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Celebrate your hard work, your efforts, your freedom. Celebrate your health, your power and your worth. Celebrate your ethnicity, your religion and sexuality Celebrate your body, your curves and all that makes you beautiful. Celebrate your perfect flaws, your wrinkles and grey hair and… Continue Reading “Celebrate women”
Category: Mind, body and soul, UncategorizedTags: celebrate, daughter, feminist, femme, Freedom, her, history, humanrights, internationalwomensday, love, mother, sisters, soul, women, women’s day
Posted on February 13, 2021
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I remember like it was yesterday, I was sitting at my desk in Gatineau, Quebec, wearing a suits, wondering what the heck I was doing with my life. I had dropped out of college, landed on a “great opportunity” job as an admin, and… Continue Reading “Quit your desk job”
Category: construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: carpentry, challenges, concrete, construction, femalecarpenter, feminist, generation, happiness, hard work, island, pacificocean, Photography, trades, Travel, women, women in trades, womeninconstruction
Posted on February 8, 2021
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It’s now the middle of winter, the ground is covered with a mix of mud, fresh grass and blossoming flowers. Roses bushes are beginning to bloom and the locals are getting their gardens beds ready for this spring. The west coast has been treating… Continue Reading “Winter on a rain shadowed Island”
Category: Adventures, UncategorizedTags: Bc, dream, explorebc, explorecanada, exploretofino, feminist, Freedom, GoPro, gulf island, happiness, happy, island, island life, motorhome, ocean, pacific, pacificocean, Photography, Saturna, sea, seal, Squamish, surf, Travel, Travelbc, vanlife, westcoast, women
Posted on January 24, 2021
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As I was growing up, l had the stereotypical idea that by the age of 25 I would be married, working in an office, have a house, kids and in general be settled down near my family. I am now 25, move about twice… Continue Reading “Being a female, traveling carpenter.”
Category: Adventures, construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: badass, Bc, Camping, carpenter, carpentry, challenges, concrete, construction, crab, dream, explorebc, exploretofino, femalecarpenter, feminist, Freedom, futur, generation, GoPro, gulf island, happiness, happy, hard work, inspiration, island, motivation, motorhome, ocean, pacific, pacificocean, Photography, sea, surf, trades, Travel, Travelbc, traveler, vanlife, westcoast, Whistler, women, women in trades, women rights, womeninconstruction
It’s been a while since I took the time write about what’s going on work wise for us, so let me get you in the loop. Before the holidays, we finished the footing on the ocean front here on Saturna Island. Now I won’t… Continue Reading “Change of plans”
Category: Adventures, construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: Bc, carpenter, carpentry, challenges, concrete, construction, femalecarpenter, Freedom, GoPro, gulf island, happy, hard work, inspiration, island, island life, motivation, ocean, pacificocean, Photography, sea, secluded, sgi, trades, Travel, Travelbc, westcoast, women, women in trades, womeninconstruction
Posted on December 17, 2020
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Let’s take a minute to thank the dads, husbands, boyfriends and brothers. Take a minute to thank your bosses, foremen,supervisors and co-workers. Some of us are lucky to have certain men by our side to teach us ,defend us and support us. I’ve had… Continue Reading “Thank you …”
Category: construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: appreciate, badass, Bc, Camping, carpenter, carpentry, challenges, concrete, construction, femalecarpenter, Freedom, futur, generation, GoPro, hard work, inspiration, island, motivation, Photography, sea, thank you, trades, women, women in trades, womeninconstruction
Posted on December 10, 2020
by The Run Away 🌻
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You had an interview with her and wondered why she was so anxious. You might not know that she has been turned down from every other application. You wondered why she took things so seriously. You might not know how many people took her… Continue Reading “You might not have known.”
Category: Construction, constructionTags: awareness., carpenter, carpentry, challenges, change, concrete, construction, femalecarpenter, feminist, Freedom, futur, generation, GoPro, hard work, inspiration, motivation, new world, ocean, pacificocean, Photography, poet, poetry, sea, trades, Travel, Travelbc, traveler, westcoast, women, women in trades, women rights, womeninconstruction, workplace, YouTube
From me to him. You had no right. You had no right to say those things. You had no right to make me feel like I was less. You had no right to touch me. You had no right to make me feel so… Continue Reading “From me to him.”
Category: construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: career, carpenter, carpentry, concrete, construction, dream, femalecarpenter, feminist, futur, generation, happy, inspiration, Photography, traveler, women, women in trades, women rights, womeninconstruction, YouTube
Let me justify why I’m doing all of this. Why am I writing these blogs, why I work my a** off and what I’m hoping for the futur of the industry. I grew up in a world where there was jobs “for women” and… Continue Reading “For our daughter’s daughters”
Category: construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: Bc, carpenter, carpentry, challenges, construction, dream, femalecarpenter, futur, generation, GoPro, happy, hard work, inspiration, life, motivation, Photography, trades, Travel, westcoast, women, women in trades, women power, womeninconstruction
Posted on November 28, 2020
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Physically Let’s talk about the 3 biggest challenges I’ve had to face to become a carpenter so far. Not saying they are the only ones, but definitely the ones that took the longest for me to get through. So I’m about 5’6” and weight… Continue Reading “My biggest challenges”
Category: construction, Construction, UncategorizedTags: badass, Camping, carpenter, challenges, concrete, construction, explorebc, femalecarpenter, Freedom, happy, hard work, motivation, pacificocean, Photography, Skoolie, trades, Travel, Travelbc, westcoast, women, women in trades, womeninconstruction
Posted on October 10, 2020
by The Run Away 🌻
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So I finally decided that I would take the time to go in to detail on what exactly do I do for a living. In this blog ill write about how and why I became a carpenter and a bit about what it’s like… Continue Reading “A challenging career”
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