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Let’s Talk About……HATS!
Today I would like to talk about something that I feel really strongly about. Hats. Polka dot hand felted hats…. Hats in alley ways modeled by bag lady wanna bes….. Hats in fields of flowers……. Hats for singing in the rain……. Hats designed on beautiful summer days…………. Hats designed on desperate snowy April days…….. Hats…
Read MoreKinda Cute, Don’t You Think?
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post to bring you a rather adorable sign. (If I may say so myself) There’s your close up. And now a little bit about the dream team that brought me this sign.It was designed by my friend Andrea Dixon who is quite the famous accessory designer in Toronto. www.pompandceremony.ca…
Read MoreI Just Can’t Quit You, Rain Hats
Sometimes hat making is a smooth and easy process, where I contentedly whistle while I create. The customer then picks up the hat, realizes she can’t live without it., money exchanges hands, I feed the kid, pay the bills and a happy lady walks away with a new hat. And then there are the Rain…
Read MoreMy All Time Favourite Comment – Daffodowndilly
I love all the kind comments that people leave on my facebook page, but the following comment left in response to my new Daffodil hat is really my all time favourite. It is a poem by A.A. Milne Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind…
Read MoreDon’t Cry for Me Texas
Today this Mabel Rose hat begins its journey to sunny Texas where, I hear from my customer, the temperatures are now in the seventies. So, I am sending along my deepest concern and sympathies for anyone living in a warm climate who is not afforded the opportunity to enrich their moral character by way of…
Read MoreAmelia Earhart, Eat Your Heart Out
If Amelia Earhart was still around, I feel certain that she would have commissioned me to felt her a hat like this. I also feel certain that she would have loved Linda Ruth, who did commission me to make this hat. I met Linda Ruth a few weeks back at the Lunenburg Farmers Market and…
Read MoreA Slipper Slope and a True Vacation
Happy New Year. Tomorrow is back to school day for the boy and back to reality day for the mom. Fortunately, my reality is pretty fantasy. In past years, I have gone from intense hat making for orders straight into intense pajama making for my boys and, not too surprisingly, I never quite got…
Read MoreThe Three Muses
This adorable photo comes to you from Chicago. I received one of those hat emergency calls some weeks back that these three ladies had all purchased polar fleece coats and now needed the matching hats. The coat company had told them the color name and since we both use the same polartec fleece, I was…
Read MoreA sweet success of a day.
Happy to report that our Drift show in Halifax was a super success, largely in part to the plethora of cookies. It was really fun spending the day with some talented and fun ladies and force feeding our customers homemade goodies. I baked these Rugelach, which if I may say so myself were quite the…
Read MoreThere’s No Place Like Work
This is where you can find me these days. All day and into the night. I have been filling orders up to my eyebrows. This is the time of year when people order Christmas presents and boutiques need those hats to arrive in time for Holiday shopping. So, the one woman sweat shop sweats on.…
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