Introducing, Zara Matrix

Zara Matrix is a performance artist who expresses herself in the art form of Drag! If I was meeting with Zara Matrix in her Creating Space, or at her mom’s home near Liverpool, perhaps she would have painted me up in a fabulous drag look. We would have done a photo shoot and I would …

Sunday Morning Coffee

Sunday morning I usually grab a coffee and take time to catch-up on some stories I may not have had time to read throughout the week.  I thought you might enjoy them with your Sunday morning coffee as well.  Nova Scotia Celebrates Comfort Food With New Festival Who doesn’t crave some comfort food in November? What a …

Sunday Morning Coffee

Sunday morning I usually grab a coffee and take time to catch-up on some stories I may not have had time to read throughout the week.  I thought you might enjoy them with your Sunday morning coffee as well.  Gas Bar Staff Help Deliver Newborn Baby in Chester Well now….that was quite the shift that the staff …

Melanie Perron, Fibre Artist

Melanie Perron is a fibre artist, an entrepreneur, co-owner and founding partner of Hell Bay Brewing Company, and a culinary artist.  Her art is wearable and in some cases also walk-on-able. I was pleased to be invited to her Creating Space on the Brooklyn Shore Road in Queens County.  Her studio is a rainbow of …

Sunday Morning Coffee

Sunday morning I usually grab a coffee and take time to catch-up on some stories I may not have had time to read throughout the week.  I thought you might enjoy them with your Sunday morning coffee as well.  Local creators named finalists in Nova Scotia’s top cultural award How exciting to have two of the three …

Vernon Oickle- Collector of Stories

Vernon Oickle is an award-winning journalist and editor.   He is also the author of several books. When we chatted at his home in Liverpool, I asked him about the 27 books he has written.  Imagine my blush when he gently corrected me.  He had written 33 books, not 27.  He smiled as I apologized, and …

Sunday Morning Coffee

Sunday morning I usually grab a coffee and take time to catch-up on some stories I may not have had time to read throughout the week.  I thought you might enjoy them with your Sunday morning coffee as well.  Pandemic brings increased interest in Bridgewater community We’ve been following along with Treehouse Village, the co-housing community coming …

Sunday Morning Coffee

Sunday morning I usually grab a coffee and take time to catch-up on some stories I may not have had time to read throughout the week.  I thought you might enjoy them with your Sunday morning coffee as well.  From mosh pit to meadow, Rare Bird Alert a colourful blend of birding and punk Nova Scotia director …

Doing The Best We Can

It’s been a heck of a ride since I last had the pleasure of checking in with Jennifer here at Simple Local Life.  While we’re doing the best we can, there’s been nothing simple about 2020 has there? We have been so fortunate here on the east coast , lucky because of geography and population …

Concrete Creations- Creating Space with Liverpool’s Garden Sculptor

For 44 years Ivan Higgins has been the owner-operator and landscape designer of Cosby’s Garden Centre on Highway 3 in Liverpool. His experience, knowledge of plants and creativity has transformed landscapes, into works of art, in Queens County and beyond.  Ivan is also a sculpture who works in an unusual medium, concrete. I found Ivan …