Margot and me outside our hotel… The Gershwin. This is what my old college roommate wrote in a Christmas card a couple of decades ago! I do hope that everyone did have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays (to be PC). After shows, my Mum’s 90th birthday and a flying visit to New York City…
Felted collar in situ. It’s been a very busy month since the build up to the One of a Kind Show, it was nice to be back in Toronto for the Christmas edition for the first time in more than a decade. I had been doing the Ottawa Ottawa Originals in past Decembers until the…
David, daughter Claire, a friend and Donna (Dave’s wife) My neighbour Dave More has written his second book of an historic trilogy ~ ‘The Lily and the Rose’. What has that to do with knitting…not much but that for this launch he invited six creative friends to exhibit at Historic Fort Henry here in Kingston…
I’m off to Artemisia in Westport to restock some items as they do seem to sell well there, then my friend Georgia (framer and 1/3 owner at Artemisia) and I are off to Perth to visit Janie Hickman at her yarn store JanieHKnits as she’s having a sale.I didn’t make any decent money at Fanfayr…
I’m so excited about this recent event, it is my first ‘award’, well a scholarship really, in my twenty seven years! I did get honourable mention Fibre at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition my second year there with a small check and a large glass of wine, but this one was got for me through…
Long time no blog, it’s been a busy Spring so far and now that I’ve been on vacation for jus a little over a week I can pull myself together and post anew.On one of my Spring power walks that I managed to squeeze in between the One of a Kind and Originals shows I…
Show time just a week away, this time next week I’ll be running around like that headless chicken trying to get everything up from the basement, out from my studio and packing to go to the One of a Kind show Spring ’09!!!! Way too soon in my book even though it is a week…
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, 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…