The End of 2013

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been overly active on my blog but I have been extremely busy offline.

A recap of 2013 month by month:

January: Aren and I rang in the new Year at home with friends. Aren's brother, a DJ stage name Foxhound, and some other local DJ's Beat Reynolds and Sunny Phono put on an amazing show. I performed with local Rapper Stretch-9 and had an amazing start to what would turn out to be an amazing year.

February: My dad's birthday. Aren and I were busy planning our upcoming vacation to Japan. This has been a dream of his for many years. His brother and my sister will be joining us.

March: My parents set off on their holiday to Cuba. All of us kids chipped in to send them on their first all inclusive tropical vacation to celebrate their 30th Anniversary.

I had the opportunity to sing with all of the lovely Sunday School Children at our Easter Service. There are some very talented young kids in this group!

April: My Artwork was displayed in the Tumbler Ridge Art Space.

May: JAPAN! We traveled to Japan for a three week dream vacation. It was one of the best vacations I have ever been on and I hope we will be able to return again someday. The Japanese people are very warm and inviting and made our stay unbelievable. Aren and I celebrated our 7th Anniversary while in Japan.

Life Size GUNDAM!

GUNDAM!

June: I announced my retirement at work. It was a challenging and rewarding experience to work at the Mine but the time had come for me to say goodbye. I will never forget the people or experiences I had while working at Ekati.

Photo by Nahanni Construction NCL

June 22 - Sang at a show with Stretch-9 at The Coal Bin. If you haven't heard his music yet you should check it out. Stretch-9 on Reverbnation

July: My niece Evangeline was born!

In the newspaper on my birthday! I was asked to sing at GrizzFest and our local paper ran an article about each performer/group. I also received a Nexus for my birthday.

 

A new track from Stretch-9, featuring yours truly was released on SoundCloud. Ms. Miss.

Have a listen if you haven`t already.

Listen Now!

August: Sang at Grizz-Fest with my friend local rap artist Stretch-9. It was awesome to get up and perform for people, some friends even came down from the Yukon to see us! Other performers included George Canyon, The Real McKenzie's and Dragonette. It was pretty cool to share the stage with these people.

Backstage at Grizz-Fest

 Aren and I began renovations to our house. Lots of work!

September: Still renovating....!

Aren's sister moved in with us and started school here in town.

Kailee and Kia

October: I won the Best Costume prize at the Hallowe'en party we attended. Aren should have won with his HAND MADE Daft Punk helmet. I don't think people realized that he wired all of the LED's himself and fabricated the helmet out of Fiberglass. He is pretty amazing!

I began working on some Musical collaborations with DJ's around the world.

November: My favorite sports team the SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS win the Grey Cup! Amazing! Our family was then featured in our local newspaper!

December: I entered 5 pieces of Artwork into the South Peace Art Societies Member Show at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery. This was my first show as a SPAS Member.

My first collaboration was released on SoundCloud with musical artist nberk. 

Have a listen if you haven`t already.

Listen Now!

 

Community Choir Concert - I was blessed to be able to join this group of talented people and had the opportunity to sing a special number during the concert as a trio with Bob and Michael (last names kept anonymous in case they don't want internet publicity!) I was also able to create a number of original Art pieces which were used as a part of the visual display during the concert.

Church Christmas Pageant - I was asked to play Mary and had a fun time participating in this event. I bet it was the first time Mary had blonde/blue hair! Disclaimer - not my baby but my wonderful friend Jen's bundle of joy Edward.

Christmas with my family and our new niece Evangeline!

Our Christmas Tree

I updated my Art Website with new work so please check it out:

www.lydiahibbing.com

I have prints available for purchase now as well.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Back To The Future

You may or may not have noticed that I have been absent from the world of blogging for well over a year. As you can imagine an awful lot has happened in that time. 

Some people have asked me why I stopped blogging and while I won't bore you with too much rhetoric on the subject I will say that "it" had all become too much.

I found myself trying to post every single day and playing a game of keeping up with the Jones' of the blogging world. Too much pressure and too much stress; not why I started this blog.

I am back now with a fresh perspective and perhaps some fresh ideas to share with you.

Before we get to anything new though I will give you a brief overview of what has happened since I last posted. (I will probably post in depth on some of these things in the near future).

1. Aren and I bought a house.
2. We moved to British Columbia.
3. Work got crazy busy as we won 2 new contracts.
4. I started painting seriously - not just as a hobby.
5. I sold my first painting!
6. This year was very productive in the creative sense, I sewed clothing, gifts, made woven rugs and much more!
7. Participated in my first craft fair as an exhibitor
8. Took a trip to Toronto with Aren
9. Shambhala!
10. Launched my Fine Art website www.lydiahibbing.com
11.  I finished my second Quilt
12. I exhibited artwork in my first Juried Art Show

Plus tons of other stuff. I will post about all of this and more in the upcoming weeks. Not all at once of course! Thanks for stopping by and not giving up on me even though I was gone for such a long time.

Ciao,

 

FREE GIFTS! - My Mother The Man-Eater Book Launch - Amazon

FREE GIFTS WITH PURCHASE!

Tomorrow is the much anticipated Amazon launch of my mother's new book: "My Mother The Man-Eater".

If any of you lovely readers purchase the book tomorrow (February 24th) from Amazon you will be eligible for a plethora of FREE GIFTS.

These gifts include FREE first chapters of newly published books, FREE Art Cards, FREE editing/critiques for your own manuscripts (limited number of pages), FREE short stories from BEST SELLING authors, FREE marketing presentations and MUCH MORE!

Once you have purchased the book on Amazon follow the link below to receive your FREE gifts:

*FREE GIFTS*

. You may choose one or ALL of the FREE GIFTS listed!

Remember:
1: Go to Amazon
2: Purchase "My Mother The Man-Eater" by Tracy Krauss
3: Get your FREE GIFTS

 

The Author Tracy Krauss with her newly published book "My Mother The Man-Eater".

I hope that many of you will be able to support an emerging author and purchase this book through Amazon.

Don't forget about the many Free Gifts available to you!

If you are unable to do so yourself it would also be wonderful if you would ask your local library to purchase a copy to be put in circulation.

As always have a wonderful day!

Ciao, 

Pudding From Scratch

Isn't it amazing how different things are nowadays? Small things like instant chocolate pudding. I have a cookbook that I purchased at a thrift store or garage sale (I don't remember where) with a recipe for chocolate pudding. I am sure that most people my age grew up going to the grocery store and buying (or not buying depending on your parents) JELL-O chocolate pudding. It isn't inconceivable that pudding can be made from scratch at home but it sure would be a stretch for a lot of people. I wonder how many mothers in this day and age would send their children to school with pudding if they had to make it from scratch?

Naturally I made some pudding of my own to see how difficult it really is. Surprisingly easy AND delicious. It has no weird "homemade-y" taste and is just as good if not better than store bought. Not that we ever really bought pudding anyways....

Aren certainly enjoyed it.

If you have any fun suggestions for normally store bought things that I could try to make at home let me know! I always like a good challenge.

Ciao,

Grey Cup 2010 -Saskatchewan Roughriders!! (and my New Camera)

So today I post about the 98th Grey Cup (late I know) and my new Camera!
The day I got out of camp I received a message from my dad asking if I wanted to go to the Grey Cup - of course I did! My family are all HUGE Saskatchewan Roughriders Fans. In the end my Mum, Dad, Aren, my Sister, my Brother and Myself all went to the game in Edmonton.
Our beloved Riders didn't win but we sure had a lot of fun cheering them on!

My Brother and I all decked out or the game enjoying some Timmy's.

Here we all are pre-game (Aren is taking the picture). Luckily it wasn't minus 25 or anything, I think it was only minus 10. We were bundled up for sure once it got underway!

My Sister and I with more crazy Roughrider Fans. The Mad Hatter, Gumby and an all Green Joker!!!!!!!

It was a sea of green in the stadium, Rider fans are the best fans around.

Go Riders Go!!!!!

Our new camera took amazing photos of the game, you can't even tell how far away we really are.

Did I mention it was cold? My Sister and I all bundled up with Mum and Dad in the background.

Can you believe the stadium? Something like 60,000 people were there!

Now you can tell how far away we are......

It was sad that we didn't win the cup but like I said it was super fun to be there. Originally we only had 4 tickets in a row so all 6 of us wouldn't have been able to sit together. I devised a plan though whereby Aren and I bought slightly better tickets than the ones my sister had bought and then traded them with two people who were sitting in the same row as my family. It worked!!! And we actually paid slightly less per ticket than my sister had because we got them pretty last minute.

Go Riders Go!

And this is our lovely new camera! Aren bought it for me last month but I was unable to take it out to camp as I didn't have a proper protective case yet. I am super excited to try taking some sweet pictures outside at camp - Northern Lights!!

Coming Soon : Hallowe'en Costumes!

Ciao,