Posts Tagged ‘Victoria BC’
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Tags: bear mountain resort, delta ocean point, fine floral designs, keri coles, Victoria BC, wedding
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
It was a fabulous weekend at Organic Islands Festival. There are always lots of great vendors that support and inspire sustainability. The reason I love the festival the most is the incredible speakers that come to share their wealth of knowledge.
Percy Schmeiser was the highlight for me at the Festival in 2008. His story is one to know. He is fighting a battle on our behalf. A battle that’s final outcome will not directly effect his life, but it will effect ours. He is devoting his time, money, life energy and integrity to protect our right to save seeds and our right to know whether we are consuming GMO or not. This may not sound like a pressing matter to many of our generation that purchase their groceries at the store and are disconnected from the growing process, but to people who have spent their lives growing and improving food (naturally) this is an issue second to none. It is a very polarized issue and which ever side of the fence you sit on it is impossible to not appreciate the courage, fortitude and strength of this exceptional man.
Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent. Let’s chat about the festival THIS year ;)
This year, the gold star went to Carolyn Herriot from The Garden Path. Carolyn is a local advocate for food self-sufficiency, seed saving, and organic gardening. At the festival, she was having a book launch for her new book, The Zero Mile Diet. She is such an inspirational speaker and another person that I feel has our back when we don’t even realize we need it.
Another sweet surprise for me was seeing The Malahat Revue for the first time. They were fabulous and, come on, how do you not love a band that tours by bike ;)
Tags: deb morse, organic islands festival, photography, Victoria BC
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
As some of you know, I have happened into a whole bunch of yarn. By bunch, I mean POUNDS. It all began innocently enough when I made a cowl last winter. I loved making it and it was something that I could do while hanging out with my wee one (like many, the moment I became a mom I developed a compulsion to multitask). People kept making comments about how much they loved the cowls so I starting thinking about selling them. I wasn’t super happy with the yarn I was finding around town so I jumped at the chance to buy some Fair Trade yarn at wholesale from a friend that just got back from Uruguay (enter first 20 pounds). The yarn is from Manos del Uruguay and is luscious and beautiful. I made a couple of cowls from the yarn and, while they were gorgeous, they didn’t have the exact look I was going for. I was looking for a chunkier wool. So in typical Keri fashion, I dove in. I tracked down some alpacas, went to shearing day (photos to come in another post), loaded up on fibre, and took it over to the Gulf Islands’ Spinning Mill so they could spin it into exactly what I wanted. Some people may say I have a problem ;)
So now I have copious amounts of both Manos del Uruguay yarn and the fabulous Salt Spring softspun yarn. I am cowling to my heart’s content. I went to the Victoria Fibre Fest recently and had a table set up to sell some of my extra yarn. The last few photos in the gallery below (starting at the wooden buttons) are what I had for sale at the event. It was a great day full of fibery goodness.
Tags: fibre fest, gulf islands spinning mill, keri coles, manos del uruguay, salt spring softspun, Victoria BC
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
We had a great time shooting Lisa and Nathan’s Engagement session and getting to know them better. They came up from the States for the shoot as they are having a destination wedding here in September. We look forward to capturing their big day! Again, I would like to thank Victoria’s beauty for making my location scouting job easy peasy ;)
Tags: beacon hill park, Dallas Rd, Destination Wedding, engagement, keri coles, Victoria BC, Wedding photography
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Tags: homes cd release, jon and roy, keri coles, macpherson playhouse, Mother Mother, music, Victoria BC, vince vaccaro
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