Finally, some new pod sets up on Etsy! Never fear, there are more to come tomorrow, but I'm working even slower than usual (is this possible?) due to an injury to my hand. Hope it heals quickly...
Wow, my shortest post ever....
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
About time, too....
About time I got back to blogging - I have missed it so! I've missed the great contact and comments and instead have been enjoying (?) the stupid spammers that have found my blog, with a vengeance! I thought it would never happen to me, but I'm actually contemplating using one of the phrase and number hard to read things for people leaving comments....sorry about this! I find them incredibly hard to read when I leave comments on other's blogs, but now I see the value in it if it slows down this automatically generated idiotic nonsense.
I'm excited to announce is the fact that my work is going to be in a book that is coming out in the summer. It's written and conceived by the always energetic Cynthia Tinapple who blogs weekdays on Polymer Clay Daily! Just recently, she celebrated the count of 2000 posts on her blog, so you can understand that she has seen a lot of polymer - so, it's a great honour to be chosen for inclusion in this book. I hope you'll enjoy my section when you see it - and all of the other artists selected from around the world! I'm certain that the book will live up to it's name - Polymer Clay Global Perspectives. You can read more about it here. You'll see lots of familiar work on the cover! I can't wait till it comes out on July 30th....
'About time, too' is the phrase that rings in my head every time I tackle some task that has fallen by the wayside. There's been a lot of that lately. Now that we're finally past the season of winter hibernation and endless sickness (a terrible winter for that...), some of those jobs are being started and finished...unfinished pieces sitting in my workspace....organizing and listing the massive amount of finished work I've dithered about...taxes, ugh.....writing tutorials......but most importantly, trying to decide where each idea in my work is going and how it can evolve: my own form of spring cleaning! Well, perhaps the only form of spring cleaning I really like...
I'll be back very soon soon with some photos of new work, and I'll be giving a time and date for an Etsy shop update. I'm sitting on a lot of work that I had to think about. Enough thinking, I 'm certain. See you very soon.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2013 beckons like the trail
Hope you all enjoyed your holidays and are excited by the prospect of new things ahead. Happy New Year!
We spent a glorious portion of our holidays cross country skiing in Gatineau Park, which is only a kilometer from our house. This incredible park is shaped like a huge pie wedge ( with the narrow tip near our house bisecting 2 sectors of the city of Gatineau) and contains over 300 kilometers of groomed trails for nordic skiing – classic and skate skiing – and also many trails for snowshoeing ( 8 people have been lost and rescued snow shoeing lately – no joke!) I am so happy that we had almost 2 feet of snow around Christmas this year. We’ve had hardly any the previous 2 years! This is a good base for skiing into late March, as long as the weather stays below 0 at night. Here’s the link to the park...
We started by getting out on the trail at 7:30 on Christmas morning. My son declined the invitation and preferred to sleep…
The trail beckons…
This shows how they groom the closed roads through the park with track setting equipment - 2 sets of trails on each side for the classic skiers and the space in between for the skate skiers who take up a lot of room with the side-to-side skating movement ( like Biathlon skiers in the Winter Olympics). There are probably about 70 kilometers of wide roads like this, and while there are long flat rolling sections, there are some very challenging hills ( these I struggle with on my bike in the summer months)
My ancient set of skis will lead the way!
Family setting off on a hazy overcast Christmas morning - -8 degrees Celsius. Chilly, but no wind…
Beautiful views at every turn
There are smaller trails which form the majority of the 300 km network that are groomed by smaller equipment pulled by skidoos. People are very passionate about their favourites! These are narrower, wilder, windier and have even more challenging hills – up and down. Here’s my husband skating up a steep hill! When he skis by himself, he wears much less clothing, but we are too slow for him and he gets cold!
Another day, after Christmas, another foot of snow, on an 8 km ski to a cabin provided by the Park with a woodstove where you can eat your lunch and then ski back down the mountain! The way out is all uphill – hard on my hip joints – what a whiner!
Many fallen trees this year because of the wet icy snow we had first. This makes a fantastic white tunnel effect along the smaller trails.
Me and happy boy on the way out to snacks at the cabin. He’d rather be downhill skiing, which is also a 10 minute drive from my house, but he’ll have to fund that himself…
Skiing at twilight in the winter is so beautiful – here you ski on a bridge over a major road through Gatineau. This is at the very tip of the pie wedge that is the park. There are many many points of entry into the park that are more wild and scenic, but this is close to downtown for people who want to ski after work and unwind.
May your trail lead you somewhere wonderful this year – I certainly intend to follow mine!
A happy and complete 2013 to you all, dear readers!
We spent a glorious portion of our holidays cross country skiing in Gatineau Park, which is only a kilometer from our house. This incredible park is shaped like a huge pie wedge ( with the narrow tip near our house bisecting 2 sectors of the city of Gatineau) and contains over 300 kilometers of groomed trails for nordic skiing – classic and skate skiing – and also many trails for snowshoeing ( 8 people have been lost and rescued snow shoeing lately – no joke!) I am so happy that we had almost 2 feet of snow around Christmas this year. We’ve had hardly any the previous 2 years! This is a good base for skiing into late March, as long as the weather stays below 0 at night. Here’s the link to the park...
We started by getting out on the trail at 7:30 on Christmas morning. My son declined the invitation and preferred to sleep…
The trail beckons…
This shows how they groom the closed roads through the park with track setting equipment - 2 sets of trails on each side for the classic skiers and the space in between for the skate skiers who take up a lot of room with the side-to-side skating movement ( like Biathlon skiers in the Winter Olympics). There are probably about 70 kilometers of wide roads like this, and while there are long flat rolling sections, there are some very challenging hills ( these I struggle with on my bike in the summer months)
My ancient set of skis will lead the way!
Family setting off on a hazy overcast Christmas morning - -8 degrees Celsius. Chilly, but no wind…
Beautiful views at every turn
There are smaller trails which form the majority of the 300 km network that are groomed by smaller equipment pulled by skidoos. People are very passionate about their favourites! These are narrower, wilder, windier and have even more challenging hills – up and down. Here’s my husband skating up a steep hill! When he skis by himself, he wears much less clothing, but we are too slow for him and he gets cold!
Another day, after Christmas, another foot of snow, on an 8 km ski to a cabin provided by the Park with a woodstove where you can eat your lunch and then ski back down the mountain! The way out is all uphill – hard on my hip joints – what a whiner!
Many fallen trees this year because of the wet icy snow we had first. This makes a fantastic white tunnel effect along the smaller trails.
Me and happy boy on the way out to snacks at the cabin. He’d rather be downhill skiing, which is also a 10 minute drive from my house, but he’ll have to fund that himself…
Skiing at twilight in the winter is so beautiful – here you ski on a bridge over a major road through Gatineau. This is at the very tip of the pie wedge that is the park. There are many many points of entry into the park that are more wild and scenic, but this is close to downtown for people who want to ski after work and unwind.
May your trail lead you somewhere wonderful this year – I certainly intend to follow mine!
A happy and complete 2013 to you all, dear readers!
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