It's not often I feel so deeply about a cause that I am speechless. When will we stop? When will humans realise that a sliver off land called a "Provincial Park" is not enough Rainforst to protect our environment? Will we understand when the drought comes? Will we see our mistake in hind-sight, when there are no more Marbled Murelets to sing us to sleep? No more Spirit Bears to revere?
When will be care? When will we stand up and take notice?
We need to notice NOW!
We need to care enough to preserve this for the next generation.
Write you LETTERS! Seriously. Unless you don't care and you enjoy seeing the pictures in History and Geography books of what this land "used to look like"...
Write! Please care, Write your letters! Canadian's this affects all of us! To the rest of the World: Don't left the Canadian Government repeat your mistakes! Write!!
At the very least, pretend to care and write your letter, click send. We need to keep clear cuts away from the park boundaries as it will erode our part and eventually leave us with NOTHING.
Saturday, 27 June 2015
Sunday, 21 June 2015
Asymmetrical and Vintage
Before I go, here is a picture of my latest add to my Etsy shop... "Fiesta at Sombrio Beach"
Friday, 19 June 2015
Celebrate
I have been thinking about theme of this years theme for Summer Camp, quite a bit, mostly because it has made sense: Why is it we live in a world where the end result is more important than the travel to get there?
Its something to think about; life really is a marathon.
And I need to remind myself of this all the time. I need to remind myself that my life, my journey can't be measured against anyone else's journey. Am I happy? Yes. I have all that I need at this time, and yet, at times I forget to celebrate where I am, rather than wait to celebrate the large milestone.
Things we should all remember:
Its something to think about; life really is a marathon.
And I need to remind myself of this all the time. I need to remind myself that my life, my journey can't be measured against anyone else's journey. Am I happy? Yes. I have all that I need at this time, and yet, at times I forget to celebrate where I am, rather than wait to celebrate the large milestone.
Things we should all remember:
- Life is a Marathon, not a Race.
- Live each little moment as though you have caught up with the proverbial ice cream truck.
- Not my Circus, Not my Monkeys
- Celebrate, Celebrate small and Celebrate LARGE
In closing, please meet: Dr. Riddles, he is a new mascot for this years Summer Camp. He loves to tell riddles, I can't wait to see how things go with him this Summer.
Monday, 15 June 2015
I can't stress this enough: Save the Walbran Valley
Teal Jones. We are watching you!
Teal Jones. We know what you have marked for cutting
Teal Jones. Stop. Stop Teal Jones
We have had some people involved with Friends of the Walbran Valley head out this past weekend and what we have seen should be enough to worry everyone. There are trees in the proposed cut blocks that are so huge you can't hug them with just a few friends. So large they have been there since before the signing of the Magna Carta! They have stood tall through 2 world wars and Teal Jones is willing to cut down these trees to make a few quick dollars. Dollars that won't even stay in Canada.
Please have a heart and Write your Letter, Sign the petition!!!
Friday, 12 June 2015
Tension and Picots
I still have concerns about the Walbran Valley and I will still supply the link so that people can write and submit their letters to Government and the appropriate people in this post. This is something that is near and dear to my heart, some of you won't care because you have never been there, but when you stand on the bridge where the original protests happened; it changes you. You see and feel the beauty of a place that people are willing to destroy to: "make a quick buck"
On to Tension and Picots: I have never realised how important consistent tension and consistent form (for picots) is to creating the "perfect doily".
Let me tell you this is not an easy thing, and this being my third Summer as a Tatter its quite a kick to the Ego to find that I still have "a lot to learn" about tension and picots.
Firstly: I hate picots, I find them frivolous, just frivolous. And I have a serious "Love-Hate" relationship with picot gauges. I will admit, it probably has a LOT to do with the fact that maybe I have not yet found a gauging system that works for me.
Above is my final round of the Amusement Doily (pattern can be found by following the link) and you can seen how important tension and consistency with picots is because the last round seems to be taking on a "bowl like" affect because it is lifting up. Frustrated, I "cut my losses" and clipped the shuttles off my work, I will keep this as a reminder, of how important tension and consistent picots really is.
Amusement Doily: Reboot, here is the next attempt. I have also added more picots: one, to see if I can convince myself to like them and two, as practice using the picot gauge seen in the photo.
I will keep you posted on my progress with this 2nd attempt for this doily.
Thursday, 11 June 2015
The Road MUST Stop Here
The Road Stops Here - 1991 info video on the Walbran Valley
I understand that I have already posted today on the matter of the Walbran Valley, but we need momentum, we need letters, we need our Government to stand up and take notice. Watch the video and follow the link below to write your letter to the Government, all you have to do is fill out the form and once you hit send it will automatically be forwarded to the necessary people.
Times Colonist: Old-Growth Logging in the Walbran Valley
CTV-News coverage: Walbran Valley Threatened
Write your Letter now
Here is my letter:
RE: No old-growth logging in the Walbran Valley
First allow me to share a very pivotal experience for me; in grade nice I watched "The Road Stops Here" and as I sat in my grade nine Geography class crying I believed that the Government had actually heard the shouts of the protesters. I fooled myself into believing the Government had the best interests of the environment at heart. However, with time complacency breeds and we forget what it was these protesters fought so hard for.
Over time, we have all forgotten: The Walbran Valley contains some of the last intact tracts of old-growth temperate rain-forest left anywhere on southern Vancouver Island and that once this is removed it will be a desert of rock and land slides.
We have turned a blind eye to the fact that: Over 90 per cent of Vancouver Island’s low-elevation old-growth forest has already been logged, and we have a responsibility to conserve the rest for future generations. I would like to be able to walk my children over the bridge where the protests happened and be able to say: Child this is what protesting can do, it can protect trees so old they have out lived world wars and provided cures for Cancer and could potentially provide clues for more cures in the future.
We need to remember that old-growth forests are more valuable standing because they provide habitat for endangered species, its an irreplaceable cultural and recreational resource and as a storage sink for climate-changing carbon.
The Walbran provides habitat for several endangered species, including the marbled murrelet and red-legged frog.
The BC government currently does not have a plan to conserve what’s left of the province’s old-growth forests, so it needs to halt old-growth logging now – starting with the Walbran Valley.
We need to stop pillaging something so priceless.
We need to keep this for the furture.
Remember: "If we lose our forests, if we savage this land, we might as well be cutting off our own right hand"
Erin McLeese
Victoria, BC
I understand that I have already posted today on the matter of the Walbran Valley, but we need momentum, we need letters, we need our Government to stand up and take notice. Watch the video and follow the link below to write your letter to the Government, all you have to do is fill out the form and once you hit send it will automatically be forwarded to the necessary people.
Times Colonist: Old-Growth Logging in the Walbran Valley
CTV-News coverage: Walbran Valley Threatened
Write your Letter now
Here is my letter:
RE: No old-growth logging in the Walbran Valley
First allow me to share a very pivotal experience for me; in grade nice I watched "The Road Stops Here" and as I sat in my grade nine Geography class crying I believed that the Government had actually heard the shouts of the protesters. I fooled myself into believing the Government had the best interests of the environment at heart. However, with time complacency breeds and we forget what it was these protesters fought so hard for.
Over time, we have all forgotten: The Walbran Valley contains some of the last intact tracts of old-growth temperate rain-forest left anywhere on southern Vancouver Island and that once this is removed it will be a desert of rock and land slides.
We have turned a blind eye to the fact that: Over 90 per cent of Vancouver Island’s low-elevation old-growth forest has already been logged, and we have a responsibility to conserve the rest for future generations. I would like to be able to walk my children over the bridge where the protests happened and be able to say: Child this is what protesting can do, it can protect trees so old they have out lived world wars and provided cures for Cancer and could potentially provide clues for more cures in the future.
We need to remember that old-growth forests are more valuable standing because they provide habitat for endangered species, its an irreplaceable cultural and recreational resource and as a storage sink for climate-changing carbon.
The Walbran provides habitat for several endangered species, including the marbled murrelet and red-legged frog.
The BC government currently does not have a plan to conserve what’s left of the province’s old-growth forests, so it needs to halt old-growth logging now – starting with the Walbran Valley.
We need to stop pillaging something so priceless.
We need to keep this for the furture.
Remember: "If we lose our forests, if we savage this land, we might as well be cutting off our own right hand"
Erin McLeese
Victoria, BC
Save the Walbran Valley
A valley worth saving, and a cause greater than us: The Road Stops here, reboot.
When I was in grade nine Geography I was introduced to a video that caused my heart to burn with fear and tears to fall from my eyes. I was not part of the protests that saved the Walbran Valley from certain doom in 1991, I was eleven at the time and living in Ontario; a place where the idea of a forest was "tree farms" and "tree lots" or the small spattering of trees left along creeks and riverbeds. I had no idea trees could grow so large and tall that it could take up the 30 or more people hand to hand just to encircle it.
Then, I saw the movie, I saw the ravaged mountainsides and felt a pain that only a person with a true understanding of Environment would understand. And as my teacher turned off the short 30 minute video he said: there will come a time, in your life, when you will have to choose, choose between keeping silent or speaking up for something or someone who can't help themselves. Someone or something that once snuffed out will never be back to grace us with their beauty.
Please, become part of a greater cause, something more important than merely remembering to recycle your paper on recycling day.
Write a letter, because once this bit of forest is gone, all we will have left is desert and no more forest.
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