Materfamilias Writes

Portraits of an Artist’s Play Date. . . .

Portraits of an Artist’s Play Date. . . .

 Mary Knowles (coincidentally, also my sister’s name) stitched this portrait of herself working on a commission (by Queen Charlotte) of a portrait of King George III. The king’s portrait — also “needle-painted” —  was commissioned…

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What I Wore for a Thought-Provoking Date Night

What I Wore for a Thought-Provoking Date Night

 Last Friday, we walked a couple of kilometres to the cinema for a showing of Ai WeiWei’s magnificent documentary, Human Flow. Have any of you watched it yet? Devastating and beautiful and humbling and inspiring…

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City Life, with a bit of Over-60 Style

City Life, with a bit of Over-60 Style

Just quickly, because apparently we have only one more day of these gorgeously crisp blue skies, November temps hovering nicely at freezing after teasing us with a sprinkle of snowflakes Saturday (and look at the…

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Saturday Report: City Life, Vancouver Style. . .

Saturday Report: City Life, Vancouver Style. . .

I uploaded these photos early Thursday, planning to write the text the next morning before our visiting family woke.  No time for a Five Things Friday, but I thought I could manage a quick What…

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Five Things Friday

Five Things Friday

Pater has been away all week; he comes back today, and I’ll admit that I didn’t get nearly everything done that I’d hoped to do in my time alone. But lists have been whittled down;…

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