SHE did a lovely news interview!!

Just click on Backstage Pass to see Pam's interview on the NTV news. We are still laughing and calling Her "Pat", though I think that after today, I will go back to HER and SHE!

Keeping the Home Fires Burning.....

"Every Summer Mr. Mercer Brings His sheep to the Feather to Graze" 

Hand-Carved/Hand-Painted by Cara Kansala & Pam Dorey

Currently on display and for sale at The Heritage Art Gallery, St. John's

Image: The real live sheep on the feather. Rose wants to invite them to her birthday party in April, but it might be a bowling party and only 3 will fit in the car.

What a crazy week! "The Goat House" is near completion and SHE is beside Herself with joy. Finally, She will have me working out of the house and there won't be painty finger streaks on the white cupboards, or orange footprints on the new floor or dried up paint stuck to the bathroom sink. I think she will miss my artful messiness. SHE said that I can make as much mess as I like in my new studio. She doesn't care what I do as I long as I don't burn it down. IT won't have a wood stove. Yesterday, I was home alone and was in charge of keeping the wood stove going. I thought it was odd that She had cut so many logs into such teeny tiny pieces.....there were SO many and they burned SO fast. I went through two massive basketfuls before I ran out.
SHE thought it was odd that I had burned two weeks worth of carefully chopped fire kindling and hadn't thought to go to the wood shed to get the bigger logs. Move-out date can't be too soon.

A Goat-errific Afternoon and Show Opening!!!!

Gallery show Opening of  "The Goat Who Stole Christmas" 

at The Heritage Art Gallery 309 Water St.

                           The Goat who Stole Christmas- Works by Cara Kansala & Pam Dorey

                   Image: "Grandfather Clock" by Cara Kansala & Pam Dorey  - Mixed Media Clock
Sunday past was the show opening for The Goat Who Stole Christmas and it was absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much to everyone who came to the gallery and to all of the staff at Historic Sites who have worked so hard to get the show up and running....you are all shining stars and we are so lucky to get to work with you! Hooray for everyone!!!!!! (Rose sent her best wishes......she wasn't able to attend the opening as she and Blanche were busy decorating their cottage for Christmas and making gingerbread goats)

A Ga Ga Day!

"When Martha Looked Across the Tickle and Saw that Mrs. O’Leary Had Bought the Same Curtains as Her From Page 231 of  the Sears Catalogue, She Was Poisoned!”

Hand-Carved, Hand-Painted, Mixed media

Cara Kansala and Pam Dorey

 $695

On Sale at THE GOAT WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS 

Opening tomorrow at 2pm The Heritage Art Gallery, 309 Water Street

"Kitty Has a New String of Pearls" by Cara & Pam

BooBoo is Feeling Very GaGa Today

Frantically getting ready for the opening tomorrow! So excited  and can't wait! I had a hair cut for the first time in 22 years (really and truly!....I had a hair salon phobia) and now BooBoo and I both look very Ga Ga! I love it ! Dorothy at The Hair Factory is the best stylist and colour artist since time began! I have been cured of my fear of people and places who cut hair and make you sit in front of bright lights while looking in the mirror! Hooray! Next week...eye lash extensions! Well, maybe not...that would just be another place to collect paint!

No Flyers, Please.

"Old Tom Cat Always Loved Aunt Maggie’s  White Blanket With the Roses" by Cara & Pam For Sale at "THE GOAT WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS" Opening November 13th at 2pm at The Heritage Gallery, Water Street.

Last Tuesday.
I check the email.......local craft store is having a HUGE sale. HUGE I tell you! 50% off everything I need.
It is 11am.
ME: We have to go to St. John's NOW! Right Now! Craft store is having a sale from 11 to 1 today only! If we hurry, we can make it!! GET IN THE CAR!
Note: She is up the hill, hanging from the trusses of the roof She is building. She does not plan on leaving Her building today. Tools are out. Scaffolding is set. She is very busy.
ME: Please, come on, we'll be back soon....I HAVE TO GET TO THE SALE NOW!! It is over at 1!
Her: Can't we go after supper?
ME: No, SALE ENDS AT 1....it is only from 11 to 1!! PLEASE!!
HER: OK, I'll be in the car in 5 minutes.
Note: She is a shining star and drives like a maniac all the way to St. John's. I am planning my shopping the whole way. I make a route for the store. I map out where we will go first.
ME: We won't have to time for both of us to shop. You will get in line right away. The lines will be long. This is a BIG sale. I will fill the cart and meet you at the line.
Her: It is VERY strange that they are having a sale  from 11 -1.
ME: Oh, I think they do that all the time. I have noticed that before.
We arrive at the Craft Store at 12:55. I am panicked...only 5 minutes left.
ME: We are going to have to run. They might close the cash at 1pm for the sale. RUN!
We run into the store and I am shocked to see that there is no line. There aren't  many shoppers.
Her: There is no line.
ME: Nope.
Her: Let me see the flyer you read.
I hand Her the flyer that is in the cart.
Her: This says that the sale is today, Tuesday, 11/1. The sale is not from 11-1. THAT IS THE DATE!

The Happiest Halloween!

 It was Rosie's first Halloween and she decided to dress up as Vera Duckworth fom Coronation Street. Blanche and Stanley are in the photo beside her but you can't see them because they dressed up as ghosts!

Image: "Friday Was Fine so Mrs. Parsons Washed Her Best Tablecloth...the one her Daughter-in-Law Dervla Sent Her Home from Ireland." by Cara & Pam 2011   
 In between the jigs and the reels, dinners, Halloween parties, nail-biting card games and the building of the painting studio we have been working away like cock-a-doodle Christmas elves getting ready for the our gallery show in St. John's...only 12 days away!