Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "handmade"
playing house
Dear Diary, I love to play with my wool. Â Folding and bundling wool into beautiful combinations is right up there with hooking the rug for me. I like putting colours together, imagining them in a mat even if it is not my own. Â You can learn so much about wool just from handling it, piling it together in different combinations. Last Saturday, I cleaned the yard a little but was lead back to my studio … Read entire article »
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Fleece Artist feathers my nest
Dear Diary, some people do things so well. For years I have sold yarns from the fleece wrist. Today I visited her website and saw this beautiful image that I thought you might enjoy. I have really enjoyed watching people do interesting things with yarn in photography. At Christmas the fleece wrist sent out a card with yarn in martini glasses. It was playful, then Brenda and I spotted this image on their website of … Read entire article »
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Diane Krys: Deck the Halls
During this busy season our rug hooking projects and normal creative endeavors often get squeezed right out of the picture. Â Instead of resenting a daunting holiday “to do” list, embrace it. Look it right in the eye and tell it, “We are going to sing through this with joy and creativity.” 1. Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la….la la la la…. Only a real tree will do. My topiary style Christmas … Read entire article »
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just the right amount
Dear Diary, Sometimes there is a time to know when to call it a day, or a night, when it is time to go home. My mother in law always said, “Two hours is a long enough visit.” If you were having supper it could be longer. There is a little truth in this, and Robert and I sometimes remind ourselves of it. We laugh about it but know there is a grain of truth in … Read entire article »
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Diane Krys: Thoughts on creativity….Castaways
Thoughts on creativity: Castaways My fiber fusion of separate parts always leaves a few castaways. In a nutshell, my home decorating style is, “shoreline of flotsam and jetsam tossed with art and design”. Currently, a front entrance table harbors the skilled craftsmanship of Catfishmoon bowls filled with extra felted beads, a charming thrift shop find that looks like a child’s school project, and three palm sized rocks painted in bright delicate patterns that I bought inexpensively from … Read entire article »
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catherine bussiere..you make pretty pictures
Dear Diary, I have a friend and her name is Catherine Bussiere…but she is from Quebec originally so if you want to talk to her, you call her Katrine…here is what I think of her. I think she is creative, interesting, energetic and dynamic. I think she is an artist, an unpretentious hard working one who knows how to wear a pair of boots. I think she is a great cook. She is someone who knows … Read entire article »
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an hour at love, me boutique in Halifax
Dear Diary, I know you all love the handmade, the funky bits of interesting, that a little soul and her(his) two hands have put together so I thought I’d tell you about my visit to Love me Boutique on Birmingham Street in Halifax the other day. My husband’s cousin Anne has a cafe (I’ll show you that another day) right around the corner and I had a little time to spend before meeting him there . At … Read entire article »
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seeing people as they are
Dear Diary, Someone asked me yesterday if this rug depicted Phyllis Blumel, a local woman who sells jams at the market. I said no but it looks like her. The rug , made over five years ago now, was inspired by a photograph by Ted Pritchard in the Halifax Herald. It was taken of a group of people , some of whom were survivors of the Halifax Explosion, standing before a monument of the explosion. As … Read entire article »
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