Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With a little help from my own personal knitting support group (thanks guys!) I worked out how to knit up my lovely Noro yarn into (the beginnings of) a stripey chevron scarf. See?
So far so good! Except I’m pretty sure I’m going to run out of yarn. [Oh no, I will have to buy more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m trying to keep this post text-lite post because I’m working through a bout of pretty bad carpal tunnel/arm anger, but everything is great so i wanted to share. [and i still have too much to say! sorry, wrist.]
There is a chorus to this post – sing along if you like.
Two powerful new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last few days have been full of crafty goodness leading up to Halloween. I love dressing up!
Very long arms!
Jemaine Clement!
and my own costume, what i thought was a very clever concept piece inspired by the embroidered heart in my shop, but it seemed to puzzle people at the party last night for some reason:
and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s funny that we treat time like this rational thing, cut it up in segments, measured, precise, mathematical pieces, when our lived experience of time passing is anything but. I feels sort of impossible that C and I have been living in Toronto for more than a year. It seems like it must have either [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Been very food focused lately while trying to kick the last of this cold bug. See? Ripening the last of the cherry tomatoes, putting up jars of preserves, drying our own marigolds and comfrey for making healing salves, a big jar of oregano picked and dried from the farm. You should see what’s in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
(man, that newspaper mulch is ugly)
It was a lovely weekend. I’m sick with a cold now so this is a little dis-jointed, but i think you get the gist. Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone.
best,
Anna
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, look how beautiful these images from Irene’s new calendars are!
Although, I do wish this also came in a full sized version… with no space to write down things on the days, I’d be left vacantly admiring those gorgeous photos day after day, tasks and appointments be damned! This calender and two other equally lovely [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been working on a series of collages this week, trying to get over my inherent bias towards practical and/or useful pretty things, trying to be okay with making things that are just for looking at. I put up so very many obstacles for myself, really.
Two dreamscapes then:
I have ideas for a few more, too. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just heard the news on CBC about the Stratfordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo Saxon booty ever found. I suppose you think this is an odd thing to find discussed on a purportedly craft-centric blog, but that’s because you don’t know that I did an undergrad degree in anthropology! Ha ha!
And I do love [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So I was just reading a bit of Art and Fear today over lunch, I’ve started reading it again from the beginning, and as is often the case it feels different now than it did a year ago. You can’t step in the same river twice.
What I noticed now is that the first chapter begins [...]
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