Hello everyone!  I’m a few days late with my blog post. Wild Wonder nature journaling conference ended in the wee hours of Monday morning. I took every class and checked out some of the social breakout rooms and chats. It meant 12 1/2 hours of excellent instruction a day! I didn’t need to do it this way. Classes are recorded for future viewing.  But I have a hard time carving out time on a regular basis for thirty classes plus keynote addresses. So I try and do it all during the five days of the conference. Monday I spent catching up on sleep.  Tuesday I spent catching up around ..read more

Hi everyone!  I started a new business journal not long ago.  I find my bullet journal, note taking style of journaling to be helpful in keeping me on track with everything that needs to be done. I worked on my website more. It’s been challenging.  The photos in particular.  I may have to pay someone to deal with those. Though I’d like to know how to do it myself. Eventually I’m going to have to. I also worked on entering new product. I made a trip to the Visual Voice Gallery and back, to pick up a piece to ship to a private buyer. I shipped two pieces off to a private buye ..read more

Hi everyone!  Just thought I’d pop in and let you know I am part of a group exhibit at Visual Voice Gallery in Truro, Nova Scotia right now. I was into the gallery to have a look around. The exhibit looks very nice. A few of my pieces have sold.  I’m looking forward to more sales in the future. The exhibit is up until September 24th, so if you are interested in a particular piece, you might want to contact the gallery owner soon. A special thank-you goes out to the lady who runs the gallery.  Thank-you for the respect and care you give my work, and for listening to the stories i ..read more

Hi everyone! I’ve been very busy lately.  I’m working on a channel on the ko-fi platform.  You can check it out here. Ko-fi is a platform where you can simply follow someone for free information, become a supporter by donating to their channel, become a member of the channel for a monthly membership fee (and receive extra content), and potentially take part in that channel’s community. What is the content?  At the moment it is mostly videos and blog posts.  I’ve determined I don’t film well!  Despite that, so far I’ve uploaded five videos, and I have another two ready ..read more

We had a wonderful trip visiting family and friends in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick this past week. While in Moncton, i took the opportunity to visit with Lucy Richard of the Wooly Mason Jar dye system.  I dropped off some gifts for her gift baskets and had a good time talking shop. We continued on to Fundy National Park Tuesday afternoon. We checked into an AirBnB and visited family in the Park for the evening.  The next day we had an interesting time hiking Matthew’s Head Trail with everyone.   The trail was quite slippery and muddy with lots of tree roots and rocks. &nb ..read more

Hello everyone!  A lot has been happening here. The “Summer” exhibit ended and I took more work up to Visual Voice Gallery for the next two group shows this year.  The Gallery now has a good cross section of my smaller works.  If you are interested in anything smaller than 12” x 12”, feel free to contact the gallery.  I have yet to update my website shop.  That will be happening this week.  It was a fun afternoon, chatting with the gallery owner and getting feedback on various pieces and from her and her clients.  If you are interested in my work, just call a ..read more

Good morning everyone!  I had a wonderful time at the Show & Sale with The Bonnie Hookers at Scott Manor House this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  I managed to share information on rug hooking, demonstrate and even sit someone at a frame to learn. The ladies I worked with were kind, friendly and generous. I’ve yet to check in with Visual Voice Gallery to see how the “Summer”  exhibit went. I’ll touch base sometime this week. I did manage to hook a lot on the big Parker’s Cove fishing shacks wall hanging. I may need to pause to dye more blues for the sky.  I also w ..read more

Good afternoon everyone!  It’s been a busy couple of weeks.  Hence the lack of blog post last week.   We had company the last while and we took the time to show them around the Maritimes.  It was our vacation, as well as theirs. I did not accomplish much rug hooking, but I did manage a bit on my large Parker’s Cove fishing shacks piece. I need to refocus on finishing the edging on the earlier ones and hooking more of them.  I believe I counted 15 shacks in total. In other news… The show and sale at Scott Manor House in Bedford, Nova Scotia, starts Thursday at 1 PM and ..read more

Last week I had a lovely retreat, so to speak, with Hubby.  It was actually a working vacation for me.  We went up to Annapolis Royal, NS and rented a cottage in the area. The view out the front window was gorgeous! We decided we didn’t want to cook while there, so I roasted a chicken and cut it up the day before we left.  I also made some hummus and vegetable  sticks for dipping. Plus we took the usual peanut butter and homemade jelly, and boiled eggs.  Plus fruit, bagels and bread.  We survived on that, oatmeal and two grocery store salads for the entire time we ..read more

I had a lovely afternoon last Monday up in Truro at the Visual Voice Gallery with the proprietress.  We went through my work, I described my process, and she decided which pieces she wanted to keep for various shows.  I also took my notecards on the off chance she might want some of those.  She did! So now if anyone is looking for my work through a gallery in Nova Scotia, they can contact the gallery owner at: gallery@visual-voice.ca The first show I’m a part of starts today at Visual Voice in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.  It’s a group show on the theme of “Summer”. In ..read more