Break Time!

I'm running vastly behind in posts, as well as in life. The Halifax Crafters was a huge success - so huge i was not mentally prepared for it! I'll try and post about it soon - BUT I've been meaning to post about a much needed break that I took just before the craft fair when the Khyber held its night Flea Market and my room mate and i 'got our nails did'

look how cute those bears are! Susan opted to these cute little guys and a strawberry on her middle finger....cuz she's bad - a$$. While I settled for this sweetly naughty cupcake combination. 

The night was capped off by a much deserved super packed dance party where i finally had a good reason to wear my Goodnight Day halter like it was no big thing. 

*I'm having trouble formatting pictures today!

To Do:

I found this pattern for free on Collette while searching for simple vintage underwear patterns to try out. I Find under wear and bras in general to be overpriced, poorly made and poorly fitted, and it stuck with me when a dear friend had had enough and began a search for the perfect bra pattern for her own shape. While that is a more complex sewing project than I'm willing to try when I've only just got my sewing machine out of "storage" at my folk's house I'm totally dying to attempt these bloomers.

Simple and perfect.

Back In Steel town now, trading in the sea breeze for the light general aroma of industry. I accomplished most of my goals while in Halifax including the acquisition of some lovely souvenirs...I'll post some pictures of those soon. With all the whirlwind of leaving one home and coming here to the other I have not posted in some time. I shall most certainly try to post every week at least - however I am of the general belief that life being lived is a thousand times more potent that life reflected through cyberspace. On the other hand life being written or read about is most defiantly life lived. ....or life photographed because I really like my new camera.


Here are some photographs taken of the landscape I lived in for most of my life,


I swelled with the ocean, am set in the the rocks and my thoughts have tangled and clung to those rocks like over-tall scots pines in three feet of top soil.


this is home.

Shes so Crafty......

While I may be in halifax right now I'm anticipating my return to hamilton already. This is for one very exiting reason.....last night , while showing my mother a few local blogs to give her a sense of Hamliton's crafty side, I went to an easy favorite - the lovely white elephant blog Love it a Lot - to find that a yarn shop might *fingers crossed* be opening up on James street. My heart leaped instantly at the sheer joy of being able to walk down the street to pick up high quality yarn. I've been saying to every little old lady who would listen to me for past year since I moved to Hamilton that I want a yarn shop to open up. In the mean time I've been bussing in to the Knit Cafe on Queen st. Toronto to get my fix and ask all the questions that need answers.  I do really love them there ( the little bins they keep stuffed with knitted items as examples under each shelf of yarn are really awesome ) and I did do my research preferring their limited tasteful selection over the chaos of Romni.....but I'd be very glad to go local.
I get the impression that this may be off in the future but time does fly and I'll be glad when this particular future arrives.


I'm wishing all the best to Birch and Sycamore in the Moss Stitch endeavor. great name....
perhaps this means a stitch and bitch may form? the possibility is exiting enough and I'm hoping that it will spur some crafting in me since being home in Halifax gives me the chance to return with my sewing machine and some notes from dye classes taken at NSCAD......


... I wish I was as organized then as I try to be now. Unlike the meticulous Jennie Green who always new the exact measurements and weights! She's taking part in the Lunenburg Fire Hall residency and is shown here spinning flax.

Photo Credits for these pictures goes to Kat Frick Miller who makes these handy milk crate paper weights as well as little sewn "broken" hearts that decorate the coats and bags of almost every halifax art fan wandering around town. One of my favorite of her screen-printed motifs is a raccoon drinking gin. She also paints pictures of the Queen and fancy tea cups.

Are you there internet, its me Anna.

I have made a great leap to the new final frontier - the one we created....the one that allows us to break though new frontiers without leaving our living rooms - and here I am in my living room in Hamilton Ontario. I have been living here for almost a year now after moving from my home town of Halifax Nova Scotia on the smallest of adventures to find that Ontario has huge skys, brick brick and more lovely brick and really big squirrels.....which I love because they are not at all afraid to run about in the city. I must have thought that this whimsy (greatly illustrated at the hands of my NUMEROUS ontario born peers living as artists in N.S.) was a greatly embellished form of stylized motif and I was hugely exited to find that the clouds are in fact that fluffy looking and so high up as opposed to grey and pressing down on you the way that coastal skys love to do - giving your soul something to fight against. I was also please to find birds of every color. This I was anticipating however and very exited about.

Yesterday I saw a Hairy woodpecker in a park on my walk to work, when I got home I had to discern from my memories the shape of its beak and sleakness of its feather since it has a brother - the downey woodpecker - which is essentially the same bird but fluffier.

but after much deliberation, this is defiantly the little guy I saw.