Balance
After coming back from Harmony Arts Festival, there was much to do – catching up on gallery requests that had come in while I was away, and starting on the custom rings ordered at the festival in Vancouver. It is…
Dorothée
Thank you, Vancouver!
Thank you so much, Vancouver. Although slightly weighed down by the haze from the interior BC forest fires, the Harmony Arts Festival was once again a joyful event. I just love being in the company of such good fellow craftspeople…
Appreciate
The first weekend of Harmony Arts Festival in West Vancouver just ended, and there are now a couple of days of rest for the artisans, while other activities continue at the festival. I look forward to returning on Friday for…
WestVancouver – here I come!
I have just returned from my annual meditation retreat in the gorgeous Nova Scotia countryside. Thus I am refreshed and renewed to pack my bags and head across the country for the annual Harmony Arts Festival. I have been to this…
Just a lil’ bit MapleLeaf proud
Today is the anniversary of my arrival in Canada. I am very aware that many, many people were here before me, and that many people were here long long before the colonial settlers. The earliest carbon-dated Mi’kmaw artefacts date back…
Quality
I have just returned from a quick and exhausting trip to Las Vegas, where the world of jewellery just convened for several of North America’s biggest tradeshows. If you follow my blog, you will also know that I was, of…
Parallels
Maybe it is the brain of the creative that makes metaphors so often. Here is a fresh one just from last night. I recently started watching a very cool Netflix original documentary series called Abstract: the Art of Design. Definitely…
The Privilege of creating Custom Rings
I feel so very privileged to, as a goldsmith, play a part in people’s journeys. Several times, I have had the honour to create a special ring celebrating a journey with cancer. When another woman first contacted me, she wrote “ I have…
Come see me in Halifax this weekend!
Ah, Spring is finally springing here in Nova Scotia. The sun is a welcome change today to the cold hail showers of only a few days ago. In Halifax, the cool folks know that the surest sign of Spring is the very…
Style Advisor & Custom Onefooter Rings
I was so delighted to have been given a big splash in a recent edition of the Globe & Mail’s Style Advisor, in an article about the jewellery scene in Nova Scotia. It is very nice to receive such acknowledgement,…
New Stones have arrived!
I would say when the stone merchant comes to town, it’s a lot like shopping in Paris: the options are endless and the sky is the limit, except for a small hindrance called reason. Hence, it is always delightful and…
Good Bye Blue Hill and a Love Letter
A second guest post from Natalie, the direct follow-up to the last post: About 5 years ago, after a heartbreak so tremendous that it still brings me to tears more often than I would like to admit, I ran away…
Week One in Dan Barber’s Kitchen – guest post form a young chef
As promised, a guest blog post written by my daughter Natalie Rosen about her experience interning North America’s #1 restaurant (warning: this is an intense, and a long post – perhaps perfect for this stormy night here in Halifax): It…
