As those who know me will attest, I don’t really like winter. Part of it is the sheer ickiness of getting around, because, let’s face it, we get mostly rainy snow or snowy rain. Not much you can do with that besides get wet and cold. Another part of it has to do with the…
Author: VickyTH
athlete * powerlifter * photographer * gardener *
Raising the bar: Craft or Fine Craft? Semantics or Public Perception?
The word “craft” elicits many images in peoples’ minds, from plastic canvas and popsicle sticks arranged into predictable objects of dubious originality and bead kits assembled into Christmas ornaments to expertly knit socks, hats, and mittens, jewelry and home decor wrought from metal, and wood turned, shaped and polished in such a way that the…
November dwindles
We’ve almost reached the end of November, but already it rather feels like December. Strange how that works. I must be simply rolling from Craft Fair and production time right into Christmas without the usual panic to meet additional deadlines that falls temporally between the two. So Katherine and I went Christmas shopping today. We…
One definition of “high”:
A two year-old in a toy store a month before Christmas. Mom and I took Katherine to Toys R Us today, so that I could gawk at toys and we could both watch the munchkin spin from one display to another, pushing random buttons and eliciting bizarre noises from large, expensive pieces of brightly-coloured plastic….
Idiocy
John told me to post this one. I’ll grant that it’s funny, but it’s no better than most of our conversations….. Last night, while we were lying in bed reading, a border collie launched herself onto us and licked me in passing. This is a normal occurrance. What made it funny was that I yelped….
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 