The problem with coming out of a depressive stage, or trying to, is not knowing how to reach back out and how to apologize for disappearing into yourself. This is all new to me and I’m hating it.

The belly laughs I had when my husband sent me this footage. I love our squirrel neighbour so much.

Happy January

When you have a literal library, but nothing to read.

We have a little squirrel living in our tree. It’s always so thrilling to see them running around or, in this case, enjoying an early lunch. #squirrel #nature #photography #yeg

vt.tiktok.com/ZS5bG4WrW/ This little one has been living in our tree, it’s always so thrilling to see them. #squirrel #nature

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

Day 24 Art Advent Calendar Happy final day of #ArtAdventCalendar Little pup to close out out time here #art #inktober #drawing #puppy

Day 22 Art Advent Calendar Resin octopus in teal blue with glass mirror shards and gears #art #ArtAdventCalendar #steampunk #octopus #resin #yegart

Day 21 Art Advent Calendar Relic Mixed media altered altoid tin lid, designed to look like an old fashioned circus train car with a paper doll moon girl. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #handmade

Day 20 Art Advent Calendar My favourite picture I’ve ever taken of my old girl, Mystique. It’s a little blurry, but the comedic value of this picture is priceless. She looks slightly confused, as if she’s unsure how to take a selfie photo. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #cats #caturday

Day 19 Art Advent Calendar Baba Yaga’s Apothecary Handmade altered Altoid tin with a chicken foot, apothecary shelves, handmade and found objects. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #assemblage #steampunk #apothecary #handmade

Day 18 Art Advent Calendar Red Chaos Canvas #art #ArtAdventCalendar #painting #mixedmedia #yegart

Day 17 Art Advent Calendar Inktober drawing of a poppy flower in India ink #art #ArtAdventCalendar #ink #drawing

Day 16 Art Advent Calendar My favourite picture I took while on a tour on a business trip in November. Take on the San Andreas fault line, and showing directions (in miles) to different places. #art#ArtAdventCalendar #photography #SanAndreas

Day 15 Art Advent Calendar Another Inktober drawing, the prompt was “salty”. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #Inktober #drawing #octopus

Day 14 Art Advent Calendar Chaos Canvas A mixed media painting I did years ago, 12”x24” in acrylic paint and ink. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #yegart

Day 13 Art Advent Calendar Work in progress, a resin sun catcher. I made the frame from resin and painted and patina’d it then created the interior where the light shines through with more resin. All handmade. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #resin #workinprogress

Day 12 Art Advent Calendar Altered playing card. I can’t remember what card this was, probably a club. It was part of an altered art project I did that altered one playing card in a deck/week. I need to finish that project 😅 #art #ArtAdventCalendar #altered #mixedmedia #steampunk

Day 11 Art Advent Calendar Mushrooms growing in an Edmonton park. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #photography #mushrooms

Day 10 Art Advent Calendar Altered Skull I made this using a super cheap Halloween prop that looked so fake. I painted it up to look more realistic, aged the skull, and created the fake candle wax and candle. Made to look like a prop on a wizard’s table #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #skull

Day 9 Art Advent Calendar Travelling (or trying to, yay delays) for work so enjoy an older Inktober picture, a rare, Taco Armadillo #Art #ArtAdventCalendar #drawing #inktober

Day 8 of Art Advent Calendar Wizard’s Study Altered Altoid tin filled with books, skulls, weird charts, and an owl (Archimedes). #art #ArtAdventCalendar #magic #assemblageart #mixedmedia

Day 7 of Art Advent Calendar Mixed Media Heart Canvas Made with upcycled charms, keys, and found objects this canvas has a large heart as the focal piece. What you can’t really see is just how 3D it all is. #art#ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #assemblage

Day 6 Art Advent Calendar Steampunk Seahorse This mixed media assemblage painting features a resin seahorse surrounded by gears, fabric, metal ocean charms, and other found objects. The colours are more gold, blue and green. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #steampunk

Day 5 of Art Advent Calendar Steampunk Octopus mixed media painting with a resin octopus and plenty of gears, fabric, and found objects. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #steampunk

Day 4 of Art Advent Calendar Altered Altoid tin shrine - Shrine of the Forgotten. Imagine you were walking in the forest one day and something unusual caught your eye. You bend down to pick it up, and this is what you found, a shrine to a forgotten god. #art #ArtAdventCalendar

Day 3 of Art Advent Calendar Resin! Possibly the cutest resin piece I’ve ever made, a semi opaque pink pumpkin dish with lime green stem lid. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #resin

Day 2 of Art Advent Calendar is more about the process of creation. It’s messy but results in amazing things. Halloween mixed media Configutation Box #art #ArtAdventCalendar #yegarts

Day 1 of Art Advent Calendar! Day one is a pocket shrine I created in an old altoid tin - the Shrine of the Lost Gods. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #yegart

True love is your husband looking up the next book in your series and offering to buy it for you because you’re sad you don’t have it, and then just saying how about I get the rest of the series. And then getting worried because he can only find books 3-7 because book 8 isn’t out. I feel so loved. ❤️

That feeling when you send someone an excel and they send it back as a pdf.

Although my art creation this year has been minimal thanks to CPA, I’m definitely participating.

And so it shall be

I did a thing this weekend which was great and terrible. I emptied all my books off the it various bookcases, stickered all my TBR books, sorted them ALL alphabetically, purged books, and loaded them back onto the bookcase. I started Saturday afternoon and finished adding books to to shelves at 2AM

’Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

Happy Halloween! Enjoy this pumpkin I carved a few years back that I’m super proud of. #Halloween

Perimenopause is hell, but I’m glad to have it confirmed because now it can be treated. I’m so tired of the emotional rollercoaster, the sadness, and the feeling of being done. I’m looking forward to a little normalcy and happiness. #perimenopause

We went and did a pottery course this weekend and made little ghosts. These are our results, can’t wait to see what they look like fired ❤️ #pottery

Once again, time to share the best pumpkin I ever carved for my coworkers vm.tiktok.com/ZMAXBYWBe/ #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #welder

vm.tiktok.com/ZMAQE5jj9 My husband got me one of the treasure chest projector lights for my birthday and I’m in love #romantasy #birthday #moodlighting #projectorlights

Had a little visitor to the water dish vm.tiktok.com/ZMAxExKA5/

An early birthday present to myself arrived today ❤️📚 #books

My birthday falls on Thanksgiving this month and I refuse to have turkey dinner for my bday again - way too many growing up. However, husband loves thanksgiving and it’s his birthday today so I ordered a turkey dinner for the weekend for him for his bday. He was very happy with his bday gift 😂

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

I hate it when our pets get old. Mystique hasn’t been doing good lately, giving her all the cuddles and love we can. #cats

Oh my goodness, it looks like there might actually be some fall weather coming up in the forecast and I know that’ll make some people mad, but I’m so looking forward to cooler weather, leaves falling and blowing around, and maybe even some rain. #yeg

Sunset in Edmonton was magnificent tonight. And it’s still gorgeous out there with the lovely, purple-pink hints to the sky.

Going nowhere fast Train at a stop in Edmonton #yeg