resurrection fern

poetry stones

these stones are an extras special collaboration between cathy cullis the amazing artist from the UK and myself. The theme was natural dyed fabrics and threads from both our homes and the words of great canadian poet Leonard Cohen.

the money collected from their sales will be donated to the organization doctors without borders , an organization we both hold dear to our hearts

the stones will be sold after posting later today on instagram. They will all be the same price of 100 dollars canadian and i will ship them anywhere in the world for free. 

I will post the first batch at 8 am eastern standard time and the rest this evening at approximately 8pm set

payment should be made through paypal 

i am going to post the photographs here so that they can be previewed

hope we are all able to help the world a little bit more today 

xxxx

please note two of these stones are already reserved ( the first dance me to your beauty ) and (the moon is swimming naked ) 

 

terrain

Dear blog

sorry to have ignored you for so long

didn't really plan this but i have been super busy with family, work and making since the new year

i mean if you had to choose between playing in the snow or baking cookies with lilith and lachlan in your precious spare time or typing on a computer 

what would you do

yes

of course

I did want to show you the work for my group art show Terrain  at the Craft Ontario Shop (formerly the guild shop) in Yorkville, Toronto running from March 23 to April 12.

my work was inspired by the north, the landscape of sea, snow and ice for the majority of the year and then the uncovered tundra with its mosses, grasses , sedges and lichen with its ever so brief appearance of arctic wildflowers

the stage for these photographs was created with ice globes made by freezing water in balloons

this was facilitated by the deep freeze experienced all of the month of february

when I photographed these it was snowing softly 

it was worth my frozen finger tips

xx

arctic blues

athabasca

blue ice road to tuktuyaktuk

felsenmeer

scarp

tundra

redrock

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permafrost

spring on the tundra

 

 

 

december 6th

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hope you can stop by and say hello
this is the one and only sale i will be involved in this season

i hope to have crochet covered stones, naturally dyed feather ornaments, pinecones, a very limited number of hand made tiny baskets

the elves and i are also working on some special handmade items for the young ones

xx

m

 

 

hello

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i am here

well not exactly "here"

but present, healthy, content

spending time with family and the natural world outside my door

and

a little further afield

early morning walks in the forest or by the wetlands

gathering wildflowers from the roadside

tackling some big organizational jobs in my home with the help of my daughters

for example : 30 some years of family photographs

preparing to have them all scanned and put in digital form to share with each member

we are also preparing for another huge lawn sale ( we had one two years ago)

i am going to really purge my thrift store treasures and also my crafting materials

i might even sell some things on line here or on instagram

it won't be happening until at least the end of june 

I promise to keep you posted :)

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wild oats, two leafed toothwort, muscari, flowering quince, field pussytoes

and of course backyard edgar toes

xx

covered stones available very soon

 

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i know many of you have been asking

when i might have some stones available

for those beautiful stone collectors living outside the toronto area

i have decided to let some go out into the big wide world

i will be posting them on instagram starting on this friday

not sure of the time yet

you will need to follow me on instagram to see them

you will need a valid paypal account to pay for them

the first person to email me will be offered the stone

i have no desire to open up my etsy shop so i do hope this works

xx

m

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the travelling stone diaries :: preikestolen

i mentioned that deborah had gone to norway to visit

rebekah and matthew

one of the highlights of her trip was a hike to Preikestolen

a mountain formed like a huge pulpit towering over the Lysefjord

on her return , she and rebekah surprised me with the most

beautiful photographs of one of my naturally dyed crochet covered stone

So here begins a first installment of the travelling stone diaries

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xo

m

photographs by deborah

 

mexican dreams

i realized i never did show you the gorgeous painting geninne gave me for my birthday

it sits on my desk, for now, reminding me of the beauty and warmth of that place on this earth

and of our friendship

i can't wait to visit again and see the casa gris, an oasis in the oak trees

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natural dyed threads

that and undyed threads are practically

the only things between my fingers and my crochet hook

these days

here is a tiny glimpse of what i have been working on

 

the gorgeous wooden pebbles were made by the talented lisa

and 

the pouch is bookhou of course

xo

indigo mail

sending the last blog giveaway off into the world

in a fine indigo blue way

so pretty

i bet from the title you thought this was another post about lilith

because well she is sooooo pretty ( having spent some time with her after work today)

but no this post is to let you know that you can preorder a book I contributed to

authored by the very talented amy palanjian and published by chronicle books.

The title is so pretty crochet and I can attest that it is just that and more.

Thank you amy for inviting me to participate and thank you also for inviting one of my very first 

flickr/etsy friends and the one person that inspired me to take up the hook again after a very great

many years. Maria Ribeiro was also the first flickr friend I had the pleasure of meeting in real life.

thank you edgar for helping mark the page:)

my daughter loves how her old t shirts have ended up in a book:)