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The Ethics of Polka Dots
I believe we have a moral and ethical responsibility to wear polka dots in the winter. Add a big dangling flower and you can really feel good about yourself. We may have no control over the temperature outside, but we can certainly warm hearts. (and your ears) Please leave this field empty10% off, especially for you I…
Let’s Talk About……HATS!
Today I would like to talk about something that I feel really strongly about. Hats. Polka dot hand felted hats…. Hats in alley ways modeled by bag lady wanna bes….. Hats in fields of flowers……. Hats for singing in the rain……. Hats designed on beautiful summer days…………. Hats designed on desperate snowy April days…….. Hats…
Advocate Harbour and The Fundy Coast
Lat week I knew one thing above all else and that was that I really needed to get away. If you ever want to test your inner strength, try challenging your local government. It’s a character building experience. So, I grabbed the husband, dropped off the kid with some wonderful friends and took off for…
Kinda Cute, Don’t You Think?
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post to bring you a rather adorable sign. (If I may say so myself) There’s your close up. And now a little bit about the dream team that brought me this sign.It was designed by my friend Andrea Dixon who is quite the famous accessory designer in Toronto. www.pompandceremony.ca…
I Just Can’t Quit You, Rain Hats
Sometimes hat making is a smooth and easy process, where I contentedly whistle while I create. The customer then picks up the hat, realizes she can’t live without it., money exchanges hands, I feed the kid, pay the bills and a happy lady walks away with a new hat. And then there are the Rain…
Nova Scotia’s Slow Change Movement
You may have heard of the Slow Food movement or the Slow Fashion movement, Slow Living, Slow Farming…. These are all movements that embrace the concept that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Fast doesn’t last. The joy is in the journey. You get the point, right? Nova Scotia has…
Spring is Possible
It looks like spring just might actually happen. I’ll come out from my hiding place now.
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. Milne Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind…
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…