In spring this year, I was working away for my clients, when I heard about a webinar we had coming up. I was intrigued, because it was for a marketing course, specifically for tech marketing. With my tech client's big dreams in mind, I joined the webinar to learn more ways I could help him expand his business. Our webinar was curated by Chantel Elliot, and she covered everything that we would go over in a new course, OnRamp.  As soon as Chantel was done speaking (and after some discussion with my coworkers), I decided to apply. A few months later, I was officially on my marketing journe ..read more

I think that this is a big question for many small business owners. Sure, you can handle everything on your own... it's fine right? Sometimes it's not fine. So let's take a look at when it's time to get yourself a Virtual Assistant. 1) You Want More Time for Creativity. This can apply to traditionally creative businesses, like selling art, but can also apply to the rest of the spectrum of other business types. While creativity can sometimes be confused with being artistic, creativity really happens everywhere, it just comes in different forms. If you're an accountant, creativity might ser ..read more

Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash  Shortly over one year ago, I found myself looking through job postings during a pandemic, feeling more hopeless as each interview passed. It seemed like no matter what I did, I couldn't cut it. The only jobs that would call me back were robot-style customer support jobs and I knew I wouldn't be happy with that sort of position. I've worked as a customer support robot for years, and while I always did a good job, I was always limited by my employer. I did what everyone does; following posts about people who freelance or work remotely, wishin ..read more

Recently, I decided to try my hand at making an asset pack for a retro style horror game. I wanted to do this for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I needed to work on my pixel art. I felt confident in making sprites but not necessarily backgrounds. I also wanted to learn to make a tileset so that I could apply it to my own games eventually. As I was doing some research, I was able to find art tutorials, but couldn’t find any technical tutorials on how to execute the files for the tileset. What dimensions should my file be? What file type do I use? How many files do I include? I had so ..read more

Welcome to Cat Lady Centre Stage! In my life, I've met so many amazing cat ladies. Unfortunately, many cat ladies still face a lot of stereotypes: that they are crazy essentially. My goal of this blog is to celebrate the amazing cat ladies I've met, and share with the world how diverse and amazing cat ladies are.  This week, we are talking to Robyn E. and her beautiful girl Charlie. Please tell me about Miss Charlie!  I acquired Charlie online. Her mom or owner (not sure which) had abandoned her in someone's backyard. Unfortunately, that person could not keep her so I took her in.&n ..read more

Welcome to Cat Lady Centre Stage! In my life, I've met so many amazing cat ladies. Unfortunately, many cat ladies still face a lot of stereotypes: that they are crazy essentially. My goal of this blog is to celebrate the amazing cat ladies I've met, and share with the world how diverse and amazing cat ladies are.  This week, we are talking to Kaela L. and her handsome son Mowgli. Please tell me about your handsome young man!  Mowgli is a handsome long-haired black cat. He loves cuddles and eating. He will stand up on his hind legs for treats.  What has Mowgli been up to lately ..read more

Welcome to Cat Lady Centre Stage! In my life, I've met so many amazing cat ladies. Unfortunately, many cat ladies still face a lot of stereotypes: that they are crazy essentially. My goal of this blog is to celebrate the amazing cat ladies I've met, and share with the world how diverse and amazing cat ladies are.  This week, we are talking to Melanie B and her beautiful black boys Bentley and Combat. Please tell me about your black beauties! Bentley was adopted from the Humane Society (Edmonton) in 2011 at the age of 2 where he was the longest standing adoptee, but the only one to steal m ..read more

Welcome to Cat Lady Centre Stage! In my life, I've met so many amazing cat ladies. Unfortunately, many cat ladies still face a lot of stereotypes: that they are crazy essentially. My goal of this blog is to celebrate the amazing cat ladies I've met, and share with the world how diverse and amazing cat ladies are.  Taking Centre Stage this week we will feature Martie J, cat mom, and entrepreneur. Let's have a look at Martie and her beautiful cats:   Please tell me about your beautiful kitties!  Archer and Wink! I adopted both of them from Little Cats Lost just over 4 years ..read more

Welcome to Cat Lady Centre Stage! In my life, I've met so many amazing cat ladies. Unfortunately, many cat ladies still face a lot of stereotypes: that they are crazy essentially. My goal of this blog is to celebrate the amazing cat ladies I've met, and share with the world how diverse and amazing cat ladies are.  Taking Centre Stage this week we will feature Melanie H, a passionate cat mom, and talented artist. Let's have a look at Melanie and her beautiful cats:   Please tell me about your beautiful kitties! Eight-year-old Toshiba is a blue-grey shorthair that is food-motiva ..read more

If you had asked me years ago if I would take Pixel outside, my answer would have been a harsh NO. Outside is scary. There are dogs and other cats and it's so... peopley outside. Throw some general anxiety into the mix and you have a recipe for an indoor cat. That was 6 years ago. Things change. Even anxiety changes. Pixel is an adventure cat now. Right now her adventures happen on our porch but that's just fine. All adventures start somewhere.  At first, I wasn't sure she would take to a harness. Pixel was unphased of course. I suppose to her a harness is about the same as wearing ..read more