I have discovered that the iPhone 4s camera does this interesting thing… when you zoom and shoot over water and underneath an expansive sky (though perhaps the sky/water element isn’t completely necessary, just all my shots have been such) then the resulting picture looks like a watercolour effect has been added. Case in point, the […]
Author: MCD
I'm a writer. I also bake. And knit. A lot. My novels are available anywhere ebooks/paperbacks/audiobooks are sold online. Find more info on my blog: http://www.madebymeghan.ca
Over the next 12 weeks I will be sharing a chapter of my novel After The Virus  each sunday. Warning: for coarse language and brutal content. This is a post-apocalyptic love story. I hope you enjoy getting a peek. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated. If you are so inclined, purchase links can be found on […]
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On my desk today:
It is a winter wonderland in Vancouver today and, with the forecast predicting pissing rain for the next couple of days, we decided a lunch time walk was in order. The photo opportunities were numerous and these are a few that I grabbed with the iPhone: It is so strange – such a strange juxtaposition […]
Location: Spanish Banks, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Vancouver city pictured) – taken January 15, 2012 at approx. 2pm Photo info: taken with a iPhone 4s, slightly zoomed, stitched together with Photoshop – no touch-ups or effects.
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Clouds over water – A Panorama
Location: Kits Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo info:Â captured on an iPhone 4s and stitched together in Photoshop (no effects added – those clouds are 100% natural!).
“A child has no trouble believing in the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” – Steven Pressfield, Do The Work This is not a review – yes I enjoyed the book, but, having just finished […]
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Christmas Baking #FAIL
I just spent three weeks baking for Christmas – no, I am not exaggerating – I made the following goodies: Fruit Cake Sugar Cookies – iced and sugared Santa Whiskers Gingerbread – decorated, but tradition not as zombies, regular & mini Shortbread – chocolate-dipped and un-dipped Icing Sugar Chocolates Caramel – plain, chocolate-dipped, dipped & […]
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Yarn bombing…
It has been especially quiet around here for over a month, and while some of that time off was forced upon me (I was rather unwell through November into December), the later half of December was a self-imposed holiday filled with much baking and entertaining and holiday fun. Through all this the weather has been […]
“What? What are you talking about Feeder? A Christmas scarf for your sister? Your loom?!” “Human insanity. This clearly a cat bed. With yarn toys conveniently attached. Now let me sleep in peace. Can’t you see the sunbeam I’m soaking?”