"Stuff" in stores...

You can now buy selected "Stuff" by Heather merchandise exclusively at:

Ransack the Universe

1207 Bloor Street West, Toronto

(in the basement of 69 Vintage Collective/Buy the Pound)

It's an amazing store featuring the work of many talented local artists and I encourage everyone to check it out.

"Blue Jay"

This is Blue. The final project for my "Explorations in Fibre" class.

He’s a streetwise jay who makes his home in an elm tree at the corner of Broadview and Danforth Avenues in Toronto. Originally from the valley, Blue moved here over a year ago to get away from the noise of the parkway and the rumble of the TTC.

Blue was a fairly involved project. He was created using a combination of wet felting, needle felting and machine embroidery.

Guess who finally finished second-year?

...and after a month of sitting around the house watching re-runs of Glee I think I'm now fully recovered from the experience!!!

It was an intense eight months filled with laughter, tears and thirteen-hour studio days but it all paid off in the end. I just found out yesterday that I won the 2010 George A. Reid Scholarship for second-year Material Art and Design students.

I want to sincerely thank the estate of George A. Reid for this incredible honour and express my profound appreciation for the financial support and opportunity your scholarship has afforded me.

Apparently good grades do matter after all!