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I am delighted to be invited back to the fabulous Harmony Arts Festival in Sunny West Vancouver this Summer.  I will be there for the first weekend - Friday July 29th - Monday August 1st along with many other talented Artisans from around the Province and further afield.  Harmony is always a wonderful showcase for Music, Arts and Culture so be sure to visit Ambleside over the two weeks of festivities.  More Information can be found at the Harmony Arts website. https://www.harmonyarts.ca/info

I am delighted to be back at the fabulous Ladner Village Market once again this Summer and will be attending 6 of the 7 Markets.  Dates are as follows: June 12th , 26th July 10th, August 14th, 28th September 11th For More Information about the market please follow Ladner Village Market on Instagram (@landervillagemarket) where they update lists of vendors showing at each market. https://ladnervillagemarket.com  

Some days, It actually feels like life is getting back to "normal" a little, and yesterday, It was really busy here at the studio, with people coming in and buying Christmas Cards, calendars and little bits and bobs which they identified as "stocking stuffers".  I have to admit, it felt really good to hear customers talking about their plans for the holiday season and I thought back to last year, when everything felt so compromised and "make do".  Here at Beaver Pond, a sure fire indicator that the Holiday Season in rapidly approaching is stock being assembled ready for the...

As the Covid restrictions drag on, I am trying to use my time wisely - though its not always easy! Recently, during the reorganization of the framing and storage area in my studio, I came across the motherlode of samples of my Christmas card designs from past years.  Thinking that I had been painting new holiday images for a while, I thought there would be about 30 or so, but as I continued to find more and more - most of which I had completely forgotten about - I realized I had been creating Vancouver holiday images since 1995 and have done over...

Lots of new Jigsaw Puzzles arrived in the studio today - an order I have been waiting for since the beginning of the Covid crisis to be honest!  Once we were all isolated in our homes, it seemed that if we weren't baking loaves of delicious Sourdough or learning to speak Swahili, we were all doing Jigsaws, and pretty soon, the few I had left over from my last order were gone.  It wasn't even possible for me to place another order until late summer and this batch will the the only ones I am able to get in time for the...