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A 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 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 MoreHow do I Bore Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
I might have a wee tendency towards obsessiveness. It’s a bit of a pattern in my life. Something will grip me and I can think of or do nothing else. The predominant symptom of this state of mind is that I become incredibly boring. Well, not to myself. To myself I’m perfectly fascinating, but anyone…
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 MoreThe Happiest Hat
Life is filled with moments worth celebrating. I have just had the unique privilege of understanding that joy reaches new heights when followed by an extended period of sadness.Since receiving THIS happy news, I find myself dancing around the house and my son begs me repeatedly to please stop singing.Sorry kid, Mama’s happy. Whenever 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 MoreAnna Goes to The City
When I signed off yesterday, I was just about to curl up into a ball and settle in for the night in a pile of Edie’s fabrics, but instead Edie and I decided to head into Halifax…. to look at more fabric. Patch is a beautiful little shop on Robie st. in the North end…
Read MoreNova 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…
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…
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