As my family will tell you, sewing piping is one of my favourite things to do! It is even better when I get to work with silk taffeta and silk thread. “Shot” silk is made with different colours for the warp and weft threads. In this...
read more
Mother Nature is reminding us that it is February in New England, with a classic coastal snow. I brought my camera to work, knowing we’d be closing early and hoping the roads wouldn’t be too messy for a drive around town. Click on the...
read more
I love thread. It’s so… colourful! And useful. And full of potential. Here is a small section of one of my thread bins. I have them sorted by colour, each olour group has a drawer, and there are six drawers full. And I do mean full. They...
read more
I wore this necklace so much… well you can see what happened. I wore it right out! It’s on the top of a stack of things to fix. Anyone know/remember what it is, and its significance?
Follow the link below to see the photo with others in...
read more
Today, a few of my favourite things that I hope I’ll never have to live without. Three teas from John Harney, Master Tea Blender, at Harney & Sons in Salisbury, Ct.
Eight At the Fort – An historic blend created for the time the...
read more
I have the honour of playing with a most creative and energetic group of musicians in a fife and drum corps called Connecticut Valley Field Music. In the language of fife and drum, we are considered a civil war corps (as opposed to revolutionary...
read more
One of my crazy ideas that seems to be taking hold… cDogs! Dog tag shaped for id tags, keychains, or necklaces. They’re very light weight (they weigh no more than the store tags I have on the same ring) and durable, and I’ll make...
read more
Wow, is it ever that time of year! Travels are settling down, but events are ramping back up! In between trips, parades, rehearsals, and… oh yes, work, I’ve been trying to get my sites in order. I want them to be easy and enjoyable for...
read more
I’m just beginning to get the SmugMug galleries cleaned up and realized that the keywords are a critical tool. Here is a link to all of my Keywords, in a tag cloud. I expect that as I get more images tagged, that they will become more...
read more
Last weekend we made our annual pilgrimage to Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va for the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps’ workshop for juniors. Three of the audio files of fifers participating in the Solo Festival component of the workshop comprise the...
read more
Photographer, accountant, musician, mom.
Explore here, then click through to my galleries at cshoresal.smugmug.com, where you can browse and order prints and other merchandise.