At Balleycanoe – Toronto Skyline in Folkart
Today I got a response to yesterday’s post about my favourite spots on the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour.
My old friend John Marr of ‘Canadian Roadflix‘ sent me a link to a piece he had done a couple of years ago on Balleycanoe. It actually showed me more than I had seen when I visited on the Grand Tour (where the artisans get to visit each others studios).
Click here and take a look… enjoy!
What a weekend was last weekend! It started on Thursday when I was part of a four artisan delegation who set up in Brockville ON at 55+ Canada Games. We set up in St Lawrence Park overlooking the St Lawrence river and 1000 islands, it was beautiful, I set up my knitting machine and got…
Manteo, Roanok Island NC. I knew there was a yarn shop around the Outer Banks, North Carolina, and I remembered one from years ago, the last time I went over to Roanok Island and it’s main town, Manteo. Fine Yarns at Kimbeeba is in what used to be an auto shop and under part of…
Wow! All you Estyans out there will know what this means to me, I’ve been chosen as part of someone’s ‘Treasury’!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please check out the page, I’m in with some lovely items….I love the rice bowls and the earrings. They chose my Periwinkle SummerWrap of French Mercerized cotton with ribbon trim. So great for the…
Andrea, Me, Jannis, Ann, Sandra & Rachel (missing: Rebecca) Wednesday evening was my debut as a gallery show curator. I was so nervous but thrilled to pull together five women artists over the past few months to show our individual work in a show I call ‘Women’s Work’. The work represents both their work which,…
‘Wallers working on their wall. Just spent the first day of the Rocktoberfest 2010 event in Landon Bay Centre in the 1000 Islands! What a beautiful day! And what a unique event. I don’t know much about ‘dry stone wall building’ but I’ve learned a lot today and now I’ve been looking at the art/craft…
‘Sway’ c 2000 On a recent trip to the beach at the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County we planned a stop in Picton to acquaint ourselves with some of the new shops. A comment on a friends ace leather jacket led me to City Revival, a huge and wonderful use clothing store that is like…