Good morning, or afternoon, or spring, or fall... :) It is all relative I suppose.
It is early on a rainy and foggy Sunday morning here. I'm waking up and pondering on what I'm going to do today. I've been working in my sewing room, getting various projects caught up and cleared out. A fair bit of mending and repurposing. We raise sheep, so I've been working on ideas for using wool. One project I've got in my head is to make wool duvets. That is on the list... also, I've been commissioned to create a gown for the Yarmouth County Museum's fundraising Gala this October, the theme this year is James Bond, so I need to get the sewing room geared up to start on that! I really don't enjoy going out a lot, I am quite contentedly a homebody, but I've heard from past years that the Museum Gala is always a big, fun evening.
The Yarmouth County Museum is a really wonderful museum. It really is an institution of Yarmouth Town. The collection is really very large and I know for one example, the costume collection is I think one of the largest in the province. This isn't any official pronouncement, but I've been in and out of a lot of museums in this province looking at their costume collections, and I really do think that theirs is right up there. Beautiful artifacts, mainly dating to the Victorian era, but I believe they have costume examples going back to the early 1800s and textile pieces going to the 1700s. There are some beautiful embroidery samplers too.
Nadine Gates is the Director/Curator and she has really brought the museum displays up to date, and regularly brings in new traveling displays and shows. She has also managed to broaden the scope of the museum to include more history from the County and surrounding area too. The museum would actually be a nice place for a visit on this rainy Sunday. :) And I happen to know, they have a growing collection of reproduction costumes that may be available for people to try on or look at more closely, go have a look!
Sunday 26 May 2013
Saturday 25 May 2013
Broadway Night at th'YARC!
Wow! It is only a couple of hours, and my first post has reached someone in Germany! I'm right impressed! lol
I actually wanted to mention the Broadway night happening tonight at th'YARC. Our community theatre here in Yarmouth town. It looks like it'll be a big show, with a lot of talent. Go have a look, it would make a nice Saturday night out on the town. :) Maybe even dinner?
There has been all sorts of stuff about it on Facebook, here is a link to the YARC's website with some info...
http://www.yarcplayhouse.com/may2013.html
Performances will include music from:
Phantom of the Opera ~ All I Ask Of You
Mamma Mia ~ Honey, Honey
Sweeney Todd ~ Not While I'm Around
Rent ~I'll Cover You
Les Miserables~ I Dreamed a Dream
.... And more
Tickets $15
Members $14
I actually wanted to mention the Broadway night happening tonight at th'YARC. Our community theatre here in Yarmouth town. It looks like it'll be a big show, with a lot of talent. Go have a look, it would make a nice Saturday night out on the town. :) Maybe even dinner?
There has been all sorts of stuff about it on Facebook, here is a link to the YARC's website with some info...
http://www.yarcplayhouse.com/may2013.html
BROADWAY NIGHT
May 24, 25, 7:30 pm
Phantom of the Opera ~ All I Ask Of You
Mamma Mia ~ Honey, Honey
Sweeney Todd ~ Not While I'm Around
Rent ~I'll Cover You
Les Miserables~ I Dreamed a Dream
.... And more
Tickets $15
Members $14
Beginning...
And so it begins... This is the first post of my new blog. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I want to show the world why I love living where I do. I live just outside of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. We have a small community that has not been doing well for some time. We are actually on the top ten list of shrinking municipalities in Canada! This is something I want to change. So I'm going to tell you about why I love living here, and why other people should too.
It is a quiet, wet day here today at the end of May. I'm going to do some sewing today. I am by training and experience a costumer. Since moving back here in 2000 I've done a fair bit of historical recreation work. I take the occasional commission for a costume, and I farm, and do a few other things too.
It is the quiet, I think, that is one of the things I love most about living here. I have neighbours, either across the street, or on the other side of the fields to each side of the house. Good neighbours, there to help when needed, but not interfering with each other either. That isn't unusual here... I don't know of any house or area within a hundred kilometres that I wouldn't be comfortable knocking at the door if I needed help to to make a phone call. That said, it is a small community, people will mind your business more than you do! lol But once you make your peace with that, I find it oddly reassuring. For people used to the anonymity of city life, it can seem really invasive. But there are good connections to people to be made here. There is something really comfortable about the fact that the only reason you really need to lock your doors at night is to stop the early-rising neighbour from coming in and shouting up the stairs, "Are you up yet?"
Well, I have much to do today, but I'll be back with posts about what I'm doing on the farm, and about what is going on in the area... Like our new Community Arts Centre! Auditions for the first show are starting around the first of June! (Hopefully we'll have a stage built by the time the show is due to open!)
It is a quiet, wet day here today at the end of May. I'm going to do some sewing today. I am by training and experience a costumer. Since moving back here in 2000 I've done a fair bit of historical recreation work. I take the occasional commission for a costume, and I farm, and do a few other things too.
It is the quiet, I think, that is one of the things I love most about living here. I have neighbours, either across the street, or on the other side of the fields to each side of the house. Good neighbours, there to help when needed, but not interfering with each other either. That isn't unusual here... I don't know of any house or area within a hundred kilometres that I wouldn't be comfortable knocking at the door if I needed help to to make a phone call. That said, it is a small community, people will mind your business more than you do! lol But once you make your peace with that, I find it oddly reassuring. For people used to the anonymity of city life, it can seem really invasive. But there are good connections to people to be made here. There is something really comfortable about the fact that the only reason you really need to lock your doors at night is to stop the early-rising neighbour from coming in and shouting up the stairs, "Are you up yet?"
Well, I have much to do today, but I'll be back with posts about what I'm doing on the farm, and about what is going on in the area... Like our new Community Arts Centre! Auditions for the first show are starting around the first of June! (Hopefully we'll have a stage built by the time the show is due to open!)
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