Happy November! I'm adding a quick note to welcome you to another cool autumn or soon-to-be Canadian winter!! Although I "hate" November (it gets cold, dark, and the fun stuff...snow...hasn't arrived yet), I'm not minding it much this year. I just finished a 1-day show in Rothesay, NB, at the Bill McGuire Centre. It [...]
Resonance – March 2021 I want to share with you what I have been doing so far in 2021. Continuing to stay put under Covid-19 restrictions, I have been taking a lot of online courses from some incredible instructors, those who I would never have had the opportunity to get instruction from in our former [...]
Hi All, I thought I would touch base here and update you as to how things have been going for Trish Raine hats. With the arrival of Covid-19 and the world changing every few days, it is certainly hard to keep up, keep grounded and keep hope for all kinds of things both big and [...]
I don't know about you, but I am a goal-setter. I don't make New Year resolutions per se, as I feel like they are typically vague, unreasonable, and frankly...they are socially acceptable to renege upon. Many years ago, I figured out that I like to set and achieve goals. Whether they are small to get [...]
Hi All, I am sorry to have not written this post sooner, to let you know when and where I'll be selling my hats this season! Somehow, like most of us it seems, summer disappeared and September zoomed by at a mad pace. So, here we are on the eve of October as my mind [...]
I am thrilled to finally debut a line of hats I've been working on since Spring. The Gossamer Hat. I have a customer with alopecia, who wears my hats year-round. We had been in touch planning her next hat, but with the onset of the heat and humidity all I could think about was how [...]
The 2016 MMU (Millinery Meet-up) hosted a hat competition that had about 60 participants. It was sponsored by Hat Blocks Australia, and yes, they did in fact show up with hat blocks all the way from Australia to the MMU marketplace! Since they sponsored the competition, the theme of the hat competition was Australiana. What is your impression of [...]
I'm remiss in not writing this blog in the fall. After attending the Millinery Meet-up, in Gatlinburg, TN, my life included visitors, holidays, and more travel. With a show at CraftBoston in December, let's just say this blog got left behind in the dust... I would like to resolve in 2017 to pick up my [...]
I've been bad at keeping this blog up to date. Apologies! Summer has been quite incredible. I've not taken holiday since Spring, instead opting for staying local, working hard as an Occupational Therapist, and hatting in between. Truth be known, in the dog days of summer, felting isn't the best activity. It takes a lot [...]
Each Christmas season and into the new year, I spend about a month thinking about what I'd like to accomplish during the year, be it new skills, or direction in selling my wares. This year was no different, thinking about shows in 2016 and the inventory I'll need to produce for said shows, down to [...]
