While visiting dear old friends in Nelson, I bummed my mate’s car and took a drive to The Jester House Cafe near Mapua where they have...

Charles Barrie and his flat mates, Paul, Teresa, and Tricia hosted me for a week and showed me how possible it is for people to live...

Yes, perhaps one day they’ll decide to have another kid and adopt ME!  (Oh, to dream…) The Fields with Jean's latest NZ ecology quilt! ...

It’s a choice that’s so logical you can learn it with some pictures from the Wairarapa: Take a plentiful mixture of suffering cows: All...

It was a busy last day with Hammi Te Whaiti, his daughter, Wawaro, and all at the Aratoi Museum of Art and History.  Not only did they...

These kids are inquisitive thinkers who had heaps of terrific eel questions…. we learned so much.  They were even brave enough to pet the...

Roimata Rimene’s students have  strong kaitiakitanga and want to help bring the mauri back to the wai!  They lended some small hands to...

Cherryl’s gang at Dalefield School had heaps of knowledge to share about local stream health.  Many of these kids are planning to go into...

Brigid Stevens and Jolene Butson’s students at Greytown School are joining the tapestry with a promise to make two panels… that’s another...

Peta, Mick, Sam, Janine and baby Bella let me be one of the family for over a week of Velvet the Eel work in and around Masterton.  This...

Ruth Bucknell’s kids at Wairarapa College are showing us all how to make a super creative tapestry with very imaginative applique...

Literally and Figuratively, the eel wheel was burning.  On my speedy trek from Lakeview to Fernridge the Tuna Tapestry suitcase melted a...

Peta Ludden has retired from Lakeview, but she’s back helping with the Tuna Tapestry!  These kids and their parents are spreading the...

Not only are Karen Treseder’s kids joining the tapestry, but they are also caring for the eels in their schoolyard stream, studying eels’...

Thanks to the patient work and interpretations by Frances, the sock puppets were a huge success.  The pictures tell it all!  Also, a...

Here’s what Liv had to say about the experience: ” I just loved the session, was on a buzz the rest of the day from it. Living on the...

After a heartfelt and personal introduction by my Masterton host and internationally renowned sculptor A few of Sam's Tuna...

Thanks to the D.O.C.  folks at Pukaha Mt. Bruce I was granted some solo time with the big girls in the river… feeding them right off a...

Dee is the author of many fantastic books, including “Feed Me Right”.  When she picked me up I asked to stop at the grocery store and she...

Soozee is the vivacious woman with two green thumbs to whom everyone is mailing their finished tapestry sections for final sewing...