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Making the best of this weekend off…
Tea parties and knitting.
I ordered these chocolates from this chocolate shop in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. A business built by Syrian refugees that arrived in my home province over a year ago. What a beautiful product. Proud to have them in my community.
I’ve read a couple of her previous works and throughly enjoyed her unique characters and surprise twists of plot. This book of short stories did not disappoint. Everyone a gem and felt connected on some level. The main themes including desire, death, envy, love, hate and revenge.
I had a large day today. Woman’s march in Halifax and I visited The Art Gallery of NS. I’ve always admired Maud Lewis and it was a perfect day to learn a little more about her art and life. 
The Halifax rally was a great experience with amazing speakers like El Jones and Rebecca Thomas. Both accomplished poets with inspiring words that brought me to tears.
After the rally I took a tour through the gallery…
I remember this house when I was a child driving through Marshaltown, NS. I’ve always been fascinated by her life. So simple a life but she made such an impact. She shone through her work. I have prints of her work around but seeing it in person you can see the true colour and brightness. Her voice is evident, she painted her grim world beautiful. She makes me feel we all have that ability to create hope and spread it around. My own attempts at formal “Art” has helped me learn the amount of energy that can go into something creative. You can feel it when you see it, the energy remains forever in that piece. Even when I create a knitted piece I feel the energy in it.
I stopped by Argyle Fine Art also and the PreShrunk show is happening. These little felted pieces caught my eye.
Love these crows…
I actually stepped aside to avoid falling into this well…haha…so real…
It was a great day to check out the nearby pond, it was well frozen, now that we’re in the deep freeze of winter.
Respect…how do the leaves hang on…how do they survive the storms…
Making a quilt is like putting together a puzzle, there’s a lot of math involved. I received these quilt squares as a gift and now I’m piecing them together. 
After a few hiccups with my machines tension, I found the balance and machine sewed the pieces together. I worked until I ran out of thread. My plan is to hand quilt once the top is finished. Wish me luck!
It’s cold outside so I stayed in and practiced my painting. I used Sandra Gulland’s original (an author and artist) as inspiration. To see the original go here http://www.sandragulland.com/ or check out her on Twitter or Instagram. She inspired me to produce this version:
I’m always more impressed by my original sketch than the finished watercolour, but that’s the challenge. The hard part is mixing colours and picking brushes to get the right effect. I love the subject! Chickens are one of my favourite creatures. So simple in their ways, yet beautiful. We had a backyard coop a few years ago and I could sit and watch them go about their chicken business happily all day long. Especially in the spring/summer when I had offerings from our garden to impress them. Curious creatures.
I’ve read similarly themed books about the perspective of a mentally ill peraon. This was a bit different, I think to the average reader without knowledge of mental illness it may not resonate with them. She wrote from the perspective of a woman who was suffering, with clinical “lack of insight” into her own illness. Which is interesting because it’s part autobiographical. So when it was written was she suffering from lack of insight or had she gained enough to write the story clearly from a perspective of wellness? Very intriguing.
Curled up with the Easy Peasy shawl and my pups…
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