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It's me, the voice behind Visible Voice.
Some of you may know me as Kristi...others may not know me at all.
I have HUGE HUGE dreams. At the top of that list is being able to drive to the grocery store, to a library, perhaps even a mall. I’d just like to drive anywhere to be honest! I have a strong desire to see a park and maybe a few street lights twinkling in the night while city life buzzes around me. I’d also like to be on Oprah. But reality hits and I don’t see any of those things coming into my life any time soon. Oh and I'd like to live where it's summer all year long. But then I remember I'm Canadian which means snow and cold is Canada's middle name. What the?
I’m the Wife to a hot husband and a Mom to a cute kid. The kicker in my life is that I live in a far away land that I couldn’t have dreamed existed. {We just don't have places like this in Nova Scotia. Or we do and I just don't know about 'em!} My husband’s job has brought us to a Northern isolated community, far in the bush, where the nearest “real” grocery store is an hour flight away. No movies, no malls, no parks, no McDonalds, no library, no church..no nadda!! Oh and no sushi! I live on a compound with other friends who work with my husband. We have good times and laughs....and I'm doing my best to be "outdoorsie" in our long winters. And although I’m the only Mom and my son is the only kid on the compound we do our best to enjoy our life for the time that we’re here. And although I miss what's "normal" to me...there's something to be said about having your groceries delivered. I mean...that could be EVERY Mom's dream and for sure will be something I'll miss when we move!
My education is in Interactive Multimedia Graphic Design. I’m just starting to dabble in photography which I LOVE and my blog (since 2006) is my main passion and connection to the outside world. With my husband's job moving us around blogging has helped me keep connected to family and friends as well as make new ones. What a blessing it is. And yes I can be a dork, and can put my foot in my mouth. I also have heaps of issues that go on inside my brain....but I just do my best to be me.
It’s just in this past year that my desires to create and design are becoming strong in me again and it feels like I’ve found the me that’s been hiding in there since I was a kid. Because when we’re kids…don’t we think, feel, believe and dream that we can do ANYTHING? I want to be the kid in me again. And that actually makes my dreams HUGE.
Why Visible Voice? I truly feel like any work I do, artistically speaking...whether it is writing, photography, Graphic Design, or random arts and crafts...I feel like that's my visual voice. And so Visible Voice is becoming and true symbol to me in many wonderful ways!
I love to laugh, joke and poke fun at myself because I pretty much just hang out with ‘yours truly’ all the day long. So really, who else can I make fun of?
So I get around on a four wheeler, and the only store available to us just may fall on my head at any moment.The milk may be $11.00 a gallon with produce that may be expired...but I truly believe that life, that God, sends us lessons in the craziest ways! And although I count down the days until we move to a life I’ve always known (that I'm used to and with a cheaper flight to go home...YAY!), I choose to do my best to embrace living in isolation. Because, if nothing else comes out of it…at least it warrants me eating as MUCH chocolate as my heart so desires.
Keep coming by! I love company!
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