Welcome
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 […]
New Skin (new garments)
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 […]
Arts & Life Article…
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 […]
Seasonal Fibre Guild: marking a decade into my discovery of local
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 […]
CACiS 2018: Grooming the Land
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 […]
Colour Therapy
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 […]
walking and spinning as meditation
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. […]
Musings on a community based practice
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 […]
The Completion of the Weaving Wagon
Thanks to Rebecca for doing such a great job of writing about the journey of making the weaving wagon… Very thrilled to announce it is now in use around Vancouver! […]
Weaving Wagon… coming soon!
I am so thrilled to be able to announce we are moving forward with full funding for a project I conceptualized with my friend and colleague Rebecca Graham…. Rebecca wanted […]
We Can’t All Be Christo, But…
Doesn’t happen very often ( ok, this is actually a first), but funny getting someone whose blog I follow writing about me! Figured I would share. I always enjoy Textile […]
