Day One - Demolished Corporate Ladder. Kicked Back at Summit.

So the big new news around these parts is that today was my first official day as my own full-time boss/employee!

Boo. Ya.

From here on in it's art and writing, writing and art, a lot of crossed fingers and a lot, lot, lot of work, but I'm in for it.

On paper, this all works out awesomely. In practice, I guess I'll have to wait and see. You can too by checking in here, where I plan to post daily news and updates.

Please comment often, as the new co-workers at the new office are kind of quiet and don't laugh at my jokes.

Upside is they're soft, chill and always down with some heavy petting...

More X-mas Goodies

Don't tell the CBC, but I snagged one of their old-school logos and silk-screened it on to a shirt for Sean. Sorry CBC - I love you, but I don't have $40 to drop on a T-shirt. What I have is more like $6 and 40 minutes.

Below that are three little guys I made for my Mom. I had the fleeting idea that I would tool the twelve days of Christmas, but that would have been either twelve massive baubles, or 78 pieces of leather. I think a trio of birds is a nice middle ground.

Bake it Easy

In addition to leather goods, everyone got bread this year! A straight week of baking (and 40 cupos of flour - this is some serious stuff) yielded these dense, delicious bundles.

I can call this bread a work of art and not sound like a cocky douche because all I did was follow the recipe from Earth to Table - a beautiful cookbook recently put out by a pair of chefs from the Ancaster Old Mill.

I will, however, take credit for subbing blackstrap where the recipe called for mild molasses. I mean, do you like molasses or do you like molasses?

Installment Number One

A present for my niece - who is at the age where all things faerie/princess/pink/purple/ballerina-related are to die for.

No Sight for Sore Eyes

I know this page is boring as hell because there hasn't been anything to look at lately, but I promise, promise, promise there will be so much to see so soon you will be sick with oversight!

Pictures and further explanations in the coming days...

In the meantime, might I suggest reading up on some of CBC's Canada Reads selections? This is an annual event that has, for me, turned winter from a thing to buckle down and bear, into a thing to anticipate.

I already have a couple of these books, but hadn't read them since I was in high school. I was curious to see whether Generation X would be as awesome as I thought it was when I was 16, particularly since a friend of mine recently read it and found it fell flat. I say he falls flat, because I re-read it and this book is still excellent.

I had barely started Fall on Your Knees (which I first read when I was 18) last week when I got Nikolski for Christmas and couldn't resist the lure of its matte, fish-flocked cover, so it has absorbed the late-night waking hours I should spend sleeping.

Pick at least one up and tune into the great debates in March!

Closer...

Busy with Christmas presents I will post pictures of once they have all been given to their rightful owners!

Sigh...

I am by no means a camera nerd. I know nothing about the art of photography and, in fact, would probably take all photos on an angle if Sean wasn't around to remind me how hack the result always is.

That said, I can see the difference between my latest snapshots and the sharp, clear images of a month ago - the ones taken with my since-stolen camera.

Maybe I will start saving up to make my first-ever purchase of a brand new piece of technology. A shiny digital camera with SLR(ish) capabilities. Though, of course, I will have to learn what/how exactly SLR means/does/is/works...