Flowers make me happy. I’m wandering around with my camera, collecting flowers.  

We’re sick of sitting around. We’re selling our boat. I think I might have mentioned it (a lot). It hasn’t sold yet. I know it’s only been 4 weeks but I’m not one to sit around and wait patiently. To…

Karma: the belief that what goes around comes around. Yes, I believe in karma. I believe in the sharing of information, of friendship and of resources. I also believe strongly in entrepreneurship and the power of people to succeed when…

there’s another world down there, in the deep blue. it’s a graceful world of gliding and twirling. it’s a world of motion, slow drifting with darts of speed. it’s a fluid world. to blend into this world you must imitate…

Wow do I love watching the Olympics!!! I find it amazing how skilled, how intense and how FAST these people are. The strength and determination it takes to get to a finish line is impressive. When I applaud I am…

In January I received my new passport and boy do those empty pages make me dream of all the places I will go over the next 10 years. And aren’t you a bunch of dreamers too! When I asked where…

It’s time. Time for this lovely little boat to go to a new home. She’s taken us far and wide. We learnt how to sail on her. We explored far away beaches, weathered a few storms, laughed a lot and…

IT’S UP! IT’S UP! IT’S UP! Of course you already know that because you’re here reading this. Well, what do you think of my new virtual home? Send comments please! I’ve been meaning to get around to this for ages…

So what’s a crafty girl to do when she’s not in her studio? Basket weaving! Step 1. Grow a pine tree. Here is an interesting factoid I learnt, the colder the climate the shorter the pine needles on a tree….

This is a story about what happens when you can’t see the forest for the trees. Or sometimes you’re so busy running your hamster wheel that you don’t have a spare moment to see either forest or trees. That is…

Hey, look what I found on the beach! Fossilized sharks teeth!  For millions of years, sharks have lived and died in the Gulf of Mexico. Dead sharks sink to the ocean floor where they are covered by layers of sand…

Yay! I’m on a roll!!! After my jewelry challenge I’m moving onto a photography challenge. I really like taking photos, I carry my camera and my iPhone with me all the time. Yet I think my shots could be better….

You know how it is around the beginning of January. All that talk, what are your resolutions, what are your intentions, what are you doing to change? Blah blah blah. With all that talk floating around some of it was…

i’m looking for treasures. treasures to cast into silver and turn into wearables. it’s a cold and windy day (week) here and the beach is feeling wild. there’s few people out and those who venture forth like me are combing the…

And then there was the silver exhibit I just had to sneak out to. For those in the Toronto area this is at the University of Toronto Art Centre until March 9. The display traces the history of silver in Peruvian…

Rarely have I emerged from my creative lair lately. It’s been a making binge of epic scale and so much fun. This exhibit required that I put down my tools and take a trip to the Textile Museum because I…

Wow, I did it! I made 30 new pieces of jewelry in 30 days!!! And you know what, I still have loads of ideas floating around in my head and in my sketchbooks. So much so that I couldn’t decide…

This colour combination reminds me of those black velvet paintings way back when. It’s the black background, it just makes the green and aqua colour POP. This is a colour theme that I’ve been meaning to play with for so…

It’s icy outside. Black ice, ice chunks, and if you look closely beautiful blue ice. In a season without much colour you need to look very closely at your world to find some. Today I stopped and really looked at…

There’s been crazy wind lately, really howling. As a sailor I love listening to wind. The treat to wind on land is being able to watch the trees swinging back and forth. So today I made a necklace where the…

I went for a quick stroll today down along the shores of Lake Ontario. While it was nice to hear a few waves the ice along the waters edge was not quite what I had in mind. So it was…

For Day 25 of my 30 Days – 30 pieces of jewelry I’ve created a series of strand necklaces. The strand necklaces are not complicated because sometimes you just need some colour, nothing complicated. I made a spring green, because…

It was very strange to slosh my way to the studio earlier this week. It’s not supposed to rain in January! And not that hard, I felt like I might wash right down the hill and into the lake. But…

I am craving the sight of the ocean, of feeling the surf on my ankles and of my toes sinking into the soft sand. I am craving a walk along the waters edge where the soft colours and the sounds…

Oh boy, did you go for a walk today??? It is spring! Yes I know it’s technically January but the smell in the air, the warmth in the wind, it felt like spring. All that was missing were some wee…

There’s a lovely flower shop downstairs from the studio, as I walk along the road I can see it for blocks, it’s the only splash of colour somedays when it’s truly grey. Lately I’ve taken to popping in there every…

It seems the greyer it is outside, the brighter the colours I want to work with. I’ve been experimenting with shapes and I am loving this flat oval. Nice large orbs of bright colour, it reminded me of crayola crayons….

There are some days that I don’t really care what the calendar says, it feels like spring. And in spring I look forward to gardens, not just the flowers but all the creatures as well. I was thinking about that…

Are you feeling the love? I am. I am LOVING this 30 Day – 30 New Pieces of Jewelry challenge!!! So many ideas! And since I was feeling the love yesterday I made a heart just for you. And of…

Strolling along the waters edge there’s a soft colour where the water meets the sand. This is where these earrings come from. Day 17 of my 30 Days – 30 New Pieces of Jewelry!!! Available here …