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Brier Island

This past weekend Tony and I ran away to Brier Island.  I have always had a long list of reasons as to why I can’t go anywhere, not least of which is a sense of needing to be open in case someone comes to visit my studio.  But Robin, who runs the Chester Bay Chalet,…

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Mom’s Buy and Sell in Lunenburg

Nova Scotia is a bit of a snowy place right now and what with endless school cancellations and general shack wackiness, you might be looking to hop on a plane and head south.  But if that option is not available to you, there is another cure.  Come take a day trip to Lunenburg. I’d be…

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When Elegance Walks In

Yesterday I got a call from this lovely lady in Granville Ferry, NS, which is about 2 hours from Lunenburg.  She said she had an old hat that she just loved and asked if I could reproduce it.  I explained that this is something I rarely do, but the answer was maybe.  Sometimes I do…

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The Living in Lunenburg top 10

Today is my birthday.  Thank you, thank you.  It’s been a verbal year for me, to put it mildly.  I’m just a woman filled with opinions, but there is one opinion that has never wavered and that is that I am very lucky to live in Lunenburg.  There is not a day that goes by…

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Just Another Lunenburg Morning

Honest to God…No camera filter. I don’t think I could ever live anywhere flat.  Takes a bit of training to walk up these hills, but it keeps you young. I took this photo from my studio window.  I’d be rich by now if it weren’t for the time I waste just staring. O.K., This photo…

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