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We have to make a connection to Youth.
We have to stop labeling and stereotyping them.

We need to offer them houses – be it a house for art, athletics or study.

Youth are looking for them selves. They are on a journey – self discovery.
They encounter myths that try to define them.
They are essentially defined by the adults.
They are shaped by their community.

We need to offer them a space, to find themselves, to be educated, to gently lead them towards their great destiny.
If we give them the space, tools and leadership – they will transcend it.
We can only lead them towards it, feed them and clothe them.
They chisel out the path.
They choose.
They are people.
They do not yet have the years or experience that adults have and expect of them.
They are still young, naive, and innocent.
We can lead them by example and inclusion.
What is the key? We have to earn their trust.
From this trust, we can earn their respect.
If we respect each other – we understand each other.
This is not only an opportunity to fund a project but to create a relationship.

A Connection.

From this connection we can ignite a passion for volunteering, a sense of ownership, and a desire to set down roots in the community.
By sponsoring youth initiatives we learn and grow; we become humble and patient.
We will realize that we cannot pigeon hole one group, or age or race because we are each unique.

Fundamentally, we create the system for achievement and initiate the drive within each human, be it a toddler, teenager or adult,
to achieve their destiny for greatness.

Without this bridge between adults and youth, we are separate.
Together, we can do more, learn, grow and strive, on and on.

Embrace your youth.

Support our Youth Room at the Elora Centre for the Arts. We need you.

Sneaky Suspicion

Genius of Japanese Design

These two woodblock prints are on sale at the Elora Centre for the Arts.
Part of the Harris Collective.

Out for a Walk

Drooping Daisies

Pretty Flowers

Captain Kirk

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UMBRA Wall Petals

Close-up

These are the easiest way to spice up a wall. Made by UMBRA, I purchased these at Duncan McPhee downtown.
They come with little silver tacks that you press into the wall, and each flower has a magnet on the back,
so you can plop them wherever you want! They come in other colours…pink…hmmm…

Handcrafted sock elephant…wowzers…

There you have it! One cute little elephant with a ridiculously large trunk…made from two socks and some fabric.

Ginger Cookies

The month of December began with a crackle…cookie that is!

Every year I love to make these delicious cookies for my favourite people.

The recipe is from one of the best baking cook books ever.

the weekend baker by Abigail Johnson Dodge

Buttercream Frosted Cupcakes

And then came the cupcakes…need I say more?

At the Rink

So, i delved into the holiday creations…first was a painting for a neighbour friend and his son. They love hockey…this was a real hit.

i love to see how a little painting can evoke so much emotion…

Refurbished Turquoise Table

My $30 Secret Santa gift. Sanded, painted, adjusted…so sweet, how can I let it go?

Take a Seat...

I even ducked into my brain and constructed a 3d seat for the little darling…whew my head hurts…

But it was worth it, because my husband won it for me in that insane christmas game…you know the one where you can steal other people’s gifts…a scene i wish i could have recorded, was the one where my brother picked his own gift, which was a mini ipod…pertended like he didn’t even know what it was and kinda dropped it on the table with a shoulder shrug and a lip bulge to boot.

Academy Award…

For Conor

I have been so happy this holiday season. Mainly because i felt like i was in control, not the megastores.

Although, there was that one day…insanity, teeth grinding anxiety. But it was just that once. And it wasn’t a box store. It was just the parking downtown.

I found the design for this from Martha Stewart’s Craft Book…hey, sometimes we need a little inspiration…one day it’s Pollock, the next it’s the lady from the slamma’.

Before

I love the potential of all furniture…

After

Fancy Knob

Drawer Detailed

This was a thrift store find for $10. Now it will be a beautiful addition to someone’s home…so pretty.

Only a couple more gifts to make…and then it’s time to focus on the “Life List”.

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Submission for Peel Gallery Show March 2009

Where did my creativity fly off to?  Maybe it was drowned by the um-teen cups of tea that I consume in a day?  No.  But really, I have been searching for it and damn-it, I know where it is not…it’s not in my studio, that’s for sure. I can’t even turn a full circle in the room without banging my knees on a metal dog cage (to be returned to owner), a rolled up red rug (torn to shreds by the tenant of the before-mentioned), Rubbermaid container upon cardboard box full of sketchbooks and “How To” books (those should be burned), oh and let’s not forget the plastic portfolios of gorgeous handmade papers…arghhhh…How can anyone create in what has become a genius hiding spot for ”things” when company comes over.  Shit, my cover is up.  What is most ironic is that if you are outside looking in the itsy bitsy window (shattered by the way, by what suspiscouly looks like something the size of a baseball), you can see that “creativity” does not live here. Oh no, it has flown the coop because it is petrified of what has now become a crime scene.  I killed creativity…

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