One of the first things I do each morning is look at my Yarn Harlot ‘page a day’ calendar which I got indirectly from Stephanie via her Mum and my neighbour (bless them all). Today she talked about knitters watching fewer foreign films because of the subtitles and how knitters prefer dramas, more listening and…
Andrea, Me, Jannis, Ann, Sandra & Rachel (missing: Rebecca) Wednesday evening was my debut as a gallery show curator. I was so nervous but thrilled to pull together five women artists over the past few months to show our individual work in a show I call ‘Women’s Work’. The work represents both their work which,…
I had client revisit me today for another cardi. This lovely lady has brought me something to work with before (a houndstooth fabric) and this time it is a piece of jewelry (pictured). It’s a piece of art glass as a neck piece with the most iridescent colours of glass overlay. The pendant shimmers and…
My very good painter friend Vera Donefer gave me as a gift a series of photo sessions with her son-in-law Rene Calderon (brother in law of Laura Donefer). We’ve done all hair, short hair just before it all fell out (one of which is on my web site home page) and the other day he…
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…
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,…
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…