I’m kinda crafty so when my friend told me about the Creativ Festival I pretty much freaked out. I looked through the website and was excited about all the vendors, a few I was even familiar with.

We started our morning bright and early on Saturday hoping for greatness but anticipating the worst and prepared to leave if we were bored. The festival ended up being phenomenal. Lots of very good quality goods being sold for quite reasonable prices. Everything is expensive nowadays, and craft supplies is no different, so we were happy to browse through everything and even able to afford stuff.

The event was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre which was a spacious venue for this event. It was laid out more or less by type of craft. There was an area each for: quilting, knitting, sewing, scrapbooking, beading, needlepointing and the like. 

We arrived around 11 a.m. and left around 3 p.m., with a nice lunch break in the middle. We couldn’t resist the temptation of the Pizza Pizza smell coming from the food court.

Before Saturday the idea of scrapbooking bored me. I honestly thought it was lame because I envisioned it a hobby solely for wives and/or mothers. Not that there is anything wrong with that, just that it was not relevant for me. Browsing through the many scrapbooking booths I realized I was wrong and scrapbooking is extremely creative and not tacky in the least. I would like to start making cards (birthday/wedding/thank you) rather than buying boring/tacky/ugly/NOT FUNNY cards from the store. I want to have a birthday party or take classes at this place.

I left the festival with three purchases:

1) Burgundy coloured alpaca wool from Peru (sorry the flash was too bright) bought at the Unwind Yarn House booth

2) Fabric and a pattern from Amy Butler purchased at the Macfab booth

That I made a makeup bag out of

3) A scrapbooking kit from the Urban Scrapyard booth that I plan on making and giving as a gift so I am not posting a photo

We’re definitely going to go to the spring 2009 Creativ Festival.