Thursday, November 02, 2006

Update - A New Blog

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Hi. Thanks for coming by. I have started another new blog now. When I first started blogging I wanted to keep everything separate rather t...
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Friday, September 22, 2006

A New Door Opened!

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I have been invited to join a writing group. Part of this is online with wonderful ladies throughout Canada and the United States. Part of i...

One Door SLAMMED In My Face

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On Monday I got a "real kick in the teeth". Louise and Fran from The Monashee Spinners & Weavers group to which I had belonge...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Pictures

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If you are interested in seeing which pictures I entered in the Salmon Arm Fair, and which one took Honorable Mention, please go to http://p...
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Sure would be handy to have one of these, though nicer if it was a bit taller too. I would be very grateful to have one of these, even thou...

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All the shawls were beautifully displayed on this room divider. Unfortunately I couldn't get all 5 shawls in on picture in this case. T...

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Judging these would be no easy job. Judging in progress, all the shawls laid out on tables to be examined. And the fringes of their shawl Th...

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Here's the shawl done by the Shuswap Spinners & Weavers team. They did a "painted warp" for this awesome color pattern. Po...

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And the twisted fringes. This is the shawl by Monashee Spinners and Weavers. The purple is dyed and spun silk. Notice the beads in their tw...

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Forground: Carole from Monashee Spinners & Weavers Middle: Kalamalka Spinners & Weavers Background: Langley Spinners & Weavers M...

Salmon Arm Fair 2006

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The fair is now over for another year. I had a good time there this past weekend. Saturday September 9, 2006 : Carole picked me up at my ho...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

A Fair Question

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Mom phoned this morning and asked how I did at Salmon Arm Fair... and am I going to the fair today. AAHHHHH!!! Yes, today is the first day...

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When we left Burton we drove a short way down the highway, then down a side road to the local beach. Some of us swam and some of us waded i...

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I greatly dislike pictures of me but figure if I'm going to post pics of friends it's only fair to them that I post the odd one of m...

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A close-up of the finished scarf. All the yarn in this scarf is spun from the fleece of one of Denice's own sheep. It's very nice ...

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Unloading ... almost time for us to get on.

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This is the ferry we go on across Arrow Lake on the way to Burton.

Burton Fair

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I'm playing catch up here. I forgot to post this before the stuff about Salmon Arm Fair, but oh well... life goes on. On August 26 I we...

Upcoming Fair

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As I've mentioned below, I've entered some things is the upcoming Salmon Arm Fair. A complete list of entries is: Photography: New ...

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Another shot of my stack of jam and jelly sitting on the freezer. Here are some of my jam and jelly. Some in 250 ml (1 cup) jars, and some ...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

Kitchen Creations

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In the fall I like to make jam with some of the Damson Plums that grow wild in my yard. I also have Italian Prune Plums and have made jam w...

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It is 21" square and really comfy. The only thing that is not "recycled" or "saved from the trash" is the berry co...

Cushion from Recycled Material

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Earlier this year, through Freecycle, I was given a pair of curtains and a HUGE window topper/valance. The curtains fit (just) one window i...

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Now you can see why they call it Ladder Hem Stitching... it's like rungs on a ladder. Each end of the runner is done with the weft bein...

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Ahhhh, almost finished. The table runner is still on the loom here, but the weaving is almost finished. I was just working on the hem stit...