Santa was very good this year! Among many lovely things (like girls-night-out tickets from my best friend, and lots of gift certificates to the Purple Purl!) I got two absolute killer gifts: 1. Tito got us tickets to see the Lion King! Mufasssaaaaa!!! 2. A…
Here are a few shots of presents that I made over the holidays, I love giving stuff away – but whew! My hands are ready for a break ;o) The Serenity prayer is very dear to many of our friends. Instead of cards this year…
What an amazing, beautiful Christmas we just had. I loved every minute of it – we spent Christmas eve attending the nativity play at the Metropolitan United Church. The Met is very special to us – I called them up one day and asked to…
My Sensei (Karate instructor)’s daughter is about 3 years old. Now 3 is old enough to have your own deadly assassin ;o) For Christmas I’ve made her a little ninja doll, using the Japanese technique of amigurumi. Amigurumi (編みぐるみ?, lit. knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting…
Last night we were out shooting again – this time at Kensington Market’s annual festival to celebrate the winter solstice. I love this celebration because of how much crowd participation there is, everyone makes their own little light at home and brings it out with…
First blog post in a while! I’d like to say I’ve been taking a break since the show and PATH are now done, but I’ve actually been madly crafting everyone’s Christmas gifts. I can’t blog about any of my finished objects because I don’t want…
I’d like to post some of the pottery I have available right now, to make some shelf space for when I start throwing again in the New Year. These pieces have never made it to my Etsy site because I don’t like to ship pottery…
New yarn bells out of the kiln today! Two of them are in rustic blues, browns and greens and one of them was a custom order for a lovely lady that sent me pictures of the fabric in her sunroom and asked me to match…
Today I wanted to share pics of the birthday gift I made for my friend Kris – For my birthday gift this year, and also to celebrate 20 years of friendship we went to Hawaii, and thanks to her being willing to drive out (at…
Today I wanted to share a pair of bracelets I just completed for a friend. The request was for two matching charm bracelets in my ‘Iceberg” theme – to be given to a pair of ladies as Christmas gifts. Though the girls are not sisters,…
I have begun getting my Etsy site back on track, the site will grow to contain samples of (hopefully) everything I do; jewellery, ceramics, photography and knitted goods. I’ve started out featuring just a few things – the leaf jewellery so popular at the show…