This year’s teasel harvest I refreshed the teasels at the front door. This is my shingle. elserine is a weaver. During a Vancouver Island Surface Design Assoc meeting elserine demonstrated how the teasel was/is used to full woven or knit garments to make them soft. Gently stroking the cloth with a tied teasel bundle raises the nap. Commercially […]
Read More...I have been very busy these past 2 weeks setting up my new studio. Each item I touch I make the decision to keep it or not. If it is to be kept it gets cleaned, organised then stored. I have decided to store things in used paper and cardboard, like these grocery bags for painted papers. […]
Read More...Dave is making the porch and arcade soffit from strips of rough finish, tongue and groove, western red cedar. It smells so good out near his saw bench. I knew it was a special delivery when the truck arrived with its load wrapped in plastic. The finished soffit over the arcade… …and over the porch. It gives […]
Read More...A delivery truck dumped a load of sand that will go in the trench. The trench will hold 2 different types of conduit full of different pipes and cables carrying all of the services to the studio. The water pipe has already been connected from the house main to the studio. An early morning project […]
Read More...The building is looking good. The site is another story. The combination of trench digging, lifting pavers, uprooting garden beds and rain has resulted in a hazard zone. A Destruction Zone But look – the next step has started. Cladding Dave can be seen beginning to wrap the building in Tyvek. Tyvek is a Dupont […]
Read More...Two workers from Edibella Organic Landscapes constructed fences to protect the trees next to the construction site. Michael Cowan, owner of Edibella, was on site during the site excavation as the certified arborist, a requirement of the building permit. Tom at work putting the topsoil in one pile and the lower horizons in another until he […]
Read More...Tom continued scraping the grass and top soil off the back yard lawn, which is the first stage of the Back Yard Project. Tom is amazing at being able to see levels while sitting up high in his machine. He leveled the ground to make a safe access route to the construction site for all […]
Read More...The big and exciting news in my life is I am getting a studio built. So far it has taken many hours of planning, discussion and decision making. I developed my ideas to the concept stage, incorporating the studio into my back yard project. We have been working with architect Jonathan Aitken Aitken Design who has ably […]
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