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Just a quick note to all the wonderful people here at CCS to wish them all a Happy Valentine's day! Love! Chocolates! Kisses! And more love! Here are a few Valentine Day cards I made recently for a cardmaking workshop I was supposed to give. Except not enough people signed up for it. Well, at least it gave me a chance to play and make Valentine Day Cards. Claude Aimée

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Since I last posted about the snow, it hasn't stopped falling. The first big snow fall came a few weeks ago. We got about 30 cm (1 foot) of snow. The snow plow deposited a mountain of snow just in front of our driveway. It took about 3 days to clear everything. That was followed by more days of light snow, bitter wind, a cold spell. The winter routine is settling in: shoveling snow, getting some wood from outside and feeding the wood stove in the kitchen, making soups and stews to warm the belly… Continue

I woke up this morning and the ground was covered with a thin carpet of snow. The sky is white and in the tree just outside my window there are 6 cardinals hopping from branch to branch. It's the first time I've seen so many in one spot. Maybe they are having a little jamboree to celebrate this special event.

The chickadees don't seem to mind the cold weather and fly excitedly to the feeder, grab one seed and take off as fast as they came. The small downy wood pecker is pecking at the s… Continue

The last few weeks I've been busy with a lot of projects and things I had to take care of. I also had to work on my project about starting a business. The course I'm taking is going well, I learn a lot every week and it helps me demystify a lot of things about the business aspect of starting a business. I've had a lot of homeworks to do and it took a lot of my time. I made sure I continued doing a bit of creative something every day or almost and didn't stop my morning writing. But I truly misse… Continue

Yesterday I felt like cutting up more words from magazines. This time I attacked four decoration magazines. The words are different from the Oprah magazines so it gives me even more choice of words and sentences to play with.

I cut up some colored paper then start rummaging through all the words scattered on my drawing table. The cat had to come visit just as I was picking words and sprawled all over the sea of words. I had to wrestle with him to be able to get to the words. He finally… Continue