This weekend, my mum (and her dog) and my sister and I went away for a crafting weekend. There’re two islands off the coast of Chester, NS where people have both permanent and summer residences called Big Tancook and Little Tancook. My best friend’s mum has a cottage-y house on Big Tancook, and that was where we were headed! Tancook…
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I haven’t posted much about music yet, but in RealLife I am a musician! And a music teacher. I find I’m still feeling 50/50 about myself in terms of the divide between performer and teacher, and I don’t want to lose the performer part! I found out that Philip Glass was going to be the composer-in-residence at the Scotia Festival…
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Me Made May (henceforce known as MMM because I’m lazy) is over for this year! If you don’t know what MMM is, it’s a challenge started by Zoe at So, Zo, and you can read more about it here. It’s been going for nine years now, but last year was my first time participating. The basic idea behind the challenge…
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I’m here to give an update on the bridesmaids’ dresses situation! I’ve deviated from my original plan of trace patterns > make test versions > do fittings > make final versions. I get bored by rigid plans and routines and so I’ve been jumping around a bit. As I wrote about before, I did get all the tracing done before…
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I only discovered the pattern designer In The Folds relatively recently because of the interview she did on the Love to Sew podcast. When I checked out her designs, I fell in love with her style and sensibility. I love her silhouettes and interesting seam lines and other details like that, and the first thing I made was the Rushcutter…
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