Summer is here, and the spirea in front of our house has had it’s day but like lilacs isn’t it beautiful for the short while it’s in bloom. Two weekends ago I took my Mum and Dad for drive out to Newburgh for the Art Among the Ruins, a beautifully set small but well attended…
While away on vacation, I was doing hand knitting, stocking up on socks and knitting some hand knit flowers for a new Wrap I now do. Sometime before heading out I was in the LCBO and picked up one of their hand picnic baskets which fold flat and have a zip pocket inside and a…
I’m so excited about this recent event, it is my first ‘award’, well a scholarship really, in my twenty seven years! I did get honourable mention Fibre at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition my second year there with a small check and a large glass of wine, but this one was got for me through…
Two of my three exhibit items. Thursday evening … downtown Kingston, Ontario …. damp, warm and raining …. buy Kingston Glass Gallery and Studio is hopping! The second ‘Art After Dark’ gallery tour is well under way and I’m exhibiting three items among the work of wonderful colleagues. Laura Donefer’s glass, her mother Vera’s paintings,…
The April Fool’s Day display at this year’s Spring OOAK Surely while I’m on vacation I can find time to post. Taking my laptop with me (and printer this time) to the rental by the shore with friends I can keep up with my email. This is good as I am getting emails about a)…
Long time no blog, it’s been a busy Spring so far and now that I’ve been on vacation for jus a little over a week I can pull myself together and post anew.On one of my Spring power walks that I managed to squeeze in between the One of a Kind and Originals shows I…
Show time just a week away, this time next week I’ll be running around like that headless chicken trying to get everything up from the basement, out from my studio and packing to go to the One of a Kind show Spring ’09!!!! Way too soon in my book even though it is a week…
Down in the Dumps I’ve been meaning to post for weeks now but my six weeks of healing and down time have passed and I still need another. Physically I’m healed enough to start working again, I’m knitting wool as I don’t know if I can tackle cotton which is harder to use pulling and…
Photo: Stagg Photo Well, it’s been an Up and Down time since my last post, that was the day before I went in for the big op, the bilateral M and reconstruction. A down? As I mentioned to the lovely male nurse who escorted me into the OR too bad I got this all set…
Well, now that we’re into the new year I got to do something I’ve been looking forward to ….. sorting my 2008 calendar! I had the Stitch ‘n’ Bitch Page a Day calendar last year and had fun every day peeling off for a new hint, tip, factoid, pattern, info on a knitting event and…