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About Me

Find some of my work at etsy.com/littlehats. I enjoy your comments but please make the pics smallish. I am a milliner and artist in Ontario Canada and my new year's resolution was to get in touch with the whole internet-thing. :) It's not easy living in the country with dial-up. I digress. I work in my studio making hats and make a little art on the side and spend time working on my house. My partner Christopher is in the tech side of rock and roll and theatre. We don't have average days. I really don't want this to be a manifesto of art or people but I do like to write and when I was an angst filled teenager I longed to be a tourtured writer. I opted instead for a tourtured artist. I think there is a part of me that enjoys obscurity and toiling in solitary studios. I chose after all, to be a milliner. A strange and dying art form that crosses the line between fashion and sculpture. I was, in my fourth year of college, in love with textile instalation art. Fun to make but tough to store. I've since taught myself how to make books and I often make small book sculptures. One day I will take a photo of them. I love to print-make. I love the smell of the ink and the feel of the paper. One day I will finish a print again. I have been distanced from it for a year or so. I may even post some photos here in another album. That is if I stop sewing enough to do it. Our house is a whole different story. It's a log house built in 1971 and NOTHING changed. It's ugly and dark and brown. Very, very brown. (sigh) One day. I will have a bathroom that isn't falling apart. We have finished the kitchen/dining room hall though. It looks fantastic and I love it. It took over a year though. Always time and no money and vice-versa. I likely will change this and ramble on about something else. So until then....Get MySpace Layouts from nUCLEArcENTURy .COM OR create your own using MySpace profile editor !!!
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I'd like to meet kindered souls. I've met a few and knowing them ,regardless of how short or long I knew them, changed my life. I am, as most people would say, on old soul. (sometimes older than i think should be allowed) I want to know these people. Really know them, not just believe I know them. I want to share with them. (this is big for me, my kindergarten teacher often comment on my unwillingness to share) I won't presume that anyone wants to listen to me but I am open to them.

My Blog

About the haters

I was sent an email by a hater full of accusations that are totally unfounded. I just wanted to state that if you want to trash me at least do your research.  A pox on your house! 
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Prom

I'm working on some ready-to-wear prom facinators in the studio thiese last few weeks and I was thinking of my prom. It sucked. I didn't have a date.  To be fair most people didn't. I came from a smal...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:58:00 GMT

I was thinking

So I was thinking that we should try harder.Really.Try harder. 
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:45:00 GMT

holy no road batman!

So my studio is tucked behind the world of the "Main Street" of this city (but I face the lake and they don't) and in July the city decided to improve my road. Hurray! I get a sidewalk and a fanc...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:22:00 GMT

Another month has gone by

So another month has flown by nearly and I've worked. I'm not complaining. My flowers are blooming and I don't need to wear 2 sweaters anymore. My guy and I are fixing our cruddy basement apartment up...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:31:00 GMT

soooo busy

I've wanted to write something new for so long but I'm so busy! I'm opening a mini store in Toronto.  I had a slew of custom work, I have several shows coming up and a fabulous photo shoot that i...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:44:00 GMT

Its my party and I went to Ikea!

Allright I know, Ikea is so cheap.  If you knew me better you would know how cheap and cheerful I am.  It is my birthday and I can shop for store display all I want.  I'm having fun mak...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:11:00 GMT

The universe can be a cruel mistress

It's true,  Just when you're lamenting how you're going to buy more fabric someone walks in your door and buys a hat you never thought you would sell.  It was so easy you didn't even have to...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:44:00 GMT

crisis of creativity

What a dramatic subject isn't it?  I know I'm being very dramatic but I have been burying myself in the business aspect of the creative life so I can avoid the looming creative block that I'...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:07:00 GMT

Spring renewal

So Cheezy I know, to talk of renewal in spring, but I have to be this way this year.  The winter was VERY cold in my new studio and I'm over the moon I don't have to wear 4 layers and try and sew...
Posted by on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:36:00 GMT