I’ve been keeping fairly busy doing design work for a client, and have been neglecting my blog.  I know, where are my priorities?    Actually, what I’ve been doing has been really fun.  It’s almost been a new thing every day… and that’s really good because I think I was in a bit of a rut.  I was just thinking that I haven’t designed “one” greeting card this year.  Man, that’s so unlike me!

Speaking of “so unlike me”… last weekend (Feb 9th) I got my hair cut.  I look in the mirror and hardly recognize myself.  It seems that ever since I started getting my hair cut short… it’s been getting progressively shorter and shorter.  This time I think I got it cut TOO SHORT… yup… I think I look like a Vulcan… yeah… like Mr. Spock… all I need is the pointy ears. Well… the good thing about hair… is that it grows back… well… at least mine does. 

When I was taking the photos off the camera I found this one of my dog that my daughter must have taken… really cracked me up…

When I got back from walking the dog today, I decided that I’d better do a bit of shoveling because the snow was kinda wet and if it freezes the driveway would be ice tomorrow. After I’d done that, I decided that wet snow is best snowman building snow … and so I made a snowman. It wasn’t long before my daughter came out to help me. Oddly she didn’t show up when I was shoveling the snow. Funny how that is, huh?

This is her & my snowman…

After I went in the house… and my daughter made this lovely unicorn…

She has such a brilliant imagination.

Upon reflection, I realized that the last snowman I built was about 10 years ago when the kids were really young. I certainly don’t recommend waiting this long to have your fun…

Wow. I can’t believe it’s Wednesday! It’s been go, gO, GO! all week for me…
During the day, I’ve been designing stationery product for one of my clients which has been a lot of fun. Mainly, because it’s getting me out of my “greeting card rut” and making me think a little differently. I’ve been designing stuff that’s kinda “dimensional”. So far, I’ve designed 4 “Tower of Notes”… and designed my first “Note Cube” today. I’d really be interested in seeing these when they’re manufactured. Hopefully, I will get some sample product… that would be nice.

On Monday & Tuesday evening… I taught. On Monday, my usual “Children’s Picture Book Illustration” class… then on Tuesday, I taught “Watercolours” to my daughter’s Pathfinder group. I’m kinda happy that I’m staying in tonight, though we were originally planning to go to church. But, we got a heck of a lot of snow today… and the roads aren’t so nice… so it’s best just to stay home. Michael was really late getting home from work tonight because of the driving conditions.

Once again, the kids had a “Snow Day” because the buses didn’t run. They had 2 snow days last week. That was like a dream week for them!

We had a big storm warning yesterday and a lot of the white stuff fell from the sky. I was out shoveling the driveway for a good hour… and by the looks of it… I need to do it again today. Sigh.

It does look really beautiful out there. Snow on the trees… really pretty.

I took some pictures this morning. Thought it was a nice juxtaposition. It’s the view from my living room window.. with my lovely pots of spring flowers on the inside and the winter wonderland outside.