Near Toulouse. It’s time to go do-it-yourself with the creative leisure fair
By Toulouse editorial staff
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Three months away from the Christmas holidays, this four-day Fair comes at a good time: if you are skilled with your hands, creative, the many workshops will delight you. Sewing and handmade, decoration and knitting, embroidery and scrapbooking, the Creative Hobbies fair is for everyone, for those who prefer originality and Do-It-Yourself to mass-produced and soulless items.
A focus on the main fact
By going to meet craftsmen who are passionate about their profession, visitors – they are over 13,000 on the agenda every year – will be full of ideas, with enough to create personal and unique objects and dozens of inspired tips in their heads. And there will be plenty to do!
The focus this year is the main fact. A concept in tune with the times that invites us to “take action, stop consuming things that we can very well do by ourselves”, explain the organizers. “Doing it yourself means taking the time, letting your imagination run wild”, they point out.
Make rather than buy
Sharing ideas and advice plays a major role here: whether it’s creating something that looks like us, a wreath of flowers, a skirt or an old refurbished chair, DIY is , beyond the pride of building with his hands, a first-rate ecological gesture. Manufacturing always takes longer than buying: you take care of yourself as much as the planet. We put more awareness into an object that we have created ourselves, more heart, more sincerity… And we never stop progressing!
More than 150 workshops, our favorites
Many workshops (there will be more than 150) will welcome visitors – including a creative space for children. All adapted to the detour, and here are our favorites: France Quilting showcases the region’s gardens – a sacred challenge in the face of climate change. The Ephemeral Silk Workshop we are going to dive with Nicolas Jover and Yannick Delplace into the intimacy of an embroidery and featherwork workshop. A delight to observe a know-how to observe with admiration. Lauriane Maussion is a mosaic artist and fresco painter from Rabastens, in the Tarn, and her work gives pride of place to surface decoration (wall and floor), decorative objects and funerary art. Its very colorful universe welcomes flowers at the heart of shapes and colors.
Inventor, recycler, skater…
Finally, we have a weakness for the marvelous “Poetic Azar” by Catherine Dupuy, who imagines universes in wooden boxes to invent, manufacture, paint, recycle, patina… It all starts with a second-hand object, then two, and suddenly, before our eyes, drawers and boxes are born, the decorations of which happily combine the humour, characters and poetry.
A unique universe, to be discovered, at the heart of a show that will teem with equally passionate ideas.
Jean-Claude Simon
Complete program on the show website.
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