anna shoub
The Answer Is In the Box.
So, here I was desperately trying to think out of the box for the solution to my sustainable fashion problem and all along the answer was right there in the box…well, in the boxes, the many boxes, and shelves and drawers and the attic… I have been struggling with the question of how to shift…
Read MoreFelted Headbands and Crazy Hair
Knitting myself a new direction…Thoughts on polar fleece
A couple of months ago I said to Tony, “I think I’m having a crisis.” He was very concerned and agreed to hear me out. The next line out of my mouth had the word, “knitting” in it and with that one word I instantly lost credibility. I guess my idea of a crisis and…
Read MoreFifty Years
I had big plans for my fiftieth birthday. I was going to get in the car and drive an hour an a half to Wolfville and take a lone adventure to Gaspereau Valley Fibers. I have been thinking about how I used to be so adventurous. I was the twenty year old that just left…
Read MoreA Hat To Grow a Garden
There is often an idea in my head for years before it actually materializes. This is as true for hat making as it is for folding laundry or sorting through piles of paper. Being an avid, albeit a negligent, gardener, I have been wanting, forever, to create a hat with special gardening status. I can…
Read MoreAll this and I didn’t leave the house
O.K. fine, I do leave the house once a week to go to the Farmers’ Market and I also walk my dog, but my life revolves around my home and that’s the way I love it. I know it’s not a life for everyone, but being by myself in my little studio with the occasional…
Read MoreTake This Hat to Ascot at Your Own Risk
My adventures in sewing wheat straw continue. Wheat straw is seriously rustic. Sewing with it has caused me to recall the breathing techniques that were taught to me in birthing class, many moons ago. (didn’t work then either) Tony has several times closed my studio door to put a physical barrier between himself and the…
Read MoreDoes This Hat Make Me Look Old?
Last week I set up my wares at Lady Luck Boutique in the Hydrostone Market in Halifax. Gloria walked into the shop looking like the text book definition of elegance. She tried this hat on and asked, “Does this hat make me look old?” We all agreed that it looked beautiful on her and she…
Read MoreHats, Rainbows, Sunsets and Breaking up with Facebook
What a week it’s been. I made hats, I sold hats, I received heartwarming messages from happy customers, gardened, walked my dog, talked to the man and the boy and, oh yeah…I broke up with Facebook. After years of screaming at my screen, I decided to take control. I’m tired of a world that steals…
Read MoreYou Drive Me Crazy. Happy 14th Anniversary.
“You drive me crazy, with all the things you do and do not do. But, I love you so much, Baby, I’m going to drive you crazy, too.” Greg Brown This photo is from mine and Tony’s wedding day, August 23rd. 2002. Yes, we also have photos of adoring stares and passionate kisses, but this…
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