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Live on CTV

Well, that was really fun.  Today I was interviewed on The CTV morning show.  I could get used to this.  Here’s the link.  Enjoy.  CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

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I Love My Job

There are days when I just can’t believe how lucky I am to get to make hats for beautiful ladies.  This Is Kelly.  I don’t think she will mind me telling you that she has just gone through some aggressive cancer treatment.  She is a local mom and some friends of hers from The South…

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I 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…

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Nova Scotia’s Slow Change Movement

  You may have heard of the Slow Food movement or the Slow Fashion movement, Slow Living, Slow Farming….   These are all movements that embrace the concept that anything worth doing is worth doing well.   Fast doesn’t last.   The joy is in the journey.  You get the point, right?    Nova Scotia has…

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Amelia 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…

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Lunenburg The Beautiful

Happy Monday morning.  That’s a good one, right?  I have been hoarding thoughts to share with you on this blog regarding parenting and evil fifth grade science fair projects and the adventures of accidentally discovering the very existence of this science fair project two days before it’s due date by way of another parent’s Facebook…

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Never Too Old

  I have often considered changing my business name from The Hat Junkie to the Hat Therapist.  You wouldn’t believe the things I hear every time someone approaches me to look at hats…My nose is too big, my chin is too small, my forehead is too flat, I’m too fat, too skinny, too short, too…

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The 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…

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