I recently got to spend a week with my aunt and uncle in California. They live in one of the cities near Palm Springs, so I did a bit of research on the area beforehand. I knew they were in a desert area, but didn’t know it was the Coachella Valley region. I knew about …
I used to think Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) mostly happened to military people. Then weeks after my daughter’s accident last year, I started experiencing weird things. I would hear a siren and start panicking, complete with rapid breathing and crying. While driving back and forth to the hospital, we’d sometimes drive right over the accident …
Facts: In July 2021, our then-20-year-old daughter was walking across a busy city street when she was hit and thrown by a car. Turns out the driver was driving recklessly and left the scene. He was caught and charged soon afterwards. This happened a block from our region’s best ER/trauma unit, which police later told …
In May I planned a last-minute trip to visit my aunt and uncle in Southern California for the first week of June. Having grown up and lived on the East Coast of North America, I had always wanted to visit them. Everything finally aligned so that I could do so! In preparation for this, I …
Another activity that has helped me through these past months is trying watercolour painting. I had a small palette of watercolour paints that I occasionally dug out to play with. But when Christmas 2021 rolled around and I received gift money, I bought a complete Winsor and Newton watercolour set. October to February were especially …
O, Knit Dishcloth, I adore youLaced with loosely locking loops!How you’ve kept me sane these past months,Paced by stitching forms in groups.Knit and slip, I follow instructions;Trying to keep my mind busy.Colours keep singing, making oneGrateful for your company. Partly for fun, partly for relief; I wrote the above poem a few weeks ago. You …
I wrote about creative influences of my life in Part 1; here I’ll talk about some touchpoints in my early adulthood. I worked with an international organization in my early 20s. During those years, I was involved with drama, creative movement and dance productions, and dance/mime/theatre classes. My favourite production had me travelling and performing …
My Nana knit blankets, my Grammie knit sweaters, my mother does those and more. I’ve thoroughly inherited my love of making with my hands. My earliest memory of fascination with colour and design is in a book my mother created with me when I was four years old. I would dictate sentences, she would write …
Hello, hello! So, the last time I wrote any substantial update was in June 2021. Now that I have moved over to this new site (and FINALLY got all my products listed, whew!), I plan once again to write them more often. If you enjoy following along with my creative endeavors, please subscribe to receive …
From 2013 until 2021, I blogged here. When I started this new site in January 2022, I was not able to smoothly migrate my blog posts to the blog area here. You can read many posts at that link for a background on my past creative works. They’re full of photos and descriptions of my …