Tag: Ontario

  • The Blue Brick’s Yarn Bases

    We’re ready to ship! Everyone who ordered last Friday can expect their goodies very soon. I finally got my yarn tags in, which was the last bit I needed. I can’t express how happy it makes me to see this pile of Merrickville Gold with my yarn tags attached. On that note, I’ve finalized my…

  • Hand Painted Series – Forks of the Credit, Merrickville, Harbourfront and Collingwood

    These are the last of the new colour ways that I will be featuring in this Friday’s Etsy shop update (starting at 11am EST, no worries if the store looks empty right now, that will change ;)). I was going to split these up over the next two days, but I couldn’t wait to share!…

  • Hand Painted Series – Terra Cotta Reserve and the Rideau Locks

    The Terra Cotta Reserve is a pretty significant place to us; we were hiking in the reserve when I first thought that it would be great to use actual leaves and flowers in jewelry, we’ve done tons of great photography there, and Tito and I will even be doing our wedding photos there. Terra Cotta…

  • Yarn, Inspired by Ontario

    The Blue Brick has a Ravelry group! Check it out here, and join for access to pattern sneak peeks, KALs, the latest news and, of course, a fiber’y little Blue Brick community :) Over the weekend I had the opportunity to work on more of my ‘yarn inspired by photos’ project. I’m really delighted with the…

  • For Canada Day I always like to share some photos of this stunning country I am lucky to live in :) This year, here is a selection of my photography from one of our favourite drives – Toronto to Winnipeg, across the top of lake Superior. Enjoy!

  • A few weeks ago, Tito and I took the cameras out for a drive to Peterborough to have a look at their 110 year old lift lock. It’s very cool–basically it’s a boat-sized swimming pool on top of a hydraulic lift, in fact, The dual lifts are the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world,…

  • For Easter weekend we had a real treat–Rayna’s parents came to Toronto from Newfoundland for a few days. Rayna’s folks are from Newfoundland, and her dad is a super talented photographer, could it get any better? Yes it could; for a start they actually flew to Toronto with flash-frozen fresh fish (because, we all know…

  • I was putting together a printed collection that focused on our travels through Ontario – some of these have been up on the blog before, but I thought I’d save some of my faves :)

  • We’ve had freezing rain in Toronto all weekend. To Tito and I, that means it’s time to get out the cameras and head to Leslie Street. I apologize for the image-heavy post… but I hope you’ll agree that it was worth it :)

  • I wanted to create a series of jewellery pieces themed around Ontario wildflowers. It’s that time of year where even the scrubby stuff on the side of the highway is a riot of colour; goldenrod, chicory, loosestrife, new England astor and the unromantically named cow vetch. One of the best places in the city to…