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Please know: this is mostly an archive of works pre-2016…. visit EartHand Gleaners Society, -the nonprofit for which I am the founding executive director- that website gets way more of […]
Please know: this is mostly an archive of works pre-2016…. visit EartHand Gleaners Society, -the nonprofit for which I am the founding executive director- that website gets way more of […]
Nettles belong across the Northern Hemisphere, and those threads, and the traditions of twisting and weaving them, connect many of our cloth stories. Flax for linen has both a simpler […]
It felt well past time to show a bit of love to this, my neglected website child.., as all my attention goes to either instagram or EartHand’s website. But much […]
My ancestral roots are tied to Scotland, Wales, Ireland and unknown parts of Germany. My ancestors were settlers to Canada – whom I now refer to as disruptors – acknowledging […]
Now here we are, as the darkest time of the annual earth cycle comes round, we can see a lighter time of being human ahead. We have all in our […]
I am feeling like a little brag is required- the Vancouver Sun article from this interview with Stuart Derdeyn a while back turned into such a lovely piece and makes […]
2019 marks the year I turn 50, and to acknowledge that I decided to give myself what I really want- time in EartHand’s two managed gardens with plants between my […]
A story of love, loss and creative angst. It is said, you can never go back- similar to the idea of not being able to step into the same river […]
WINTER: perversely in the winter time when it is dull, grey and dark, I find myself wearing blacks and greys- likely an urban camouflage- yet I am greedy for colour […]
Last summer I began the practice of traveling with a drop spindle and fibre as my ‘travel craft”- something to keep my hands busy in those interstitial times of waiting. […]
At this dark time of year I’ve been sorting and purging old files; as the paper documents, computer files and photographs pass through my hands, they trigger many reflections on […]