I've been helping the organizers of Got Craft with the upcoming spring market (mark your calendars for May 8th!) & one of my favorite tasks has been collecting all of the swag donated by our talented vendors. Every show people will line up bright & early in the morning, hours before even the first vendor… Continue reading Got Swag?
I'm slowly recovering from a fabulous weekend at Make It! Vancouver & by "recovering" I mean coming down from one of those exhaustedly happy highs whilst playing with the new treasures I scored at the show. I had very little time to get out of my booth & actually shop & *still* managed to buy… Continue reading Make It Vancouver Recap
I love this time of year! The cherry blossom trees are blooming. The birds are chirping. And the craft shows are bustling! I'm a busy bee getting ready for Make It! Vancouver which kicks off this Friday & runs through Sunday at the Croatian Cultural Centre on Commercial Drive. It also happens to be hockey… Continue reading Making Things for Make It!
I had a fantastic time last weekend at the Portobello West season opener. The new location at Creekside Community Centre in Olympic Village isn't quite as spacious & beautiful as the Rocky Mountaineer Station (gotta love those huge ceilings!), but it's so much more accessible that I think it will turn out to be a… Continue reading Portobello West Season Opener
Taking a gander out my window yesterday afternoon I spotted this wily guy, just hanging out on my sidewalk: I love that a city the size of Vancouver has maintained so much green space that us city dwellers still get regular run ins with coyotes, raccoons & skunks, but in the middle of the afternoon… Continue reading East Van Wilder
I forced myself to set everything else aside & focus on painting for a few days this week & words cannot explain how GOOD that felt. I was planning to just push the paint around & allow myself to breathe without trying to create a salable painting. I played with a couple of canvases, pushing… Continue reading New Work
Amid my uncertain housing situation, there is one thing that is certain - the show must go on! Craft show, that is. 😉 Here's a break down of where you can find me over the next little while: March 26th & 27th Portobello West Creekside Community Recreation Centre 1 Athletes Way ~ map The season… Continue reading Spring Markets
Blerg. I'm feeling wildly unproductive & uncreative right now, in part because the awesomeness of the Home & Garden Show totally kicked my ass (thank you, rad customers!) & partly due to a nasty cold that I seem unable to shake (& by "shake" I mean "unable to stop the sieve that is my nose… Continue reading Moving to Crazyville
A peek at my booth at the. Vancouver Home & Garden Show - March 2nd to 6th.
We've been home from Hawaii for a whole week now, but stepped so thoroughly back into "real" life that I feel as if we hardly had a holiday at all! We came home to a smashed car window & stolen GPS, a big SOLD sign on the house we're currently renting, an appointment to pick… Continue reading Back to Life