is Carmen, and I’m the maker behind Bud & Blossom designs here in Ontario, Canada.On a typical day you will find me in yoga pants w...
Shiva's Delight
Kingston’s Casey Boyce is the entrepreneur and maker behind rave-reviewed skincare line Shiva's Delight. With a background in natural healing modal...
KATE&FRANCES
I am Kate Pierre of KATE&FRANCES. A fashion designer, a storyteller, a deep thinker, a loather of small talk. A traveller, an explorer and a se...
Limestone City Sign Parties
My name is Michelle but anyone who knows me just calls me Shell. A born and raised Kingston girl, I don’t see myself ever leaving unless I’m old an...
Happy Tails
My business all started with my dog Blue. Poor Blue became very allergic to many of the ingredients in his food. One of the main ones he was having...
Rosanne Angotti
Toronto jewelry designer Rosanne Angotti has always had a passion for the arts. For years she took courses at OCAD and the Toronto School of Art, l...
Kala Clay Art
Latha Prajwal is the talented maker behind small business Kala Clay Art, creating stunning jewelry designs in polymer clay. A mom of two, Latha ba...
Silk & Scarlet
Hi there!I’m Heather Beggs, a mama of three beautiful boys, Jacob (3), Paxton (2) and Carter (7 months) and a wife to my husband, Jeremy (whom I af...
Charleston Botanicals
My journey to skincare began in 1996 in a quest to find more natural options for our infant son who was experiencing terrible eczema. We had tried...
CraftyCollectables
I smirk a bit as I recall the very beginnings of this business. As the last of four kids to a single dad, the bigger kids thought I would only slow...
Kiki Carr
I've always been a writer, I just haven't always been a public writer. In the past, when my writing was used in a commercial sense it was for my m...