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Kim Donohoe
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Multi-passionate artist who loves hand embroidery, pottery, painting, and more, living on Vancouver Island with my husband, three kids and seven pets. ☮️🌈🧠🌎💖
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If you live mid- Vancouver Island and love pottery, check out our Arrowsmith Potter’s Guild Christmas Sale Saturday November 8, 10-4, at the Bradley Centre! It’s my first time offering my pottery to the public! Hope you can make it!

#parksville #qualicumbeach #localgifts #handmadechristmas
A sign describing these details: If you live mid- Vancouver Island and love pottery, check out our Arrowsmith Potter’s Guild Christmas Sale Saturday November 8, 10-4, at the Bradley Centre! It’s my first time offering my pottery to the public! Hope you can make it!
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I made this pottery bowl on the wheel, then hand carved the floral design on it. Sadly my drippy glaze dripped too far and covered more of the carving that I hoped for, but that’s pottery! I have my first sale coming up on Nov 8 at the Bradley Centre in Coombs!

#pottery #qualicum #parksville
Pink glazed handmade pottery bowl on a silver tray. There’s drippy pink glaze over a hand carved floral design.
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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My bear mug is done and she’s a pretty one! I’m so happy with the result after being so challenged by the intricate carving and celadon glazing.

#pottery
#carvedpottery
#wheelthrownpottery
#madeincanada
#canadianpottery
#madeonvancouverisland
#animalart
#amacoglazes
A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray. A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray. A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray. A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray.
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I haven’t completed many embroideries lately, but I did this portrait of our dog Rosie recently. I hand drew the pattern, then hand stitched her in this happy sitting position in an oval frame.

#embroidery
#madeincanada
#canadianart
#petportrait
#qualicumbeach
#madeonvancouverisland
A smaller oval shaped embroidery of my dog Rosie. She’s a black and white Aussie Bernadoodle. Under her in pink it says her name and the “o” is a heart.
August 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Picked cherries from our trees this afternoon to the sounds of crickets. Very peaceful.
A white colander full of dark reddy-purple cherries on a grey faux stone countertop The sun shining through the leaves of our cherry tree looking across our front field and our fence with paint chipping off
August 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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No Northern Gateway oil pipeline and No large oil tankers in BC's Great Bear Sea!
The Northern Gateway pipeline project will pose significant environmental risks, particularly regarding potential oil spills and increased greenhouse gas emissions. The pipeline would have crossed num...
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August 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The forest fires are so terrible. The devastation to the forests, the fear and unknowing of evacuees, the dangerous work and long hours of the responders, and the smoke! On mid Vancouver Island we now have our second out of control fire in such a short order. This can’t be our new normal.

#climate
Brown smoke chokes out the sun near Qualicum Beach in the afternoon Grey smoke creeps across the morning sky, like it’s going to gobble up the sun
August 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses
GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denie...
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August 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The glazing on this vase didn’t turn out as expected, and it was my first time carving on a collared in piece where I couldn’t feel the inside while carving, so it was kind of scary!! No mishaps thankfully.

#pottery #canada #madeincanada #carvedpottery #canadianpottery #bcpottery
A pottery vase on a silver tray. The bottom is glazed pink and the top drippy blue. On the front of the vase is carved a trio of flowers that could be tulips, within a frame. A handmade pottery vase on a silver tray. The bottom is glazed pink and the top drippy blue. On the front of the vase is carved a trio of flowers that could be tulips, within a frame. A close up of a handmade pottery vase on a silver tray. The bottom is glazed pink and the top drippy blue. On the front of the vase is carved a trio of flowers that could be tulips, within a frame.
August 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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#Canada
Three Canadian Geese flying in formation towards the sunset with a clear blue sky behind them. They’re a beautiful and majestic representation of our country.
July 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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A little pottery cup I made, with a hand carved relief sleeping fox. This was a new studio grey celadon glaze. I really like the smooth, rounded, footless bottom I made (for the first time).

#pottery
#canadianpottery
#carvedpottery
#madeonvancouverisland
#madeincanada
#qualicumbeach
A smaller, rounded, shiny grey cup, on a silver engraved tray, with a white background. On the front of the cup is carved a sleeping fox, in relief. The fox was hand drawn on the cup after it was thrown on the wheel and trimmed, then hand carved in bas relief. You can just see the little sliver of white clay along the bottom of the cup where it rests on the tray as this is a footless cup, with a smooth, rounded bottom.
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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I’m so honoured and excited to have a piece of my carved pottery in this upcoming show at the McMillan Arts Centre in Parksville! Showing all summer, with a collection of local artists celebrating our local biosphere region.

#pottery
#mcmillanarts
#parksville
#qualicum
#theMAC
#mountarrowsmith
Poster for the upcoming McMillan Arts Centre summer show July 5-August 31, 2025, celebrating the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region’s 25th anniversary. I’ll have a piece of my hand thrown hand carved pottery in the show.
July 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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She worked out!! I’m so thrilled with how my rainbow bowl turned out after its clear glaze and final firing!! The underglaze is nice and vibrant and clean, and no cracks! (I can have bad luck with my bowls sometimes). This took over 10 hours to decorate.

#pottery
#pride
#prideart
#madeincanada
A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray with a white background. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it. A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray with a white background. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it. A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray with a white background. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it. Looking down from above to see the inside details. A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it. A close up look to show the details.
June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Work in Progress! This design was a little ambitious at the top with the small details. Hand carved on greenware clay mug thrown on the wheel.

#pottery
#canadianpottery
#carvedpottery
#madeonvancouverisland
#qualicumbeach
#handmade
A mug being held towards the camera. The mug is a soft beige colour as it is cheese hard greenware B-Mix clay. On the mug is carved a portrait of a bear with a floral crown. In the background is a foam circle used to support the mug when it’s being worked on, and some random stuff on my work surface (which is my dining room table lol)
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Happy Pride! #LGBTQ #MBPoli
June 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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What taxpayer money Poilievre spent last year is equal to:

1288 years of tuition.
2514 mortgage payments.
Groceries for a family of 4 for 523 years.
Daycare for a year for 1046 children.
118 senior couples total gross average income for a year.
#cdnpoli #grifterPoilievre
May 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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“Pierre Poilievre tapped into rage—not reality.”
– Matthew Green

He blames “socialism” for problems rooted in unchecked capitalism.
That’s why we need public media like CBC—to cut through the fury and report the facts.

#SaveTheCBC #PoilievreExposed #CBCForever #CdnPoli
May 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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PP is such a hypocrite it’s ridiculous
peipolitical.bsky.social PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · May 18
MP expenses for 2024 are out and @PierrePoilievre spent nearly a million more than Trudeau and Singh COMBINED.
#cdnpoli
May 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I thrift as much of my art supplies as I can. I just looked up this hoop that I thrifted and found it for sale on eBay for $450-550!! Love finding treasure by surprise.

#antiquehoop
#thriftedtreasure
#embroidery
#embroideryhoop
#antiqueartsupplies
#qualicumbeach
#parksville
A hand holds a warm hued wooden embroidery hoop towards the camera with a mostly black background. On the outside of the hoop is a silver metal wheel with the words QUEEN and PAT’D on it, with its metal support screwed into the hoop with two screws each side. Sharing because I thrifted it and then discovered that it is an antique!
May 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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The treaties between First Nations and Canada were signed 30 years before Alberta was even thought of.
The troll machine trying to break up our country are being treated in the media as legitimate grievance.
They are not.
They are malignant MAGA.

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First Nations unity displayed at rally against Alberta separatism
“Our Treaties are not relics. They are not documents to be shelved and forgotten.”
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May 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Thank you for standing up to this 👏 well said!

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Chief Allan Adam #australia #canada #mexico #uk #europe #usa #germany #trump #tariffs #ytshorts #ai
YouTube video by Canada on the Move
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May 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Glazing Day!

#vancouverislandpottery
#pottery
#bcpottery
#canadian
#madeincanada
#supportlocal
#carvedpottery
#glazeday
#ilikemakingprettystuff
Looking down from an angle at a table covered with big sheets of paper with handmade pottery pieces sitting on the table in different soft pastel neutral shades (they have recently been dipped into glaze, and now it’s drying on them)
May 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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WIP! This bowl took me so long to draw out and then paint with underglazes. Pleaseeee survive the rest of the processes! 🤞

#pottery
#potterywip
#rainbowart
#qualicum
#parksville
#bcpotter
#madeincanada
#canadianpottery
A leather hard hand thrown pottery bowl is upside down on a round piece of foam. The maker’s mark is stamped on the centre of the bottom of the bowl and says Kim Donohoe. The clay is a light beige and there are pastel rainbow lines painted on the surface
May 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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The Assembly of First Nations is joining others in calling for the repatriation of cultural and sacred items currently being held by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
First Nations orgs lobby to stop Hudson's Bay from selling artifacts
First Nations organizations are calling for the Hudson's Bay Company to stop the sale of any Indigenous items in its possession.
www.aptnnews.ca
May 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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There is a website for/by Albertan separatists where they have a petition goal of 600,000 of Albertans will vote yes in a referendum to leave, and are fundraising and stuff. So disrespectful. And also such bad timing.
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“Let us be absolutely clear: our Nations do not and will never consent to the separation of our Treaty territories. These lands were never ceded nor surrendered.”

Confederation of Treaty 6 First Nation would also like a word with Danielle Smith…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
May 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM