Photo of the day

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Rockets

20120125-155536.jpg

Posted in Rambling, Today's Photo | Tagged | 1 Comment

Boo

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Rockets

20120121-215935.jpg

I have no stars!

 

Posted in Me, Today's Photo | Tagged | 2 Comments

Thoughts By Real People

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Rockets
Fitness at home - thoughts by real people

Thoughts By Real People ©Christine Leader

 

$35.00 + Shipping

Black & White   •   23.5″ x 31.5″   •   Acrylic on Canvas

For sale – serious inquiries only

Posted in For Sale | Leave a comment

Remember that kids book I wrote?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Rockets
©Christine Leader

You Can't Make A Dinosaur

Today I dropped off 4 copies of my children’s book *You Can’t Make A Dinosaur Out Of Three Dead Horses at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park Mall location.

I should have felt Epic – HUGE…

But I stepped out into the cold with my empty plastic bag… and got into my car and thought to myself ~ “That’s it?”

I mean, I dropped them of at a real live living bookstore! 

 

 

 

Nuthin’

Just me, heading home. Wishing that it was warmer. Cursing the heater in my car. Thinking about work.

Please. Winter must end soon.

Maybe it will seem more real once I have the book launch. I need to save up some money for that and I’m waiting till summer. After all – Christmas is over, what’s the rush right?

Well they’re there now. Five precious copies at $12.99 a pop.

As a side note, today my cousins 5 year old son said:

“Mom, why do we have to return our library books when they are doomed?”

Food for thought.

Posted in Children's Book, Me | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Today’s Photo

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Rockets

I want to publish a photo a day. So here’s today’s photo (bottom) and three other photo’s (above) to elaborate.

Christine's Orchid - Late October

Beginning of November

Christine's Orchid - Beginning of November

Christine’s Orchid End of November
End of December

Christine's Orchid End of December

January 17, 2012

Christine's Orchid January 17th 2012

I grew an orchid. Don’t ask me how, I thought I’d killed it – like every other plant, cactus and tree that ever fell into my possession. You see, usually I end up phoning my brother in a panic when it’s far too late to save the plant/cactus/tree and that’s it.

I didn’t grow anything for nearly 8 years.

Then somehow I ended up with a bunch of plant clippings from work (one was a Christmas Cactus I found out this year) and I bought this orchid. It promptly turned a funny pale yellow/green and the flowers died. All of a sudden a couple of months ago a sprout took off from the base and today – it bloomed.

I feel pretty proud of myself for not killing it by over watering or talking to it till it committed hari-kari off the windowsill.

Posted in Today's Photo | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Just another day in paradise.

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Rockets

I’m just a regular person. Trying to get by with what I have and be happy.

I’m an artist. It’s a funny thing and feels funny for me to say – because most of the time it feels more like some kind of weird parlour trick and not a skill… I know you probably don’t want to hear this (and I seriously am NOT bragging) but I’ve never really “practiced” my craft – drawing has always just been something I’ve done.

Something that has gotten me in trouble.

Something that has helped me escape and relax.

Something that has at times stressed me because of demands and my own struggle with being able to let something go.

I don’t like to be finished. lol

So. This is my new website. I know, kinda cool right? I know nothing really about programming or anything and it’s taken me the better part of a month to set up this post and the spiderweb I just connected it too.

Well, I’m sure I’ll be posting more here – I tend to over share and talk too much about things I probably should keep to myself… you might like that.

So welcome!

Hand on steering wheel

This is MY journey! Get your own!

Posted in Me, Rambling, Redundant Explanation, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment