My treat
I recently went through a very stressful period – school work/classes and starting a new job, plus a whole lot of crud that life threw at me. As a treat for surviving all of this, I bought myself some wonderful hand dyed Fleece Artist Country Silk. Fleece Artist is a Canadian company from Nova Scotia […]
On a Wink and a Wave
I went to my dad’s on the long weekend because my aunt was turning 80. So I took the train down to Ingersoll on Friday morning (2 hr ride followed by 45 minute drive home). Half way there, I realized I’d left my ID in Toronto. Not normally a problem, except this time our destination […]
Yarn as Prozac
I’m stressed.On the edge. I’m off the stress scale. If I was an earthquake, I’d be the big one right now. I received a transfer/promotion to a new job this week. Effective the end of the month I’m supposed to be reporting to a new department. In the meantime, everything that I’ve been working on […]
Hot Time Summer in the City
I started a summer sweater today – this means that I’ll finish it sometime around December 🙂 I wanted to share with you a couple of things that I do when I’m working on garments. One I’ve told you of already, (the Stashaholic’s way of measuring), and the other is to pin on post it […]
Meet Annabelle
As you know, I support Heartmade Blessings in their aim to provide people going through tough times with comfortghans. I was recently named the “Canadian Cub” which means that I’m responsible for doing bearghans for children under the age of 5 who live in Canada (although I also can do those in the States). I […]