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 22, 2013 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts | 0 comments
I’m finally over my creative block – my fear of beginning . I’ve got two potential exhibition pieces planned and deadlines looming and I’ve been finding all sorts of reasons to avoid actually starting! The project I’m focusing on first is based on the photo above taken in an ancient forest in BC in 2011. It will involve a lot of different techniques and was started in the fall when I experimented with paper cloth. I selected the background fabric before Christmas and managed to join the two into the background...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 19, 2013 in Featured Flag, Recycle and upcycle, This And that! | 0 comments
Today was a retreat day – a day of doing things that really don’t require a lot of thought. My sister arrived on January 8 and my routines immediately went for naught! Blog time, journal time, ‘me’ time disappeared into a daily round of trying to find new things to do in very cold and often stormy weather. We did manage a trip to Lake Louise for lunch on the only sunny day! She has now returned home, so life is gradually moving back to ‘normal’. Today I re-entered my ‘studio’ – my...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 7, 2013 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 0 comments
It looks like weekend blogs may be hit or miss! Especially when it is granddaughter visit time! This weekend was especially busy as I am preparing for the arrival of my sister and that means moving my dining table ‘office’ to ‘neater’ locations, clearing my ‘studio’ so that it can be a studio and not just a storeroom, and generally putting Christmas behind me. Since New Year’s, I’ve given priority to dealing with the ‘must do’ procrastination list and getting some order back into...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 4, 2013 in Books & Art Journals, Featured Flag | 0 comments
One of the ‘want to do’s’ that has been on my list for some time is exploration of Zen Tangles. So I decided to combine it with my new attempt at journaling this year. I’m using the library found at tangles.com to help me get started. As I mentioned yesterday, I have prepared my own tangle tiles from 110 lb card stock that I had on hand. Unlike the journaling that I plan to do daily, I am not limiting myself to one tangle a day! This way I just have one side to deal with when I do my journal. Here are some of my...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 3, 2013 in Books & Art Journals, Featured Flag | 0 comments
I’ve never spent much time with paper-based arts but obviously have had a hankering to do so – I’ve got the supplies on hand! I’ve decided to allocate a bit of time this year to exploring journals and book-making and have spent the last couple of days ‘playing’. If I hadn’t, I’d still be procrastinating and who knows when I would get started! Over the past two days I’ve introduced my mini daily journal/tangles venture. More on the tangles in the next post. For now I’d like to...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on January 2, 2013 in Books & Art Journals, Featured Flag | 0 comments
In the past I’ve been unsuccessful in remaining faithful to my journaling efforts. I did manage one NaNo challenge! Part of the problem arises when I ‘get lost’ in the journal pages and spent too much time doing them and part arises from frustration with bound journal pages. So I’m trying a new approach. I also want to explore ‘tangles’ this year and have prepared to do so by making my own tangle ’tiles’ from 110 lb card stock purchased by the pack at my local office supply store. I needed it...
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