Eggses, precious

Today we decided to decorate some eggs. A year or two ago, I bought a complete pysanky kit (dyes, waxes, kistkas and all the paraphernalia) at the Craft Council Seconds Sale, thinking it would be a fun activity for me and Katherine sometime. Boy was it ever! We blew the eggs first, which is atypical….

A dusting

Driving through Quidi Vidi Village this morning I stopped to have a look at a premises under development which will house a series of new craft studios (more on this later). While there, I wandered out on to the dock of the craft premises and snapped this quick shot of a local, independent brewing company,…

Commiserating

I wandered around some of the historical sections of St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada, for those who don’t know where I am) yesterday between meetings and remembered to take my camera with me. I’m going to start taking these little strolls a bit more often, I think, now that the weather is shifting a little away…

A lunch break

I had another of those meetings today that left me feeling a little worn around the edges, so I called John and we went to lunch together. We’ve been trying to fit a lunch date in for two weeks, but he’s had some substantial work obligations on-going and I’ve been slurped up by various aspects…

Learning

It doesn’t happen all at once … You become. It takes a long time. – Margery Williams Patience does not come easily to me. I like to work in a flurry of activity and a flood of energy and then collapse into absolute lethargy after. I am not slow and steady by nature. One step…