Our work in your home
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Sometimes it’s important to step back and look at what you create. When we have a deadline approaching, or something pressing going on, it is easy to overlook the significance of what you are doing or in this case creating. Dad and I just got back from the annual Toronto Spring One of a Kind [...]
Building an Outdoor Oven
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Outdoor wood fired ovens are a throwback to a time when our ancestors cooked with wood burning stoves. It was all well and good in cold weather but once spring came they either moved the cooking to the summer kitchen, or they began to bake using an outdoor oven. I’ve made a few of them [...]
Ground Hog Day
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Ground Hog Day today. Lots of sunshine here, so that seems to indicate that we’ll have more winter. Not a bad thing really. I notice that we’re pushing the seasons more and more. We no sooner get through Christmas, than we market Valentine’s Day…. Then we promote Easter! All of this is in the name [...]
Cooking with Stinson Studios: Salmon Gravlax
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Hello Everyone, I’m really enjoying the pate boards in my collection! I’ve used them to present appetizers, cheese and bread, and even pate! You can find some recipes for pate from a previous blog. But I found another use for my favorite pate board! I turned it upside down, and now I have a cutting [...]
Cooking with Stinson Studios
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One of the things I bring to Stinson Studios, is my love of cooking. With that in mind, I’m going to periodically post blogs with recipes for foods that not only taste fantastic, but serve well in a Stinson Studios piece. Don and Jesse recently mailed me a box full of different bowls, utensils and [...]
Another Stinson in the Mix
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Hello Everyone, Don and I have been brothers for longer than I can remember! We followed similar paths and it always seemed to include the out of doors. After university and working for Outward Bound Schools, I worked in outdoor education for Waterloo County Board of Education. I couldn’t turn down an opportunity to teach [...]
Welcome Uncle Bill
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Stinson Studios is growing! We’re expanding in every conceivable way, with new products and the building of new tools and machines. Our success at the NYIGF (New York International Gift Fair) this past January and August has brought with it a whole range of new international stores and galleries carrying our work. With all this [...]
Last Open Studio of 2011
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The cooler and longer nights are upon us. The hardwood trees have begun their changes to the spectacular autumn colours. Even the ground colour has turned to golden and red. We can smell the changes in the air. The hair on our horses is getting thicker as they prepare for cold weather. With this change [...]
Thank You
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What are the proper words to use to call a customer who becomes a friend? We have been selling salad bowls and other bits of our work at retail art and craft shows for almost 30 years. I can’t speak for all exhibitors, but for us Stinsons, doing a show is like a combination of [...]
Where Are My Pants?
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Have you ever had one of those dreams where you need to be somewhere important and you realize you forgot your pants? I haven’t had the dream, but that was me this morning. The Ottawa Originals Spring Show was due to start in 45 minutes and I was staring at a suitcase full to shirts, [...]
