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Advocate Harbour and The Fundy Coast
Lat week I knew one thing above all else and that was that I really needed to get away. If you ever want to test your inner strength, try challenging your local government. It’s a character building experience. So, I grabbed the husband, dropped off the kid with some wonderful friends and took off for…
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 MoreI 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…
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 MoreSpring is Possible
It looks like spring just might actually happen. I’ll come out from my hiding place now.
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 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 MorePuppy Photo Bomb
Some dogs just need to steal the show. Photo by www.heidijirotka.ca
Read MoreThe Lady’s got Style
I was selling my wares at our Lunenburg Farmer’s Market today, when this beautiful woman walked by. The coat, the boots, the scarf, her hair, her face, absolute perfection. The only thing missing was…. The headand, of course. I was so relieved that she agreed with me. Her name is Margaret, which is perfect because…
Read MoreLunenburg 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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