Living Creatively, Living the Dream
I have, 100%, without a doubt, killed my blogger template! It’s possible I know just enough HTML and CSS to be completely and utterly dangerous yet not enough to be perfectly proficient. Yet! I’m well aware that what you see Continue reading Under construction…
I sit in class every day with a talented group of young people… each having arrived into the Graphic Design program at NSCC with various skills like photography, illustration, painting, acting and jewellery making to name a few. At times, Continue reading I HAVE A MOUSTACHE!!!!
There’s a crap-load of things that I’m grateful for. Like bully beef hash. Not that it’s on the top of my list or anything but oddly, it’s the first thing that came to mind. To be honest, I’m not sure Continue reading Thankful…
Where have I been? Oh, well… there’s the classroom, the barn, the gym and the car. I’ve been cleaning out the garage, washing floors, spending time doing homework and skyping The Tall Blond in France. On top of that, there’s Continue reading Where have I been…
It’s been that kind of a day. Where half of me is nostalgic… and the other half wants to kick myself in the head! So, I made Banana Chocolate Chip muffins… and you can too! Just throw 1 and 3/4 Continue reading Awwwwww Muffin…
I used to love “back to school”… gone were the summer days of trying to come up with something… anything… to keep my kids busy as I’d heard the “I’m boreds” so many times I’d near gone mad by mid-July! Continue reading Back to school…
So… for the last few days on the “Curtains are Open” Facebook page (click here if you’re not following me), I’ve asked folks to vote for me as the “best blogger” for The Coast’s “Best of the Halifax 2012″… a Continue reading Best of Halifax 2012…
OK… there are a few things you should know. My “Last Will and Testament” is in the pile of papers on my desk…or in the black cabinet in the kitchen. No…it’s possibly in the drawer by the side of my Continue reading Just in case…
Where the heck’d July go? OK… I watched all FIVE seasons of “Mad Men” which had me longing for a polka dotted piece of art for my office, a new couch, an open bar, a secretary and a pack of Continue reading July…
Having a blog… it’s interesting to watch the stats… see where people are visiting from and how long they stay. How they search. (You wouldn’t believe the people who find me by searching “sex while the curtains are open!”) Some Continue reading Pushing my blog…
I first met Katherine nineteen years ago and “took to her” immediately. She was my kind of person… outgoing and energetic with a smile on her face… always ready for the next bit of fun! And then, with the flick Continue reading Wouldn’t you like to fly…
It was a strange day that had me sitting at a table listening to Barney Bentall at The Carleton last evening. I’d had a busy week… the kids running amok with several activities, a few trips to the gym, the Continue reading Something to live for…
Part of the Graphic Design program I’m taking has us discussing various advertisements and their impact on society. So, I wasn’t entirely surprised when one of my classmates placed this months’ Time Magazine cover titled “Are you Mom Enough?”, on Continue reading Are you Mom enough?
I have just spent the last seven months with the most insane group of people you could possibly imagine! I can’t tell the stories… mostly ’cause no one would believe them! It’s drugs, sex, rock and roll all amassed in Continue reading What happens in "The Meatlocker"…
Have I mentioned my amazing instructors? But not because I have outstanding marks (when I say outstanding I mean they aren’t in yet… not that I’m “outstanding”.) They truly are awesome… again, instructors… not marks!! For many years, I taught Continue reading Those who can teach… do…
It’s an…. ummmmm…. a thingamajig doo-hickey! (Click on it… it’ll get bigger!) Yesterday, we ran around the school taking pictures and I found myself in the Print Lab with some of my favourite classmates… taking pictures of stuff I can Continue reading I took this…
Being a single mom at school is nuts! I’ve been in front of my computer since last Wednesday with multiple hours of homework still ahead that until yesterday… I’d planned out perfectly while still managing to feed my children and Continue reading Curve ball…
My brother thinks I should fly fish. Seems he believes it’s a perfect way for me to meet men! I’m not so sure. When we were kids, my folks would pull up along a roadside pond in Newfoundland… and set Continue reading Fishin’ for a man…
The Tall Blond called them “The Seven Dorks”. How I’d laugh!!! I can’t begin to guess how many time’s I read that book to her… but Snow White was HER princess. Every little girl has one… don’t they? I remember Continue reading Mirror Mirror…
Dear Charlene: It is Charlene isn’t it? That’s what I thought they said when they called your name at the beauty salon! I was there with Bones… getting her hair cut… at the mall to spend her birthday money! You… Continue reading I nearly dyed…