I’ve had so many identity crises concerning my online persona I can’t even begin to tell you about them without worrying about boring you to death. I love to journal, I love to share, end of story.

I can’t promise you that I will always be that short and sweet about everything.

I’ve had an idea in my head about how I wanted my blog to look for a while.

Now that I’ve got more time on my hands (read: I’m self-employed as I took personal leave from the public service to chase my heart to Toronto), I sat down and planned my website. I planned categories and the words I’d use to describe myself and my work. I let that stew for a while and spent countless nights (my sleeping schedule is a bit off) daydreaming about the posts I would write.

I dusted off my sketchbook and drew a logo. I then scanned that and digitized it into my first digital logo ever.

I knew that I wanted a logo in my handwriting, and I wanted the “o” to be something. First I thought perhaps camera lens, but my photography is only one small part of what I want to express here. Other ideas included: a cherry (to represent love of food and my favourite colour), a ball of yarn (cause I love to knit and crochet), a button (for my love of sewing), a ring (cause I want to make more jewelery), the earth (because of my concern for politics and environment), and a music note (because I love to sing and want to learn to play piano).

I settled on a pink balloon for a reason I’ll tell you about later. I promise. Please wait in excited anticipation.