Shop the Carrot

The Carrot presents local work by artists and artisans. Come by to check out their beautiful work that is also available for purchase.

Fibre Crafts

Butterfly Garage

Naomi Pahl, was born in Edmonton Alberta, and presently is a stay at home mother, residing in McCauley.  She was born to parents who regularly displayed creativity, inventiveness and resourcefulness.  From an early age she learned to sew, build, paint, play guitar, cook, draw, crochet, garden, saw, hammer, and the list goes on.  Ask her to sew a wedding dress and then lay a carpet, and she can do both!  She has the gift of looking at anything and seeing what it can become, and then the ingenuity to create it!  At a very early age, Naomi was instilled with a keen environmental awareness.  The motto: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle is seen in all of her work, making her customers not only feel good by buying locally, they are also environmentally friendly.

Jewelry + Wearable Items

The Woman to Blame

Cindy Kirby loves to play with fire. Working with a surface mix propane and oxygen torch designed for lamp work, a method of glasswork, she meticulously spins slender rods of coloured glass into small and elegant beads.  Like some modern alchemist, she transforms solid to liquid to solid, creating a feast of colour and texture.  Each bead is an exercise in patience and precision that reflects her insistence on perfection.  And the bead is only part of the finished product.  Cindy painstakingly replicates bead after bead, then combines her beads with Bali silver beads and Swarovski crystals to create perfectly elegant bracelets, earrings and other jewelry.  No two pieces are ever the same.  Owner of The Woman to Blame, resident of Bellevue and self-proclaimed beadaholic Cindy really is the woman to blame.  Once you’ve owned lampwork jewelry, there’s no stopping at one piece!

Orange Avocado Jewelry Designs

Sandra Paetsch, a jewelry designer based in Edmonton, Alberta metalsmiths bronze, fine and sterling silver and gold filled precious metals into jewelry for anyone who loves fresh, modern and beautiful things.  Sandra began her jewelry line in 2005.  In Sandra’s ability to make “something from nothing” her love of art, creation, and individuality shone through.  Restless for something fresh and different, Sandra began to venture into the world of metalworking of precious metals … pure silver, bronze, gold-filled metals, copper, stainless steel and brass.

Dragonfire Studio

Fran Davis has been making lampwork beads since 1998.  Fran mostly uses Italian glass, but also uses German and American made glass.  Her beads are made by melting glass rods in the flame of a torch, combining many layers of colours to create one-of-a-kind beads.  All of her beads are placed in a kiln and properly annealed immediately after leaving the flame.  This means with proper care, they should last a lifetime.  Fran works full-time at making her beads.  She has always loved beads and making things with them.  “It’s something I really love doing.  It’s allowed me to travel and meet many different people. What more can you ask for?”

Cloud+Lolly Handmade Accessories

Once upon a time, there were two very different sisters; one with her head in the clouds; the other with her feet planted firmly on the ground.  From this diverse pairing, Cloud+Lolly was born.  Together, Cheryl and Laurie create inspired and innovative handmade accessories. Cheryl, a graphic designer with over 14 years of experience, has a clear passion for anything crafty, artsy and original.  Cheryl has been selling her creations online and at local markets for the past 6 years; everything from magnets, to one-of-a-kind handbags, zipper pouches, graphic prints, and rings. Laurie, an insurance underwriter in the past, stay at home mom of three presently, brings great business sense, quality control and attention to detail.

The Empirical Button Manufacturing Concern™

The Empirical Button Manufacturing Concern™ is the brain child of one Nathan C.S. Treloar, a reckless young buck who has damage the scene of button-badge construction with the bold style and deep cultural insights he infuses into every button he forges. The mandate of the Empirical Button Manufacturing Concern™ is to create high-quality gourmet buttons for the more distinguishing button coinsure. By using highly developed cultural technologies based upon the constructs of post-modern ‘cultural sampling’ techniques the Empirical Button Manufacturing Concern™ is able to create single-instance tapestries, wearable upon garments, and each uniquely capturing a single image adapted from the torrents of information that whirl about us like hurricanes of perceptual experience. All buttons created by the Empirical Button Manufacturing Concern™ are made, by hand, in the Empirical Button Manufacturing Concern™ headquarters, located in a former Cold War missile silo situated in the Alberta Avenue community of Edmonton, Alberta.

Ubayb E-Waste Jewelry

Jim Kennedy has been in the electronics for many years and has seen the hidden beauty in the little components and circuitry behind the computers and technology people depend on every day. He has brought them out of hiding and highlights them in his work. These earrings and pendants are made from recycled electronic components such as diodes, resistors and integrated circuits and are incorporated into his sterling silver pieces. This jewelry takes technology and uses it to adorn. Ubayb is where geekery meets chicery.

Pottery, Ceramics & Glass

Earth Art ‘n Soul Pottery

Michelle Wynnychuk started creating pottery in her home studio when her youngest child went off to school full time.  Although she took several courses and classes along the way, the majority of knowledge she obtained is through her own exploration.  She appreciates simplicity which is reproduced in her pieces using form, glaze techniques and texture.  Extensive glaze testing is done to ensure quality and function-ality, allowing her pieces to be use directly in the oven, dishwasher and microwave.  Her workmanship is an obvious result of passion, drive and dedication to her love of pottery.

Nathan Philips

Nathan Philips attended the Alberta College of art and Design graduating with a B.F.A. in glass in 1999.  After working in various studios in Calgary, Brazil and Vancouver, he settled in Edmonton. He is attracted to both the immediacy and contradictory nature of glass; at once it can be fluid and dynamic yet hard edged and immobile, frozen in time.  Nathan uses a great many techniques drawn from the history of glass; incalmos to create the separate colour elements, murrine and cane decoration to compose the patterns of the fields in his pieces.  The techniques are joined together and showcased in a simple and elegant form.  Nathan’s glassblowing has a highly technical component, yet in the awareness of the moment, constant adaptation to what the glass wants to do.

Bath and Beauty

The Laughing Dragonfly

The Laughing Dragonfly is a family run business and we have been perfecting our product for over six years. Initially, we started making soap for ourselves our of a love for, and a bit of an addiction to, hand-crafted soap. The Laughing Dragon soaps are made with natural and organic ingredients, as well as the purest essential and fragrance oils. We do not add any artificial colours, rather, we let the strong teas, herbs, and flowers that we add, lend their colour to out soaps. Their goal is to produce a luxurious, gentle, nature-friendly, and simply fun bar of soap.

 

Greeting Cards

Nicole Piotrkowski

Cheryl Muth

Henri Yauck

Carrot Merchandise

Ceramic Handled Short Mugs – $20.00
Black Ceramic No-handle Mugs – $15.00
Travel Mugs (Green + Steel) – $20.00
Ceramic Mugs with Cork Stopper – $38.00

Cloth Tote Bags – $8.00
Music CD “Songs from the Ave” – $18.00

Intelligentsia Coffee (1 lb bag) – $20.00
Intelligentsia Coffee (½ lb bag) – $11.00
Canada Chai (1 liter) – $12.00