Bonjour, I'm Melanie and welcome to my blog! I have always loved creating things from whatever stuff I could find. I have especially enjoyed incorporating nature as a theme, with a touch of some magic dust whenever I can. I enjoy active living, healthy eating (if ice cream counts...) and reading. This blog is where I will share my projects, thoughts and adventures. Thank you for visiting my blog!
Tada! These are my 2011 Christmas cards, and I love them!
I enjoy doing projects like these because it gives me the chance to get my hands dirty and explore different mediums. It gives me a chance to stretch and awaken my creative thoughts and do whatever want.I love that freedom... kinda like taking of your push-up bras with wires and all after a day at work. I enjoy the results so much that I am currently working on a special series for Christmas and possibly beyond. More details to come. If anyone is interested in purchasing these cards, leave me a comment and I’ll set something up with Paypal. The originals are spoken for.
Maman, je vais te voir après ta chirugie de la cervelle …. Je t’aime gros!
Wow, it has been a month'ish since i last posted on my blog. Aack!
Training season started the last week of October. I have yet to find my grove this year on how to organize my life after my day-to-day job from 830 – 430 to find time to blog. So guess what, I might try blogging here at work! A big no no! Maybe I’ll start eating my lunch at my desk and blog. Either way, I have to figure something out! Once I get home after work, it is like I enter the time warp zone. It goes something like this: Commute home, snack and get ready for training, train from 6 – 730, arrive home at 8, start supper, eat, clean, get lunch ready for tomorrow, get commuter bag ready for tomorrow’s commute, cuddle the kitties, walk/run/play with the Jy monster, go over emails and bambooza it is already 11PM and I am still not in bed! And I have to go swimming tomorrow morning for 6 am!
Yes training does swallow up a lot of my time. But that is OK. I love training. I love to be with my friends. I love to work hard and sweat. I love the feeling of your body ready to collapse under you. I love how everything after a workout is that much better (food taste better, shower is better, bed feels better). I love how I can leave all my troubles at this imaginary line where I hop on my bike or lace up my runners. But I struggle everyday. I place these high expectations on myself on things that have to get done THAT DAY, everyday. I do not reach some and then I feel like a failure. Even while I am at work I start to make myself a to do list for the evening. Time slips away and then I haven’t yet blog but it is late so I go to bed. So I guess that is why I haven’t touch my blog in a while, and yes I feel a little bit guilty. But hopefully I can change that.
We all have our own concerns and worries and most of us are probably still try to find that groove. We are all a "work in progress"...
I will blog during my lunch and schedule a “day off” from training to do art and blog, and have time to simmer down.
