2013

 Well, well.. as the year is coming to a close, it's hard not to look back and kind of sort out what happened, how you felt, what you accomplished, or did not, how you feel about it, etc. 

 2013 has been ONE HECK OF A HUGE YEAR FOR ME in terms of personal life events. I got married in March. And yes, as cliché as it sounds, it was the happiest day of my life. I still get all teary every time I look back at photographs or hear "our song". And honestly, I hope it stays that way for ever. Those emotions are still so raw and real. 

 I have also been very lucky in terms of work this year. I have started working with Éditions Les Malins and it's been a very fun process to get more into book cover illustrations. Work in general has come pretty steadily and I am sooo grateful for it. I know I am not the best at self-promoting and PR so having faithful clients and also just incoming work means a lot to me. 

 We took on a kitchen reno this summer (seriously the kitchen is basically done, I need to take decent pictures and share! We are so happy with how it looks and feels now!!) We knew we wanted our house to accommodate a family and be just overall more efficient and pretty.. but I did not know I was going to get pregnant the minute we started those renovations. I know people keep saying that no matter how long you wait for something to happen or how hard you want it... it will always happen the moment you stop expecting it.. Well, it proved to be true once again! 

 We are so happy about it and I have sort of held back from talking about this pregnancy for a long while now. I know I'm a jinx paranoid but.. at some point I just didn't know how to bring it up without making a cheesy big announcement out of it. I feel like I have been pregnant for so long now, we are really starting to be a little more ready and anxious to meet our little girl! I am already in my third trimester, and we are looking forward to her arrival in February. Like, a lot.   

 So basically things are all good. I have loved this year. And I'm really giddy for 2014 too. I will slow down work a bit after the holidays, basically finish what is already on the works. I'll take a break from February to May and see how we all feel at that point and where it leads us. I will probably still feel like sharing some things here during those months... 

 In the meantime, meet our little thing.... She does not have a name yet. And that picture is already pretty old. But it's the clearest image we have of her so it's still very precious. :) 

Calendar : Décembre

Ouh!! I'm late for this one! Ending the year in a real classy way ;)

Hopefully you like it just as much and I'm all forgiven already... 

 Are you psyched for Christmas yet? We holding on as best as we can on getting our tree since I like it to be still fresh and fragrant for *actual* Christmas day and New Year's eve.. But soon.. soon we will go get it!! I'm really giddy about the holidays this year. The Christmas playlist has been our go-to music for the last weekends and we are more and more looking forward to it each day. Here's a song from one of our favorite albums, She & Him's A Very She & Him Christmas :

xo !

Novembre

Oh hey! November is here.. As usual, October flew by. It really is starting to feel like winter around here. We even have some chances of snow this weekend... 

I have a lot of work lined up in the coming weeks (I'm really thankful for this very busy Fall work-wise!) So excuse me for the sparse posting... I'll try and update with some 2014 Calendar news soon. 

Les giboulées de mars...

OUH!! Just in time! 

And I am so done with this yucky weather... 

Calendar : February

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Oye.. I realize, I have barely posted here in a month. I'd like to apologize to my 4 readers.. 

I've been juggling a lot of small assignments and organizing myself is always a bit harder after the holidays. Especially when my attention is divided into a lot of different things, instead of one big job. Still.. I'll try to get back into the swing of things on the blog! Hoping february will be good to all of us.Valentines or not, flowers or not, chocolate or not, treat yourself and your loved ones. 

xo

Calendar : January

I hope you all had a very very merry Christmas. I did, it was pretty lovely. Lots of fun and amazing gifts. So spoiled. :) 

xo

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CALENDAR... News!?

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 Some bit of news flash, update, blab about my 2013 calendar. I have decided... not to have a printed version of the calendar this year. Instead, I will be making desktop images, and handing them as free downloads here. I guess I could charge for it, but really.. I don't feel like it. 

 I felt like it was not going to be ready in time for people to buy it as a christmas present. And to be honest, I did not really want to have a paper calendar this year. I won't be doing any craft shows, so there was very little outlet for me to sell it, in Quebec. And the shipping costs are often discouraging for  local clients, that buy it on Etsy. So, I wanted to come up with a solution that felt very win-win to me. And I am really happy about it. (I'll admit, after several bouts of agonizing and anxiety.)

 So at the end of each month, I'll have the full-rez desktop ready image in a blog post here. I'll be linking on facebook, tumblr, twitter and all, of course. I hope some people will still be happy to use it as their calendar, but on their computer this time! 

Septembre :: Work in Progress

Mercredis Wedding OCD

This new blog post category is pretty catchy, now isn't it? 

Janvier :: Sketch

 Here is my sketch for the month of January! Youpi for calendar 2013'. This time around, for color inspiration, I decided I was going pick my palettes out of some of my favorite instagrams of each given month. ( I am guilty, I do love instagram like your average hipster.) 

 This is a picture I took last january, and does it really get better then slow cooked oats, homemade jam that was given to you, and a cappuccino made by your man? It does feel silly to talk about such wintery things.. But you gotta do what you gotta do!