Crocus

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There are a few bees coming around in the crocus. Can you see them?

Spring Flowers

​I love snowdrops and we are lucky enough to have quite a number of them in our Nova Scotia garden. 

I’m not alone, lovers of snow drops are called ‘galanthophiles’. The Latin name for the common European snowdrop is galanthus nivalis. There are many names varieties and I could easily become a collector! We also have various types of crocus, iris reticulata (Dutch or dwarf iris) and some heather in bloom.

Damask Delight

​A friend gifted me some of her vintage damask table linens. 

Cheeseboard Snack

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Art exhibit: I am torn, I am mended

​i’m in Annapolis Royale, and right across the street is arts place, a gallery for NS artists. Today’s opening exhibit includes handspun knits and print work.

Etch-a-sketch Weather

​I remember having a lot of fun with my etch a sketch as a kid. Making a drawing and then shaking it so that you’d have another blank slate to draw on. There’s something about that physical memory that keeps coming back to me every time I check the weather forecast and it’s still below -25. I shake my phone as if that will somehow change the reality of this never-ending freezing cold winter.

Pom-poms bedazzled world

I feel like a pom-pom is the bedazzle of the fibre world. I had a lot of fun yesterday afternoon making a lot of. Pom-poms and I’ve sewed them on a lot of things.​

Arctic winter games finale

The games wrapped up this afternoon with the street party downtown. It warmed up to a balmy -14°C so I got all my winter gear on and went out to enjoy it briefly.  ​

First Bed Quilt in a Decade!

​in all its glory. 

Protest Hat

​I somehow missed knitting one of the pussy hats during the last Trump administration. Remember those hats? They look like they had little kitten ears on them?

Anyway, being on a news diet, I hear about things in unusual ways. So I heard from my US knitting friends about the latest protest hat it’s modelled on a hat that the Norwegian’s were during the Nazi occupation in the second world war. I went out and bought myself two balls of Norwegian yarn and finished knitting it last night. 

Quilting Retreat

​I’m in a quilting retreat all weekend. It’s a fun way to get projects done and be social. 

Whitehorse Rendezvous

​it’s Rendezvous weekend here in Whitehorse. It’s a celebration of winter and community. I went with a friend to see the snow carvings. 

2026 First Ski

​cold but beautiful on skyline trail