01/05/2026
Hi friends!
āØYou may have noticed Iāve been a little quiet on here the past few weeks, thatās because I decided that I'm taking a winter break from Lorelei!
Home has felt heavy these past 5 months without my beloved Shiroo, and being in my space without her has just beenā¦ hard. Add a house flood, a splash of creative burnout, a rather āmehā holiday market season, and youāve got one squirrelly girl.
Iāve been craving a change of scenery, a reset, and the chance to breathe some new life into my many creative practices. And well, there aināt nothing quite like grief to get the winds of change a blowing, let me tell ya.
I love natural dyeing, I love sewing, and I love creating wearable art for you, but lately Iāve been feeling the pull towards incorporating more visual art into my practiceā¦ my dreams are filled with mordant painting, block printing, sketching, exploring folk motifs tied to my family heritage, quilting, and reallyyy just letting myself play again without the pressure of production and selling.
For the past few years, the colder months have also meant a lot of financial instability for me - swimminā upstream, so to speak.
SO!
Iām gone babies, gone! Iām now out of town at a winter cooking job in the Kootenays, and it gives me two things Iāve really been needing: stability and space. Iāll be spending my off-weeks tucked into a familiar but fresh place, surrounded by snow, quiet, and tender friends - truly giving myself time to creatively and emotionally recover from a huge year of ups and downs, and to explore some of these crafty endeavours without all the other pressures looming over me! Win, Win.
šø Victoria friends, you can still shop Lorelei in person while Iām away. Iāve left all of my remaining stock nestled with the folks at
Iād love for you to visit them and support the many talented artists there, including myself! šø
Iāll be back in April sometime, still creating soft, sustainable wares for ya, but with a fresh burst of creativity, new ideas, and deeper reflections woven into everything I make.
Thank you for being here and for supporting me through all my seasons
See yāall when the flowers are bloominā š¼
