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Right. Interview over. Now to get back to workshop planning, show work, Christmas show work and Craft Fair stuff.
Workshop Planning – to have finished by this weekend, the write-ups for the fabric painting workshop and the landscape quilting workshop. Included in these write-ups will be:

materials provided by me list
materials for participants to bring list (mandatory [...]

colourful language
Photos by VickyTH.
At least, the one who came to the house today didn’t. Stephanie Porter of The Independant dropped by with photographer Paul Daly to interview me for the paper. I know Stephanie from grade seven through twelve, those years that many of us would rather wash huge portions [...]

bead reflections arranged
Photos by VickyTH.
I don’t use as many beads in my work these days as I once did, but I suspect that I’ll start using more in the near future. These things go in cycles and the effect of beads is something that I use when I need the three dimensional [...]

suncatcher 8
Photos by VickyTH.
I have a sneaking suspicion that most of us walk around feeling vaguely insecure about something in our lives. In fact, I’d be mightily surprised if most people didn’t have several slightly wobbily pedestals that they feel can’t support their emotional weight. You hear about them all from time-to-time; weight, relationships, career [...]

I think I actually got some good (and not all progress is)progress made on the ornaments yesterday. I don’t actually have a prototype yet, but I think the majority of the design has been solidified and I’ve worked through any particular kinks.
I also got some stock finished, packaged, labelled and inventoried to go to the [...]

It’s actually harder than it looks, especially if you don’t settle for the heel-kicking action. A good, solid instep kick in the behind is truly impossible to achieve for yourself, which is why most of us need a catalyst (really desperate cases need a catapult, but I’m not quite there yet).
Last week Sharon LeRiche from [...]