Happy New Year. We’re well into it now and resolutions should be well and truly broken… I know mine is but I’ll persevere. My sister found me this beautiful cup and saucer at Teaopia (where I’ve drunk a few Rooibos latte’s), it’s made to hold both the beverage and a sweetmeat….. there goes my effort…
Margot and me outside our hotel… The Gershwin. This is what my old college roommate wrote in a Christmas card a couple of decades ago! I do hope that everyone did have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays (to be PC). After shows, my Mum’s 90th birthday and a flying visit to New York City…
Felted collar in situ. It’s been a very busy month since the build up to the One of a Kind Show, it was nice to be back in Toronto for the Christmas edition for the first time in more than a decade. I had been doing the Ottawa Ottawa Originals in past Decembers until the…
Well after an evening of felting then a day or claying I’m worn out and still two days to go until the show. This is a detail of the back of the collar I made, this is the centre back that you’d see if you were standing behind the wearer. Here is the set laid…
As I knit my way towards the One of a Kind show and Sale ~ in Toronto this year, first five days ~ the phone rings….is it library telling me I haven’t returned a book on CD (they found it eventually), a bill I’ve overlooked or good news? Great news, I’m back teaching another week…
It’s two days until the Maker’s Hand show in Picton starts, it’s three days long with Friday being 10am to 8pm. That means leaving home (at least I get to sleep in my own bed) at 8:30am and getting back about 9:30pm. If we can catch the right ferry coming home it’s fewer miles and…
Why ouch? Because I’m hurting in more ways than one and – forgive me – but I need to vent. My wrist hurts, it’s De Quervain’s tenosynovitis and its in my right hand. It can be cured…if I stop using my right hand for a while….I’m getting symptoms now in my left hand. Sheesh… where…
Just For Us Originals – my booth. It’s been a busy few weeks recently, on returning from Cleveland I had to prepare for the Just for Us Originals a wearable art show in this year in Oakville tacking onto the coattails of the World of Threads show. Unfortunately I was unable to see any of…
I’ve been having fun with my gant money, it’s enabled me to take classes, buy materials and do things I didn’t think I would be able to do for a long time. Spending a day with Andrea Graham in he studio felting was wonderful and really opened a brand new door for me creatively. Here…
This lovely puddy tat was captured taking his afternoon (and if I know cats – his morning and evening..) nap under a price tag of $5. This was at a fruit and veg stand on our way to Picton one sunny afternoon and we stopped to pick up some fresh produce. The whole time…