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Calendar Freebee Printables

Ah, January, month of resolutions and new beginnings. How we love to love you in the beginning, but love to hate you by week three. This is when the going gets tough. We want to continue on the path to our goals, but we struggle and stumble, and progress doesn't seem fast enough. Stay true, my friends! Whatever your goals, you can accomplish them. The journey may not be pretty. It may force you to dig deep. You just might have to give up sugar in your coffee...okay, you don't have to go that far...but slow, steady determination and sheer grit can yield vast results. They say it takes approximately 30 days to create a new, healthy habit - this can be anything from healthy eating, increasing your activity level, to learning a new skill, or retraining your brain away from negative self-talk, etc. In hopes of aiding you on your journey, here are a few free printable calendars to get you through those toughest three months. Just right click on each image to download the ...

Creating is Cheap Therapy

As an author and a library technician working in an elementary school, writing picture books has always been a goal. Illustrating a picture book has been a secret dream, but I hadn't picked up a paint brush or sketchbook in many years. Now and then I'd look through my old sketch books and think, someday I'll get back into art. Willow, our sweet yellow lab. That someday finally happened. One of our dogs, okay, Willow was my favourite of our three crazy labs...lol... passed on due to cancer. I was devastated. My husband and I don't have kids, we're childless by choice, and our dogs are true companion animals / complete members of our family. When Willow died, I needed another outlet in addition to my writing, which for the most part is dark - I write horror, thriller, mystery type stories. I do love my work, but I needed to channel my grief into something different, positive, and bright. We got a new puppy, an English Mastiff, and she became the inspiration ...