I finally got some photos out of Sonja’s camera from Inspiration 2007 in Cleveland last month. The ladies in the Button Making workshop did will in experimenting with polymer clay for buttons for their knit (and sewn) creations. I had everyone choose four half blocks of colour, so they had four colours to work with,…
This Saturday Ocober 27th, I will be conducting a button making workshop here in Kingston from 10am – 3pm. Email Robin for details if you would like to participate, there is still some room.
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…
Over the weekend I visited with a couple of friends, one in person and one on a long distance call with the internet involved. They have done some lovely work so I’ll show it here. First there is this lovely box made and embroidered by my East Coast friend Deirdre. I just drooled over it…
Well, we’ve had a good weekend, lots of folk showed up on Saturday and sales were made, pamphlets handed out and lots of chat, hot apple cider, sushi and cookies. Today is quieter so we’re taking time to explore the internet. Web sites on knitting, polymer clay and also looking at Etsy as I would…
I will once again be having a preview evening tonight in my studio and it’s the wine and cheese type (the rest of the weekend is hot apple cider and cookies) so when my friend Harvey offered to show me how to make sushi I was hot to learn something new. Now I’ve never been…
One of my cardis in the window display of Kingston Frame Works. This weekend is the Town and Country Studio Tour in Kingston and I’m looking around my studio and wondering if I can ever tidy it up!!!! Then…after the tour is over can I ever find the stuff I tidied away! Same old problem,…
Monday night in my studio and the new fall TV programs are on. The one I was watching is Project Runway Canada. It’s on Slice TV, hosted by Iman and Brian Bailey and filmed in Toronto. I’ve watched Project Catwalk UK, Project Runway (put onto it by my step daughter) and it’s always the last…
Well, Sunday at the Run for the Cure was a great day, I ended up eating chicken breast for supper and started to feel good as I usually do heading into every third Monday – day four after chemo…..then Monday arrived and everything fell apart again. I felt I had had chemicals poured into me,…
Today was the nationwide Run for the Cure for Breast Cancer and what a great day for it here in Kingston Ontario. Hundreds turned out, the weather was great, tears were shed, laughter shared, money raised and fun had. My sister took me as I was three days out of chemo and a bit wobbly….