It's really all about Love.

Come see the Love Tutu!

For more information, contact:

Reisa Smiley Schneider
Art Gallery Director
Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery
Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver
950 West 41st Avenue
604 638 7277; 604 257 5111
reisa@jccgv.bc.ca

www.jccgv.com

Dharma Threads and Dancing Light

This afternoon I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours in a magical garden with old friends and new. We photographed the lovely Tangachee, of Dancing Light Cottage adorned in Dharma Threads.

Craft Bazaar round two!

Excitement builds as I gear up for my second time participating in Salt Spring's Craft Bazaar at Mahon Hall. I'll have more nuno felted scarves there and will also be featuring unscented kama soap felted with natural merino fibres, un-dyed for sensitive skin.

Here's a photo of my dear friend Sandra wearing a scarf I made recently, looking very scholarly indeed:

Mail call!

A while ago, I went on a clothes tag cutting frenzy and sent a pile of them to Lea at Leafcutter designs. She's been working on this really smart project called changing clothes where she investigates the politics and ecology of clothes - and for her work on "care instructions", she invites the public to change the tags in their clothes to this tag she designed. I recently received a glittering pile of these tags in the mail the other day from Lea. I'm excited to sew them into my wearables and share them with friends so that they may do the same.

Wrapped in rainbows

Once upon a time there was a girl who liked the colour fuschia. She enjoyed wearing fuschia lip stain and donning a fuschia attitude. She was especially happy when wrapped in her fuschia rainbow stole. She felt like she caught the sky.

Fulford Fair in December

Here I am, wearing one of my scarves and peddlin' the woolywash at the Fulford Market. Woolywash is made by hand using natural soap by Kama felted with natural wool fleece fibres, all on Salt Spring Island. It makes a nice soapy scrub. Mechanics and jewelers alike attest to its excellent hand cleansing and softening qualities.

Cheers to all the sudsy love this holiday season! Bring on the squeaky clean of 2011.

A dance with needle and thread

Butterfly Dream

length: 237cm

materials: silk-rayon woven gauze fabric, felted with merino wool fleece and raw silk roving; embellished with silk and cotton embroidery floss

dye: material dyed with fuscia procion mx cellulose fibre reactive dye; fleece and silk roving dyed with cochineal* from Maiwa Supply on Granville Island (imported from Mexico, Central and South America and the Canary Islands).

Inspiration: femininity, universal love and diffusing disorder