The Winking Frog

If you are interested in checking out our pumpkin carvings for this year, please hop on over to The Winking Frog! Love to see you there!

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Happy Canada Day!!

It is a glorious, sunny day and we’ll be out enjoying the festivities. It is also 8 years since my husband first came to Canada and fell in love with the place (thank goodness!). Arriving on Canada Day and celebrating at the park, seeing happy people, listening to music, eating good food, great weather and [...]

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“Water nymph” tutu and crown set

These are the finished pieces for a custom order. I made some changes since my last post, adding some additional embellishment to the tutu and to a little vest to complete the set. It must be a winner, as my daughter wants one too, but, of course, she wants to pick her own colours!
Tomorrow marks [...]

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My sewing space revamp

It was starting to feel a little cramped in my sewing space, so I have swapped the wheeled office chair for a dining chair, just to see how it goes. It was a really big chair and I had my cutting table really close so I could reach everything easily, but it meant that I [...]

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Oh what fun!

We are having a lovely day! The girls were so excited to see that Santa had been. They slept until 7.30, s0 it was quite a civilized morning! We gathered in the lounge to watch them open their stockings. Milly loved the baby doll, but then discarded her in favour of the box of After [...]

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Frozen pipes and Christmas lights

Greetings from snowy Nanaimo! It has been snowing on and off for a week and we have another weather warning for tonight. Another 10-20cm of snow, more on Tuesday and Wednesday. Should be a white Christmas at last!
I went downstairs to make our morning cup of tea today and found that the pipe bringing water [...]

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Hello, I’m a Mac.

Yippee! I cannot tell you how lovely my new machine is. I did know all the crucial technical details, but they all went straight out of my head when I sat down to start learning my way around. Wow. I have used a PC for several years and knew my way around pretty well…until we [...]

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The joys of having a supportive husband

As previously mentioned, my husband is very supportive of my creative endeavours. So much so that he built me a fold-away studio for taking pictures of my work (all in an effort to encourage me to take time with my photos, which I rarely do. I usually remember at the last minute that I need [...]

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