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 But the rewards?………Plenty!!! This is the key reason d'etre! The reason why we all do what we craft people do. It's the complete and utter satisfaction of people telling you later how happy they were to receive something that you had made as a  present. Especially when someone you hardly know makes their way across a crowded street, just to tell you how thrilled they were to receive one of your wares! How the piece you made goes perfectly with their new coveted top and that they had already received many compliments. How each time they wear your piece they feel great!

I keep thinking it seems so trival to spend my days finding the right beads, the right colour, size and shape. So much time and thought making sure each bend and turn enhances each item I choose to be apart of the collage I create. But I still love it after all these years…..17 of  them. Holy!
In this Holiday Craze of making……….I am grateful………I am thrilled and feel proud to be able to offer something in this crazy world of consumerism that is made by my arthritic hands, my sore shoulders, my neck aches, my failing eyes and my full heart and soul.

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Vast, bright, beautiful, quiet………..luxury!
There was resistance @ first but I must say it’s pretty darn nice going to work these these days!
How fortunate I am!
My focus is connection; to myself, to my work, to my materials, to each bend and swirl, each bead size and shape chosen, each colour and hue. Breath…. be…… make.

Works inspired by the thaw……..

“Fire In The Head”
Mar.14th-Apr.14th
Barber Glass Gallery
167 Suffolk St. W,
Guelph, On
519 824-0821
Opening Sat.14th 2-4pm
live music and dance

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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slowly the studio is taking shape. Tim and I have been working hard and spending money we don’t have to get things just the way you want them. Of course every project has a deadline. December 5th and 6th is coming fast.

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tracing the wages of the wind

spent here and ended up there

secretly working in the day and night

unrooted kites take to the air and disappear from time and place

investments like these in air

like those made anywhere – only time stands still for time

This blog should become Michelle’s blog which is what it’s original intent was. She has just started using Etsy and Facebook so is on her way in the web 2.0 world. Woot!

With spring finally upon us in the warm weather variety I feel the urge to share the flowering cult.

One of the neat things about the iLiad ereader is that you can put powerpoints and pdfs on it. However, there is no colour display of the texts, which also sours the experience of reading comics or art books on the readers, not to mention visualizations of stats which would be the text book market, right!

Well “For the first time, researchers released a hand-built prototype outside the Japanese labs where it’s been incubating since 2004.

Similar in form factor to an e-book reader, the Fujitsu version displays color–not mind-blowing color, but still more visually appealing than standard black and white–and is aiming for more commercial applications. Fujitsu’s version is “green” and also appeals to the wallet: there is no power required to show an image. That means the technology can eventually be used for signage without having to replace batteries.”

A couple of Israeli engineers at thje College of Judea and Samaria are working on a printing press that could print 1000 ppm. One of the examples that they give for usage is that you’re standing at a kiosk at an airport printing your ticket and select a book that you want to read and have it in a minute hot off the press!

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BookNet Canada had a season’s celebration party yesterday to celebrate the anniversary of the agency, the birthday of BookNet Sales Data, and to announce three more years of funding from the Federal government. It was a fun party and one of the funniest elements of it, aside from winning a five dollar bet from my coworkers, was a sort of impromptu reunion of ex-Bookshelf staff and one Bookshelf boss: