Talking Shop: Sara Guindon of the Pin Pals opens her trunk at Fancy Tiger tonight

While cruising last winter's Fancy Tiger Holiday Handmade show, we chanced upon the most delightful booth: Featuring paper dolls, prints and cross-stitched buttons by crafty Canadian partners Sara Guindon and Samantha Purdy, who together comprise the Pin Pals, their table offered up something truly original and more than a little...

By Susan Froyd

July 1, 2011

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While cruising last winter's Fancy Tiger Holiday Handmade show, we chanced upon the most delightful booth: Featuring paper dolls, prints and cross-stitched buttons by crafty Canadian partners Sara Guindon and Samantha Purdy, who together comprise the Pin Pals, their table offered up something truly original and more than a little charming in the sea of handmade wares. Guindon has since moved to and made her mark in Denver, showing work at such design-savvy local-artist shops as the I Heart Denver store in the Denver Pavilions, and tonight from 7 to 10 p.m., she'll preside at Fancy Tiger Clothing's monthly Denver Made trunk show.

We don't need convincing. We already love her primitive cuties. But here are a few examples of what Guindon does so well:

Now hurry over to Fancy Tiger, 18 South Broadway, for an evening of DIY whimsy. Visit the website for details.

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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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