It is hard to believe Danny just turned one year old today!
Happy Birthday Baby!

Christmas, 2006

This was the only shot with everyone’s eyes open, but Doug did a great job setting up the lighting. It’s been a while since I’ve posted but we have been settling into our new home up North, and I look forward to setting up a work space in the new year. (Hopefully the littlest one will let me catch up on a bit more sleep any time now….)

With love from my family to you and yours.

I just had to share this picture of Conor looking at his Easter egg yesterday morning. He enjoyed playing with it, and kept putting the little pieces back in the egg cup, but he wasn’t sure what to think of his first taste of chocolate. However, he was completely thrilled by the little Easter egg hunt we prepared for him afterwards. He ran around with a little blue basket collecting paper eggs, exclaiming “more and more and more!” He was having so much fun, we had to keep re-hiding them.

As for me, I celebrated the holiday by dressing up as a big turquoise egg. Or at least, that’s what everyone –including Conor– agreed I ressembled, with only two months before I’m due.

My sister working as stylist for Electra 2005

I’m about to play the part of the proud sibling, but I can’t help it! Colin Maclean for the Edmonton Sun writes:

Renate Pohl’s setting for the Studio Theatre production of Howard Barker’s Scenes From an Execution is a marvellous creation. It’s a three- level, industrial- strength erector set that, in a play about art, could be a painting itself.

You can read the rest of the rave review, and more details about the production.

After graduating with a gold medal and a BFA in theatre several years ago, and having acted, directed, toiled at an insurance company, worked as a popcorn girl, taught in Japan, and also dabbled with the likes of astrophysics, my brave and beautiful sister recently decided to go back to school to complete a masters in theatre design. She’s now teaching at her university to help finance this dream, and is on the verge of finishing her thesis.

I’ve learned to expect the unexpected from Renate. Last year she sent me a picture of this very large study of a Vermeer. That it was done in set paint was all the more impressive, and I think you’ll have to agree that it’s none too shabby for a first major attempt at painting.

Study of Vermeer’s The Glass of Wine, Set paint on Canvas by Renate Pohl

In between all this, she took time off to visit us and paint Conor’s nursery. Now she’s made plans to go to England later this year, to see what other adventures await. I look foward to hearing all about them!