hats
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 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 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 MoreA Hat Junkie Hat and Nova Scotia License Plates
Funny title, eh? There really is a connection, though. This is Janis Campbell. I met her a week ago at the Lunenburg Farmers market. She picked up this hat and fell in love. Then she looked at the price. She was totally sweet about it and I never take offense when someone can’t afford one…
Read MorePlaying Hat Hooky – A Ride to Corkum’s Island
When you have a sixty hat wholesale order to ship out in two days and you still need to make ten, label them, write an invoice and box them up, there is only one thing to do…go for a bike ride. I just really don’t have the personality for missing out on summer. Today I…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time
–> Tomorrow I will be the guest of honour at The Bozzy Book club at The Boscawen Inn here in Lunenburg. It is hat day. So very exciting. This means I get to hang out with many children, read one of my favourite stories, Caps For Sale, make paper hats and tell a little tale…
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 MoreSpring is Possible
It looks like spring just might actually happen. I’ll come out from my hiding place now.
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…
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