Home is where the heart, and Mom, is.

My grandmother loved flowers and she loved making clothes.

My mother loves flowers and she loves needlework.

I love flowers and I love making things, too. 

These gifts have been handed down to my daughter as well.

When I lived in Taiwan, my mother spent nearly a year there with me.   She was inspired by the colours and flowers and fruit and vegetables, the mountains, the sea, the buildings.   

She painted.   She sewed.   She knitted.   She crocheted.  She taught my daughter to make bobbin lace.

Her hands are never idle.

Here are some of her muses, inspiration, design processes and creations.

Persimmons, Figs and Cabbage for Autumn

The Atayal tribal weavers and their multi-coloured textiles

Turquoise and red, traditional Chinese colours.

Traditional Puli huts

Gods at Tong Shiao

Blue Mountains in Taroko Gorge

Dankie, ouma Mavis!