hat maker
One Extraordinary Woman (with good taste in hats)
This is Thelma. We met a couple of weeks ago. She was looking for a hat for her friend in British Columbia who is going through chemo. She came by my studio and together we came up with this… Word on the street is that her friend was delighted. But back to Thelma. When she…
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 MoreTime Out for Gratitude
Some chores, like washing dishes, bring out the nihilistic, end of days, depressive side of me. While other chores, like hanging laundry, fill me with peace and gratitude. So, as it is Canadian Thanksgiving, I thought I’d hang the laundry. And wouldn’t you know it, a wave of thoughts bright and beautiful blew in with…
Read MoreMen Say The Darndest Things
Today I have been the most easy going spouse imaginable. Tony came into the kitchen and suggested I might be putting too many nuts in the salad….He turned off the corn that was cooking for 30 seconds because he thought it would overcook and even asked me what’s for supper tomorrow before we had finished…
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 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 MoreLearning from Maud Lewis
Yesterday Tony and I went to see the movie, Maudie, about Maud Lewis’ life. For those of you who are not familiar with Maud Lewis, she was a very well known Folk Artist who worked from her tiny home in Nova Scotia before tiny homes were trendy and before folk art was cool. This morning…
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 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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