Well it has been almost a month since I last put pencil to paper/fingers to keyboard to write something for my blog!!!! In the mean time spring has started to arrive in Manitoba – though we still have some snow under the trees despite having had high temperatures for a couple of days. The river is high but the threat of flooding has stopped, the birds are very busy, the pelicans are back and although there is still no sign of buds on the trees if the weather keeps up it won’t be long before we see green leaves. Read More...

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Actually my quilts and fibre pieces travel more than I do! I have just sent off two fibre wall hangings for a show in Penticton called Quilt BC 2013. They will be part of a show by members of Fibre Art Network which is s a group of professional fibre artists living in Western Canada. Read More...

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Well I have just sent off three small hangings to Vancouver for “Cherry Blossoms a Textile Translation Retrospective” Show. All the work in the show will have been juried into the last four Fibre Essence Cherry Blossom exhibitions shown previously at the Silk Purse Gallery in Vancouver. This show will take place at the Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver between April 6 and April 21 2013. It is co-sponsored by the Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts and the Historic Joy Kogawa House Society.

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Well Southern Manitoba has survived the March 4th snow storm along with lots of information about the BIG one March 4th 1966. That was my first Manitoba winter!!! For a person who before she came here could count all experienced snow storms on one hand it was all very exciting. Read More...

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