Apple Jack Creek

Living on a small holding in rural Alberta, raising kids and animals, growing stuff, creating things with fibre, and living with PTSD. See more at www.applejackcreek.com.

18 January 2015

Gram's chair and Grandma's teacup

Twenty years ago I sat in this chair, the blue recliner that held my Gram in the weeks before her death. I was thirty weeks pregnant, waitin...

06 December 2014

Shawl of Sharing

Some time back, a group of fibre artists I belong to banded together to support one of our members who is dealing with cancer. Of course we...

Medication changes

I've been having more trouble of late. Winter is always harder ... The "yukky stuff" in my past seemed to happen between than...

01 December 2014

What dreams may come

The dreaming is exhausting. There are things buried in my mind that I'd really rather not see ... And they show up in my sleep, then th...

17 November 2014

The Cow Buffet is now open for business

Today The Boy and his friend helped me roll the bales from the driveway (where they were delivered yesterday afternoon) into the fee...

14 November 2014

Tanning sheepskins: What I’ve learned

Tanning the sheepskins has been a great adventure – I have spent countless hours reading information on the web (one of my favourite links ...

07 November 2014

Tanning Sheepskins

With the last of the sheep turned into sausage (except Cherub, who is still here waiting for a lift to her new home), I’ve been working on t...

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