Hello! My name is Christine Alexandra "Day for Daisy" Sherry and I am the owner of DaisyPike.ca

Why Daisy? Daisy Pike was chosen as the name and theme as a tribute my grandmother Daisy through her matrilineal heritage from which descends the sometimes fabled historical figure of Newfoundland, Sheila NaGeira and her Pike children, including great-grandchildren by one of her Grandson's with Daisy's Great-Times-Eight Grandmom leading matrilineally back to me.

As the story goes... It is said that Sheila was an Irish princess who was kidnapped while at sea, travelling due to the continuing reformation during the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I's successor James VI. She was rescued by a pirate named Easton as her ship was burning and fell in love with his right hand man, of the name Pike. Sheila, Pike and Easton journeyed to the island of Newfoundland, but only Sheila remained for the rest of her life.

While learning about this story and tracing my own history I tried to image what life was like for them, and how they must have survived. I imagine the spirit of survival that must have required and I think of the culture of their people and take note of the animated wisdom, and the love of ordinary every day things. Which is why I have made DaisyPike for me to have a home for my own extraordinary, and some also very ordinary every day objects and things.

I wanted to imagine a world filled with a sort of magic that only exists in places where time stands still. I think of it as a kind of magic that goes missing if we aren't careful, especially living in this industrial day and age, relying on industrial fuel. If I can contribute something back to the world, to the spirit of this animated safe haven with it's ordinary daily objects; that we call home, and if I can do it on the daily on behalf of them, I will.

The colour story for the Saint Toffee collection pays tribute to the faded Irish flag used by Nfld.