Posts Tagged ‘Anna shoub’

Successful Summering and So Many Hats

Hello from the middle of summer. I am happy to report that I have been doing a pretty good job at carpe dieming. (Hope you don’t mind if I make up a verb here or there.) On a very good day, I have a batch of morning glory muffins baked (I mean, what else does…

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Seven Thousand Hats Later

Last month marked 30 years of making hats. That’s a whole lot of hats that I have put out there in the world. I don’t know the exact number, but I do know that I have used over 7000 labels. I’m just going to pause and think about that for a second….To celebrate, I will…

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Making hats and Plans to Leave the House

Hello Everyone, Today I bring you all things joyful. I do, however, want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the kind and sympathetic comments on my last post. Sometimes the internet can be a vehicle for good. You really comforted me. But now let’s talk about hats and upcoming plans…

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Introducing Betty Bucket

This is not your daughter’s bucket hat. That was the line that popped into my head when I stepped back to admire my new design. Not sure if my free form association translates outside the parameters of my own mind, so I’ll elaborate. I’m constantly seeing the line, “The is not your grandmother’s (insert noun…

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Seizing the Day

Hi, everyone! Welcome to October. Fall in Lunenburg is proving to be much kinder than the summer. OK, there was one little hurricane, but I’m so over natural disasters…or any other kind, for that matter. I have forgotten it as quickly as it blew in. A few weeks back my friend/neighbour, Vanessa, and I decided…

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The Summer of the Slug

Hello from the end of summer. I think we had a summer. I remember something about an extreme heat wave and then crazy forest fires and people praying for rain…which we got…and got…and got. I then remember watching videos of Beavers swimming down the Bedford highway and an absence of roads and a run on…

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A Hat Shop Minute

Hello, from pretty Lunenburg. As you can see from the above photo, I am open for business. I mustered up everything I learned about painting in Kindergarten and made an open sign. People often look confused when standing in my driveway trying to decide if they are in the right place or not. Hopefully, this…

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Fade free Hats, Indigo Love and Smoke

Hello from smokey Nova Scotia. While many people to the west and east of me have lost their homes or have been evacuated due to the wild fires, life in Lunenburg has been relatively normal….other than wind directions sometimes causing bad air quality. This is a very small province, so it really isn’t possible to…

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Spring Has Sprung

Hello, hello, I just wanted to pop in here to let people know that Spring returned. Isn’t it amazing? How do those buds know to open? I was just beginning to feel forsaken by Mother Nature when the crocuses and daffodils started appearing. In Nova Scotia, one never fully puts their winter clothes away, but…

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We Came, We Knit, We Conquered

I just finished teaching my first 4 week hand knit and felted beret workshop. For the past four Monday mornings four delightful ladies have shown up at my house to learn to make a hand knit and felted beret. The first of anything always comes with a bit of trepidation…Can I fit this into four…

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