One of the many hats I wear in this adventure called Life is “member of the Awards Committee” for our provincial craft council. This morning I’m going to be in a meeting to plan our annual Seconds Sale and to work out some other mundane housekeeping. The Craft Council of Newfoundland is a wonderful organisation…
Author: VickyTH
athlete * powerlifter * photographer * gardener *
A nifty blog
I’ve just been perusing Elfshot: Sticks and Stones, the blog of Tim Rast, flintknapper and stone worker and thought I’d post the link here for all to follow. He’s a very neat fellow and is amazingly good at his work. (My favourite jewelry is of his manufacture and design.) Equally helpful and perspasive is his…
The design wall today
After my fabric painting adventure, I’m back at the design wall again. Right now I’m working on several pieces, as is my wont. Typically, I have half a dozen on the go at a time, in various stages. I find it helpful to work this way as I can move from a piece that has…
Painting summer
One of the things I’ve often found to be a great remedy for artistic blockage is fabric painting and dyeing. Painting more so than dyeing, truth to tell. Having completely depleted my hand-painted fabric supply over the past few months, I decided to have a go at some skies and oceans. Normally I paint outside,…
Workshop prep
I’m putting the final touches on workshop kits and workshop prep for a one-day class to be taught on Saturday. Today and tomorrow are more or less straight organisation, although I do have to make one additional class sample to bring along. The workshop is my basic Landscape Design workshop, but the folks for whom…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 