January 28th, 2012 Sunday January 29th : Bring out your family and celebrate Tu Bi’Shevat at the Royal Botanical Gardens Nature Centre … including a nature hike, a bonfire and featuring a reading by Hamilton’s own artist and author, Joan Krygsman (me!) from her book, “Esther and the Avocado Tree”. PLUS games, puzzles and art activities for children aged 3-12 AND snacks.
Cost: $25 for family of 5 or $6.00 per person (children under 3- FREE)
Please RSVP: on-line or call the Hamilton JNF office @ (905) 527-5516 or email hamilton@jnf.ca
December 15th, 2011  Come listen to me read Esther! Free Striped Aardvark magnets for the kids – and signed copies of the book will be available for purchase!
10:30am : Saturday December 17th
Dundas Public Library
18 Ogilvie St 4, Dundas, ON L9H2S2
December 8th, 2011 Friday December 10th | 5:00pm – 8:00pm | 27 King William Street, Hamilton
Along with the launch of the book Esther and the Avocado Tree, HomeGrownHamilton at the Skydragon Centre will be hosting the opening night for the newest Striped Aardvark creature paintings. There will be signed books, there will be food, there will be libations and there will be Lots of New Aardvarks. Can’t wait to see you there! This is a Pre-Art-Crawl event.. so come for the Aardvarks, stay for the Crawl!
November 8th, 2011 The newest 12×12 designs are ready to go! These (and more to come) will also be available on coasters and tiles shortly.
October 6th, 2011 Esther and the Avocado Tree is now available to pre-order – shipping and pick-up orders will be ready to go out the second week of November! Here’s the order link - and you can always preview it here!
October 4th, 2011 The results are in! 12 creatures will be arriving at McMaster Innovation Park for the 7th McMaster Innovation Park Art in the Workplace Exhibition.
Media
ink | acrylic | collage
Opening Reception
December 8th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Show runs December 3rd to March 8th, 2011
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Avenue South, Hamilton, ON
905-667-5500
 
 
 
… and many more!
September 12th, 2011 There will be a set of 6 Striped Aardvark coasters up for auction at the following wonderful event! :
Grandmothers of Steel in Partnership with Mohawk College presents the 3rd annual
Dare to Dine | Wine and African Food Sampling
Saturday, October 22nd, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
 Awareness Center Lobby
Mohawk College, STARRT Institute,
481 Barton St. E. (east of Millen), Stoney Creek
Art and Craft Auction
Early-bird draw for tickets purchased by Oct. 15
Tickets: $30.00
For more information , contact :
grandmothersofsteel@gmail.com
905-765-5487
August 31st, 2011 On a recent trip to manitoulin island, I got to drawing some tiny little square creatures on the ferry :
August 29th, 2011  Come visit with the Creatures at the 2011 Locke Street Festival on September 10th.. ceramic tile coasters and magnets plus the full range of greeting cards – and we’re also trying something secret and new, so please do drop by to let us know what you think!
This will be the last festival of the summer for us, but of course we’ll be Absolutely Everywhere in the pre-Holiday shows .. we’ll look forward to seeing you out there!
Also FYI – we’ve done a special line of magnets and coasters for the Ladybird Animal Sanctuary using their beautiful ladybird logo. These will be for sale at their booth at the Locke Street Festival – please stop by and show them some Stripey love!
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Esther and the Avocado Tree is published!
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