It’s that time of year…to review your life, what you are doing and how you are doing it. I’ve been updating some web sites that I’ve built (check out the list at my other business http://twohatssimplesites.com/clients.html site) and some still need a lot of updating….including mine! Anyway – Wow! I got an email this morning…
Two hats…what’s she talking about? Well, I started building my own web site many years ago as I always wanted to keep it up to date…..then got onto building for others. I found working with technical stuff challenging and fascinating and fell in love! My husband even updated my laptop for me this year as…
A fun thing that happened at the recent Wearable Art Show was Steve Di Monte the photographer taking pics all day, each day. CYL Photography is his studio. Then on after the last fashion show he went around saying he would do a quickie photo shoot of any of our work for a small fee…here…
Paddye Mann’s Studio Garden This quite, peaceful bench is situated behind the studio and shop of Paddye Mann in Pakenham Ontario. Three women took a textile fuelled road trip. My fibre, costume, textile friend, Heather; knitting designer extraordinaire Elizabeth McCarten of Chez Lizzie blog, and I piled into my car and headed North. (Also check…
It must seem as if I took a long time to finish this jacket but it’s done and long gone to it’s new owner …. and wouldn’t you know it I didn’t take a photo of the finished product. The same style in a different colour is shown in the fourth image. After the jacket…
Well, we’re well into 2012 and so many celebrations happening this year. At our annual Portsmouth Village (which it was until it was incorporated into the City of Kingston in 1958) residents AGM we talked about how the neighbour hood needs to be spiffed up as we will have and influx of sailors this Summer….
For a change, instead of teaching a workshop I took one! Yeah. After weeks of shows and getting a lot of work ready, photographing and listing things on Etsy and such I took a day for myself to learn more about Nuno felting which is something I’ve wanted to do for ages. I had found…
My New Year started of with a bad cold and a passing. My old high school sweetheart succumbed to his cancer and left us on January 2nd. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit him and his family in the hospital hours before he died.He broke up with me back in ’68 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…
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…