Ransack the Universe Blog!

Ahoy!  Our traveling Crafty-Artsy-Vintagey Market returns to the scene of a recent triumph, The Garrison at 1197 Dundas St. W., on Saturday May 29th from 12-5 pm.

We’ve selected only the choicest morsels for the discerning aficionado. The line-up includes purveyors of paintings, patches, and fuzzy monsters; leather accessories and accessorized feathers; bags, baubles, books, and buttons; clothing and cards, soaps and popes*, mosaics and shnozaics*.

Really, if you need a fun present for someone in the foreseeable future, you’d be a right pillock to miss this.  As before, the Garrison remains an establishment licensed to sell you alcoholic drinks, so feel free to wander about, have a tipple, and wander about a bit more.

* = while quantities last!

Spring!  This coming Saturday, May 8th, come get well and truly frocked.  69Vintage Collective at 1207 Bloor is hosting a building-wide party, complete with an ice cream parlour and loads of new stock at all the upstairs boutiques — including two new vendors (Tomorrow Never Knows and Electric Eel).  Will the staff of Ransack the Universe also be wearing frocks?  Let’s answer that question with another question: Would we have to shave our legs?

If you are humming and hawing, this super cute and colourful poster should convince you:

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Attend our Book Swap, or the Earth will be very angry.  The Icelandic volcano “Engelberthumperdinksdottir” is just a tiny glimpse of what is in store if we do not make a sufficient sacrifice.

In the spirit of recycling, through the miracle of cut/paste technology, here is the text from an earlier blog post:

For 4 days, in honour of the Earth, Ransack the Universe is hosting a Book Swap. On the other 361 days of the year, the Earth can carry on falling apart for all we care.

Here’s how it works: you bring one or more books to drop off. You snoop around and take away with you one or more books. For free. That’s it. Maybe there will be CD’s etc. as well, maybe not.

What a terrific time to visit Ransack if you haven’t yet.

Reading: too elitist? You decide!

The countdown is on — this Saturday (April 10th, 12-5pm) we take our show on the road to the heart of Where It’s At.  That’s right, it’s another Indie Craft Fair, this time a joint effort with The Argyle Acorn and held at The Garrison, 1197 Dundas West, a little west of Ossington.

There will be a smorgasbord of ingenious and lovely objets de craft, including t-shirts, cards, vintage, buttons, ties, bath stuff, zines, earrings, photography, hair clips, jewelry made from piano ivory!!!, stuffed critters, turned wood mushrooms, and loads and loads more.  All with the added satisfaction of meeting the artist.  And if somehow that’s not enough, it’s in a bar — you can probably get BOOZE, you lushes.  If we were you, we’d ring up a pal and toddle on over.

Here’s an event page over on ze Facebook.

And here’s the official poster:

For 4 days, in honour of the Earth, Ransack the Universe is hosting a Book Swap. On the other 361 days of the year, the Earth can carry on falling apart for all we care.

Here’s how it works: you bring one or more books to drop off. You snoop around and take away with you one or more books. For free. That’s it. Maybe there will be CD’s etc. as well, maybe not.

What a terrific time to visit Ransack if you haven’t yet.

Reading: too elitist? You decide!

Thursday April 22 2010 – Sunday April 25th, 12-7pm each day at Ransack, 1207 Bloor St. W.