Creative Pages Blog

  • My camera and the birds

    This year has been one for the record books what with a pandemic that comes complete with masks, social distancing and far too many unknowns. So like many others I have started to dabble in bird watching, taking along my trusted camera of course. You would think with so many birds around the house it…

  • Inspiration comes from doing. . .

    I didn’t sleep well last night and that left me feeling very unfocused today. I had a hard time doing much of anything, let alone writing or making art . So how to solve that one? When I tell someone that I’m an artist, or a writer ( depending on the day because I do…

  • Self Publishing again!

    The first novel that I self published ‘Secrets, Lies & Rodeo’ is once again available on Amazon in print form, as well as in ebook format. Here’s the new book description I wrote for it; Living near a sleepy satellite town allows for country living, horsing around and getting to know the locals. But what…

  • Writing, painting and fabric, oh no!

    Outside it’s spring and beautiful. Inside it’s me again, thinking that I’ve finally cut down on the impossible number of creative projects I tend to plan for. Not! So here it is. I am well into my new novel which is dystopian science fiction aimed at the young adult market. Myself and every second writer…

  • October and choices

    It’s October and once again I don’t know where the first half of the month went.  Projects are firming up in my mind and as always there are too many of them.  I’ve always been an ‘idea’ person.  No problem at all thinking of things to do.  The big problem for me has always been…

  • Printing for the Edmonton Comic Expo

    We have run out of summer weather here in Alberta.  I’m sad that it’s ending, but I have been so busy that this means that I might actually have something called spare time again! Well I will,  after the Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo which is held at the Edmonton Expo Centre from the 21st…