America, F**k Yeah…

Sorry about the weird spacing of the photos. I can’t quite seem to fix it.  So what do you do when you’re feeling a little stressed, overwhelmed, unbalanced and generally out of sorts? Well, you plan a spontaneous stateside road trip with your husband and almost-two-year-old, of course! We headed down the I-5 on Saturday [...]

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My Favourite Things in General

So, I’ve been experiencing some writer’s block lately. I have what I feel are some great ideas for three different books I want to write, but I keep getting stuck. Fortunately, there are loads of great writing blogs out there with lots of fabulous and reassuring posts on breaking through blocks – like Laini Taylor’s [...]

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Binge Crafting

Okay, so needless to say I’ve been away for a while. A long while. More than six weeks, in fact. While I’ve been away, and life has carried on, a few notable things have happened that I would like to share with you. In the last few weeks I’ve: – Started another baby quilt, for [...]

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The Right Amount of Busy

For the first time in a very long time, I feel like I’ve got the perfect amount of busy going on in my life. A balance between activity and rest, nights out and nights in. It’s the amount of busy that I’ve been hoping for and trying for for so long, but just never achieved. [...]

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My Su-Su-Studioooooo

I really don’t know why I attempted a lame Phil Collins reference there. Oh well. Moving right along, you can see what falls off of my productivity chart once I start trying to go to bed at a decent hour. Yes indeed, clearly blog posts were something that was part of my late-night creative output [...]

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Thanks, I Needed That.

Yes, so I’ve been away for a while, both from home and from this blog space for quite a few days! Life is a bit tumultuous and in limbo at the moment, and our big family vacation to Posthill Lake (north of Kelowna) could not have come at a better time. From last Friday to [...]

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100% Christy

I feel at my best, my sparkliest, my most alive, my sunniest, my most 100% Christy when… …I have a creative writing project on the go (such as my latest children’s novel, above – just want to get the #$%@ thing finished, though!) …I have a nice, juicy book to read (still in the midst [...]

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Night Owls Have the Most Fun

[The new Vogue and a glass of red - the perfect 2am activity.] “Dawns are all very well (though I generally see them after staying up all night, when I may be too sleepy to appreciate them), but they can’t hold a candle to a full moon, an aurora borealis, a meteor shower, or a [...]

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Percolation

When I say I suck at arts & crafts, I shouldn’t undersell myself too much. Sometimes I have good concepts – like hanging my postcard collection (as a rotating gallery of postcards) from old cutlery that I got from an antique market in Vienna, or attaching a tiny pair of pants (they were on a [...]

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The Land of Procrasti Nation

Just call me Master Procrastinator. It’s been that way as long as I can remember. All through high school and university (both my Bachelor’s and my Master’s) I wrote every single paper the night before it was due, which usually meant staying up all night. For pretty much every task in my life, I leave [...]

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