Well, I am, as well as everyone….(the alternative is just not an option just now….too much life to live). Anyway, August 15th found me turning 65 in another country, on one of our road trips. This one took us by WEBS in Northampton MA in the USA, an even though every CAD $ I spend…
After a weekend away doing the Craft Ontario Craft show in Toronto, it’s good to be back in the studio….though even that seemed to be full of people for a while (but nice). The Machine Knitting Club of Kingston met in my studio for the first time on Tuesday (we meet the second Tuesday of…
Here is one of the yellow bicycles scattered throughout the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto where I spent last weekend for the Beach Studio Tour’s 20th Anniversary. It was quite an eventful weekend to say the least! I was the guest of painter Roderik Mayne and his wife Susan (who bopped around all weekend baking cookies,…
A fun thing that happened at the recent Wearable Art Show was Steve Di Monte the photographer taking pics all day, each day. CYL Photography is his studio. Then on after the last fashion show he went around saying he would do a quickie photo shoot of any of our work for a small fee…here…
Well, November is proving to be a really busy time of year (like I don’t know after 31 years!). I’m not doing the One of a Kind show Christmas edition but I have some small events that should be fun. The first one is at the new Anwyn Yarns just up the road from my…
….in Toronto now for the Wearable Art Show (moved from Mississauga) and I’m off in a couple of hours when I have loaded up my PT! Trio of Felted Hats. I’ve been working on a couple of new designs for my knits, some hats and also making scarves and wristlets which are fun to make as…
Helping the shoppers. It’s been a busy week that actually started on Saturday in Haliburton with a trunk show at the studio of my friend Susan Watson Ellis of Paradigm Designs. We had a nice stream of folk visiting and a book club of ladies from Ottawa! It was a great day spent with Susan….
It’s been a busy August with a wet felting workshop and a birthday trip to Vermont (my birthday trip from my husband). We stayed in a lovely old Victorian B&B in Shelburne VT just down the road from the Shelburne Museum which is more like our Upper Canada Village or Black Creek Pioneer Village in…
Paddye Mann’s Studio Garden This quite, peaceful bench is situated behind the studio and shop of Paddye Mann in Pakenham Ontario. Three women took a textile fuelled road trip. My fibre, costume, textile friend, Heather; knitting designer extraordinaire Elizabeth McCarten of Chez Lizzie blog, and I piled into my car and headed North. (Also check…
Whew! I think I can take a break for five minutes in July but May and June were busy months for events and invitations. Our first wedding for one for which I made a Julian Roberts dress…I’ll post about that later. In the arts field my dear friend Georgia Ferrell owner of Artemisia Gallery in…