As I've mentioned before, I'm an avid podcast listener. Walking to the post office, working on a new painting, snuggling under the covers - a podcast is often my background sound of choice. This American Life has been one of my all time favorites, despite being Canadian, so I thought a holiday round-up of festive… Continue reading Holiday Podcast Spectacular
It may not be the cover of the Rolling Stone, but I was tickled to have one of my paintings, Sarah and the Orca, used as cover art for the December 2010 issue of Common Ground magazine. Holla! Common Ground is a Canadian publication in its 28th year with a focus on health, growth &… Continue reading Cover Girl
I have so many wonderful things to share with you, dear reader, but the busy-ness of this season has me continually bumping "blog post!" lower & lower on Ye Olde To Do list. The Christmas countdown is on and I'm down to one last market of the year; next weekend at Heritage Hall I'll be… Continue reading Last Market of the Year!
The good folks from Got Craft posted an awesome time lapse video of the craziness last spring, right from the first moments that Rob & Andrea set up the tables, to the first vendors arriving and all the way through the show to the final clean up. I was happy to see that I wasn't… Continue reading Time Lapse Craftiness
Cagey Bee is coming to Yaletown this weekend! The Roundhouse Community Centre will be host to the Urban Artisans Craft Fair on Saturday & Sunday. It's a lovely facility & one of the few markets I'm doing this year that get me out of my east Van 'hood. Hopefully the snow will have melted by… Continue reading Urban Artisan Craft Fair
I know I shouldn't complain when the coldest temperature EVER recorded in Vancouver is -14 C, but anything nearing the zero degree mark has me hiding under the covers these days. Yes, this Winnipeg-born gal has grown soft. Fortunately lots of Vancouverites braved the light dusting of snow we got this weekend & came out… Continue reading Brrrr!
Goodness! There are all sorts of crafty goings on this weekend in Vancouver, aren't there? I will be one of the lovely vendors at the Britannia Christmas Craft Fair kicking off on Friday at Britannia Secondary School, which is just off Commercial Drive. I did this show last year & really enjoyed it. It wasn't… Continue reading Britannia Christmas Craft Fair
On a much happier note than my last post (thank you for all of the kind words via Twitter, email & Facebook), I watched the sweetest documentary this weekend about two average folks who collected one of the world's most incredible & comprehensive collections of minimalist contemporary art. Herb and Dorothy documents the story of… Continue reading Collecting Art
I've been having a hard couple of days, going back & forth between tears, guilt & worry. The white dog, officially named Kiero after the Spanish phrase "Te quiero" (though we never call her that), is getting older. She's always been a picky eater, but over the last 6 months or so has stopped eating… Continue reading Fur Babies Getting Older
I finished some new paintings in my critters series recently & though I haven't added the original paintings to my shop yet, 4 new prints are available. I'm excited about these ones because I focused on some more neutral background colors, which should mix & match nicely with the rest of the animals in my… Continue reading New Critters