Working towards this fun and well attended event. It’s half way to the One of a Kind Show in Toronto so it will get me in show mood!
Here’s a new little felted hat…
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Well, with Art Amont The Ruins just a short week away I’m trying to get some more vests done, and also to start photographing and videoing myself working. All needed for web site, grant applicatioins and so on. Laying out a vest. So here I am at my work table that when I set it…
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Pretty Things
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