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Thanks for all the good times!

Hello Plush­lings! After 9 fun and amaz­ing years on Main Street, we’ve decided not to renew our lease this spring. We love mak­ing stuff, and we love mak­ing stuff with you, so we’re hop­ing to find a new home for our DIY or Die!!! work­shops and classes, but we haven’t fig­ured out the details yet. […]

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Tricks and Treats

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Look, we know what you think of us. We know you think every­thing about us is cute, and adorable, and warm and fuzzy… and, well, you’re mostly right. So you might be sur­prised to find out that Hallowe’en is our most favourite hol­i­day EVER, but only until you stop and think about it! Hallowe’en is […]

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The Drift, Redux

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Main Street’s art walk is back! This year The Drift is pre­sent­ing a shorter event than in past years –you’ve got just one week­end to get out and take a look at the fan­tas­tic works by local artists that will be hosted by par­tic­i­pat­ing busi­nesses along Main Street from Ter­mi­nal to 33rd. It all kicks […]

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Converge On Main

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The inau­gural edi­tion of Main Street’s newest shop­ping event is fast approach­ing! Come out on the evening of Thurs­day, July 19th from 6 until 9 to get great dis­counts at some of Vancouver’s best inde­pen­dent shops and restau­rants. Plush will have 30% off every­thing in the shop! Seri­ously, every­thing. So if you’re wait­ing for the right […]

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5 Mother’s Day Gifts That Beat Flowers

Mother’s Day is right around the cor­ner! We’re not going to tell you to ditch the flow­ers and candy in favour of some­thing more thought­ful — we think most moms are pretty amaz­ing, and deserve some­thing thought­ful and unique as well as flow­ers and candy! We can help you with the thought­ful and unique part […]

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3 Reasons Steampunk Trumps Swimwear This Summer

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Let’s face it, it’s way eas­ier for most of us to look fan­tas­tic in a corset than in a bikini. But the real rea­son to stop by Plush for our upcom­ing Steam­punk Craft Drop-In?  Okay, well, aside from the fact that it’s free.  Yes, the acces­sories!  Who knew that the quin­tes­sen­tial steam­punk accou­trements fit so […]

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Maker Faire Field Trip

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This week­end marked the inau­gural run of the Van­cou­ver Maker Faire, and from where Plush was sit­ting it seemed to be a humon­gous suc­cess! We took our “DIY or DIE!!!” work­shop series out for its first ever road trip, which was an immense amount of fun. We hardly had a sec­ond to catch our breaths all […]

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Summer DIY Season at Plush

Hello Plush­lings! We know, you’ve heard hardly a peep from us for months now! We are so very very grate­ful for your patience with us as we strug­gle to keep on top of a heavy man­u­fac­tur­ing load right now. We’re squeez­ing in a few work­shops over the next six weeks or so, with the aim […]

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Vancouver Mini Maker Faire

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Van­cou­ver Mini Maker Faire is a two-day cel­e­bra­tion of mak­ing and cre­at­ing.  Plush will be there host­ing a DIY craft sta­tion, as will many of your other favorite DIY­ers (keep an eye out for hands-on activ­i­ties from Spool of Thread, The Fraser Val­ley Knit­ting Guild, MightyUgly.com, and Sci­ence World, among oth­ers). And just so we don’t have you […]

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