As I learned at the funeral of my friend Patricia Hames…I must be ‘interesting’! Apparently she didn’t suffer fools gladly and only did things and hung out with folk that were ‘interesting’. I first met ‘Miss Hames’ in 1966 when I came to Canada and started in grad 11 at Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute….she…
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…
Dr. Sue Hendler On Monday evening, my neighbour and aquaintance Sue Hendler passed away after a long battle with breast cancer. This year my sister Judith (Judi to the rest of the world) and I will walk on ‘Sue’s Care Team’ in the CIBC Run for the Cure here in Kingston on October 4th. …
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…
Well, thought I’d better bank out another post, the last one for 2008, as the last few weeks have been very busy for me and everybody I know. Though the shows are over for another year, it’s more than past time to look at next years shows and mostly the cheque writing part ….. I’m…
The Chicago One of a Kind Show and Sale is over for another year and we got back on Monday after an uneventful drive through Michigan (no lake effect blizzards), and a pleasant but short stopover in Battle Creek. I did learn that apparently two men – a native and a white man I believe…
These three young women are Guelph uni students and the one in the scarf is my lovely niece Sarah at the Run for the Cure. Though her Mum and I didn’t walk this year as planned (stuff got in the way) Sarah went out and don’t you just love her outfit? Good on ya Sarah,…
I just thought I had better put this little bit of business online, that the Beach Studio Tour that I founded back in 1994 has invited some of the original artists to have some of their current work displayed in the Beach prior to this Fall’s tour. DeClute real estate offices 2241 Queen St E…