Road trip

Yesterday some friends and I took a road trip to Salmon Arm and Armstrong. We were mostly shopping at the quilt stores, but I wanted to check out Denise's new gallery in downtown Salmon Arm. It's called the Osprey gallery and it's on Alexander, which is the one-way street heading down from the highway towards the lake. Denise wants some of my weaving in her gallery and I needed to have a look at it before I bring her some scarves. The gallery is beautiful and elegant and has three of Denise's art quilts and several of John Burrows fantastic paintings.

We drove home through Falkland and found a great little yarn store that we didn't know was there. We stopped for a break at a charming little 50's style diner in Westwold and got home just before dark.

Cache Creek, Ashcroft Trip

Ashcroft manor -not open this time of year

On Monday we took another holiday geocaching trip to Cache Creek, Ashcroft and Logan Lake. The weather got worse as the day progressed and we had to do some of the walks in a cold rain. It was still a fun get- away -day and we found over 20 caches. We ended up having dinner in a charming little pub in Logan Lake and trying for a few more caches in the dark on the way home.

Ashcroft heritage fire hall

a gold country cache at a heritage church in Ashcroft

a beautiful cemetary in Ashcroft

the view from the cemetary

  Barnes and Willard lake near Ashcroft. The fog lifted just long enought to get a glimpse of the lake

  Highland Valley Copper mine near Logan Lake in the dusk

the wind was howling and the temp was below freezing up here

Turtle Valley Drive

turtle valley near Chase


On Saturday Rick and Katie and I set off on an all day geocaching trip through Turtle Valley, Skimikin Valley, Sunnybrae on the Shuswap and Sorrento. We ended up doing 38 caches for the day and had lots of fun. The weather was damp and foggy, but not raining. Some of the caches ended up involving a walk up through the forest on the Fly hills near Skimikin lake. We also hit Herald Provincial Park near Sunnybrae and even did a few caches by flashlight in Sorrento. One especially was memorable because it ended up being up a tree and in the dark I thought something was going to fall on my head!  It was a great day to spend as a mini-vacation and a stress relief.

trutle valley ball field

donkey refuge off the turtle valley road

welcoming committee at the donkey farm 

Tappen and Sunnybrae

 Herald Prov. Park in the Shuswap

I've been taking a small 5 day holiday from Nov 11th until the 16th. One of the days I did some extra babysitting and had Mia for an afternoon on Friday. Katie came over and helped play with orange , pumpkin spiced paly dough that I made.

Falkland Pillar

Last sunday after the guild sale we went on a small geo caching trip with Katie through the Chase/ Falkland Road . We stopped and hiked up to the pillar at Joyce lake. We've seen the pillar from the distance before, but had never hiked up to look at it up close.

View of Falkland from a cache up the hill. The weather was great and was actually the last warm. sunny day of the fall.

Thompson Valley Potters & Weavers

Last Saturday was the Thompson Valley Potters and Weavers Guild sale downtown.


The show was very well attended and people were coming in and shopping all day. I did well and was excited because I sold lots of big items ( as well as other items), including my long "Tranquille Spring" fabric landscape.  I also sold the expensive puff chenille poncho like the one I gave to Corrie. I only made 3 and now they are all gone.


The people that bought the big landscape, also bought a smaller Kamloops Lake landscape and were sneaking around buying  the Tranquille one as a Christmas gift for a woman from Vernon who fell in love with it. It's the biggest peice of art I've ever sold. I just tried making the bigger peices last winter to see if I could do it and managed to get 3 out of 4 peices finished . Two have now sold. It's nice when people appreciate your work especially art.

I always sell lots of weaving but the landscapes are more fun!


Now I just have to weave more scarves for a few galleries that want my work before Christmas and then I'll have time to play again!

Sunrise Mountain hike

A few weeks ago we took an afternoon and hiked part way up Sunrise Mountain near our home.




looking east

looking west towards town along the Thompson river

Weaving Pictures from October

Here are some pictures of what I was working on in Oct.

Playing with Fire

A few pictures from The Oct 30 craft show.

More October Weaving