I get asked a lot, “where do you get your inspiration?” You’d be surprised where inspiration can strike. I think the trick is to always have your eyes open. One of my favourite places for inspiration is the veggie section of…

Last night I biked down to Indigo, the large bookstore downtown for one of my favourite events, an author evening. I love hearing authors speak on book tours! I’m admire those who can write a book, it’s such a massive…

You know the best thing about this view? We’re ahead of the fleet!!!! Second place!!!! That deserves a glass of wine. 

 Yay! They work! Consistently! So new they aren’t yet in the shop. These debuted on the weekend at the Beaches Arts and Crafts show and they were warmly welcomed. That made me happy because they are super fun to make…

Did you know the Euro Cup is on? And did you know that today Greece is playing Poland? No? Well I guess your studio isn’t smack dab in the middle of Greektown, above the largest sports bar that is home…

I’m having a desert day here in the studio. Painted desert. Last week I made a truly fabulous painted desert necklace. It now has a new home in Windsor, at least I remembered to take a quick picture before I…

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It’s summer! Heat, sun, ice cream and thoughts of the beach. This month I’m giving away one of my most popular beads ever, my Seashore necklace. This is one of the Little Lovelies, a nice petite size. Coming up on June 20 is…

With the explosion of flowers in May it took me forever to get to work every day. By the time I’d stopped to look at all the flowers, and sniffed and admired them a 20 minute walk was 2 hours….

keep your fingers crossed people, there’s a trip in the works! I’m going to Paris this fall! I have never been to Paris, how is this possible? coming up this fall is a big birthday and I think I should…

Oh boy! I’m coming to visit a park near you!!! Yes show season starts next weekend, yay!!! I have boxes of packaging all over the floor, who knew packaging could take up so much space. I’ve been digging the booth…

Oh she is SO beautiful!!!!! I love my new steed. My beloved Kona Fire Mountain has retired after 17 years of faithful service. Replacing the Kona was such a hard thing, when you have that many kilometres together you really…

Just a few short weeks ago I was floating around wondering if it was cold enough to put on a t-shirt. I blinked and here I am, wondering just how many minutes you could survive in lake ontario before hypothermia…

Clockwise from the top left: Indigo Wisps, Seashore Kelp, Petrie Dish and Canyon Items in the Specials section of my online store are one of a kind and are looking for a good home. Pendants on special do not come…

oh the greens of spring!!! much as i adore flowers it is the bright fresh greens of the gardens that really make me swoon. crisp little shoots, soft curly leaves and the vibrant branches of the trees. it is all…

Have you seen them? They are EVERYWHERE! I first noticed these as we drove back to Toronto, home from vacation. We were driving along the lakefront from Erie to Buffalo. As we headed east we commented on the huge amount…

FLOWER POWER NECKLACE April showers bring May flowers! One of my favourite quotes is the tag line for my popular flower series: The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Well look around, the earth is certainly having a…

Yay! you love my earrings!!! (actually I already knew that!) Most of you had a really hard time picking your favourite although polka dots kept coming up. Me too, I do love my polka dots. The winner of the April…

according to the magazines at the supermarket check out line, yellow is one of the “in” colours this summer. that makes this ibis one fashionable birdy. love his yellow boots. like wellingtons.

this flower makes me feel like i’m 7 years old. when i was a kid in australia this flower was everywhere. it smells absolutely heavenly. we’d gather huge piles of the flowers and float them in a shallow bowl of…

on a full moon the light is all around. it’s a bit like the old star trek shows where the alien is a living twinkling cloud of light.

on a full moon the tides are extreme, a low tide brings out a veritable treasure on rarely exposed sea grass flats. new coral. one day far off in the future, once the seas have risen, someone will snorkel on…

it rained. it rained a lot. rain here is different. it’s not gentle. it’s not soft and nourishing. it is violent. it is a sideways onslaught designed to find any holes in your boat or to find the space between your…

sometimes they’re shy, covering themselves with shells. that’s how you spot them, look for the piles of shells in the turtle grass. sea urchins don’t have hands, so how do they get the shells to stay on top of them?…

no, it’s an orchid! floating in the air!

hot pink. my current favourite colour. because it goes so nicely with all shades of blue.

another day, another gorgeous sunset. tell me i’m not boring you with endless sunsets….

weeds are considered bad. they are something to be dug up, ripped out, eradicated. maybe we should look a bit closer at “weeds”. sometimes they are really quite nice. maybe it’s time to take a minute and reevaluate what we…

sometimes when you collect shells on the beach you don’t realize that someone else got there first. and that they are still there. i found herman far away from the beach on a pile of discarded shells. someone must have…

now that i’m queen of an island i’m getting to know some of my subjects. first up this morning is Woody. He’s very noisy. He likes the tree right outside of my boat. I know that because there are holes…