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Welcome to The Hat Junkie, where old Fashioned Millinery is combined with modern day practicality. Inspired by a time when beauty lived in our everyday lives. I live and work in the beautiful, seaside town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.  Come visit if you can.  If it’s not in the stars right now then I’ll be…

Just finished my last market of the year. Now it’s time to regain a bit of balance in my life. Seems that while I was busy making hats, Tony was practicing his salt shaker balancing skills.

The Mornings here are consistently cool and crisp. Summer is heading out and fall is heading in. This photo was sent to me by a customer whose beautiful daughter is a hat junkie in training. I’ll write more when I get through my mound of wholesale orders and can come up for air.

I realize most of you can’t make it to the Seaport Market on Saturdays to come visit me, so I thought I’d post some photos of my little hat emporium. We can pretend.

f I can’t help myself. He’s just the cutest kid in the world. (When he’s not driving me nuts) Enjoy! Anna

It’s cold, but sunny here in Nova Scotia. Not quite pansy time yet. But these little beauties from my organic sewing garden can withstand the cold while singing out SPRING!!My new pansy fascinators are made from organic hemp and cotton jersey and are mounted on a wire headband, wrapped with the same jersey fabric. Click…

This is what happened when I turned my back for one minute. Fear not, Doggy was rescued from six year old tyranny.

Here’s one of my latest creations. She is named Rachel and just loves sipping tea in the garden after a long hard day of pulling up weeds. She is made from raffia straw, linen and a vintage handkerchief. As my old native New Orleans roommate used to say- first you decide what you want to…

At some point last year I was contacted by a wedding photographer, Caroline Ghetes, in Charlotte NC to see if I wouldn’t mind lending her one of my fascinators in exchange for some professional photos. I checked out her web site and was pretty darn impressed. I just got the photos back yesterday. Almost can’t…

Wednesday evening, 10 p.m bake cupcakes. Planet earth for my six year old earth day birthday boy. Please don’t ask me to identify any continents. Use of imagination is highly recommended. Thursday- Head to school with cupcakes, teach dancing to kids. Thursday evening, bake more cupcakes for family party. Friday- excitement continues for imminent Saturday…