Category: Personal
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Free Colouring Page – Fly Free Stained Glass Colouring Book
Let’s colour together! To show my appreciation for your ongoing support in my creative endeavours, I offer this free colouring page. This is just one of the original designs included in my Fly Free Stained Glass Colouring Book. I created each design in either Adobe Photoshop or, later, in Fresco (which is now my go-to…
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Meet Our Puppy, Echo!
Hi there, folks! I’m back from an unplanned break. Unplanned because I hyperfixated so hard on planning (yes, planning!!) my new novel that I ran out of scheduled posts, but also because someone adorable pounced into our home. Echo is a Double Doodle—her mom is a Labradoodle and her dad an Aussiedoodle. At the time…
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March Writing Update
I wanted to start this post with something witty, but then I remembered my actual writing-related news and needed a moment to celebrate. It’s been a journey, friends. Setback after setback made me hate A Curse of Venom & Scales for a moment there, but I’m ECSTATIC to announce we’re back on track. What’s fourteen…
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ADHD & Writing
I’ve been working on this post for literal years. And if that doesn’t illustrate exactly what it’s like to be a writer with ADHD, I don’t know what will. Still, since my diagnosis, several regular readers of my blog have reached out to me to write about this topic, so I put it on my…
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Hello 2025
It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it? The past holiday season was one of the busiest of my life. On the eighteenth of December (aaand the nineteenth and the twentieth), we moved from Calgary to Cochrane, a sweet town about half an hour’s drive outside the city. This move has been a dream for us,…
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Photo Diary – Drumheller Hoodoos
After our trip to The Royal Tyrell Museum, we drove out to the Willow Creek Hoodoos. Hoodoos are groups of naturally occurring stone columns with caprocks. At Willow Creek, they range from 1-3m in height, and span 11 hectares. Though the Willow Creek trail isn’t very long, the sights make up for it. Some visitors…
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Photo Diary – Royal Tyrell Museum
Drumheller and the surrounding areas have been on our bucket list forever, and we finally visited in early November. Of course, we soon learned there’s just too much to explore in a single day and we’ll have to return. My dino-nerd daughter would have it no other way. Our first stop was The Royal Tyrell…
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November Life Update
We’ve assimilated to life as Canadians in all but one aspect—I still do my spring cleaning in October/November, like I would in the southern hemisphere. And, as luck would have it, my intense spring cleaning fever coincides with something big this year. We’re moving. For many immigrants, purchasing a home is a long-term dream. Moving…
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Fly Free-Stained Glass Colouring Book
One of my lifelong goals has been to illustrate colouring books, but it’s the kind of thing we dream about but put off because life’s too busy. Then, in the heart of lockdown, I actually did it. I illustrated a faux stained glass colouring book featuring different birds. I was ecstatic. Goal completed. But then…
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October Auroras
It’s trending on social media, but I can hook you up if you haven’t seen aurora pics (gasp!). We’ve seen the northern lights a time or two since moving to Canada, but never quite as bright as last week. This was also the first time I’ve seen pinks. The biggest bonus, though, was how early…
Yolandie Horak 