Well…. really…. red phone call day. My old friend Claire Maunsell gave me a ding from Nova Scotia and we burned up the phone lines! Claire is an amazing glass artist…. well an amazing artist anyway as she does more than glass, and she and her young family left Kingston three years ago. And we’ve…
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…
…….to my business! June 2nd just came and went and I totally for got to celebrate. June 2nd 1982 was the day I went downtown Toronto and registered Carolyn M. Barnett Designs and started the mad knitting career with hand knitting. I’m still kicking! (albeit slowly just now). This charming bit of knitting was what…
My good, but distant, friend Judith had a project last year, to make one of my designs (one she had made in a workshop in my studio, in a style to wear to a Breast Cancer fundraiser. She was working in Black Cannele mercerised cotton with ‘Sugar’ (pink) accents. She needed some pink and asked…
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…
Recently at a studio open house I ran into a friend who had a two day old duckling with her. If staying home isn’t an option on a sunny Sunday, take jr with you in your latest felted bag!!! Here he’s surfaced for refreshements! Just ducky!
Mum/Dad Robin This photo of our baby robins was taken two days ago, I climbed on the little step ladder and was greeted by what seemed like a sea of fluffy baby birds. There are four but seems like only room in there for a couple let alone Mum who sits on them when she’s…
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…
As I was under the weather recently, my dear friend Rose took the oportunity to send me a card that she had purchase a year ago. She had waited all this time for the right time. It is soooo cute. A knitting bag made of patterned wallpaper (I think), with wire handles and knitting needles,…