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My All Time Favourite Comment – Daffodowndilly
I love all the kind comments that people leave on my facebook page, but the following comment left in response to my new Daffodil hat is really my all time favourite. It is a poem by A.A. MilneDaffodowndillyShe wore her yellow sun-bonnet,She wore her greenest gown;She turned to the south windAnd curtsied up and down.She…
Don’t Cry for Me Texas
Today this Mabel Rose hat begins its journey to sunny Texas where, I hear from my customer, the temperatures are now in the seventies. So, I am sending along my deepest concern and sympathies for anyone living in a warm climate who is not afforded the opportunity to enrich their moral character by way of…
Puppy Photo Bomb
Some dogs just need to steal the show. Photo by www.heidijirotka.ca
The Lady’s got Style
I was selling my wares at our Lunenburg Farmer’s Market today, when this beautiful woman walked by. The coat, the boots, the scarf, her hair, her face, absolute perfection. The only thing missing was…. The headand, of course. I was so relieved that she agreed with me. Her name is Margaret, which is perfect because…
Lunenburg The Beautiful
Happy Monday morning. That’s a good one, right? I have been hoarding thoughts to share with you on this blog regarding parenting and evil fifth grade science fair projects and the adventures of accidentally discovering the very existence of this science fair project two days before it’s due date by way of another parent’s Facebook…
Never Too Old
I have often considered changing my business name from The Hat Junkie to the Hat Therapist. You wouldn’t believe the things I hear every time someone approaches me to look at hats…My nose is too big, my chin is too small, my forehead is too flat, I’m too fat, too skinny, too short, too…
A Slipper Slope and a True Vacation
Happy New Year. Tomorrow is back to school day for the boy and back to reality day for the mom. Fortunately, my reality is pretty fantasy. In past years, I have gone from intense hat making for orders straight into intense pajama making for my boys and, not too surprisingly, I never quite got…
The Three Muses
This adorable photo comes to you from Chicago. I received one of those hat emergency calls some weeks back that these three ladies had all purchased polar fleece coats and now needed the matching hats. The coat company had told them the color name and since we both use the same polartec fleece, I was…
A sweet success of a day.
Happy to report that our Drift show in Halifax was a super success, largely in part to the plethora of cookies. It was really fun spending the day with some talented and fun ladies and force feeding our customers homemade goodies. I baked these Rugelach, which if I may say so myself were quite the…