This is the only place were putting on weight is a good thing! Rosemary J. at her knitting machine Just back from the first show of the season, the One of a Kind Show in Toronto, and it was a great weekend to feel back in the swing. The show was early as it was…
What a hoot! While rifling thought the hall closet looking for a sweater for my Mum to wear I found a lovely green striped one I had made her ages ago. On it there was a pin of some sort, it was an old pin from the Festival of Canadian Fashion in which I participated…
My New Year started of with a bad cold and a passing. My old high school sweetheart succumbed to his cancer and left us on January 2nd. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit him and his family in the hospital hours before he died.He broke up with me back in ’68 when…
My friend Georgia came with me to chemo last week and brought five Bottles of Hope that she had made. These ones were beautiful and this photo doesn’t do them justice but was in my treatment chair and took this on the spur of the moment. Check out her blog for pics of her ‘ladies’…
This photo illustrates what I was doing yesterday rather than knitting….. well I did get work done later but this was taken during a visit with an old friend who is a bike freak! We used to date way back in high school and he did me the honour of breaking up with me when…
The Toronto show happened two weekends ago and though it went well the first two days we were pretty much rained out on the Sunday. It was incredibly hot and sticky but I always have fun at that show. I think it’s being back in the big smoke! I’ve always told folk give me a…
Long time no post, been very busy and don’t seem to get time to write. Anyway, I just had to today right before we leave for Toronto to participate in the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. This will be my 11th year and I feel very fortunate to be juried back in once again. I was…
No more ‘fly by night’ tales after this post, therobins are fledged and these are the last pics ofthem. A couple of days later they are definitely suffering from overcrowding. I think someone must be standing on robin #4’s head! As soon as I took this picture they flew off and a day or so…
John, Paul, George and Ringo! Most recent picture of our baby robins. Two hatched Wednesday May 9th, a third the following day and when I took this on Sunday we found there are four! Poor Mum screeches at me as I stand precariously on a ladder on our ‘Juliet’ balcony off our bedroom. Good thing…
And I’m not talking about guys in town that’ll do your house! These wonderfully talented women (and my husband) were found celebrating the award recipients at the KAC Juried Art Salon last Thursday evening. A lovely Spring evening found many of Kingston fine artists and art supporters in the Wilson Room of the public library…