CBC…that’s all I gotta say

Check it out – I’m (kind of) on CBC.

Jen Williams’ Whitehorse shop, The Collective Good, opened up recently and she name checked Crown Land Goods in an interview that makes her sound like an old pro at radio.

My heart is melting!

There`s a land…

…there`s also a lot of poetry out there. Much of it I hate. A little of it I love, love, love.

I love Bren Simmers. I love Jim Carroll. I love Al Purdy. I love Lizzie Derksen. I love C.R. Avery and I love Tanya Davis.

I love Robert Service. My first encounter with [...]

Apply yourself

I’m submission-ed out. Between sending in submissions for the Ontario Newspaper Awards and applying for a summer artist residency, I’m so sick of myself haha.

It’s like cover letter writing in the extreme. It’s so awkward writing about yourself. I get to a point where I can’t even bear to re-read my own writing or [...]

MaCaw!

The cuff I worked on last week – a raven’s feather for the Yukon.

I did the background in a faded shade of purple. This was an experiment in not making everything as though I were going to keep it for myself.

My preference would have been a brown background and brass snaps, but I [...]

Yukon Times Two

After hammering out my first cuff of the Canadianarama Collection, designs took a turn for the freeform. I started cutting the bracelets to follow the shape of the flower instead of cutting the leather and then jamming the flower into the window created by the cuff.

Yesterday I started on a new fireweed cuff – [...]