09 Oct, 2009
It’s been crazyweek here at the Fishbowl
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Publishing/writing/career stuff
We’re heading into a fabulous and jam-packed long Thanksgiving weekend, which is great, although I will confess that one side of me just really wants to curl up under the covers with a good book and eat Chinese take out.
It’s been koo-koo crazy around these parts lately. Allow me to summarize what has had me leaping out of bed in the mornings.
- Last week I was on CBC radio talking about blogging, marketing and freebies. It was so much fun. I’m still buzzing.
- A piece I did about our family advent calendar was published in November issue Canadian Family Magazine (you can check that out here). The photo of the miniature envelopes I made are making me feel VERY MARTHA RIGHT NOW. This is a magazine I read cover-to-cover. To be able to combine crafting and parenting in a printed piece for CF is a total thrill.
- Ann Douglas, an amazing friend and author and someone I admire very much “interviewed” me for her corner of parentcentral.ca (and by “interview” I mean “asked me one question” which I had to answer in under 100 words. (Which, for me, was about as easy as sawing off my right arm using my left hand.)
- There’s an article in our neighborhood paper about a project I am really excited about, the community bookcase!
- SATURDAY (that’s tomorrow, eek!) there’s a profile about me coming out in the Ottawa Citizen – PHOTO AND ALL. (!)
Apparently it’s going to be on the cover of the recently relaunched Life section. I am slightly worried because the writer and I had a very long (wonderful/fun/thoughtluf) conversation and covered about a hundred different topics yet I actually have no idea what I said.Gah!
She recently asked me to email extra photos of myself with the girls (sorry Mark) so I scrolled through our entire 2009 library and found exactly FOUR. One of them is being published too. Let me know if you catch the article!
Anyway, yes, there has been a lot of stuff swirling around my head. The list above is just skimming the surface. There is more, but… I need to keep it under wraps for a while longer. Check back next week to see what else has been going on here at Casa Fishbowl. (!)
In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving, and have a great long weekend!
