Whimfield Christmas Wrap Up
Posted on 27. Dec, 2009 by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Outdoors, Personal, Prince Edward Island
This Christmas season was an especially festive one, especially compared to last year.
Last year, we were pretty disorganized. We didn’t set up our Charlie Brown Christmas tree until Christmas Eve, and after Christmas was over we simply opened the front door and turfed the tree into the middle of the yard, where it sat until Spring.
But this year, we got our tree up in plenty of time, and we even wrapped a few gifts.
Christmas eve day was exciting. I was recently interviewed for a Canadian blog review site, and they published the article on Christmas eve day. It was a very kind review, and I blushed while reading it. Go over and take a gander if you like. It’s a well-written article, and in it I share some insight into the world of blogging and what it’s like to blog about real life.
Plus, then on Boxing Day we were mentioned in another article in the Saturday Edition of The Guardian newspaper.
It’s pleasing to know that the photos, my meandering diatribes, and our story are striking a chord with you. Thanks to Alexandra Highcrest of CBF and Mary MacKay of The Guardian for making us feel special. We will do our best to pay forward that special feeling.
The weather has been strangely mild and cooperative. There is almost nary a morsel of snow to be seen! We took advantage of the mild weather; on Christmas day, Cameron and I went for a long walk to the back of our property.
We spent hours on the phone with members of our family back in British Columbia, and we sort of felt like part of the action.
All in all, it was a wonderful, Christmassy Christmas. I am looking forward to 2010.
Gary Gray
Dec 27th, 2009
Hi L-J
Congratulations, I can’t think of any more deserving recipients of his fame and fortune than you and Cam. (well fame anyway if not fortune…at least not yet)
I found the Canadian blogging article and linked to it from the Prince Edward Island Tales Facebook group page. Then I found the revisit article in the Guardian with the note about you making Cam famous. wow!
I hope you both will remember us little people when are attending the red carpet premiere of the latest Hollywood blockbuster “Wimfield” and traveling the globe signing rare 1st edition copies of the number one world best selling nonfiction book “Whimfield”.
You never know, it could happen. Time to put your mind in neutral and just dream eh.
Congratulations on all of your well deserved local, national and international coverage.
Smiles :o)
Gary
(a forever friend)
Laura-Jane - Whimfield
Dec 27th, 2009
Lol, my mind is always in neutral.. :)
Kim
Dec 27th, 2009
Hi Laura-Jane,
I’m glad you guys had a great Christmas!
And the snow WILL come. It has to, doesn’t it?
Laura-Jane - Whimfield
Dec 30th, 2009
It’s here!!!!!!
Micheline
Dec 28th, 2009
Congratulations on being published twice in three days! I think it’s great that your story is inspiring so many people or at least keeping them company while they create their own crazy versions of living. And by people with crazy lives, I mean me. I wouldn’t want to lump anyone else in that category. Wishing you all the best in 2010.
Laura-Jane - Whimfield
Dec 30th, 2009
I’ve seen your new house in pictures, Micheline!!! I’ve been meaning to blog about you.
Micheline
Dec 31st, 2009
Crazy. I’ve been planning a blog post about you too. I’ll send you a little email when I do.
I can’t contain my curiosity any longer. Do you have a kitchen to speak of yet? In my experience the kitchen is the worst renovation to live through and the easiest to avoid but I can also say that it’s worth every second of the pain. I can hardly wait to tackle ours. Did you notice when you looked at the pictures of our house that I didn’t include any of the kitchen? It’s just way too hideous to share.
Laura-Jane - Whimfield
Dec 31st, 2009
I do not wish to answer your question, Micheline, because if I divulge the truth it may shatter any ideas anyone might have about our Whimfield life being a fully functional one.
Oh dear about your new kitchen. (Let’s talk about you, shall we?) I wonder how hideous it is? I am imagining yellow linoleum and terribly unappealing cabinetry… Although the rest of your home is so lovely, I am sure I am overimagining the horror of it all.
Laura-Jane - Whimfield
Dec 31st, 2009
OK, OK, I can’t not answer the question… No, we do not have a kitchen. You are correct, we haven’t had a kitchen for the last TWO YEARS. Yes, we are still washing dishes outside in the yard or upstairs in the bathroom sink. I confess.
However, we do have a good explanation. We want to jack our house up and put in a basement, which is going to shift our house around a lot. So no sense in finishing the kitchen now and have everything shift around on us (our house is v. crooked). And the other big reason is time. Once we started running our own business, free time has been thrown out the window. We do have a plan to get back to it, though!
Forgive me.
Alexandra Highcrest
Jan 6th, 2010
Hi Laura-Jane,
It was a pleasure researching Whimfield and I am so glad you like the subsequent profile. Whimfield has become one of my favourite nooks on the web so thank you for including a link to my own work. All the best to you and Cameron in the new year.
ciao for now
Alexandra