Before the COVID 19 era, I had the surprise and pleasure of being offered a few freelance writing jobs for pay. Long before this, in high school while taking a Journalism class, I spent three months writing a column of local news for the small village I lived in. I can’t even call it a […]
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Just a very quick update. A few months ago, I was interviewed for the Now or Never radio show at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I had pitched to write an article (about my having started a Bachelor’s degree at age 55) elsewhere on the CBC website, and was redirected to the radio show. The process
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Another project I did in August was starting multiple craft projects so that I could pick up any random one of them and work on them in between reading and university classes. However, I have not actually had time to immerse myself into any of these tiny projects, because I spend more of my time
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That title should be “August Creations Written About in Mid-November Because ‘School!’.” I thought that because I am taking “only” three classes this semester, I would have more time for crafting and sharing blog posts with you. However, it seems that the “extra” time compared to last year has been eaten by my learning to
Over this past summer, I took a couple more university courses so that I could 1) hope to finish my degree within five years and 2) try out my new academic essay-writing skills. The first one ran over May and June; so in regards to time commitment, it was like taking two courses in a
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This post has a collection of three different types of stitching I completed over the past nine months while in school. In this first photo, you can see embroidery stitching that I applied to a couple of linen hand towels I had sewn from a thrift store linen tablecloth. These were a gift for a
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I’ve been experimenting with making origami wreaths. When I say, “I’ve been,” I mean taking 15 minutes every few *weeks* over the past nine months to try something new. While I was in my first year university classes, I had no time for making anything. I carried an orange knit-sock-in-progress in my backpack in case
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Last September 6, I rode the public transport bus to my first day of university classes. I triple-checked the bus schedule and campus map, to make sure I would arrive in the right classroom in plenty of time before the first lecture began. After I found the big pink lecture hall, a tiered space with
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‘Tis true; last September, at age 55, I began my first year of university studies! I had previously alluded to it as a “project,” and what a project it turned out to be. At the encouragement of a friend, on August 1 of last year, I began the application process. With the student financial aid
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I discovered Dorset buttons sometime in the past year or so. The idea that buttons could be made by hand with cloth and thread completely fascinated me, especially if it meant handstitching and using a variety of materials and stitching skills! This post will feature Singleton buttons that are one of four types of Dorset
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