Author: VickyTH

athlete * powerlifter * photographer * gardener *

Unusual ambitions

We had a little interview with a local television news station at the gallery today. Katherine coloured away happily throughout and was mostly quiet, except when spoken to…… Toni-Marie Wiseman (interviewer): So, do you want to be an artist when you grow up? Katherine: No. I want to be a man named John. Me: (muttering)…

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Craft Fair chaos

I haven’t posted much in the last while. Mea maxima culpa, but I have an excuse reason. Since theshow opening, I’ve been getting things ready for the largest provincial Fine Craft Fair in mid-November. This means not only making more stock than is reasonable to make in a month, but also putting new things through…

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Tip for hanging small wall quilts

It’s a logical assumption that, when you make a pieces of artwork, you will account for how to display it. In fact, if you’re at all canny, you keep this element firmly in mind and construct the piece with an eye to its eventual installation. One of the parts of designing my smaller, lower-priced quilts…

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Score one for the girls

I posted recently about some cosmetics cases for kids that were embellished with the slogans “too pretty to do math” or “too cute to do math” sold at Loblaws stores here in Newfoundland (and presumably elsewhere, as well). I wrote to the chain and was assured, in much the same wording as was Natasha, that…

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