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Margaret Gladys Barnett (nee Milburn) 1919 – 2010 This past month has been difficult with my 90 year old Mum was admitted int Kingston General Hospital following another stroke… only this time not just a TIA. It was touch and go for a while then she was asking to go home, chatting and laughing and…

/ Well, my Laptop Cozy for Kollaboration is done, I think I was the last person to turn in a project. I’m really pleased with collaboration with Trevor Waurechen and his Fossil illustration. Neither of us had any clue to what our link would bring forth. I rather like the colours I chose and hope…

I’m here in Toronto at the Ontario Crafts Council at the Etsy Workshop and Trunk Show which was organized by my friend Lindsey Fair!  I just learned a bit more about having my shop show up on my blog!  Here it is …. I hope. Now I had better get back to listening!

 I got this from my felter friend Andrea Graham, I love it! Enjoy.

Happy New Year. We’re well into it now and resolutions should be well and truly broken… I know mine is but I’ll persevere. My sister found me this beautiful cup and saucer at Teaopia (where I’ve drunk a few Rooibos latte’s), it’s made to hold both the beverage and a sweetmeat….. there goes my effort…

It’s two days until the Maker’s Hand show in Picton starts, it’s three days long with Friday being 10am  to 8pm. That means leaving home (at least I get to sleep in my own bed) at 8:30am and getting back about 9:30pm. If we can catch the right ferry coming home it’s fewer miles and…

  This lovely puddy tat was captured taking his afternoon (and if I know cats – his morning and evening..) nap under a price tag of $5. This was at a fruit and veg stand on our way to Picton one sunny afternoon and we stopped to pick up some fresh produce. The whole time…

Materials bag with some of the tools, clay and instructions. I can’t believe that August 22nd has come and gone. That was the day for the Rockport Development Group’s Button’s & Beyond, a polymer clay workshop taught by me, and set up by my friend Margot Miller of Rockport ON. Funded by OMAFRA it was…

Summer is here, and the spirea in front of our house has had it’s day but like lilacs isn’t it beautiful for the short while it’s in bloom. Two weekends ago I took my Mum and Dad for drive out to Newburgh for the Art Among the Ruins, a beautifully set small but well attended…