As I was under the weather recently, my dear friend Rose took the oportunity to send me a card that she had purchase a year ago. She had waited all this time for the right time.
It is soooo cute. A knitting bag made of patterned wallpaper (I think), with wire handles and knitting needles, tiny balls of wool and a partly knitted ‘project’.
When I’m done looking at it on my dining room table I think I’ll frame it!
On Sunday I and two other crafty friends hit the highway to go take in the One of a Kind in Toronto. We all found ourselves at loose ends for five minutes and two of us have done the Christmas version on and off over the past couple of decades and were curious on how…
I’m off to Artemisia in Westport to restock some items as they do seem to sell well there, then my friend Georgia (framer and 1/3 owner at Artemisia) and I are off to Perth to visit Janie Hickman at her yarn store JanieHKnits as she’s having a sale.I didn’t make any decent money at Fanfayr…
Grabbing a bite to eat before last week’s guest gig my friend Sonja pulled some great things out of her purse …. more wire knits. Here are the little jacket, blue evening dress and gold shrug with pearl beads. I photographed them on a paper napkin so they’re not great but I tweaked them so…
I found this posted on by one of my Facebook friends and found it fascinating. I’ve love John Cleese over the years in his many incarnations and this talk about Creativity is thought provoking and also cleared up a little about the way I think! Enjoy!
Yesterday I was telling my other half how I just wanted to create new things and not have to get my few remaining orders finished – there’s little creativity in following orders. Anyway, while attending to email and finishing my morning tea in bed he brought up the post and there was a brown envelope…
Well, I’m back from my UK trip which was a huge family gathering so no time to explore any yarn shops…even though my cousin had one she wanted to take me to…..next time! On my return, however I received an email from a friend saying she was coming through Kingston on her way to Rose…