Small Rugs Off To Cat Fish Moon Studio and on the search for WOOL!

Just put four little rugs in a box to send off to CatFish Moon Studio in lovely Annapolis Royal. With the kids home from school, I can't really focus on starting a big rug, but it is a good time to get some small ones on the go.

I have been dragging the kids off to second hand clothing stores this week as they are bringing in their fall clothing..which means WOOL is BACK!! I try to stockpile as much as I can during the fall and winter, as once spring comes around..hard to find wool clothing for my rugs...which makes me a little panicky...a hooker needs her wool like..a pig needs mud.

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 Hanging Fish to Dry

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Thanks Maggie from Green Grass Running Water!!!

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NS Folk Art Festival 2011

set up for festival

Just got back from Lunenburg...the festival was wonderful as always. So nice to see familiar faces, artists and art buyers, and just to be able to see the people the appreciate what you do face to face, is so special. When I get a cheque for a rug sold from one of the  galleries, I feel like calling the gallery owners and asking "who bought it, what did they like about it etc etc" , but I am thinking the gallery owners would get a little tired of that. So the festival is such a great chance to meet the art buyers face to face.

I was thinking right after the festival, I need a break from making rugs..maybe a month or so ..but today I just want to get back at it..have some ideas floating around that I want to get started on ...but the kids are home from school...so I 'll try to be patient, and focus on the kids ..BUT when September comes...WATCH OUT!!Ok, maybe before September, the kids don't always need my attention, do they??

ps nice to talk to you woman in the orange dress, glad we are on the same wavelength about yoga..hee hee

Birdie is heading to Lunenburg

Crow (13.5x25.5")

Owner of the Pink Fuzzy Slippers..ta daaa.

Here she is folks, in all her glory....TOILET LADY. ...and she will be heading to Lunenburg for the NS FOlk Art Festival on Sunday...she is a cutie!

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Getting Ready for NS Folk Art Festival

NS Folk Art Festival 2009

The NS Folk Art Festival is quickly approaching, July 31st in Lunenburg, NS. I am hooking one more rug for the festival and then have a few left to do the finshing on...I am up to the last minute this year!!agh, guess I felt the need for a little drama.

The festival is sooo special, I can't say enough good things about it. It is great to meet fellow Folk Artists, it is great to meet the people who appreciate your work..and it is great to have such wonderful volunteers who help each year with the festival...great great great!!!!!

I will admit it is a bit nerve wracking. I do well every year I have attended but I always have a nagging worry that no one will stop by my table, I won't sell a single rug..I 'll feel like the last kid picked for the baseball team. Do all the Folk Artists feel this way I wonder??

New Shipment of Sari Ribbon Arrived!

Yesterday was like Christmas for me as a new batch of sari ribbon arrived in the mail!!!Yes, it excites me. I order it from a supplier on Etsy and to all you hookers out there...sari ribbon can really add to your rugs..it is thready, shiny..comes in yummy colours and you are helping a women's coop in Nepal as well. The women collect the left over scrapes from the sari "factories" and then sew them end to end and are paid fair wages for doing so.

PInk Fuzzy Slippers??

Giving you a part sneak preview of a rug that will be shown at the NS Folk Art Festival in July in lovely Lunenburg. ..she is almost done but her hair and face....she is a cutie!!