Mini Maker's Faire this Sunday, 10/20

Join Walrus's Wendy this weekend at the East Bay Mini Maker's Faire for some painting and crafting fun! From 10am to 5pm, Wendy and the lovely ladies who run HackerMom's will be celebrating the joy and excitement repurposing and crafting can add to your life. The East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration embracing rockets and robots, digital fabrication, DIY science and technology, urban farming and sustainability, alternative energy, bicycles, unique hand-made crafts, music and local food, and educational workshops and installations. Admission is $20 for adults on the day of the event or tickets are available for $15 advance purchase here. We hope to see you there!!!


Location:  Park Day School, 360 42nd Street, Oakland, CA  and Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street,  Oakland, CA  94609.  Faire entrance is at corner of 42nd & Opal.



More information about the faire and attending can be found here!

Woodwork by Cipriano Mendez

So much of the magic that makes a Walrus item is created in the workshops of our talented artisans and craftspeople. Luckily, Cipriano Mendez, one of our talented woodworkers,  has a great Youtube channel where he invites us into his working space. There, you can see how he handcrafts a number of beautiful items for Walrus. This video shows how he crafts these gorgeous wooden bottle stoppers we have in the shop.

You can find more of Cipriano's work and videos here!

OCTOBER at WALRUS!!

First Fridays This Week! This month at Walrus our featured artist is local talent Lynda Kravitz who's art you can see here on our blog. Join us on October 4th from 6-9pm for a First Fridays opening reception with refreshments, good company, and great art.

 

October Workshop! On Sunday the 13th come join us for a furniture painting workshop with a focus on stenciled details. Supplies and refreshments provided!!

 

REGISTER on shopwalrus.eventbrite.com

 

New Items! A Gorgeous upcycled dresser with bold chevron pattern by Walrus for a pop of color in any room. These fantastic Artisan bowls and bottle openers by Artist and Woodworker Robert Cizauskas would make great gifts. Willa Mamet's branch hooks are the perfect way to bring nature into your home with style and function. 

 

And Don't Forget! We now offer interior design services by Jenny Lane. 

October First Fridays!

This month at Walrus our featured artist is local talent Lynda Kravitz. Her bold and colorful abstract pieces display lush, wide brushstrokes, energetic paint splatters and an amazing sense for texture and contrast. Join us on October 4th from 6-9pm for a First Fridays opening reception with refreshments, good company, and great art.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Temescal Alley's First Friday

470 49th Street

Oakland, CA  94609

6-9pm

Reclaiming Nature

As the summer slowly comes to an end here in the beautiful Bay Area, we're gearing the shop up for the upcoming fall season with new products that we feel truly emanate the spirit of evolving nature within the home.

Our owner & product designer Wendy, is always on the local hunt for raw materials for us to re-work, and with a more recent fascination with "found wood", she's created and curated a petite collection of varying deadwood & driftwood based objects along with hardware by local designer Willa Mamet to resourcefully decorate your dwelling space with.

HELLO SEPTEMBER!

September is here bringing all sorts of new things at WALRUS

 In-lay pieces we're making...

First Friday tomorrow night! Come out for some homebrewed kombucha, wine, apples & honey for New Year, and new photography show by Justin Lewis.  View Justin's work here and here. 
  
Series of Workshops/Tours for Fall
All workshops are on Sunday afternoons 3-5:30 or so in Temescal Alley:

• Sept 15 Furniture Painting for Couples through HowAboutWe $75 per couple
• Sept 21 Maker Tour through Localite $45 per person
• Sept 29 Furniture Painting $45 per person
• Oct 13 Stenciling and Painting Designs on Furniture $45 per person
• Oct 27 Furniture Painting $45 per person
• Nov 17 Chair Upholstery $40 per person
• Nov 24 Jute Photoboards as gifts $40 per person
• Dec 8 Cork Projects as gifts $35 per person
• Dec 22 Letter and Number Pillows as gifts $35 per person 

REGISTER NOW on shopwalrus.eventbrite.com

New items in store now: 

Apothecary Lamp and others by local talent Emily Winston,  who just did all the lamps for Toast's new addition!

Also come see new pillows by Walrus, the most beautiful vintage sari quilts yet, and gorgeous live edge wood bowls that fly out of the store! 


LAST BUT NOT LEAST, Jenny Lane is our new Interior Designer and will have her own page on our blog soon!

What's Trending at Walrus: We Love Faux Inlay!

We're always in the market to try something new at the shop, and recently, we've found that our current love lies within repurposing some of our favorite distressed pieces with a faux inlay stenciled motif!

The stenciling process can be a rather meticulous one, especially on surfaces that need to be refinished, but leave it to owner & resident furniture painter, Wendy Renz, to take on the challenge with absolute ease.

We wanted to share our most recently completed faux inlay piece, a wonderful Deco style parlor two top table with a sturdy wood top and beautiful filigree base (which has since found a lovely new home). Generally, Wendy works on a majority of our larger furniture pieces in our private studio space, but on this special occasion, we were able to catch her editing this piece at our Temescal Alley location. Luckily, our shop merchandising assistant, Erin, was on hand to document the process!

Do you have a piece of furniture or home décor that perhaps you'd like to give new life to? We'd love to help! Our faux inlay painting revitalization is available for custom order upon request! Just pop in and ask for one of our custom service menus, or contact us at: shopwalrus@gmail.com.

Interested in learning the step by step process? Sign up for our email list and receive notifications about our next furniture painting workshop!