Pre-Festival Event

We’ll be at this event today, helping with the kids workshops. Next week, the festival begins!

Change of Pace

It was nice to take a bit of a break this morning and spend some time being close to trees and water. Petrie Island.

Testing Social Media Sharing

Aside from all of the physical world things to do to get a very basic business running, there’s also the need to have an online presence, which I have put aside for personal reasons for the last few years. It’s time to crawl out of that little burrow and share things again. So, I’m back

Festival Coming Soon

My dreams are starting to look a little like …

October 15, 2024e

For the first half of this year I’ve been making the polymer clay goodies. Many hours were spent making all the necessary mistakes before I could get to some workable processes. I don’t mind going through it, though. It is an education. Here are just a few failed prototypes and bad ideas. There are some

October 15, 2024d

Each tower will hold 12 pairs of earrings.

October 15, 2024c

Room dividers will be used as walls in the canopy tent.

October 15, 2024b

Starting from scratch means being resourceful because there are a lot of startup costs, so sometimes you have to make things yourself, like these display towers for earrings, which will all eventually be painted black.

October 15, 2024a

This little business has started up with the goal of being a vendor at the Day of the Dead Festival in Ottawa’s ByWard Market. The idea was to create souvenirs for this specific event and see what happens. Outside of this particular event, I also do photography and am playing with other visual arts. At

Opening Info

This site is taking a long time to get itself built. We’re racing towards the next event, our first market event – the Day of the Dead Festival at the ByWard Market, November 2 & 3. Lots of “firsts” are passing by, getting this business going. Amongst other things, we’re working on a display system