Working on the Weekend

The weekend was a whirlwind of home repair that’s spilling over into this week.

I set up my shelf and bookended my notebooks with a couple vintage radios my Dad had kicking around (interesting note – the silver circle on the left-hand side of the white radio is a speaker with a wire. Patients at [...]

Her (Meaning Me) on Homes

A lot of writing catch-up/playing around with new story ideas means I haven’t been in the studio at all these last few days.

I plan to head in next week to make some moccasins for the shop and to work on a birch bark cuff whose design has been burning a hole in my sketchbook [...]

MaCaw!

The cuff I worked on last week – a raven’s feather for the Yukon.

I did the background in a faded shade of purple. This was an experiment in not making everything as though I were going to keep it for myself.

My preference would have been a brown background and brass snaps, but I [...]

Hibernation Mode

I took a ton of yarn up north with me so I could knit during the drive. I was planning on doing (what else?) another cowl when it occurred to me that arm warmers would be just as easy and much faster.

After falling in love with Lion Brand Thick & Quick (this stuff is [...]

Ahhhhhh…

We usually go up north each October – Algonquin, Wawa, someplace where there are many-coloured leaves to feed my love of fall.

It was starting to look like it wasn’t going to happen this year because we’ve both been working like crazy, with little time or money to spare (especially after the trailer purchase).

However, [...]