Refillable pens in fun new colors! ✒️

Refillable pens in fun new colors! ✒️
We've got three styles of Tom's Studio pens in a variety of fun new colors!

Begone, disposable plastic! These beautiful aluminum pens are infinitely refillable, made to last a lifetime, and compatible with most of your favourite fountain pen inks! 

Choose between a fine nib fountain pen; The Wren, a familiar writing pen; and the Lumos, a versatile drawing pen with a bunch of interchangeable tips!
News & Reminders
Intentionalist Awards Nominations!
Thank you for nominating Push/Pull in the Heart of the Community and Arts & Creative Economy categories in this year's Intentionalist Awards!!

Nominations are open through tomorrow, October 28, if you'd like to make additional nominations or nominate another cool brick & mortar location for an award!! 🎖️
This Week
Light up the night with Magic Wand Circuit Craft, powered by the most magical of human inventions: electricity! 🪄
TONIGHT, October 27, 6:00 PM: What are you working on? What are you stuck on? Bring your WIPs to Fresh Look and get a second or third opinion! See what everyone else is working on! It's always fun and inspiring to see in-progress work, isn't it? 👀 FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, October 28, 3:30 PM: Our Teen Art After School program provides a free/low cost way for teens to express and explore their creativity, access art materials, and get feedback and mentorship from a professional artist. Be sure to register ahead of time though! No drop-ins! 🏫

Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 PM: This month's Watercolor Landscapes is SOLD OUT!! November's class will feature a bountiful harvest scene, so sign up early if you're interested! 🌾

Thursday, October 29, 5:00 PM: Halloween draws near! Want to add a little extra oomph to your costume! Join us for Magic Wand Circuit Craft and make a beautiful, unique magic wand with a functional LED light to help you find your way in the Big Dark!! A great little project for adults and kids alike! 🪄

Friday, October 30, 6:00 PM: Find some time to relax on the eve of All Hallow's Eve! Cozy up inside with fellow artistic queers and work on whatever at QU-ART! 🏳️‍🌈 FREE MEETUP.

Friday, October 31, 10:00 AM: Get your hands dirty with some learning before a night full of shenanigans! Bring stuff to print on and join us for DIY Screen Printing!! 👕

Friday, October 31, 3:00 PM: Spend the last few hours before darkness exploring personal zines at Zine Crash Course! Our lives are rich with beautiful mundanities, silly moments, eternal struggles, dark secrets, stupid in-jokes and more! What do you want to share with the world?

Sunday, November 1, 7:15 PM: The midterm elections are nigh... come commiserate n' stress out with company at Riff Raff League. With some luck, we can focus our energies into making something to move forward with, no matter what the results end up being. 🗳️
New & Restocked!
Rhodia
New and restocked! Rhodia 2027 planners and a bunch of beautiful journals and notepads!!
Wax seal supplies
New and restocked! Colorful wax sticks, new seal designs, and some cute wax melting pots for all your upcoming fancy mail time!! 💌
Mnemosyne notebooks
New! High quality Mnemosyne notebooks from Maruman are here, available lined (mint cover) or in dot grid (black cover)! 
Fabriano 
Restocked! Small/medium watercolor pads and watercolor postcards from Fabriano are back!
Hide & Seek
ICYMI: Our mask show, Hide & Seek, opened recently and features over 20 unique, handmade art masks! Check 'em out!!

Buy it straight off the wall if you need it for your costume!!
Look Ahead!
Cut the Crap: A No BS Collage Workshop with Marty is back! Dive into the magazine piles and see what inspiration awaits! ✂️
Monday, November 2nd, 10:30 AM: This masks-required Drawing Techniques class will cover the graphite hardness scale! What are all those different pencils for? 4B? 4H? HB? Do you really need them all? What are each best for, and how can you use them to achieve the effects you want? ✏️

Monday, November 2nd, 5:30 PM: Cut the Crap returns! Get the no BS crash course on collage with Marty! Everyone can be creative and everyone can make a cool collage, for real! ✂️

Tuesday, November 3rd, 6:00 PM: Drop off your ballot, then meet us at Hattie's Hat for Ballard Sketch Team, our twice-monthly casual drawing meetup! Bring your sketchbook or something to work on and hang out with fellow artists of all kinds! 🍻 FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, November 4th, 3:30 PM: Our Teen Art After School program provides a free/low cost way for teens to express and explore their creativity, access art materials, and get feedback and mentorship from a professional artist. Be sure to register ahead of time though! No drop-ins! 🏫

Wednesday, November 4th, 6:00 PM: Cozy up with your fall fiber crafts and join us for Stitch n' Bitch! Work on whatever you're working on while spillin' the tea on the latest drama in your life and/or just listen to others' tales of woe and/or triumph?! 🧶FREE MEETUP.

Thursday, November 5th, 6:00 PM: Come color some Jimothies at Jimothy Coloring Page Night! Meet some neighbours, make connections in the neighbourhood, and bond over a shared love of our local cryptid! 🦝 FREE MEETUP.

Friday, November 6th, 5:30 PM: Pick up some fun watercolor techniques at Botanical Watercolors as you paint a seasonal piece of nature! What will it be this month? 🍂

Saturday, November 7th, 10:00 AM: November's Zine Crash Course will cover comics! Have a comic character in mind? Or want to make an autobiographical comic about something fun you did this past week? All are welcome--even if you've never written a comic before. 📕

Saturday, November 7th, 1:00 PM: This quarter's Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make is SOLD OUT! Plan ahead for next time or get on the waitlist in case of last minute cancellations! ✒️

Saturday, November 7th, 4:00 PM: This month's Book Binding Workshop is also SOLD OUT! You don't have to wait as long to get in on the next one, but don't wait on saving your spots! 📖

Sunday, November 8th, 10:00 AM: NEW CLASS! Join Holly (of Make Your Own Lafufu fame??) for Intro to Polymer Clay Sculpture and make a little friend of a different kind to take home! 🦉

Sunday, November 8th, 3:00 PM: Get started with and/or build skills and confidence in acrylic painting with Dramatic Acrylic Landscapes! 🌄
Connect and be creative with your neighbours while celebrating our newly famous neighbour at Jimothy Coloring Page Night with Kiana (who coined Jimothy's name and made the art in this flyer) and Dallas (creator of the r/JimothyTheRaccoon subreddit)! 🦝