Welcome to Curious Crone, the creative hub for my curiosity-inspired adventures. I’ve pulled together all of my favourite things under one roof. I’m endlessly curious and constantly exploring, and I love to share my discoveries. Here you’ll find creative ideas to explore, beautiful things to make, tutorials to follow, parties and workshops to book, stories to read, and so much more.
Choose your adventure:
Book a workshop
Gather a few friends at home and host a creativity workshop – crafts, tarot and more
Read the blog
The ongoing adventures of the Curious Crone – making, exploring, wondering, rambling
Explore tarot
Tarot reading, tarot parties, tarot events, and my thoughts on using tarot for creativity
Hire a photographer
I specialize in photos that tell a story – playful portraits for families in and around Ottawa
About the Curious Crone – that’s me!
Hi, I’m Dani. I’m a storyteller, a mom, an explorer, a maker, and a dilettante, among other things. I spent 20 years parenting out loud and in the public eye through my blog, Postcards from the Mothership, and Curious Crone is my vehicle to explore and share what comes next.
My whole life, I’ve been chasing the questions “I wonder…” and “what happens if I…” Now, I’m letting my curiosity lead me on new adventures. As I researched things that piqued my curiosity (from knitting to spinning to felting to wrapping rocks and a tonne of other crafting adventures) I realized that many people need encouragement and permission to explore and experiment with creativity. That’s what I’m offering with my crafting workshops – permission to play and have fun, plus a few supplies and some guidance on how to get started, so you can kindle your own spark of curiosity.
My curiosity also led me to a quirky niche as a professional tarot reader for events and parties. In exploring tarot, I realized that it is in essence telling stories – something I’ve been doing through my blog, my photography and even through crafting for many years.
Follow the ongoing adventures:
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Afterthoughts: Wrapping up the Summer 2025 Microadventure Challenge Back in April, which seems like a hundred years ago, I set up a challenge for myself: to engage in… -
Reflecting on a busy summer of tarot events and parties It has been a spectacularly fun summer of tarot reading events and parties, and workshops teaching folks how to read… -
Diving deep on knots Knots are cool. I felt like quite the badass a few years ago when a kayaking friend and mentor taught… -
How I turned my rock wrapping e-book into a real book Back in the spring, I had the idea that I'd expand on my original blog post about how to get… -
Summer rock wrapping: big rocks, fast wraps and Carrick bend knots It has been a glorious summer here, exploring all sorts of new crafting ideas like cyanotypes and natural dyes and…
