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~My Dad~ Just a quickie to celebrate my Dad's 60th anniversary as a doctor. He's still going strong at 83 with four days a week at his office helping people with Hypnotherapy. Dr. Edgar A. Barnett went into this about thirty years ago full time after a lifetime of fascination with Mesmer, hypnosis etc and the mind's connection to the physical body. He has helped many people including the

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Another Summer show over, barreling towards the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in Toronto in a week... I'm in Booth 539 Turquoise Doing a show on home turf is nice, sleeping in your own bed, having friends to stay and staying up late talking of all sorts of things that you never get a chance to because you're working so hard and live to far away. My friend Jannis nearly nodded off into her

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Overlooking Confederation Park, Kingston It's Summer, how do I know? I haven't the time to plant any more flowers because I must get ready for my two Summer shows. First coming up this weekend is Fanfayr here in Kingston. I have done this one for years...since the last time I had short hair (early '80's), that's how long this show has been on. We get to sleep in our own bed and my other half

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When I called a friend with whom I had long meant to get together she said she was going to the Toucan pub for a knitting night..... 'Count me in' I said and, after meeting for coffee, we wandered in together. We found a bunch of people at the back knitting away on various projects and gabbing away...this was the place. Apparently, at the Yarn Harlot night a week or so before someone had

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This post is waaay late but, hey, I'm busy! But.. I did take last Wednesday night off to attend the talk at our Kingston Chapters given by our beloved Yarn Harlot Stephanie Pearl MacPhee. It was so much fun and all the knitters I know in town and then some were there. We were all in stitches, (literally and figuratively....). But what a good talk, leaving us all feeling very validated a

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At Balleycanoe - Toronto Skyline in Folkart Today I got a response to yesterday's post about my favourite spots on the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour. My old friend John Marr of 'Canadian Roadflix' sent me a link to a piece he had done a couple of years ago on Balleycanoe. It actually showed me more than I had seen when I visited on the Grand Tour (where the artisans get to visit

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Well, the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour is over, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time parked on my friend Margot's front lawn. This weekend the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny unlike the rainy weekend we had for the Victoria Day weekend. That weekend I was hanging up my sweaters with frozen fingers, this weekend I did it in a tank top! On the Friday between the two tour weekend

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Well, I was going to write about something I'm sure a few days ago but cannot remember what, I've been so busy getting ready for the studio tour this weekend. Well, I do know that I couldn't resist picking up my camera and taking a pic of our cat sleeping on the 'sheep' mat I have in my studio. Now that the weather is better I keep my studio door open and he wanders up the stairs and finds a

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How sweet is this? While mooching around the Buxton Village Books in the Outer Banks NC last week I found this Knitting Muse. They had a large one but after last year I'm on a tight budget so when I found this one in a card I had to have her. She's made of metal, wire and beads with a ribbon around her waist. I'll hang her somewhere in my studio. She's one of Laini's Ladies but they had other '

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My little booth at Just for Us Well, I've three shows under my belt at this point, the One of a Kind in Toronto, Just for Us also in TO and Originals in Ottawa. After missing the Chicago show as I was still in chemo the Ottawa show was down so this year has sort of started off with whimper. Just for Us, however, was a nice bonus that I was able to do because of the three week stretch between the

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This is the only place were putting on weight is a good thing! Rosemary J. at her knitting machine Just back from the first show of the season, the One of a Kind Show in Toronto, and it was a great weekend to feel back in the swing. The show was early as it was set on the early Easter weekend, still quite cold and snow still on the ground. For me it was really good to see and spend some

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Well, there's another workshop done, and a lot of fun it was too. Two of the participants had been here before but the third who had not is a seasoned knitter and did a great job. The technicality wasn't the problem there but creating a garment that would fit and suit her. With the help of Garment Designer created a longer jacket (buttonless) with 3/4 sleeve in black with dark blue accents, she

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I had client revisit me today for another cardi. This lovely lady has brought me something to work with before (a houndstooth fabric) and this time it is a piece of jewelry (pictured). It's a piece of art glass as a neck piece with the most iridescent colours of glass overlay. The pendant shimmers and changes colour like taffeta, the photo just doesn't do it justice, so I pulled some cones off

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What a hoot! While rifling thought the hall closet looking for a sweater for my Mum to wear I found a lovely green striped one I had made her ages ago. On it there was a pin of some sort, it was an old pin from the Festival of Canadian Fashion in which I participated waaaay back in the '80's with a friend who also made clothing. I'll have to dig up a pic of us... I've got one somewhere, my

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Just got this in an email from my Dad!!!! (No I don't know these folk)

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Grabbing a bite to eat before last week's guest gig my friend Sonja pulled some great things out of her purse .... more wire knits. Here are the little jacket, blue evening dress and gold shrug with pearl beads. I photographed them on a paper napkin so they're not great but I tweaked them so they'd stand up. Aren't they cute?

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My New Year started of with a bad cold and a passing. My old high school sweetheart succumbed to his cancer and left us on January 2nd. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit him and his family in the hospital hours before he died. He broke up with me back in '68 when he got his first bike... a Candy Apple red Triumph Bonneville and I just didnt' belong in the biker life, however, forty years

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Well, yesterday saw me leave the cancer centre after my last chemotherapy!!!! I still have to have one medication infused so I still have my port that's the last chemo! A couple of days ago we went out to visit our friends who have and are still working on their new house in the country for dinner. They decided to cut down their own tree now that they don't live in the big smoke and it's the

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My very good painter friend Vera Donefer gave me as a gift a series of photo sessions with her son-in-law Rene Calderon (brother in law of Laura Donefer). We've done all hair, short hair just before it all fell out (one of which is on my web site home page) and the other day he came to do the 'bald'. It was just in time as my hair is rapidly making it's reappearance!! Woopeeee!! Rene is

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Up early this morning to high tail it down to the hospital for my MUGA (MUltiple Gated Acquisition) scan, still feeling fortunate that I was home to take the call to grab what they had. While I waited for the radioisotopes to be mixed with, or whatever they have to do to, my blood another lady came in for exactly the same thing. She'd had the same cancellation then the call back to get in first

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My friend Georgia came with me to chemo last week and brought five Bottles of Hope that she had made. These ones were beautiful and this photo doesn't do them justice but was in my treatment chair and took this on the spur of the moment. Check out her blog for pics of her 'ladies' kaleidoscopes. Well, we had our gallery Open House at Sandra Whitton Gallery. It was a cold and freezing rainy

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Just a quick note as we head into the week where the One of a Kind Chicago starts, I've started to get emails from my lovely US ladies to find out why I won't be there this year and it's wonderful to know I'm cared about so much. I adorer all my clients and so will miss that big city bunch who stop by my Merchandise Mart booth to touch base, catch up and often to add to their wardrobe. This

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On Sunday I and two other crafty friends hit the highway to go take in the One of a Kind in Toronto. We all found ourselves at loose ends for five minutes and two of us have done the Christmas version on and off over the past couple of decades and were curious on how it was going. Called up three other friends to meet us there and when we all got together my friend Sonja (part of my Cleveland

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Just a quickie with some news: * I have about a 1/4" of fuzz on my head. * Three of my garments are being shown in Sandra Whitton Gallery for the next month. Kingston's Downtown Art Walk is on today until 10pm.... I'm going no matter how cold and snowy! * SWGallery open house December 1 & 2, I'll be there on the Sunday 2 - 4pm. * Ontario Craft Council notified us that they will not

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Well, the November meeting of our polymer clay group in this end of Ontario was attended by just Georgia and me. However we got a lot done. I wanted to learn about Gera Scott Chandler's 'fabric' claying as I might be able to use it on my buttons (which might lead to a whole new sweater design!) The piece you see here seems to be mine as Georgia showed me another way to do the Skinner method on

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