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  • Five Lives

    One of the exercises in previously mentioned book ‘The Artist’s Way’ chapter 1, is to make a list of your ‘imaginary lives’. If you had 5 other lives to live and money or learning and training were not an obstacle, what would your list look like? Mine look like this:…

  • Labels

    Do I refer to myself as an artist? In some ways, I feel like I am not worthy of the title ‘artist’.  I only went to art school, and I like to create. In comparison, it’s like someone who didn’t go to carpentry trade school or do much practical training,…

  • Influencers

      I have loved children’s books as far back as I can remember.  I have always loved reading and was quite the bookworm. Other than making my book in grade 6 (see how this came about here), with my goal of writing and illustrating children’s books – who were my…

  • Make Me Proud

    What’s important to me and what I want my kids to know is: -set standards of what they want their life to be like -to love themselves -to believe in their own magic/ strength /heart/ power -to be kind humans I think if you have standards and won’t ‘settle’ for…

  • On Getting Advice

    “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin. Since I have gradually gathered the courage to pursue this dream (of writing and illustrating for children, see more about this here), I now have lots of missed time to catch up on. I…