Research and Stories
This is a place where I can share some of my research pertaining to early settlement and family histories intertwined with the story of Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. I’ve been researching and writing for many years and want to make some of my work more widely available.
This blog was originally designed to share my artwork and creative activities during the years when I was exhibiting widely. My art has now taken second place to refining and publishing some of my research, but I have left the art posts available for perusal.
Whatever your interest might be, enjoy, and provide feedback if you can.
Diane
Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 7, 2016 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts, This And that! | 0 comments
Mark on the Body Project Honoring those who live with type 1 diabetes I have followed Margaret Blank’s ‘Honoring Those Who Live With Type 1 Diabetes’ project for some time and recently contacted her to make a contribution. Her husband died at a young age as the result of diabetic complications and she has undertaken a mammoth art project entitled ‘Mark on the Body’. For the details visit her blog. She tells of how the project began in a post written on 28 November 2013. She talks of the impact on the skin of...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 6, 2016 in Featured Flag, Watercolour | 0 comments
Yesterday’s PlayDay helped me achieve another ‘start’ for 2016 – sketching. … and I’m running a day behind by the date in the photos…LOL. I think I mentioned that I chose faces as a project because I find them challenging to sketch or paint. Hosting the gathering made it difficult to focus on the exercise so when we returned from the gym I decided to take some time an do sketches starting with an oval, a circle, a triangle and a square with the idea of comparing how the starting shape influenced th...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 5, 2016 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 2 comments
My Tuesdays have been designated art play day for the foreseeable future! Three friends and I spent the day chatting, laughing, and generally having fun as we worked through a couple of art exercises. I hosted today so I organized a warm up exercise for the first half hour – exploring different material to use when adding colour to a junk journal page. The journals were a gift I prepared for each of our group before Christmas. I wanted to keep the exercises simple so that we could relax and not get lost in our own efforts. Each person...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 4, 2016 in Crochet, Knitting and Knotting, Featured Flag, This And that! | 0 comments
Embracing the new year! Letting go of the ‘old’ from 2015 and embracing the ‘new’ of 2016. This morning got off to a great start with the start of a new cycle at the gym. Jenn our coach for the Living Well program keeps us on our toes! I’ve been missing the structured exercise program over the past two weeks. I’m still ‘clearing’ bits and pieces from 2015. Today was work on our computers. I spent the day making sure that all the data on older units was recorded before we stripe them for...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 2, 2016 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 0 comments
Still introspective! In the interest of 2016 journaling, I am still in seasonal holiday dig-deep mode, playing with some on-line tools. Haven’t done this for ages! I’m not sharing the link for this as I’m not sure how safe it was. This exercise was a Myers-Briggs test and although I’ve always been heavily weighted in the direction indicated, it seems I am becoming more so! As an INTP, I am a thinker, analyzing problems deeply with intelligence! Apparently I prefer to think independently and to read as opposed to...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 1, 2016 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 0 comments
Happy New Year everyone! Some musings for New Year’s day as I contemplate my word for the year. Good bye 2015 – Hello 2016. What do you hold in store for me? 2015 has been a year of tremendous ups and downs. Can we continue with the ups and eliminate some of the downs? As you may divine, I am not sorry to have 2015 behind me. Without going into details, I had a wonderful start to the year but it I am not so happy with how it wound to an end. So what am I doing about it? In years past I have found the turn of the year a time of...
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